Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis walked down the corridor until he found a room with a "16" painted on the door. Gravis put the key in, opened the door, and entered.

The room looked different than he thought. He had expected lightning coming out of the walls, yet he only saw a small cabin with two holes. One hole was on the ceiling and the other one on the floor beneath it. The two holes were only about five centimeters wide. This was probably where the lightning was supposed to be.

Gravis closed the door and thought back on the Lightning Codex. When he was confident, he started walking forward and sat on top of the hole. He waited, but nothing happened. After a while, Gravis noticed a lever to his right, which could be accessed easily from his position.

He prepared himself and pulled it down.

BZZZT!

Lightning came from the top hole and hit Gravis' head, but Gravis didn't react. His Elemental Synchronicity was always active, and lightning without a will behind it could do nothing to him. The lightning went through his body and into the bottom hole.

Gravis pulled his hand back, and the lever popped back into place. The lightning also immediately stopped. "Interesting," Gravis thought. Gravis took a deep breath and readied himself. This would probably hurt a lot.

While using his Elemental Synchronicity, Gravis could ignore the lightning, yet he was supposed to temper his muscles. If he didn't absorb the lightning, he wouldn't be able to temper his muscles nor create a Lightning Seed.

He could let elements pass through his body, unhindered. Back when he fought against the low-grade demonic beast snake, he had used it to get rid of the poison. He had been bitten and Gravis had used fire to cleanse his body. While his body remained unaffected, the poison was burned since it was not part of his body, after all.

Synchronicity, and the lightning fully hit his head and rampaged throughout his body. Gravis clenched his teeth but stopped after a

inside the dantian since it would just destroy the whole thing, but he could place it right outside it. In the future, Gravis

bodies so the lightning could only go in, but not out. When

my Elemental Synchronicity, I can still use it to make the lightning gather in one spot,"

willed the lightning to move towards his dantian, yet also willed the lightning to attack him. He had to temper his muscles, after all. All

his body. There was something akin to a small

longest time in cultivating lightning. Normal people had to bathe in

Seed, and he didn't have any Energy. He would first need to step into the Energy Gathering

timer above the door. In the beginning, it had shown 20 remaining hours, and now it showed a little more than 15 remaining hours. Gravis had taken less than five hours

Lightning Seed was automatically at the Destruction Energy ratio of the lightning in the room. There was no point in pushing more lightning into it. Instead, he would use

stopped flowing, and Gravis couldn't activate it anymore. He looked at the timer and saw that his time was up. Gravis stood up and

don't even feel a difference in my muscles," he sighed. "This will take a while. The Codex said the tempering depended on the destruction and recreation of muscles. My muscles are probably already too strong to be harmed by such weak lightning. I need stronger lightning," he concluded as he left the

the reception desk. He placed the key down and also 50 gold. "five

took out a new key, but inside, she was sneering. A lot of first-timers underestimated the time it took to create a Lightning Seed, and some of them tried to condense it on the second floor, thinking that would expedite

even could attempt to temper themselves on the

went back into the Lightning Tower. He quickly found his room on the second floor and entered. The room was identical to