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.

again, and the lightning returned. With a last sigh, Gravis stopped his Elemental Synchronicity, and the lightning fully hit his head and rampaged throughout his body. Gravis clenched his teeth but stopped after a while. It was not as painful as he had thought,

and made it move towards his dantian. He couldn't place the Lightning Seed inside the dantian since it would just destroy the whole thing, but

differently than Elemental Synchronicity. The practitioners would manipulate their bodies so the lightning

Elemental Synchronicity, I can

towards his dantian, yet also willed the lightning to attack him. He had to temper his muscles, after all. All the lightning started gathering in his dantian, and not even a little bit left his

as he inspected his body. There was something akin to a small star beside his dantian, and it was continually sparking with lightning. Sure enough,

the Lightning Seed took, by far, the longest time in cultivating lightning. Normal people had to bathe in lightning for weeks before they could

Seed yet. He could only create new lightning by funneling his Energy through the Lightning Seed, and he didn't have any Energy. He would first need to step into the Energy Gathering Realm before he could

door. In the beginning, it had shown 20 remaining hours, and now it showed a little more than

said as he continued tempering his body. His Lightning Seed was automatically at the Destruction Energy ratio of the lightning in the room. There was no point in pushing

saw that his time was up. Gravis stood up and performed some practice attacks,

pure tempering in lightning, and I 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

and went back to the reception desk. He placed the key down and also

show an expression as she 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

way. Their bodies first needed more lightning resistance before they even could attempt to temper themselves

went back into the Lightning Tower. He quickly found his room on the second floor