Lightning Is the Only Way

"Oh, what do you have for me this time?" asked the clerk behind the counter in the Exchange Hall as he looked at the corpse Gravis was carrying.

THUMP!

Gravis put the corpse down. It was a two-meter tall, yellow mantis. Like all the other beasts he had killed in the last week, this was a middle-grade demonic beast. He needed around two days to complete one mission. It wasn't that the missions were hard, but that the way to the mission areas was pretty long.

The missions came from all over, and Gravis had to travel to those places on foot. He ran pretty fast, but it still took some time. He was running for hours on end, ending the fight in one exchange, and then running for hours again. This was boring Gravis immensely.

Gravis was waiting while the clerk looked over the corpse. After a thorough inspection, he walked behind the counter and took out some money. "As always, an incredibly well-preserved carcass. I'll give you 85 gold for it."

Gravis nodded and took the money. He didn't care about haggling on the price, since that was only a small amount of money to him. As Gravis walked out of the Exchange Hall, he counted his money. "Three missions with 100 gold each as a reward. Another 210 gold from the corpses. With my ten gold from before, I should have 520 gold now."

Gravis pondered his situation for a while. He could finish upgrading his Lightning Seed with only 50 gold, yet he would need 2,000 gold to upgrade his Lightning Seed to 40% Destruction Energy.

he wanted to temper his muscles as much as possible. So, he decided to buy 45

the Lightning Tower. The two 'guards' at the entrance ignored him like he didn't exist. Gravis went into the tower and exchanged his money for 45 hours on

food so that he wouldn't get hungry in the middle. The constant destruction and recreation of his muscles was quite painful, but

exorbitant amount of money he would need to fully temper his body

lot, but right

my muscles for about 35 more hours in here, and they will be pretty

high-grade demonic beast would still be a real fight, but not truly life-threatening to me. When I am done here, my muscles will be even stronger. At that point, hunting a high-grade demonic beast won't be a problem. So, for the benefit

but nothing happened. Yet, Gravis was pretty sure that Heaven

surprised by his new power. Before Gravis had tempered his muscles, his muscular strength was already equal to someone with tempered

Energy Gathering expert, but I am probably physically stronger and

This had never happened before in the lower world. In Gravis' homeworld, there were

Realm. I could probably kill high-grade demonic beasts even without using my Will-Aura. The missions for hunting

he arrived at the plaza, he saw some disciples

already accepted hunts for high-grade demonic beasts, yet they