Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis readied his saber and ran along the surface of the tree. His feet might not be able to keep him to the tree, but his lightning easily kept him there. Gravis was careful not to use too much power in his lightning since that could injure the tree, and it might decide to attack him again. He didn't want to fight two beasts at the same time.

It took nearly half a minute to reach the branch where the wind bird landed. When Gravis reached it, he circled around it and stepped on top. The branch itself had a thickness of a little over ten meters, and the walkable area on top of it was around five meters wide. A little tight, but Gravis could manage.

Gravis looked at the tree and saw a big hole inside of it. Due to the clouds and the light's angle, Gravis couldn't see much in the hole, but he was sure that the wind bird was inside. Gravis grinned.

"Come out and play," he shouted as he shot a weak lightning bolt into the hole. Gravis quickly heard some shuffling and some angry cawing. Directly after that, the bird came out of the hole, looking at Gravis in rage. How dare this insect disturb it?

It shot a wind wave at Gravis to push him off the tree, but Gravis stuck to the branch by using his lightning movement to push against the wind. Gravis readied another lightning bolt, this one stronger than the previous one, and shot it at the bird.

BANG!

The head of the bird shot back, and some blood came out. It quickly recovered, and Gravis could now see rage in its eyes. Finally, it was taking him seriously. He didn't specifically want to kill it, but only test his strength. If it was too weak, he could just go again. There was no reason in killing something just for sport. He wouldn't even know how to sell the corpse due to him being wanted.

The bird screeched and shot forward with incredible speed. Gravis was already prepared and lifted his saber.

BOOM!

pushed back. His blood jumped around in his body, and Gravis felt

used its wind as a boost. I'm pretty sure that it's a low-grade Energy Beast,' he concluded. Gravis had a lot of experience in fighting against demonic beasts,

was shocked by the strength of the insect in front of it. It quickly changed its strategy and jumped up into the sky, and it started circling Gravis as it increased

time, Gravis also

CLANK!

parried the talon and pushed it downward while using the counterforce to jump higher. Gravis readied his saber to hit the wing of the bird with the saber's blunt side. He didn't want

Gravis threw his saber at the tree, and it quickly stabbed into its bark. Gravis then connected his saber

the more Energy it needed. Additionally, the increase of consumption of Energy in relation to the distance wasn't proportional but exponential. From this distance,

with the user. This made it way easier to move the elements to and

he suddenly felt like he lost his hold. The smart bird had hit the saber with its talon and broke it off of the tree. Gravis wanted to applaud the bird

"Scree!"

in the air for a bit. Gravis simply pulled his saber to himself and threw it at the branch again. Since he had fallen a bit, the

stuck to the underside of

BANG!

easily sidestepped with the help of his lightning, and the bird's beak got stuck in the bark of the tree. Gravis grinned, "Let me help you," and kicked the bird's head. The bird got shot to