Lightning Is the Only Way

The other disciples all charged at Gravis, but Gravis chose to fight the disciples, which stood far away from the others. The remainder tried to reach Gravis, but their speed was limited due to the tree.

Gravis shot himself back with his lightning as a disciple on the fifth level of Energy Gathering tried to use his sword to slash him. Most of the disciples of the Lightning Guild used spears, but that was not exclusive. Another disciple at the fourth level waited for him and stabbed her spear at him.

Gravis sidestepped the thrust and shot his lightning at the disciple of the fifth rank, from earlier. The disciple sneered and sidestepped the lightning.

BOOM!

The fourth rank disciple, who was currently behind Gravis due to him attacking the other one, got suddenly hit by lightning. Gravis had controlled his lightning so it would move around the branch and hit her in the back. If he directly shot his lightning at her, she might sidestep, so he feigned attacking the disciple at the fifth level to get her by surprise.

She screamed and seized, but still remained on the branch. Gravis was shocked because, according to his experience, the disciple should have been blown to ashes. She was only at the fourth level, and Gravis controlled Destruction Lightning. He had been sure that even with her lightning resistance that she shouldn't have survived that.

'What happened?' Gravis thought, but couldn't continue pondering as she stabbed her spear at him, again. The other, stronger disciple, also used his sword again as he attacked Gravis from the right. To make it even worse, Escura charged at him from the front with her spear.

CLANK!

Gravis ran forward into Escura's attack, dodging the other ones. Escura's power shot Gravis back to the others, and he used his newly gained speed to throw the fifth rank disciple away with another attack. The fourth rank disciple and Escura charged at him from his back and left, as another disciple came from his right.

Gravis quickly charged into the only free direction, which was the direction of the fifth rank disciple. Gravis quickly reached him and slashed again, which the disciple blocked. Because of blocking, the disciple lost the initiative, and Gravis continued attacking.

the fourth level gained ground on Gravis, while another one charged from a different side. Gravis slashed again at the

BANG!

in relief but was shocked as a new branch came out of nowhere and slapped him into the distance. The tree didn't have eyes and thought that

rank disciple Gravis was currently fighting saw his chance and slashed his saber at Gravis' waist. Gravis narrowed his eyes, ignored the attack, and used his saber to attack the disciple's head.

not willing to trade his life with Gravis', changed his attack into a make-shift block. Gravis saw his chance and quickly followed up, but

PUCHI!

had arrived and had tried to stab him in the back. Instead of stabbing Gravis,

had released. He had let it crawl to Escura and then used it like lightning movement, but on her instead of on himself. Her speed increased, and she accidentally stabbed

at

SHING!

fourth level disciple from earlier, who had caught up by now, was quickly frozen by Gravis' Will-Aura and was beheaded. No one had paid attention to her right now, and Gravis had used

CRRK! BOOM!

exceeded the threshold of power and provoked the tree. Escura blew the new branch apart with her lightning, and the tree didn't dare

The tree was provoked again and shot one branch after the other at Escura, but she only blew through them. Gravis charged away from her and noticed that she was even slower

his way, while most other disciples followed behind Gravis. Everyone's speed was the same, due to them not going over the threshold of power

to grab it. The disciple grew shocked. Why was Gravis sacrificing his hand? Yet, to his shock, Gravis' hand released lightning to weaken the slash and then caught the saber with his hand. The saber cut deep, but couldn't injure the bone. With Gravis'

SHING!

in his free hand, the disciple's body falling to the side, towards the earth. Gravis quickly continued running because the other disciples started catching up. He went over