Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis saw some shocked disciples and threw his lightning at one of them. The disciple got hit and screamed in pain, yet he managed to resist.

SHING!

Gravis had, by now, learned that, for some reason, his lightning was much weaker against those people. He hadn't intended to kill the disciple with the lightning, but to blind and stun him. With an impressively quick charge, Gravis cleaved the disciple in two.

The others quickly recovered and attacked Gravis from all sides. Gravis chose one of the disciples on the fourth level and ran towards him. The others could only follow behind, but Gravis' sudden increase in speed meant that they couldn't follow him.

Gravis reached the disciple, who quickly stabbed his spear at Gravis. Gravis put his already injured left hand in front and let the spear stab through it. Gravis then moved the spear to the side and also killed that disciple. 'With that one done, there should be eight on the fourth level, two on the fifth level, and one on the sixth level remaining. About halfway done.'

Gravis quickly turned the spear in his hand towards one of the chasing fifth rank disciples and punched the spear on the back. The spear shot out of his hand, and the chasing disciple had to block. The others continued charging.

"SCREEE"

The still watching wind bird released a loud shout as it started attacking Escura together with the tree. It had kept watch all this time, and with its intelligence, it was able to understand a lot of things. Initially, it had intended to wait for them to end their fight, but when it saw that those humans were burning down its home, it started attacking Escura.

It had realized earlier that Gravis could have killed it in their previous fight. Beasts were also very sensitive towards killing intent, and it had felt nothing from Gravis. Yet, those other humans were burning down its home. That was something completely different!

Escura was already fighting equally with the tree, and now the bird also attacked. Due to its brilliantly calculated timing on its wind waves, Escura lost her balance multiple times, and the tree had already hit her once with a branch. The branch hit her chest and smashed her backward. Escura had trouble breathing, and her chest hurt immensely.

noticed this and smirked. 'Can I call this luck?' he thought, but only sarcastically. If he had actually tried to kill the bird, it might have already attacked him in all this chaos. 'Well, let's go all

Escura to care about him, and

disciple in the fifth level used his poleaxe to stab

SPLASH!

still open wound on his left hand and squeezed some blood out. Then, he threw the blood into the disciple's eyes, who shouted and closed them. Gravis was easily able to dodge the uncoordinated attack and slashed. Surprisingly, the

SHING!

severed, and the disciple screamed in more pain as he swung his poleaxe wildly in an attempt to keep Gravis at bay. Sadly, the disciple couldn't see Gravis right now. Gravis quickly ran around him until

SHING!

the height of Gravis' torso, so Gravis slid on his butt and severed one leg. The disciple lost his balance, and Gravis

behind with his saber. Suddenly, the disciple felt an incomparable pressure pressing down on his body. For him, it felt like Heaven was about to strike him. That

too preoccupied to watch his battle. When the disciple froze, Gravis quickly stood up and killed that disciple too. Gravis quickly noticed how there were way fewer disciples

another one, and this disciple used his lightning to strike the wood in front of Gravis. The disciple used the same trick that Gravis had performed earlier, but nothing happened. The disciple grew shocked, and Gravis quickly ended his life. What a joke! As if the tree could care about something

them, and they were only able to injure his left hand. With Escura preoccupied, they realized that they probably couldn't take Gravis down. Suddenly, Gravis noticed

BOOM!

its surroundings. Gravis looked to the attacker and saw multiple people.

fire and rode straight through it. The tree was continually trying to stop the fire by slamming its branches into it, but every time a branch was about to hit the people, a

also twenty people with the same power levels as the original arrivals of the Lightning

Your knight is here to save you, princess," shouted Flern, the leader of Earth Town's Fire Guild, at Escura