Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked over at the other two battlegrounds and saw Escura running along the tree's trunk, destroying everything in sight, while Flern used his fire wheel to chase the bird. The only reason why the bird was not yet reduced to cinders was that it mainly tried to dodge and keep Flern at bay.

Gravis quickly used his full power and charged towards Flern's current location. Flern was moving very quickly with his fire wheel, but it was obviously not optimized to charge along a vertical surface. Gravis gained ground quickly.

BZZT!

Gravis shot a weak lightning bolt at the bird. The bird got hit, but it didn't hurt at all. It only noticed the lightning and turned to Gravis. Gravis then shot a small bolt to Escura's location. The bird watched a little but then understood what Gravis wanted. It had already seen that Gravis was fighting the other humans, so, for now, it thought of him as an ally.

The bird quickly charged towards Escura's location, passing Gravis. Flern, of course, followed. Gravis' and Flern's eyes locked onto each other, and they both radiated battle-intent.

BOOM!

Gravis could easily move in an unpredictable manner with his lightning movement and easily evaded the fireball. Flern didn't have this luxury, and Gravis destroyed his fire wheel with a well-placed lightning bolt. The fire wheel blew apart, and Flern used one last kick to catapult him towards a lower branch.

The branch was a hundred meters below him, but fire disciples had it very easy to survive high falls. Fire came out of his soles, and his descent slowed.

BZZT!

arm up and shot fire out of

narrowed his eyes. Hitting Flern was difficult. Gravis shot more lightning bolts, but they were always either on Flern's direct position or slightly above

to slow his fall, he would get hit by a lightning bolt. On top of that, if he threw his fire against the lightning, he would be pushed back and might miss the branch

back, and he only needed to stop the flames in one direction to shoot into it immediately. This gave him a lot more control in the air. Theoretically, he could even wholly halt his fall, but that would need an unreal amount of Energy. Even this

Flern started moving around gracefully in the air. It looked as graceful as a flying bird, except that Flern never rose into the air. He was

had used a lot of lightning and had also kept up his lightning movement for the entire time. He didn't have the massive

of another plan and shot down at the branch, where Flern would land, with all his power. He quickly reached it while Flern was still 50 meters away. Flern looked down at Gravis with

Gravis was infusing his weapon with lightning and started hacking at the branch. This branch was only three meters wide and way smaller than the

Stop that!" shouted Flern

hands the trunk. Then, he used all his strength, and the branch started cracking

shouted in rage, but Gravis didn't stop and quickly tore the half-severed branch off. The branch

rage exploded, even more, when he saw Gravis producing lightning in his hand, daring him to come closer. Gravis might not be able to hit Flern when he was so far away

Flern was currently in the air, and even if he reached the tree, he would

that if he decided to boost himself to the tree, that Gravis would already be waiting there. Gravis was following Flern's descent to the floor and was always on the same height as him. Gravis

dirty!" he shouted loudly, his voice filled with