Lightning Is the Only Way

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Flern bounced away as his body hit the Formation Array. He hadn't seen the Formation Array due to the fire obscuring his vision. Flern rubbed his nose, and tears involuntarily came out of his eyes. He had faceplanted into the Formation Array wall, and if one got hit in the nose, tears would involuntarily appear in their eyes. It was instinct, and it couldn't be suppressed.

Meanwhile, Gravis took out some pills from one of his sacks. He had earned a lot of money back in the Proxy-Lightning Guild, and he had, of course, also bought some medicinal pills to treat some of his injuries. Taking them during a fight wouldn't help much, because he had to actively concentrate on making the compressed Life Energy in the pills rotate around his body.

Escura and all the other disciples also had such pills, but taking them during a fight was meaningless. Gravis simply sat down and concentrated on healing.

"Coward! Come out of your Array and face me!" shouted Flern, full with battle intent. When the bird had seen Flern attacking the Formation Array, it started flying away from the tree, loudly screeching the whole way. It knew that it couldn't stop Flern, and if it remained, it would die to him. It could only fly away, for now.

Gravis ignored him and the bird and continued concentrating on his healing while he sat in the natural fire, which had reached the inside of the Formation Array, by now. Flern grew angry as he saw how Gravis disregarded him and shot fireballs at the Formation Array.

BOOM! BOOM!

had explained that the Formation Array was to protect the disciples in a calamity and to stall for time. If people

The Formation Array only cared about attacks and living beings. It didn't let anything come through its walls that had a will behind it. The bird

will were ignored. How would one keep the air fresh inside the Formation Array if it even blocked the airflow? The creators of the Formation Array were not stupid and thought about all eventualities. The best distinction between attacks and nature was the will, and that was

attacks to hit the inside, while blocking all other attacks. The person inside could then only be a

simply ignored Flern and concentrated on healing. Escura said that the Formation Array was for stalling for time, so it would probably hold

me!" Flern continued shouting as he threw more fireballs at the Formation Array. He didn't know that this was the protection Formation for the Lightning Guild in Earth Town. He believed that

duration by a little, but

continued shouting while attacking the Formation Array. "Stop hiding behind

concentrated beam of high temperature to burn a hole

Multiple hours passed.

fire by now. The tree was nearly entirely burned, and it was missing half of its trunk. The Formation Array, which had