Lightning Is the Only Way

DONK!

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!

nothing seemed to work. Escura had explained that the Formation Array was to protect the disciples in a calamity and to stall for time.

cared about attacks and living beings. It didn't let anything come through its walls that had a will behind it. The bird would be blocked, just like its wind attacks. Flern would, of course, also be completely blocked. Even

airflow? The creators of the Formation Array were

ground. The controller of the Formation Array could leave it and could will their attacks to hit the inside, while blocking all other attacks. The person inside could then only

her control, the Formation Array shifted to its default operation mode, which was stopping everything from entering and exiting. Gravis simply ignored

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 it was

attacked, it might reduce the duration by a little, but the Formation

coward! Face me like a man!" Flern continued shouting while

wheel and stood on top of the Formation Array. By now, he was using his fire in a concentrated beam

Multiple hours passed.

time. The tree had wholly extinguished the fire by now. The tree was nearly entirely burned, and it was missing half of its trunk. The Formation Array, which had been close to the tree before, now stood in the middle