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!

Array was to protect the disciples in a calamity and to stall for time. If people managed to attack through the Formation Array,

what about the natural fire below Gravis? 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 would be blocked, just like its wind attacks. Flern would, of course, also be completely blocked.

creators of the Formation Array were not

prison and execution 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 be a

from entering and exiting. Gravis simply ignored Flern and concentrated on healing. Escura said that the Formation Array was for stalling for time, so it

for the Lightning Guild in Earth Town. He believed that it was a Formation Array that Gravis deployed, and he doubted that Gravis could have a strong one. Flern thought that if he

to him, the Formation Array wouldn't care, even if people at the peak of Energy Gathering attacked. If such a person attacked, it might reduce the duration by a little, but

Face me like a man!" Flern continued shouting while attacking the Formation Array. "Stop hiding behind your Formation

in a concentrated beam of high temperature to

Multiple hours passed.

and it was missing half of its trunk. The Formation Array, which had been close to the tree before, now stood in the middle of the air