Lightning Is the Only Way

For the last remaining hours in the Formation Array, Gravis decided to check his Will-Aura. He was happy when he saw that it had increased again. Another life and death crisis was over, and he had gotten the reward. Gravis also noticed that he was able to compress his Will-Aura into a small circle now, which he could place wherever he wanted.

The circle would have a radius of five meters, and that increased the power of his Will-Aura even further. Based on what Gravis had seen previously, he expected that his Will-Aura, when fully concentrated, could make someone at the third level unconscious.

Someone at the fourth level probably couldn't move anymore inside of it. Of course, all of this was only true if the receiver had an average will. There were people with stronger and weaker wills, and Gravis couldn't be sure about how everyone reacted. He could only calculate according to the general standard.

The strength of a Will-Aura didn't increase with the cultivation level of a person, but a higher cultivation level for the user would decrease the enemy's resistance. Its inherent strength stayed the same, but if Gravis, theoretically, were at the ninth stage of Energy Gathering, he would be able to make someone at the ninth stage of Energy Gathering unconscious.

People at the same level as Gravis had some resistance to Will-Auras, while people lower than him in cultivation had no resistance. The resistance doubled for every increase in the level of Gravis' opponent. Right now, it was strong enough to make someone at the same level unconscious. This was already very terrifying since that showed that no one was his match at the same level.

Of course, there could be others who went through many life and death fights, and they would also have their own Will-Aura. That would reduce Gravis' Will-Aura's effectiveness. Gravis pondered about other usages of his Will-Aura, and he got some ideas. Such a Will-Aura was not only useful for fighting.

PLOP!

The Formation Array burst like a bubble, and Gravis started falling. Long expecting this outcome, Gravis simply threw his saber at the nearby tree. Initially, the Formation Array was touching the tree, but a lot of wood had burned off. Luckily, it was only ten-meters, and Gravis could still pull himself to the tree.

Gravis arrived at the tree and looked around. The smaller bird had noticed him and screeched. It then landed on the branch, which led to its nest and cawed at Gravis some more. 'Does it want me to come?' he thought and decided that he might as well go. If the parent wanted to hurt him, it would have already attacked.

Gravis used his lightning movement to move up the tree, to the branch. When he arrived, he saw the bird, and it walked closer. Gravis wasn't sure what it wanted, and he shot a look at the parent bird, which was still at the top of the tree. It looked like it didn't care about Gravis, but he noticed that it shot him a couple of glances from time to time.

Gravis walked closer, and the smaller bird lightly tapped Gravis' face with its beak. Gravis lifted his hand and touched its beak, scratching it. The bird didn't seem to mind and let him scratch. It then went closer with its head and rubbed it on Gravis' side. That was a little weird for him because its head was bigger than Gravis' whole torso.

seemed to like

"SCREE"

the tree and then hovered in mid-air while looking at Gravis. Then,

Gravis asked involuntarily, even though he knew that it couldn't understand him. The bird just cawed again and released a wind-wave at Gravis. The wind-wave was not really strong, but it could be considered as a rough shove. Obviously, it wanted

just looked at him and gestured nonchalantly with its head to its child. Apparently, the parent was okay with it. Gravis looked back at the smaller one

at the bird with battle-intent. Even if he was more powerful than it, he should still act realistically and be a good opponent for the bird. The bird cawed at Gravis, and

cawed excitedly and charged at Gravis. Gravis

wonder when leader will return," said one guy to the other. They were inside a blackish-blue building inside of Earth Town and played some cards. They were the weaker disciples of the Lightning Guild, who had been left behind in the town. They were just staying there so

know. Could be anywhere from now to a couple of days," the other answered. "That guy is probably very slippery, and they haven't found him yet. Who knows how long they have

other one looked at him with confusion but then noticed that the first guy couldn't completely hide his smile. The second one just looked at him with a ridiculing look, and then the first

imagine if I actually meant that?" he laughed, and the other guy joined him. A guy who had just broken into the Energy Gathering Realm, killing

BOOM!

but when they saw who it

in the fourth level of Energy Gathering and was part of the hit-squad that had been sent to deal with

guys looked at him in shock and then broke out in laughter. "Senior brother is way better at this than you!" the second guy said

can't compare to senior brother!" the

SLAP!

and hit the wall. The second guy looked in shock at the new arrival and

not fucking joking!" shouted the new arrival directly and