Lightning Is the Only Way

"We'll go with plan B," said the leader of the disciples. Even though two others were also at the eighth level of Energy Gathering, he was their leader for a reason. The reason was that he had a Will-Aura. It had just recently condensed, yet that made him nearly invincible in his level. On his level, the others could only release 80% of their fighting strength while he activated his Will-Aura.

"Silvio, it all depends on you now," said the leader as he passed something to the disciple at the seventh level of Energy Gathering. "We won't be able to kill the bird, but we can keep it at bay for some seconds. Follow the plan!"

"Don't worry! I won't make a mistake. The betrayer will die today!" shouted Silvio as he looked at Gravis with thick killing intent. Silvio had been romantically interested in Escura, and he wanted to court her, yet the betrayer had killed her. His fury had exploded when he heard about it, and he had screamed to the heavens in hatred.

When the hit-squad was prepared, Silvio was absolutely adamant in coming with them. Initially, due to Gravis' danger, no disciple under the eighth level was allowed to participate, but Silvio went mad when he had been denied. He turned everything over and even ignored all the people who tried to suppress him. He even accepted heavy punishment and debt, just to convince everyone to let him come along.

Originally, the three other disciples were not happy with him tagging along, but when they saw the bird, they were thankful. It would need all three of them just to occupy the bird for a couple of seconds. Without him, they could only return in failure.

"We're going in!" shouted the leader and shot forward. The others followed closely behind him, and they all charged up the tree with their full power, leaving a trail of destruction along the tree. They had been informed about the tree, but the tree couldn't compare to even the weakest of them.

Escura, who was at the sixth level of Energy Gathering, could already kill the tree in a one-on-one if she weren't disturbed by others in her fight. The tree tried its best to stop them, but just their lightning movement already tore all the branches apart. The tree couldn't even delay them.

even if it wanted to. The parent bird took to the air and charged at the congregation of eighth level disciples. Silvio split

gamble with his life. This could go wrong very quickly, and a single mistake or missed timing would spell his doom. But if he

when he saw that. If Gravis reached him, Gravis

and just before Gravis reached a ten-meter distance from Silvio, Silvio took out a

WHOOM!

least he tried to, but suddenly an intense pressure appeared out of nowhere. He knew Gravis was a Heavenborn, and he was prepared to receive Gravis' Heavenly

the jade token, and it left his hand. Gravis quickly

and shot his strongest lightning bolt at Gravis. Gravis already expected that and loaded his weapon with 20% of his whole Energy reserve and blocked it. He managed to block the attack,

lightning bolt could severely injure Gravis, was shocked when he saw that. He hadn't even started charging forward because he had concentrated everything on that lightning bolt. His eyes opened wide, and

and they couldn't spare even a single glance. The bird took up their full concentration. They were all entirely unloading their lightning on the bird, and their Energy reserves were already starting to get low.

the bird, but only a single one reached it, and that didn't even leave an injury. The other two lightning bolts got blocked by a sudden Formation

he turned to the others, but stopped when he

quickly left the Formation Array and willed it to

ignored the two captives and flew straight at the fleeing leader. Trying to flee alone from a high-grade Energy Beast bird with the wind element? Gravis only smirked in