Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis never found out that Heaven nearly got him. Ironically enough, his personal need to come clean with the Lightning Guild had saved his life. So, Gravis simply continued his life in the Heaven Sect.

When he returned to the Heaven Sect, he immediately asked to look at the exchange list. Doing missions granted an exchangeable currency inside the Heaven Sect, the same as every other sect or guild. Did the whole south-eastern branch of the Heaven Sect only have this one saber and the Heaven's Balance Cultivation Technique? Of course not! They had a lot of wealth and offered a plethora of different things for exchange.

The Heaven Sect obviously didn't accept regular currency in exchange for their resources. Their storage was already full of gold and Energy Stones. Why would they need more of that? People needed to exchange Mission Points for treasures. Every single mission granted a specific number of Mission Points, and Gravis had just finished four missions at once.

On top of that, due to the Heaven's Balance Cultivation Technique, Gravis' Energy had increased by a total of 30%. Two of the criminals had been on the same level as Gravis, so they each gave Gravis a total of 10% of his currently required Energy to get to the next level. The other two only gave him 5% each. After adding those 10% to the other 20%, Gravis' Energy requirements to get to the next level of Energy Gathering were reduced by 30%.

If Gravis only cultivated via meditation inside the Heaven Sect, he would need two months to reach the fifth level of Energy Gathering. Yet, because of the 30% of Energy and the week of "relaxation", he would only need to meditate for one month to get to the next level. Of course, he would rather not train in seclusion since that would not increase his battle experience or will.

So, Gravis looked at the exchange table. The Heaven Sect was oozing with treasure, so there had to be something interesting in there. Gravis saw that he could exchange his mission points into Energy Stones. The reward for the execution missions depended on the strength of the target. Executing someone on the second level of Energy Gathering gave the executioner 100 points, and they doubled with each increase in level of the target.

Gravis had a total of 1,200 points right now, and the exchange rate of Mission Points to Energy Stones was 25 to 1. If Gravis used all of his Mission Points to exchange for Energy Stones, he would get 48 Energy Stones. That would equate to 75% of the required Energy to reach level five of Energy Gathering. With those stones, Gravis would have no issue in reaching the fifth level of Energy Gathering in a single day.

Yet, before Gravis decided to get the stones, he looked through the other treasures. Gravis could see a lot of weapons and even armor sets. He had not seen good armor sets yet in this lower world, but they were bound to exist. Armor sets were a logical counter to weapons, after all. Of course, due to the higher requirement for materials, armor sets were more expensive than weapons.

lower. Since most people almost always concentrated on one element, their elemental resistance for other elements was basically zero. A fire disciple at the second level

because only regular opponents at the seventh level or outstanding opponents at

Resisting the lightning hadn't been an issue for Gravis, but he had to resort to guerilla tactics to fight the Fire Guild. If he had had that armor set in the battle, he could simply charge into the Fire Guild. The fireballs would've been useless on

Stones. In his mind, increasing one's strength was not a problem. He just had to kill more people or beasts. Yet, increasing one's

familiar one.

5,000 Mission Points!

level of Energy Gathering! No wonder the Lightning Guild had only given one of those to their division in Earth Town. Gravis also saw other Formation Arrays. Most of them were different kinds of attacks of

corresponding level would bring. For example: Executing someone at the eighth level of Energy Gathering would

Energy Gathering. The first attack would be to exhaust the Energy and to weaken the person, while the second attack

Sadly not. The technique worked by disrupting the balance in the target's Energy center. The technique was infused into the user's attacks,

his body. As his Realm increased, his body would grow more useless. At the third level, his body alone allowed him to fight someone one Realm higher. At the fourth level, his body only made him incredibly strong on the same level. At the fifth level, the power of his

After several minutes, Gravis arrived at the technique section. He saw several books describing different uses

of the techniques, he stopped and looked at it more closely. The

Pre-Forming: 1,000 Mission Points.