Lightning Is the Only Way

It had been two weeks since Gravis started using the Pre-Forming technique, and every day, he concentrated on pushing more Energy into his mind. The headache continually increased, and Gravis now felt a constant, intense throbbing in his head. His mind was only half-filled with Energy, but that was still way faster than he had initially believed.

Gravis thought that breaking through into the Spirit Forming Realm would take, at least, as long as getting to the tenth level of Energy Gathering. Apparently, he had been mistaken. Gravis guessed that if he were on the tenth level of Energy Gathering, he could rise into the Spirit Forming Realm in less than a day. It seemed like the bottleneck for Spirit Forming was more about the will and less about increasing the cultivator's Energy or power.

On this day, Gravis walked around the Heaven Sect, trying to distract himself from his headache. It was so strong that he involuntarily always focused on the pain, which made focusing on other things difficult.

What Gravis didn't know, was that people who attempted to break into the Spirit Forming Realm would do that in one sitting, and if they failed, they would disperse the Energy in their mind. No one wanted to run around with a constant headache. What was the point of that?

In the time when Gravis' Energy was regenerating, he concentrated on condensing his Will-Aura further, outside of the guild, of course. He didn't want Aion to notice that he didn't use Heavenly Pressure since Gravis guessed that it was probably impossible to condense the Heavenly Pressure.

After a lot of training, he finally managed to condense it on a single living being. In the past, when he condensed his Will-Aura, it always included a radius around the target. Now, his Will-Aura finally managed to completely concentrate on a single target, and it should be impossible to condense it any further.

Why was Gravis walking around the Heaven Sect today, instead of continuing to condense his Spirit? That was because Aion had called for him. Gravis guessed that it was probably another mission. After he had done the previous ones, he hadn't gotten a new one yet. Apparently, there weren't many criminals worthy of prosecution.

Gravis was going to knock on the door to Aion's office, but he stopped himself when he remembered how Aion acted the last time. Instead, he simply opened the door and walked inside. Just like he had expected, Aion was still lying on the balcony while drinking from some beverage. When Gravis saw that, he got reminded of Forneus, his old teacher from his homeworld.

"You wanted to see me?" asked Gravis as he walked closer.

a dossier floated over to Gravis, who caught it. "I got a new mission for you," Aion said as

hadn't heard this word before, but he could guess what it meant. He read through the dossier, and slowly his brows furrowed. He felt a

Master of the third Proxy-Wind Guild. Her full name was Wendy Demer. She was one of the Guild Masters back when Gravis participated in the entrance exams for the Elemental Guilds. He still remembered how she threw over 4,000 failed participants into the horizon. "In what way is this mission

and walked into his office."This mission is special because she

and entirely focused on Aion now. "Did she simply kill one,

he crossed his arms. "Do you remember how she killed over 4,000 people in the entrance exams for the Elemental Guilds? You

shocked when he realized that over 4,000 of them had been killed due to that. He hadn't thought that she had been so ruthless. Gravis nodded

fan of massacring thousands of promising youngsters. Some people die, it happens, but slaughtering them in those numbers is not okay. Because of that, we sent over an executioner. She was on the seventh level of Energy Gathering while

first person to survive an execution mission in over ten years," Aion remarked with a bit of praise. "You know how powerful our Heavenly Pressure is, so you should also know how impressive it is for

if he didn't compress it. That

his desk again and looked outside the window, with his arms behind his back. "According to the rules, we pardoned her crime since she had survived the mission. There had to

turned around and smirked at Gravis. "And now I know why she had been spared. Heaven kept her alive just for you! Everything became clear to me when I saw what she was doing in recent weeks. You should also

Wendy's actions. In Gravis' mind, those

was no problem, but wherever she went, she would loudly denounce Gravis. She would call him

voice would echo throughout

didn't seem stupid, and I could also feel that she was different from all the other Proxy-Guild Masters. She felt like she was actually leading them. She should know that I