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.

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

this word before, but he could guess what it meant. He read through the dossier, and slowly his brows furrowed. He felt a mix of shock, confusion, a little bit of rage, and some

Guild Masters back when Gravis participated in the entrance exams for the Elemental Guilds. He still remembered how she threw over 4,000

walked into his office."This mission is special because she has killed a

droning headache and entirely focused on Aion now. "Did she simply kill one, or did she survive an execution mission?" he

walked over to his desk and leaned on it. "She was once the target of an execution mission," he explained as he crossed his arms.

4,000 of them had been killed due to that. He hadn't thought that

fan of massacring thousands of promising youngsters. Some people die, it happens, but slaughtering them in those numbers is not okay. Because

first person to survive an execution mission in over ten years," Aion remarked with a bit of praise. "You know how

The Heavenly Pressure of a Heavenborn on the sixth level should be about as intense as Gravis' Will-Aura if he didn't compress it. That was an impressive advantage since an enemy only one level higher than the user could only release about 50%

his back. "According to the rules, we pardoned her crime since she had survived the mission. There had to be a reason

Everything became clear to me when I saw what

incredibly confused about Wendy's actions. In Gravis' mind, those actions made no sense. What reason

Wendy started running around all the towns, cities, and Elemental Guilds. That in itself was no problem, but wherever she went, she would loudly denounce Gravis. She

be persecuted, but it was different when it was done in this grand style. Her voice would echo throughout the entire towns and cities, and she would even pay people from other guilds to shout such statements in their respective

kind of special relationship? But I haven't heard anything about that!' Gravis thought. 'She also 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 would be sent