Lightning Is the Only Way

"I will," shouted one disciple at the seventh level of Energy Gathering. Gravis was quite surprised because he had been sure that, after his display, no one on that level would want to fight him. Wasn't it evident that he would just crush the people on that stage? Yet, when Gravis looked closer at the disciple, his eyes shined a little.

'He has a Will-Aura. That's probably a supreme genius of the Fire Guild,' he concluded. After all this training with his will, Gravis achieved some kind of feeling for the wills of others. Gravis expected that, at some point, everyone would be able to tell the strength of will of others just from a look. Gravis was probably just very early with that ability. 'But what could a Will-Aura even change?' he thought.

The disciple saw that no one else at the seventh level stepped forward and promptly threw a pill at Gravis. Gravis looked at it and nodded to the disciple. "Before we start, let me ask you something," Gravis said to the disciple.

The disciple nodded like it was no big deal.

"Why do you still want to temper your will even though you already have a Will-Aura?" Gravis asked, and the watching disciples took a deep breath in shock. How did Gravis know that he had a Will-Aura?

The disciple lifted his eyebrows in surprise, but they quickly furrowed again in concentration. "My will might be superior in my current cultivation Realm, but it won't stay like this forever," he explained. "I need to keep my advantage if I want to rise!"

Gravis could only sigh. So the reason why the disciple was tempering his will was the same as Gravis. This was actually the first person that Gravis had met, who was similarly superior in will to others but still wanted to temper themselves. Others were happy with their advantage and wouldn't care about the far future. Wasn't being at the Spirit Forming Realm already enough?

knew that he already had

disciple should know that fire would not do much against him. Why

fireball at Gravis, who quickly punched it with his fist. Usually, Gravis would just evade, but he wanted

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he had heard was the second fireball. Why would the second fireball be quieter and further away than the first one? An average cultivator at that level might not be able to guess the attacker's

increase his speed. Together with the literal smokescreen in Gravis' front, the disciple would break through the smokescreen with a faster speed than Gravis would have anticipated. 'Quite a smart way

Instead of waiting for his death, he quickly made the fire around his saber explode to get some space. Surprisingly, Gravis' hand got blasted away due to the impact. The explosion might not have injured his hand much, but the shockwave overpowered his physical strength. 'Interesting,' he

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with interest. It felt like he was deep underwater and all surroundings pressed into him. The pressure didn't just come from the top.

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attacker tried to use the moment when he released his Will-Aura as a surprise to catch Gravis off-guard. Of course, Gravis wasn't encumbered even in the slightest. This was a newly created Will-Aura and wasn't even close to his own. Gravis' Will-Aura had already been as strong as the

everything in that attack, including his Will-Aura. Anxiety appeared in his heart. He had to