Lightning Is the Only Way

BOOM!

Red exploded forward with all his power, and his speed was unreal. Gravis looked at him without a change of expression and dodged.

Red missed the attack and felt a little surprised. He was sure that his speed was fast enough so that Gravis couldn't react to the telegraphing of his attacks. Red had only lifted his sword for an overhead slash shortly before he reached Gravis. Logically, Gravis shouldn't have been able to react to this attack so adequately.

How did Gravis manage to dodge? For the first time in a long while, Gravis had to use his pre-dodging again. The last time when he had needed to use this was when he had still fought demonic beasts. That was a full cultivation Realm ago! At that time, the demonic beasts had been too fast for him to react to their attacks, so he had to anticipate and guess their attacks preemptively. Yet, if even one guess were wrong, he would get severely injured, at least.

Gravis used the surprise of his opponent to his advantage and used a full 50% of his Energy to empower his attack. If he only used his physical power, Gravis would never be able to penetrate Red's defense.

CLANK!

Red stopped the slash with his free hand, using a fire explosion inside of his hand to weaken the attack. Normally, if he wanted to block such an attack, he would have needed to use about 20% of his Energy reserves. Blocking a physical attack empowered by an element with a hand took way more Energy than using such an attack. Yet, with this small explosion, he only used 5%. The saber slowed down a bit and hit his hand, yet due to the explosion, the attack only broke the skin.

'Terrifying!' Gravis judged. Red had managed to block his attack with way less Energy than normal due to the ingenious method of using an explosion in his hand. Like this, Gravis had used up 50% of his Energy while Red only used a little more than 5%. Gravis was wholly outclassed.

grabbed the saber with all his power and didn't let it go. Red smirked. Gravis had lost his

BZZT!

able to pull his saber back. Lightning had the ability to slightly stun the opponent. Of

many different circumstances at once. He had to grasp the whole battle situation in the blink

SWOOOSH!

45% of his total Energy to attack Red's arm. The speed of Red's body was superior to Gravis' so, in comparison to Gravis, Red had the ability

SHING BOOM!

lightning exploded, blasting the front half of his hand off. Red's eyes widened, and he quickly jumped back, keeping watch on Gravis. Why did the attack work this time when it didn't before? The reason was that

Gravis would not use the same amount of Energy again. Red knew a lot about Energy, and he guessed that earlier, Gravis had used a whole 50% of his Energy to injure him. If Gravis used the same amount again,

front half of Red's left hand. Red's eyes widened because this seemed incredibly stupid. He had seen how Gravis fought,

now without any Energy. The fight was over. Red could also only see a tiny amount of lightning on the saber. This was Gravis' last remaining Energy, and even if he let the saber hit him, it would do nothing. Red just let Gravis slash

the saber closed in, Red suddenly felt an inexplicable, deep terror. For some reason, he grew incredibly afraid of

SHIING BOOM!

was as intense as the previous two attacks, which shocked Red to the core. Where did that Energy come from? Weren't Gravis' Energy reserves empty? Like this, the

didn't notice me refilling my Energy with an Energy dot from my mind. First, he looked like he wanted to do nothing, but suddenly his face changed, and he decided to block either