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.

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

BZZT!

Gravis? He quickly used his lightning to disturb the hand of Red, which made him able to pull his saber back. Lightning had the ability to slightly stun the opponent. Of course, if the opponent had a way stronger

left his hand without his control, and his eyes narrowed. Gravis' brain grew incredibly hot as he thought about many different

SWOOOSH!

of Red's body was superior to Gravis' so, in comparison to Gravis, Red had the ability to react to Gravis' attacks. Like this, he grabbed the

SHING BOOM!

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 Red actually had too much fighting experience instead

as before, but Red was sure 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, he would be out of Energy. Yes, he might be able to sever the front of his hand, but that would make him helpless for the future fight. Gravis obviously wouldn't be that

He had emptied a total of 95% of his reserves to sever the front half of Red's left hand. Red's eyes widened because this seemed incredibly stupid. He had seen how Gravis fought, and he was sure that Gravis wouldn't do something this

Red could also only see a tiny amount of lightning on the saber. This was Gravis' last remaining Energy,

he grew incredibly afraid of that slash,

SHIING BOOM!

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

looked like he wanted