Lightning Is the Only Way

"You tried to sneak-attack me!" shouted Gravis into the surroundings, obviously enraged, at least he appeared to be. "You should fight fair and square if you have any self-respect!" he shouted again. Of course, he wanted them actually to continue to sneak-attack him, but he couldn't show that. He had to appear like a spoiled, naïve brat.

In the surroundings, the darkness disciples sneered in disdain. "Sure enough, he is a spoiled brat," someone whispered to the others. The others nodded in affirmation. How could someone blessed with nearly infinite karmic luck know about the things they had to do to gain power?

Gravis had already collected the Energy of the dead disciples until his Energy was ready to condense into the eighth level of Energy Gathering. Instead of breaking through, he let the remaining Energy disperse. If he absorbed everything, he would probably reach the middle of the eighth level, but he preferred to stay at the seventh level.

If he suddenly broke through into the eighth level of Energy Gathering, some disciples might decide against attacking him. Like this, he might not even be able to reach the ninth level of Energy Gathering, while his actual goal was the tenth.

Gravis shouted some more into the surroundings while the disciples made a new plan.

Whoosh gulp!

The one corpse that hadn't been reduced to ashes was picked up by some wind and thrown into Skye's maw. Skye was looking at Gravis with a disapproving look. That guy had burned its other nine pieces of food. After having a small snack, Skye went back to sleep. In its mind, nothing could harm it while Gravis was around.

After shouting some more, Gravis looked to the ground and found some Energy Stones and weapons. He picked them up, walked to Skye, and placed them beside it. He couldn't carry so many weapons at once, and he doubted that anyone would dare to steal something so close to a high-grade Energy Beast.

disgust. They had

the seventh level of Energy Gathering. Gravis did some calculations and realized that if he killed all of the attackers, he wouldn't even reach the ninth level of Energy Gathering. He had to change his tactic. If that ambush

another disciple walked closer to Gravis, visible. The others surrounded Gravis, but this time, several meters were between him

with a friendly smile plastered across his face and gave Gravis the sack with pills. "I apologize for the shamelessness of my former disciple

your apology. Not everyone can be chivalrous, but I can see that you are an honest person! I won't forget you!"

know that he had just accepted

Almost.

said with a nod, and the disciple nodded back with a deferential

BANG!

lightning bolt with his full speed. The eyes of the others' widened. They didn't even get into formation, and their distraction had already been

Gravis while pointing his fingers into the surroundings. "You see that? You attacked me with an ambush, so I did the same to

annoyance. They didn't care about Gravis attacking out of nowhere. That was actually a quality they

were way lower if his focus wasn't on something else. If one, or all of them, attacked simultaneously, Gravis might release his lightning into the surroundings. They had to get him when

expensive, and they didn't want to just give them