Lightning Is the Only Way

"Wait, what? Stop! Stop!" shouted Gravis as soon as he jumped into the Wind Wall. His whole body was being thrown around the Wind Wall uncontrollably. He tried to activate his Elemental Synchronicity, but it just wouldn't work! His body was violently tossed up, then down, then up again.

'Why can't I activate my Elemental Synchronicity? Does this have something to do with my abnormal breakthrough?' he thought to himself as he was tossed around, already feeling dizzy. 'Come on, work!'

But it didn't help. The wind just wouldn't listen! After about a minute of this happening, Gravis summoned lightning around him, resisting the wind. 'Fuck, of course, there won't only be advantages to doing this.'

Whoop Tack!

Gravis left the Wind Wall and landed on the middle-continent. With his lightning and his Spirit, he had manipulated his body to get pushed out of the Wind Wall. After landing, he turned around and looked at the Wind Wall again with a grimace. "Why?" he muttered.

He thought about this for a while and got multiple suspicions, but the main one was his new Spirit. Energy was the base for all of the elements. His mind hadn't acclimated to Energy, which meant that his affinity with Energy had probably decreased.

Gravis tried to absorb the Energy from the surroundings and felt it course through his body. "No difference there. I can absorb and manipulate the Energy just fine. So that's not the issue," Gravis concluded after some tests.

Then, Gravis moved some of the Energy into his Spirit. To his surprise, as soon as the Energy went into his Spirit, it was immediately absorbed by the raging lightning. When Gravis saw that, he smiled bitterly. "I can't even retroactively make my Spirit adapt to Energy. Guess this is what I have to live with, huh?" he muttered.

"My Spirit and mind are the cores for controlling the elements. By filling it with lightning, I have probably killed every chance of manipulating other elements. The elements are different, and they don't like each other. Guess lightning has a monopoly over my body now," Gravis muttered.

Gravis was right. His Elemental Synchronicity was based on a natural affinity for every element. When he had thought about the different elements' temperaments, he had realized that he could empathize with any one of them. Yet, lightning was the only thing remaining inside of him now.

As Gravis thought back to the temperaments of the different elements, he also noticed something that he hadn't up to now. His thoughts had changed. As he thought back, he realized that he couldn't restrain himself like the earth element or be as greedy as the darkness element.

"What's happening?" Gravis asked with a serious look. "When I have thought about other elements in the past, I always saw some connection between them and me, but now, they feel disconnected."

Gravis thought about a hypothetical situation where someone attacked him, but he only defended himself without attacking back. Before he had formed his Spirit, that wouldn't have been an issue. Yes, it might feel stupid or unnecessary, but he could force himself to do just that.

his whole being. If someone attacked, he had to

"It's just like back then in the Proxy-Lightning Guild!"

reasoning. Back then, it felt more like the lightning was manipulating him instead of just influencing him. Now, Gravis

bitterly. "I guess this is how the normal cultivators

and every member of the guilds echoed that temperament. Back then, Gravis could have imagined him being part of other Elemental Guilds, but not anymore. Now, it felt like he didn't belong to those guilds. It felt like they all chose

bad, I guess," Gravis said,

knew that he

didn't come close to his gains. Gravis felt an intrinsic connection to his lightning, and he felt like he could do anything with

am lightning, and when more lightning appears, more of me

looked at

found three big boulders. Gravis pointed

BANG!

Then, Gravis concentrated and shot another

BANG!

It was not wholly destroyed like the last one. Gravis concentrated

BANG!

boulder, it created a loud thunder, but the boulder remained undamaged. When Gravis saw that, he smiled in ecstasy. "I can control the

like this had never happened. A cultivator could only use their element by sending Energy through an Elemental Seed. Therefore, the composition of the Element

to freely control his type of lightning. Yet, it wasn't as easy as it

a lot of Energy," he said

Gravis had moved a second, newly-created Lightning Seed into his Spirit. What about his original Lightning Seed? When Gravis thought that, he

"It's gone!?" he shouted.

old Lightning Seed was gone. But then, how was he able to create lightning? Gravis looked into

BZZZZZZ!

was filled entirely with lightning. He couldn't see any Energy inside of it. "Has my Lightning Seed