Lightning Is the Only Way

After some seconds, Gravis finished thinking. His attention returned to the two people from the Earth Guild, who still stood in the same position. Gravis admired their patience in some way. Even when he showed complete disregard, they had still waited patiently. Others would have gotten so angry that they would have attacked by now.

"Anyway…" Gravis said and trailed off.

BZZZZZZ!

Gravis condensed another lightning spear. Every condensation of such a spear cost Gravis around 10% of his lightning and 20% of his Spirit. Together with the upkeep of the earlier spear and the miscellaneous attacks at the beginning, he had used up around 25% of his lightning and 45% of his Spirit. Yet, he didn't care.

"I'm coming," said Gravis with a smile.

BOOM!

The explosion did not come from the lightning spear, but from Gravis bursting forward with all his power. His body had become incredibly powerful, and when he used his full acceleration, he would destroy the surrounding ten meters of earth. If his lightning spear would dissipate when it left him, then it just had to remain inside his hand. He reached the two people in no time at all.

The eyes of the two experts widened in shock. 'Fast!' they both shouted in their minds. Yet, they were prepared for Gravis. They had waited for this for several minutes by now. After Gravis threw his attack, they would counterattack!

Yet, Gravis never threw his spear. He came closer and closer until he was only five meters away, but he didn't throw his spear even then! The eyes of the two people widened again. Was Gravis suicidal? Resisting one's own element was a prerequisite of using it, but that didn't hold true for concentrated attacks using Spirit. A concentrated explosion of one's element still damaged the attacker severely.

Sadly, they didn't know that Gravis was utterly immune to lightning. Even worse, he was not only immune to lightning but actually absorbed it. This was the same ability that the physical manifestation of lightning had had. Yet, in comparison to the manifestation, Gravis wasn't able to control lightning, which had a will inside it.

The reason why this manifestation had been so threatening was, for one, its ability to absorb lightning, but that wasn't the actual danger. The real danger had been that the manifestation could command all lightning in the world to come towards it. Gravis didn't have this ability. Without this, he couldn't steal Heaven's lightning, as long as it didn't attack him first with it.

By exploding the spear close to him, he could even absorb around half of it, basically cutting the cost in half. Gravis closed in, and the two experts braced for impact.

BOOM!

Gravis slammed the lightning spear into the barrier, and it immediately exploded, destroying the surroundings. The sound of the explosion damaged the two experts' ears since it had been so close, but the sound was the least of their worries right now. The explosion was way more powerful than they had thought, even if their Will-Auras had weakened it.

attack the Guild Master's towering shield. The Vice-Guild Master pulled his weapon back and was entirely focused

CRK!

blocked such a powerful attack, but this was a shield! It was supposed to be able to handle something like

Making a shield was supremely expensive, and why would the Earth Guild Master of the Middle-Continent require a shield to block

had reached the power of a concentrated attack of someone at the Seed-Stage. The shield was not made for something like that. Thus it cracked. Some of the Formation Arrays got damaged, which required the use of even

two seconds, all lightning vanished. Gravis had initially been stopped at a distance of around two meters from the two people, but they got pushed back so hard that they now were at a

the Vice-Guild Master was frozen in place. If the barrier hadn't been broken, the Guild Master would have "only" needed around 25% of his Energy to resist that attack. Sadly, with the barrier broken and his shield damaged, he had used up over

that from his Spirit. On top of that, the Energy inside of Gravis

Energy inside Gravis' body. Naturally, Gravis didn't use that Energy but the lightning inside his dantian. Sadly, the two people weren't

Step. Step. Step.

a grin. "I think I have tested my Energy attacks enough.

which also opened an opportunity for them to counterattack. They

stopped when he was only one meter away from the towering

range, but as long as he kept being vigilant, they wouldn't be able to hit him. They had to hit him when he

he said slowly. "You're waiting until I use

this. It was rather obvious, but it didn't matter that Gravis knew what they were planning. He had to attack them to

trailed off. "There is a fatal flaw in that tactic. Have

SWISH!

to the side. He went through too many life and death fights to fall for such a surprise attack. Normally, Gravis

interrupt others. It's rude!"

Master gritted his teeth but readied himself again for another strike. He had to wait for an

I was saying, that tactic has a fatal flaw. You counterattack when I attack with my

They didn't answer.

if I don't attack with my

BANG!