Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked as the two experts grew more and more panicked. Sadly, the earth was stalwart and would not bend. Of course, sad for them, lucky for him. Gravis wouldn't want them to just give up and run away. He had more things to test!

Step. Step. Step.

Gravis moved closer again, and the two experts' anxiety grew. They were running out of ideas. They couldn't think of any way to win. The power difference was just too vast!

Gravis walked until he stood two meters away from them. "How about this?" Gravis asked. "You can attack me once with your spear. I promise that I won't dodge or block. I wanna test something."

The eyes of the two experts shot open in shock. Not dodging or blocking? Wasn't this just suicide? The further the fight progressed, the more confused they grew. Wasn't Gravis taking them too lightly? They were in the same Realm, after all.

"You won't break your word?" asked the Vice-Guild Master from the back.

Gravis nodded. "I won't. You can unleash one attack, and I won't block or dodge."

The Guild Master looked at the Vice-Guild Master and nodded solemnly. "I don't know what he's planning, but I doubt that he will break his promise. Also, don't kill him. We have no life and death enmity, yet. If his plan succeeds and he has seen that you tried to kill him, we might actually die. This guy said that no one would die today. Remember?"

The Vice-Guild Master sent an affirmative answer back. The chances of killing Gravis were not 100%, and if this strike wouldn't kill him, they would most likely die. They had to stay cautious and not create a life and death enmity.

The Vice-Guild Master readied himself for a strike and infused a whole 30% of his Energy into the spear. The spear's weight became impossibly high, yet the Vice-Guild Master, as the manipulator, didn't feel it. Since his weapon was infused with his Spirit, he could ignore the added weight. If that weren't the case, he wouldn't even be able to lift his weapon.

The Vice-Guild Master pulled back his spear, ready to strike. Then, with all his power, he shot his spear forward.

SHING!

experts widened in disbelief. The spear had stabbed through something alright, but it was not Gravis. They looked at the spear, as it stabbed diagonally

"It works, hehe," he

What had Gravis done?

attacked him earlier, Gravis was surprised by the power of their strikes. He knew that they didn't have bodies at the Spirit Forming Realm, yet their attacks had been

of a possibility. The only way they were able to release such powerful attacks without having such a powerful body was that they had somewhat influenced their weapons. It

He had to test that! Of

his Will-Aura. They would be unable to move then. And even if the weapon hit him, as long as

what exactly did

the Vice-Guild Master had pushed forward with his strike, Gravis summoned a lot of lightning on his feet, creating a magnetic field. The weapon moving forward got influenced by the magnetic field and changed its trajectory. The stab changed from a horizontal one into one going diagonally down. If

cultivators of the Earth Guild, obviously, weren't affected by their weapon's weight. Yet, when an external force pulled on the increased weight, that didn't matter since it affected the increased weight, not the base one. It could be summarized into one stupid phrase: The more spear

that case, it would have probably stabbed through Gravis' abdomen. Yet, that also didn't matter. He

even better was that Gravis didn't even use any Energy.

by what just happened. After some seconds, the Guild Master finally figured out what had happened. "Magnetism," he sent to the Vice-Guild Master, who then also understood what had transpired

Lightning Guild, so they hadn't known that one could utilize lightning like this. By now, they lost all hope of winning. Yet,

smile. "We will now commence with the next test. Please put all your power into defending. If you don't, you might actually

a defensive position. The Vice-Guild Master didn't even ready his weapon anymore. He had been gifted a free shot and still hadn't been able to hit Gravis. There was no point in readying his weapon

from a distance. After Gravis had tested some things, he had gotten even more ideas. The close-range explosion of his lightning spear made him realize that he could absorb part of his own

BZZ BOOOM!