Lightning Is the Only Way

During the next couple of days, Gravis spoke more with the other people, but the vast majority of his time was spent on the Rakshasa Saber. The Battle Technique was actually really interesting and opened Gravis' eyes to a whole new way of fighting.

The Rakshasa Saber needed four components to work. It needed a powerful will, Spirit, Energy, and a physical saber. Normally, a powerful attack with a Spirit Weapon would need the element and the Spirit of the user. The Spirit controls and strengthens the element inside the weapon, increasing its destructive potential. Yet, the Rakshasa Saber was different.

The regular usage of a Spirit Weapon didn't require the will. It only required the element and Spirit. Yet, this Rakshasa Saber also required the will. What did the will do to make the technique work?

Spirit and Energy were not inherently dangerous. The Spirit was only dangerous when paired with something dangerous, like an element. The Spirit could be considered as a tempering agent or support for something else. Energy was also not inherently dangerous. One first had to transform it into an element to make it destructive. At least, that held true for this lower world. Other worlds surely had different techniques.

One could summarize the whole thing as such.

Energy was the basic component and resource.

The element was the forging of the resource into something destructive.

Spirit was the tempering of the destructive material.

The Rakshasa Saber threw the concept of the element completely away. Instead, it used the will to change the Spirit from a tempering agent into a forging resource to transform something harmless like Energy into something destructive.

The Rakshasa Saber showed a method that would use the will in such a way that it fused with the Spirit. At that point, the Spirit would be fused with the will and, therefore, also carry its suppressive and destructive property. Usually, the element used the Spirit as a resource that would make the element stronger. Yet, for the Rakshasa Saber, the opposite was true.

used the Energy to strengthen the mix of will and Spirit. Like this, the user's will would manifest in a physical form and could directly injure others. Normally, a Will-Aura only affected the will of others, and it wasn't able

Energy, it could damage others. If the mix was used correctly, it could be transformed into a destructive wave that could cut or destroy the things it

Gravis sighed. "A

multiple times. According to Elder Byron, there was no headquarter since that would give them a permanent residence and, therefore, a target

to find a place where no one could watch. Gravis trusted the Greys, but he was still cautious about showing his abnormal centers of

WHOOOSH!

Will-Aura appeared, and the surroundings shook a little. Surprisingly, the ground and mountains didn't get damaged. Apparently, due to the higher Energy density in the atmosphere, the terrain had been hardened. In

with his Spirit. It took some time, but he quickly managed to achieve it. When he was done, he felt something entirely new appear. It felt like a big part of his Spirit's vision had been compressed, making the area appear somewhat bigger in

cost any Spirit, so that was one worry less. Gravis then made the mix

BANG!

punched the floor. The floor sunk down for a meter, but nothing more happened. Gravis could achieve more with a punch, but

was used up. Luckily, a will was

chin in thought. "Now, let's try again with some

inherent Energy from his body into the mixture. He used around 50% of the Energy, which was not a lot. One should remember that the inherently

one looked at it with their eyes, they would only see a grey, distorted area with a diameter of about a meter. The objects behind the sphere

BOOOOM!

the crater vanished. One would think that the sphere had eaten the debris, but that wasn't true. The stone and earth had been ground down into dust, which quickly scattered into the

only half the amount of Energy that someone at

Spirit Weapon. As the sphere entered the saber, the saber's color dimmed to a greyish color, and it started

he had killed said elder in a fight. That someone at the