Lightning Is the Only Way

WACK!

A cane hit Gravis in the side of the head, throwing him off the mighty, newly created tree. His body hit the side of a building, but his body didn't break it since Balzar was so hard. Instead, his body slid down the wall, towards the ground.

"I take my eyes off of you for five fucking seconds, and you summon a calamity!" came the angry shout of Old Man Lightning. "Destroying my home not enough for you? You wanna destroy the whole Sect now?"

Gravis rubbed his head and grew annoyed. "What's your problem, old man? I only absorbed some lightning! Is it against the rules?" he shouted with annoyance.

Old Man Lightning pointed towards the sky. "Look what you've done! The clouds are as weak as never before! If I hadn't stopped you, they would have vanished! With your reckless actions, you have nearly doomed the Lightning Sect!" he shouted violently.

Gravis looked up at the sky and noticed that some parts of the clouds had parted, light shining through them. By now, Gravis had realized his blunder. What would the Lightning Sect be without lightning? He might have really overdone it this time.

"Hey, I'm sorry, okay?" Gravis said after he calmed down. "I didn't realize that I absorbed this much lightning. I'll pay you back, okay?"

Old Man Lightning narrowed his eyes.

WACK

He appeared beside Gravis without any warning and whacked him with his cane again. The cane hit the side of his head, throwing him to the ground again.

Gravis immediately shot up again, annoyance, and a bit of rage in his eyes as he looked at Old Man Lightning. "I said, I'll pay you back! What more do you want, you old prick?"

Instead of growing angry, Old Man Lightning looked at Gravis with interest. He played around with his beard a little as he thought about something. "You're not being influenced by the temperament of lightning after absorbing so much of it?" he asked with interest.

The first hit with the cane was to stop Gravis, while the second one was to test if Gravis was influenced by the temperament of lightning. After all, that was a genuine issue that happened to a lot of disciples. If someone absorbed too much lightning in too short of a time, they would start going berserk, attacking everything that even slightly annoyed them.

Gravis now realized why the old man hat hit him again. Most of his annoyance vanished, but not all of it. "No. That happened once to me already, and I committed a grave mistake. Luckily, lightning's temperament won't ever influence me again."

can be influenced by lightning's temperament,

am lightning.

WACK!

think you can lie

looking with

BZZZ!

bolt of lightning shot from the newly grown tree onto Gravis, surprising everyone. This new tree had control over lightning? Also,

On top of that, he was immune to lightning. The lightning bolt hit him, yet, instead of getting absorbed by

happened, but he almost couldn't believe it. "Life Lightning?" he uttered with shock as he realized what had happened. 'This tree has control over Life

voice sounded incredibly shocked. "Did

shaking of his body, getting more annoyed at the old man

Plonk!

of the central plaza, taking up basically all the space. Its trunk was already over 30 meters wide,

tree had no leaves. By all intents and purposes, it looked dead. Yet, the

what was going on, but Old Man Lightning seemed to know this kind of tree. He looked at the

Old Man Lightning said with

looked with shock at the tree after hearing those words, but most of them only showed confusion. Was this tree able to control Life Lightning? How

its creator with his cane multiple times. It was a newly born organism, not knowing anything

with wonder. Gravis extended his Spirit to the tree, and he felt a resonance of closeness and warmth from the tree. While inspecting the tree, Gravis also noticed

tree. This thing

thing brownish-grey?' Gravis thought after

to the tree with his Spirit. After saying that, the tree slightly swayed. Gravis was pleasantly surprised when he

and try to understand the concept that the first person tried to convey. Of course,

know any words. While this tree, obviously, wasn't able to understand words, it understood the concept that Gravis' Spirit conveyed. The concept was only a warm greeting and acknowledgment

in the tree. Many of them thought about eventual uses of Life Lightning and grew excited. A free heal, whenever they wanted, was always