Lightning Is the Only Way

Complete darkness surrounded Gravis. His Spirit was cut off from the outside world, and his eyes were closed. He also ignored everything that he heard. After all, he had to walk forward without any distractions. He only opened his eyes and Spirit for a split second every couple of seconds to see if he was still inside the Illusion Array.

While walking forward, Gravis swung his saber continually to destroy everything before him. He couldn't risk touching a tree right now. If he did, his lightning would unload into nothingness.

His heart pumped quickly. It wasn't because of nervousness, but because of excitement. He could see and feel nothing while one enemy at the Tree Stage and, at least, five enemies at the Sapling Stage watched him. Any one of those could attack him suddenly.

Gravis felt extremely close to death right now. Walking blind around an area where an enemy could strike him created waves inside his mind. This sensation alone was good tempering for him. Even if the others didn't attack him, in his mind, he would have still gone through a life and death crisis. Perception was everything when it came to the tempering of one's will.

BANG!

10% of his lightning unloaded again. This time, Gravis felt his lightning unload itself via his leg. He also quickly felt around 10% of his lightning regenerating. Apparently, he had just killed someone at the Seed Stage.

BANG!

Another unload from the same leg, and another wave of Energy entered his body.

BANG!

And again. Gravis was quite surprised by the disciples' willingness to throw their lives away, but he quickly thought of a reason. Some of the disciples probably made a pact where they decided to exhaust Gravis. After all, every single lightning strike cost Energy, and Gravis couldn't possibly have an infinite amount of that.

He also guessed that Byron had probably offered that gamble. He probably said something along the lines of that any disciple that managed to injure him would get some powerful weapon or something similar.

BANG!

And again!

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

Stage weren't rare, but also not abundant. From the around 1,100 Spirit Forming disciples in the Lightning Sect, only around

Darkness Sect probably had even less of those. After all, they didn't temper themselves as crazily as the Fire or Lightning Sect. Gravis guessed that he had probably killed around 10% of all their

The disciples had probably seen that Gravis had killed

BANGBANGBANGBANGBANGBANG!

eyes as he realized several things. The unloads didn't come from a single point of his body but form all over him at random spots. On top of that, every

me!' Gravis realized with anger. He didn't mind killing weaker people

colliding with him. After a lot of bodies hit him, Gravis threw everything to the side with all his power. His physical body was very powerful, and the invisible pile of bodies got shot into the distance. Then,

BOOM!

huge amount of lightning leaving his body. Yet, surprisingly, no Energy came back. Instead, the world crumbled apart. As soon as Gravis noticed that something was happening, he opened his eyes and Spirit again. What he saw matched a lot of

he would have reached the outside of the Illusion Array. The elders had probably

they didn't flee towards their Sect, but away from it. Their panicked faces affirmed

behind him, Gravis saw two elders standing behind a group of disciples in the initial stage of Spirit Forming. The eyes of the disciples showed pure horror. Those were probably the

elder lying just ten meters besides

"YOU IDIO-"BANG! SHING!

that he was empty. Yet, he spotted the reappearing white dots on Gravis and barely willed for the Formation Array to protect him. The Formation Array blocked the lightning and broke apart, destroying the illusionary world, while the

just realized that he had actually survived, Gravis had taken the initiative and finished him. 20% of his lightning regenerated, but his storages were still very low. The avalanche of

took note of the two elders behind the disciples and another two elders standing beside Byron. The Darkness Sect still had four elders and their Sect Master left, while Gravis only had 40% of

about the dead disciples or the dead elders. Gravis was sure that Byron was frustrated because the elder had used the Formation Array to block Gravis' attack. With the destruction of the Formation Array, they lost their most significant

shouted, all the elders vanished into

in stealth and can't risk

an avalanche, the disciples