Lightning Is the Only Way

The people looked at each other with furrowed brows. They had no idea what the intruder was on about. One of them looked back at Gravis with furrowed brows.

"Wha-"

WHOOOM!

And lost consciousness before he could even finish his words. With the power of his fully concentrated Will-Aura, Gravis was now able to make Seed Stage cultivators lose their consciousness.

"Exactly!" Gravis shouted.

Before the fight with the Darkness Sect, he only had been able to stop Seed Stage experts in their tracks when he concentrated his Will-Aura. While being in the Illusion Array, he could have rotated it to not allow any Seed Stage cultivator to get close to him, but he needed to kill some of them to stop more from attacking him.

The eyes of the other people widened in shock.

"Wha-"

And another one fell unconscious.

"Hey, that joke gets old if it's repeated too many times," Gravis said in seriousness. His dry delivery made the people incredibly confused. Was the intruder annoyed? What did the intruder do? What was happening?

"Oi, bush," Gravis transmitted to the thorny bush. "I am going to walk forward now, and you better not touch me."

Before the bush could answer, Gravis started walking forward, right towards the wall of thorny bush. Unfortunately, the bush didn't retract itself.

BZZZ!

into it, incinerating the whole cage surrounding him. The lightning traveled along the roots and destroyed a whole third of the bush. Gravis had only released around 5% of his lightning. Any more and the thorny bush would

and every root and part of itself moved as far away from Gravis

"Told you," Gravis transmitted.

remaining people looked with fear at Gravis. This was not how this was supposed to go! The intruder was incredibly powerful, and they

three people, he stopped for a short moment. "I have enough power to flatten your whole Clan. If I really wanted to hurt you, I wouldn't need

BANG!

and grabbed the wrist of the attacker, who had just thrown a fist at Gravis. The attacker was an old

The anger was so intense that it could only be compared to the anger that he had felt after he had newly created his Destruction Lightning. Yet, with his powerful will, Gravis buried that anger for now. Getting angry now

his attack through. How was that possible!? He was a whole Stage higher than the intruder! He might not have been able to upgrade his body to the

why you are not dead right now is that you didn't unload the natural lightning

The fact that he hadn't been able to upgrade his body to the Sapling Stage yet meant that he

older person narrowed his eyes and pulled his hand out of Gravis' grasp. "Who are you!?" he

"I am the person you helped in the Hunting Guild near Wilderness Town. You know, the

the older person's eyes, but his battle intent didn't go down. "You look nothing like that young

now. Excuse me for my direct choice of language. I'm not used to talking to people that attack me."

Freya Clan to repay his debt, yet they had immediately attacked him. The fact that he owed them something was literally the only reason why the present people were still alive. Gravis did not take kindly to people attacking him at

but still remained in a battle stance. "That still doesn't explain your ridiculous power. It's impossible to become so powerful in only three years. I can't believe such an outrageous claim

didn't lie. I gave you information on when and where we talked. What else do you want? Do I also need to tell you about how awkward I acted in front of you? Or how, when you opened the door to the Hunting Guild, you knocked over a hunter? What about that glimmer of understanding in your eyes when I said that I could only accept an equivalent trade? The fuck do you want to hear from me?" Gravis spat one thing after

made this hard to accept. After all, it was physically impossible to reach the Seed Stage in only three years. It was like finding a mortal kid on top of a massive tower with the

took a deep breath to calm down. "If what you're saying is true, then just wait for a couple of minutes.

interesting. Alright, I'll

cold eyes. Luckily, the person was stopped by the older person before he could attack. Otherwise, he might have lost an arm. Gravis had been kind enough

the initiative, we might all die today,"

Grand Elder, said. "I think he's maybe telling the truth. On top of that," Reginald narrowed his eyes. "I doubt that we have any chance of winning. He stopped my full-power attack without even using his weapon. His Will-Aura alone is impossibly powerful, and his lightning also feels different than any other lightning I have ever seen.