Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis gritted his teeth. 'Fuck, I only have a single option left!' Gravis thought as he retrieved his Lightning Board and shot away.

"I also know about your Lightning Board. The arena is perfectly sized to counter your Lightning Board," the priest said evenly. The priest stopped charging forward and kept watch over Gravis. He wouldn't be able to follow him at that speed, so he quickly charged to one wall to wait for him.

When Gravis saw that, he immediately jumped off the Lightning Board again. He had used the Lightning Board as a feint to get to the other side of the arena. Sadly, that still cost him around 3% of his lightning.

"Interesting. A feint. That will only work once. I will just continue charging at you, and you have to accelerate every time. I know that acceleration takes up the most lightning. As long as I follow this pattern, you will waste your lightning away," the priest said as he charged at Gravis with his shield again.

Gravis' eyes became bloodshot. 'This is the only chance! If this doesn't work, I will die!' he shouted inside his mind.

Whoop!

A torso appeared before Gravis, and he kicked it forward at the charging priest, who, by now, was around 200 meters away from Gravis.

CRRR!

The sound of feet digging into the ground resounded as the priest immediately stopped. He knew that Gravis could hide the Lightning Bomb inside a torso. The agents have told him of that. The torso would deteriorate before the Lightning Bomb exploded, so he had enough time to check if a Lightning Bomb was inside the torso or if that was also a feint.

BZZZ!

Sure enough, a colossal Lightning Bomb came out of the torso. The priest had studied Gravis' fighting thoroughly. Even the High Priest himself helped the priest with the calculations. According to math, this Lightning Bomb had around 80% of Gravis' Spirit and lightning. The power and fluctuations of the lightning were in sync with the calculations. Math was never wrong.

that Gravis could reabsorb lightning, and if that Lightning Bomb were used as a feint, he would need to come close to reabsorb it. When the Lightning Bomb was only two meters away from the priest, he crushed his Jade Token. Just to be sure, the

saber flew out. 'He is layering the attack, and I can only keep

the priest could only use one token at a time and that this combined attack would be powerful enough to

first token, the priest immediately readied the second token. He had to activate the second token at the exact moment when the first one broke. Everything

BOOOOOOOOOM!

same time. The lightning filled the whole arena and even managed to destroy

barrier broke nearly immediately, and the

WHOOOM!

used all his will to suppress the priest. The priest had been too careful not to waste his limited Heavenly Pressure. No person was perfect, and the

activated his Heavenly Pressure and crushed the second Jade Token. Yet, this split second was enough to let some of the explosion through. The Jade Token was made to resist attacks from outside. It wasn't meant to resist attacks from

did its job and blocked a lot of power. The whole explosion only had around a quarter of its power remaining as it crashed into the priest's

but due to the arena's small size, the explosion had nowhere else to go. The circular walls kept the explosion inside, making the explosion hit the priest's body from the side, behind, and top. The

BANG!

priest's body also started vanishing in the lightning, but he held on! He had

Whooosh!

priest had survived but only barely! He stood on the ground, which had been lowered by about five meters. One of his arms had vanished entirely while the other one was missing one half. The exposed parts of his head were gone, showing a clean skull as all blood and muscle had been burned away. His organs were

around 30% of his body mass. A mortal would have immediately died. Luckily, cultivators had more Life Energy. He

used up. If he hadn't used all his Energy to protect his body, he would

arms. With this, he had evaded blindness. After the explosion, he had immediately opened them and looked at the front.

CLANK!

seen the approaching saber and summoned his weapon to block it. It was a two-meter-long spear. He held it in