Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis jumped out of the arena and looked at the group evenly. The group was actually quite shocked at how quickly the fight had ended.

"Gravis! Are you alright? Are you hurt?" Joyce asked with worry as she ran up to him and looked at him closely.

Gravis could only sigh at that. "No, obviously, I'm not. I can heal myself by converting the inherent Energy in my body into Life Lightning," he explained simply. Then, he turned to the remainder. "Since I am supposed to be your guide, I'll start explaining the backgrounds of the fight now."

Joyce was a little annoyed that Gravis just brushed her worry off and immediately went to teaching, but there was nothing she could do.

"Gravis, why didn't you unleash your preloaded weapon into the puppet's head as soon as you struck it?" Manuel asked. "This seemed like a way better way to win the fight."

The rest of the group also had this question. Why didn't Gravis unload his saber?

Gravis laughed a bit. "You're right. That would have been a cleaner and better way to win the fight. I would have done that if I could."

Whoop!

Gravis summoned his saber. "This saber has been forged specifically for me, and it has different Formation Arrays. The Formation Arrays allow me to store my most powerful attack, the Lightning Crescent. Sadly, the good comes with the bad, and the addition of the new Formation Arrays makes it impossible for me to store a normal loaded attack."

A light of recognition appeared in the group's eyes. "But you could have unloaded it anyway. After all, such an attack would probably not have broken the rules," Manuel said again. "Simply unloading your weapon should be okay, even if it had a Lightning Crescent inside."

Gravis smirked a little. "Yeah, you're probably right, but that's not the reason why I didn't unload it," Gravis explained. "I am pretty sure that the restriction on my Lightning Crescent wasn't there to make it hard on me but to protect you guys."

Joyce frowned. "But the arena is protected with a powerful Formation Array. Nothing is able to leave the arena."

my Lightning Crescent is actually more powerful than just an attack in the Self Stage. The Formation Array would

said. "We know that you're powerful, but it should be impossible to unleash an attack above

Bang!

Spirit to summon a will-sphere. Instead of explaining, it would be easier to show them. He infused his

BOOOM!

become many times more powerful, as well as his Spirit. This 1% of his Spirit ate up about 5% of

Formation Array immediately activated again, and nearly the whole arena was filled with lightning. Together with his more compressed lightning and his stronger will, this one

able to block this little bit. After the explosion, Gravis jumped back to the group. "That

wouldn't even have been able to withstand this explosion. That was only 1%? That's

of the puppet, I knew immediately that it had the fire element. The puppet fought rather smartly by keeping one of its

group now listened to

didn't expect that I would take the initiative to trigger its backup plan. That surprise also stopped its main plan. Remember that the enemies try to anticipate everything you do, but they often don't pay attention to what they are doing.

even though you knew that it was coming? This seemed

looked at her evenly. "I could have retreated after exploding the fireball, but then what? Yes, I would not have been injured, and the

she still wasn't wholly convinced. Wasn't the point in winning a fight not to die

chance of winning. By injuring the hand of the enemy, the chances of winning would rise to

arena. "The puppet fought safely without taking any risks, and that was

now. "But fighting safely

you will get overpowered. Think of the puppet. It was superior to me in every single way. It was faster, had more stamina, had a more powerful body, more powerful Energy, a more powerful Spirit, yet it hadn't managed to hit me even once. Why

one was answering, Manuel stepped forward. "Because you never gave it any chance to make use of its strengths," he said with a slight laugh. "Just

change. Maybe it would unload one powerful ranged attack after another. By that point, it would become nearly impossible for me to

disadvantageous position. The safest way to win was to go

time to speak up. "That all makes sense, but why did you injure yourself to that