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."

probably block an attack at the Self Stage, but my Lightning Crescent is actually more powerful than just an attack in the Self Stage.

aback but still skeptical. "That sounds unrealistic," The darkness disciple said. "We know that you're powerful, but it should be

Bang!

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

BOOOM!

could process what was happening, a huge lightning explosion happened. Gravis' will had become many times more powerful,

and nearly the whole arena was filled with lightning. Together with his more compressed lightning and his stronger will, this one percent of his Spirit

the group. "That was 1% of my Spirit. My preloaded Lightning Crescent is filled with 100%. You can imagine

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

soon as I saw the weapon and fighting position of the puppet, I knew immediately that it had the fire element. The puppet fought rather smartly by keeping one of its hands free. With that free hand, it could summon a fireball

now listened to

of the enemy, you can plan around it. The puppet 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. After all, why should someone get attacked by their own attack?"

Gravis, but why did you force yourself through the explosion, even though you knew that it was coming? This seemed like a

then what? Yes, I would not have been

but she still wasn't wholly convinced. Wasn't the point in winning a fight not to die or not get injured? Why do

chance of winning. By injuring the hand of the enemy, the chances of

fought safely without taking any risks,

now. "But fighting safely is,

safely, you don't put all of your strength forward, but if your opponent does, 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

remained silent. Seeing that no 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 like

its hand, its fighting style might change. Maybe it would unload one

kill would have brought me into a disadvantageous position. The safest way to win

time to speak up. "That all makes sense, but why did you injure yourself to that degree? Your leg was completely destroyed, and your body was full of burns. Couldn't you have won without injuring