Lightning Is the Only Way

The darkness disciple fought head-on against his foes, and he fought rather impressively at that. He had said himself that direct confrontations were his weakness, but it was hard to see why he thought that.

"Nero has always been impressive in fights," Joyce said.

'Nero?' Gravis thought but then realized that he had never asked for the darkness disciple's name. That was probably his name.

Initially, Gravis didn't expect much from the darkness disciple. Their temperament didn't agree with him, so he hadn't paid much attention to him. Yet, Nero's impressive performance garnered Gravis' attention.

Normally, darkness cultivators stabbed both of their loaded weapons into a target to kill them instantly. The first dagger would sap the target of all their Life Energy while the second one turned them into a lifeless husk, but Nero fought differently.

Even when he had the chance to hit the opponent with both daggers, he only used one. After that, he fought defensively. Without Life Energy, the body couldn't regenerate. Normally, cultivators had no issue to shrug off an injury that would kill a mortal, but without Life Energy, they would slowly succumb to their injuries.

Nero would stab the enemy and then cut down to create a huge gash. After that, he would jump away while retrieving his used dagger into his Spirit Space. The fight would then become a defensive match. Nero easily dodged and parried attacks while always keeping his distance.

Even when he got another chance to hit the enemy, he would only use his already unloaded dagger to add another cut. Usually, Gravis would think that such a fighting style was bad. After all, it gave the enemy more time to win.

Yet, Nero never made a mistake. He controlled his opponents just right. None of the opponents even managed to hit him, even if it was a two-versus-one. To top it all off, since the fights took longer when he fought, he nearly recovered all his Energy when the enemy died.

When Gravis saw that, his eyes narrowed. 'He's really good. I think he also has a chance against him.'

"Heaven!" Gravis shouted. "Summon the priest that killed Claude again. Same strength, but fully healed."

Joyce got a little nervous when she heard that, but she trusted Gravis and Nero. Even though Nero was a darkness cultivator, and darkness cultivators tended to be selfish, Nero was different. He had a wholly different interpretation of darkness' temperament.

The copy of the priest appeared with its massive shield, but Nero's eyes remained cold. His eyes showed that he wasn't taking the enemy lightly, but they also showed that he was in full control.

The puppet charged at him with its shield raised. Nero leisurely closed in on it. The puppet didn't stop charging, and they were about to hit each other.

CRRR! BANG!

its own shield, but it recovered quickly. It increased the weight of

BOOM!

the shield hit the earth behind him. His eyes

Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!

Before the puppet could destroy Nero's body, it lost all its strength. Its whole body shriveled up, and Nero twisted his body to pull the spear away from

well as the puppet, vanished.

calm down. The spear had been quite massive, and it

looked at Gravis, and Gravis looked back. Then, Gravis nodded. "Impressive," he said.

out of the arena and was healed by Joyce's Life Lightning. Gravis walked up to Nero and put a hand on his shoulder. "You are patient without underestimating your enemy, but you can be decisive when

Nero nodded. "Thank you."

very talkative, but Gravis could feel his

BANG!

Unity Will. Even though the fight had seemed simple, it had been pretty risky. One wrong move from Nero and he would

said with

also have a Unity

said with a

side. "Thank you all," he simply

reply had appeared taciturn, but Gravis could see his face getting a bit red. Apparently,

that I want to ask you," Nero said suddenly as he looked

raised an eyebrow. "Ask away,"

think of darkness'

haven't had a nice meeting with someone from the darkness element. Everyone

right. That's how darkness cultivators are,

Gravis nodded. "Yes."

"Darkness is inherently greedy," Nero said slowly. "It wants to possess everything and become the only remaining thing. When the world

sure what Nero wanted to say,