Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis concentrated and went into his own Spirit Space. The size of the Spirit Space had increased by quite a bit due to his fusion with his copy, or was it the fusion with the original? He still wasn't sure if he was the copy or the original, but that didn't matter. There was one real Gravis, and it didn't matter for how long he had been alive. He had his memories, and they were what created him.

Even with the new size of his Spirit Space, everything was still packed with lightning. Just like the first time after he had entered his own Spirit Space in the Tree Stage, it became difficult for him to move around. The lightning was seemingly solid and filled everything.

"Let's start!" Gravis said and then willed for his Spirit to condense. The lightning began to pulse, and the familiar pain reappeared. This time, it was more powerful than ever before. It was nearly as intense as the pain he had felt when he broke into the Spirit Forming Realm.

Yet, Gravis' will was many times more powerful. This intense pain had made him screech and scream in pain when it had first appeared, but now, Gravis only gritted his teeth with all his power. His eyes became red with pain, but he didn't need to scream. It was indescribably painful, but it didn't even come close to making him doubt his path.

As the pulsing increased, he felt the pressure of the lightning reduce. It was all slowly gathering in the middle of his Spirit Space.

Multiple hours passed and, by now, only a small clump of lightning was left in the Spirit Space. Every other area was completely empty. Gravis noticed that the lightning was no longer shrinking, yet the pain still remained.

"I guess there is only one last step left," Gravis said through gritted teeth.

Gravis walked to the lightning. It was around two cubic meters big and radiated an incredible aura of pure destruction. There was so much lightning that if Gravis decided to detonate it, he would probably destroy a huge chunk of the Core-Continent. Yet, to him, it was just more of himself.

Whoom!

stepped into the lightning ball without any hesitation. As soon as he entered, he felt the lightning get absorbed into his body. This was not Gravis' real body,

lightning in a matter of minutes, and after that, nothing was left. The pain stopped, and only Gravis stood in the middle of his Spirit Space. Yet, the body was no longer illusory. It was now a body entirely made

deep breath and opened

WHOOOOOM!

also become more powerful. He felt pure power course

some seconds, his Spirit Space stabilized. It now had a diameter of 100 meters. His Spirit also stabilized,

"1,000 kilometers," he said.

range previously since the walls, ceiling, and floor blocked his Spirit. Yet, he was in the fifth trial right now, a space that

BZZZZ!

his lightning had doubled, it could still only be considered to be in the Tree Stage. Therefore, the newly compressed

BZZZ! BOOM!

"One to six," Gravis mumbled with furrowed brows. "Shouldn't it be one to four? Why is it one to six?" Gravis looked at the sky. "Is it due to my special kind of way that

he noticed

each other. He felt like he only needed a thought to combine them. Yet, Gravis didn't do that. "I guess

between all my three centers of power,' Gravis thought. 'By establishing the connection, all my centers of power would be connected to each other. I guess they can then also flow into and support each other. So that's

for only one level. Someone at the initial Stage of

center of power connected, one could move all their power around. If one wanted, they could make their bodies become mortal, make their Spirits