Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis was trapped in a perilous situation. He had to harden his body to survive these shockwaves, but with this strengthened body, it would become too heavy to lift. If he wanted to escape the area, he would need to lighten his body, but then, a single shockwave would reduce him to dust. But if he strengthened it, he would fall! After all, there was no gap in the wall to keep him steady.

Gravis quickly realized that there was only one way to survive. If he remained in the air like this, he would die. So, Gravis decided to shoot towards the ground.

BANG!

Another shockwave arrived, but with Gravis' previous experience, he was able to protect himself better. Instead of being hit across his whole body, he angled himself so that his feet were pointing at the shockwave.

If the power came from a fall, it would be better to distribute his body's weight onto a broader surface, but the power came from the air. The smaller the affected area, the better for him. The shockwave hit his feet, making some of his muscles tear, but he was able to stop himself from crashing into the wall with his arms. Of course, his arms also took some damage.

Fortunately, since the majority of the force went into his feet and arms, he could slightly bend them to reduce the force. Like this, Gravis continued falling, tanking one shockwave after the other. In the intervals between the shockwaves, Gravis lightened his weight to slow his fall with his Spirit. He had no idea how hard the ground was, so he wanted to be careful.

After around half a minute, Gravis touched the ground gently. He was directly beside the wall, and the grass didn't touch it. The grass grew about ten meters away from him, barely being inside his Spirit's range.

'What powerful grass,' Gravis thought in shock. 'It's harder than even my fully strengthened body. On top of that, since it's so small, it doesn't feel much of the shockwave. The other grass also filters the shockwaves further. This makes it so that every piece of grass only has to feel a slight amount of the shockwave. That's how it's able to grow in this environment.'

Yet, Gravis found another huge problem. 'Since the wall is perfectly vertical, the shockwave travels down and up along the wall. Since I'm at the walls foot, parts of the shockwave also hit me from above now.'

Gravis was smart, but he couldn't foresee every development. He had simply not thought about the wall when he was falling.

Yet, there was also something positive. 'Since the grass is slightly stronger than my body, I should be powerful enough to dig into the ground.'

fully strengthened body, he had to use nearly all his force to dig. Yet, it was still difficult. A saber wasn't a good shovel,

while, Gravis saw that his efforts bore nearly no results. It would take too long to make a hole for himself. 'On top of that, the shockwaves will probably become more powerful later. Two powerful beasts are probably fighting, and

the shockwaves moved the dirt around a bit, and some of the surrounding dirt was pushed into his created hole again. That opened up a

along the wall, they should also enter the small hole directly at the wall. After that, the shockwave needed an outlet for its power since more of its power was continuing to push down. The shockwave was unable to destroy

the dirt into his Spirit Space wouldn't work. The roots below the ground were alive, and the dirt they touched was infused with their

only be able to get one piece of grass into the Life Ring. Yet, that would probably waste nearly all his

hole and started pushing the dirt to the side. It was quickly getting

After all, his body's stamina was nearly limitless, but every use of his lightning would use up a considerable

BZZZZ! BOOM!

grew deeper by a

rapid rate. 'Fuck! I totally forgot about the high Energy density! Since I'm disconnected from the Energy, I forgot about

shining eyes. 'On top of that, this Energy doesn't all come from the atmosphere,' Gravis thought as he saw that some pieces of grass had been transformed into

was something different. The lightning had entered their roots and had traveled along with them, destroying some pieces of grass. When they

Gravis saw that,

Whooop!

into his Spirit Space. There were no more roots in his immediate surroundings, so he was able to pocket quite a lot of

Energy that quickly, I can stop being

BZZZZ! BOOOOOOOM!

chucked it into the hole. It immediately exploded, making the hole nearly 20 centimeters deeper. By now, it was around

a lot of grass dying and pocketed as much