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.'

Saber and started digging into the ground, but it was hard. With his fully strengthened body, he had to use nearly all his force

too long to make a hole for himself. 'On top of that,

surrounding dirt was pushed into his created hole again. That opened up a completely

as he started digging directly at the wall. Since the shockwaves traveled down along the wall, they should also enter the small hole directly at the wall. After that, the shockwave needed

also realized another problem. Summoning 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 will.

Unity Realm, Gravis would probably only be able to get one piece of grass into the Life Ring. Yet, that

small hole and started pushing the dirt to the side. It was quickly getting bigger. Sadly,

my lightning now!' he thought. Using his lightning was risky. After all, his body's stamina was nearly limitless, but every use of his lightning would use up

BZZZZ! BOOM!

grew deeper by a couple of centimeters. Gravis didn't have

Energy entered his body at a rapid rate. 'Fuck! I totally forgot about the high Energy density! Since I'm disconnected from the Energy, I

of that, this Energy doesn't all come from the atmosphere,' Gravis thought as he saw that some pieces of

and great at resisting shockwaves, but lightning was something different. The lightning had entered their roots and had traveled along

Gravis saw that,

Whooop!

There were no more roots in his immediate surroundings, so he was able to pocket quite a lot of it. Yet, the hole was still not big enough

if I regain Energy that

BZZZZ! BOOOOOOOM!

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

of grass dying and pocketed as much earth as