Lightning Is the Only Way

The hour had been very dangerous for Gravis. The root from the grass had absorbed around 50% of his Life Energy and had created a hole in his body that just wouldn't stop bleeding. His Life Lightning had run dry, so he couldn't even fix the hole in a short time. On top of that, the blood he had lost due to the shockwaves and the hole had soaked the ground around him.

The blood was an excellent fertilizer for plants, so more and more roots came for him. Gravis was using over 50% of his lightning every minute to eradicate them. If there weren't such a high Energy density, Gravis would have died long ago.

To top it all off, he also couldn't create a Lightning Bomb in here. Such a powerful explosion would throw all the dirt away that was on top of him. By now, the shockwaves had become incredibly powerful. Gravis didn't feel them with his body thanks to the slope of the dirt, but his Spirit felt the effects. As soon as his Spirit went above ground, it would be completely annihilated. He knew that he would instantly die if he touched the shockwaves.

Gravis had felt nervous when he had been above ground, but now, he genuinely felt that his life was in danger. He could deal with the roots of the grass, but what about stronger plants? Fungi had most of their body underground, and one would generally say that a mushroom was more powerful than some grass.

And sure enough, after some minutes, a much more powerful root had appeared. Most of Gravis' lightning had been focused on dealing with it, but the only thing it did was retreat every time. He wasn't able to damage it in any significant way. The other roots also didn't stop coming. On the contrary, they were becoming more and more. His blood was just too appetizing.

'This root is troublesome!' Gravis thought. He was lying unmoving below the ground, almost like he had been buried. Evasion was obviously not an option, and if even the grass was able to penetrate his body easily, this root would just annihilate him if it touched him. After all, it was many times more powerful.

Luckily, Gravis' new lightning was doing wonders. He had gained that lightning from absorbing Heaven's lightning, and it was way more powerful than his previous Destruction Lightning. The root seemed to fear it somewhat, and it couldn't deal with it.

Whenever the root touched the lightning, some of it would break off. Sadly, that broken off part would heal just as quickly. Gravis felt like a shark was swimming around him, estimating if the potential gains were worth the trouble. It really wanted to absorb him, but the lightning was also really troublesome.

Gravis grew incredibly frustrated because he knew he could annihilate the root with a Lightning Bomb, but that would also expose his body to the outside for a bit. If he did that at the wrong time, the shockwaves on the top would annihilate him.

This was a scary situation since Gravis couldn't use his most powerful advantages. He mostly evaded attacks and then killed his enemies with incredible force. He couldn't use either of those in this situation.

but he didn't really wish for it. He believed that his current path was better than his lost Elemental Synchronicity. Without his peculiar immunity

by slowly, and after an hour, the grassroots had become fewer. Gravis had eradicated most of the grass, and above

Yet…

It just wouldn't leave him alone! Gravis had been dealing with it for over an hour, but it just kept

Gravis needed to hit it thrice with his lightning to shoo it away. Gravis was still able to deal with it, but that quickly changed as

long anymore, but I will be reduced to ashes by the shockwaves if I use a Lightning Bomb. There is only one

Whoop!

a powerful body, but that doesn't mean that you're not in the initial Stages of the Unity Realm! After all, beasts and plants have much more

weak during that timeframe, and all his concentration was on the ring. If anything unforeseen happened, he would die. His Spirit entered the Life Ring, and he

started to very slowly extend towards Gravis. Meanwhile, Gravis' eyes started becoming bloodshot as he used all of his Will-Aura

closer, but Gravis didn't move. He kept concentrating on the

his will on the

along it, towards the Life Ring. Gravis didn't dare to become excited. One small interval of losing

Whooom!

roots entered the Life Ring, Gravis saw a whole network of them coming closer to his body. There were more and more.

a 100-meter-wide sphere of roots appeared. Gravis knew that this was the core of the roots. Sure

core of the fungus. After that, the remaining roots shot into the Life Ring at

out of reflex. Luckily, his body quickly expelled the dirt. Then, Gravis closed his eyes to relax. 'I survived,' he thought