Lightning Is the Only Way

And like this, the fight immediately began. There was no talking or posturing. It was just a direct battle to the death.

The shark shot directly at Gravis. He wasn't taking Gravis seriously, but he still remained a bit careful. After all, his son had died inside this Tribe, and something had to be powerful enough to kill him. Maybe it was one of those other level two Lords, but it could have also been Gravis. After all, Gravis was the Leader of this Tribe.

Gravis started falling as he pushed all of his power into his body. Now, his body was about three times as powerful as an average level one Lord. The shark was surprised when he felt the difference. Earlier, Gravis had the weakest body of any level one Lord, but now, he had the most powerful body of any level one Lord.

The shark rose from below as Gravis fell from above. Just as the distance was just fifty meters, Gravis immediately transformed into lightning and shot at the shark with over double his speed. The shark was shocked by the sudden speed.

In no time at all, Gravis arrived at his teeth.

BANG!

With an absolutely unreal speed, the shark closed his mouth. Gravis hadn't expected his mouth to be so fast, and the teeth destroyed part of his lightning since he wasn't fast enough to retreat fully. Gravis immediately transformed back, but 10% of all his power had been lost due to that sudden attack.

BANG!

The bite had been stopped, but the shark was still charging. The closed teeth hit Gravis' body, and he was thrown into the distance. The bite was the shark's most powerful attack, but his charge was also impressive. His full weight, fueled by his incredible speed, hit Gravis like a hammer.

Gravis got shot into the distance, and the shark followed up. Three concentrated beams of water appeared and shot at Gravis.

BZZZZ!

Gravis transformed into lightning again and split apart to evade the beams. Then, the lightning congregated again and recreated his body. Gravis had already lost 10% of his total power, but, luckily, his scales were powerful enough to withstand the shark's charge. Like this, it wouldn't be a waste to change into lightning again.

An injury to the body also counted as wasting power. If Gravis transformed into lightning while being injured, he would be able to recreate a fully healed but weaker body. Additionally, Gravis couldn't afford to get injured in a fight.

Why?

Because his whole body was made up of lightning. This meant that he didn't have any inherent Energy inside his body anymore, which meant that he couldn't create Life Lightning anymore.

Now, when Gravis was injured, he had no way to immediately heal himself effectively again. Transforming his body into pure lightning destroyed any possibility of creating Life Lightning again.

CMO all the time. If he managed to learn Laws about life, he might find a way to heal himself again. Yet, luckily,

as hard as some average

is what I longed for, the feeling of losing my life at any moment! The fight is already difficult with my full power, but my Realm has now decreased by 10%. I feel anxiety and fear

immediately transformed into lightning again and split himself in two. Then, he started controlling the lightning

WHOOOM!

mighty tail-swipe nearly hit one of the bolts, but Gravis split that bolt in two again to evade. The shark immediately summoned two additional water beams that shot

BZZ! BZZ!

incredibly stressful for Gravis' concentration. He couldn't keep this

BZZ! SHING!

shark hadn't paid much attention to the second lightning bolt, which had been a

saber in his claws. It was nearly two meters long and wide like a meat cleaver. Sabers were basically huge knives, and this

eye but didn't manage to go far

BOOOOOM!

shark shouted in pain as a considerable part of his head exploded. Gravis had preloaded a Lightning Crescent into the saber.

Crescent wasn't able to absorb much Energy from the still-living shark, but it also wasn't fully used up. The gathered

he had put some of his Lightning into the saber, its Energy didn't count towards his normal Realm. After all, it was backup Energy that remained outside his body. By reabsorbing this Energy, Gravis' Realm increased again until he was at his old peak. Yet, he

with such a point-blank explosion into his

Additionally, over ten beams of

WHOOM! WHOOM! WHOOM!

him to finally activate his Will-Aura. He wanted to keep it for a surprise moment, but he had to use it early to

upper body in such a way that he was barely

spread to keep him from evading. After all, he was already very close to Gravis. If Gravis decided to evade the

and transformed into lightning to evade the shots. Yet, the mouth came closer and chomped down on him with incredible force. The lightning currently inside the shark's mouth detached from the central

BANG!

power to qualify for the Unity Realm, he wouldn't be able to condense it into a body. Yet, he needed a body if he wanted to access

BOOOOOM!

mouth as it seemingly exploded. The earlier Lightning Crescent had only had half of Gravis' power. The other half of his

now, thanks to his smithing practice, but he noticed that he couldn't store more than 100% of his power in weapons. As soon as he did that, he would lose

not an issue. Due to that, the bite also had enough force to completely break the saber. Yet, as soon as the saber broke, all its saved power exploded out of the

created a vast hole inside the shark's mouth, and he lost around 20% of his teeth. Yet, such an attack wasn't enough to kill him. The shark quickly regained his control and noticed that the biggest