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.

why Gravis was so adamant about watching the CMO all the time. If he managed to learn Laws about life, he might find a way to heal himself again. Yet,

If Gravis used all of his power on his body, the scales would be about as hard as some average scales of a level three Lord. They managed to protect him from the charge, but the water beams would

The fight is already difficult with my full power, but my Realm has now decreased by 10%. I feel anxiety and fear for my life, but that is exactly what I want! I love this feeling!' Gravis thought

split himself in two. Then, he started controlling the lightning bolts separately

WHOOOM!

the bolts, but Gravis split that bolt in two again to evade. The shark immediately summoned two additional water beams that shot

BZZ! BZZ!

they split again. Yet, controlling all these individual lightning bolts was incredibly stressful for Gravis' concentration. He couldn't keep this up for long, but he had no other choice.

BZZ! SHING!

which had been a big mistake. Gravis' body appeared directly at one of the shark's eyes. On top of that, this Gravis

his claws. It was nearly two meters long and wide like a meat cleaver. Sabers were basically huge knives, and this specimen showed the resemblance even better. This was one of Gravis' newly-forged

manage to go far

BOOOOOM!

of his head exploded. Gravis had preloaded a Lightning Crescent into the saber. The humongous explosion destroyed a huge chunk

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

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

looked with narrowed eyes at the injured shark. 'His body is really hard. Even with such a point-blank explosion into his eye, he still managed to survive. On top of that, his Battle-Strength didn't get

at Gravis in rage. "You! Die!" he shouted and shot at Gravis with his full speed. Additionally, over ten beams of water appeared around his body. As long as he kept them there, he could shoot them

WHOOM! WHOOM! WHOOM!

shot at Gravis, and Gravis couldn't evade them like this, forcing him to finally activate his Will-Aura. He wanted to keep it for a surprise moment, but he had to use it early to survive now. The water bolts slowed down

his upper body in such a way that he was barely evading the blasts. This

Gravis could evade his beams, he fired all of them in a spread to keep him from evading. After

and chomped down on him with incredible force. The lightning currently inside the shark's mouth detached from the central lightning bolt and transformed into another Gravis, who took out a

BANG!

lost 33% of his foundation. As long as one of his lightning bolts didn't have enough power to qualify for the Unity Realm,

BOOOOOM!

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

power in weapons. As soon as he did that, he would lose control over

bite also had enough force

attack wasn't enough to kill him. The shark quickly regained his control and noticed that the biggest lightning bolt was charging into