Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis had been continuously dodging for over three hours now. He slowly started to feel the drain while the Golden Dragon seemed to be as relaxed as ever.

Originally, Gravis had intended to wait for an opportunity when the Golden Dragon became careless, but that opportunity never came. Even though the Golden Dragon looked relaxed, Gravis felt that he never took his guard down.

Gravis had already gotten an idea some hours ago, but he wanted to use that opportunity to kill the Golden Dragon. If he didn't manage to kill it, he would have committed too many resources into the attack and would be disadvantaged for the remaining fight.

The longer this fight dragged on, the harder it would be for Gravis to make a comeback.

At least, that's what Gravis wanted the Golden Dragon to think.

In actuality, Gravis was simply moving the power of his lightning into his body as soon as it lost stamina. Because of that, the used-up lightning would quickly regenerate. The body's stamina didn't regenerate as quickly as it was used up, but his lightning would completely regenerate in a couple of hours. Like this, he had basically infinite stamina.

Additionally, Gravis could also use his Spirit and regenerate that at the same time. This meant that as long Gravis had enough concentration, he could go on forever. Of course, the drain of concentration couldn't be ignored. This was something that he couldn't easily fix.

Gravis had enough experience to know that the drain of his concentration was more significant than the drain of the Golden Dragon's power. Gravis knew that it was usually impossible for a beast to manipulate something outside their body, even if it conformed to their element.

Beasts with an affinity towards metal normally only were able to transform their own bodies into metal. The manipulation of external metal wasn't part of their power.

So, how did the Golden Dragon do that?

There was only one answer that Gravis came up with, and he didn't like it one bit.

The Golden Dragon had comprehended a Law related to metal. Otherwise, it would be completely impossible for the Golden Dragon to manipulate the metal this easily.

On top of that, even though the Golden Dragon only used external metal to attack him, Gravis never forgot the actual ability that a beast with metal affinity had. Gravis knew that if he managed to get close to the Golden Dragon and attack, his opponent would simply transform his body into metal.

his opponent's body would transform into a Late Unity Rank material. Even if Gravis used a fully powered Lightning Crescent, he would still not be able to injure the Golden Dragon in any significant way. At most, he could create a

he came up with. He never found a way of dealing with the eventual

his Lightning Transformation. Another option would be to quickly find other beasts while evading the Golden Dragon until Gravis had enough food to become

real pressure, and if Gravis just fled until his Realm became higher, the Red King would probably just find a new opponent. That one might actually

time in a long while, Gravis felt like he had no control over the battle. Continuing like this would only

putting his plan into motion. The only way how Gravis could win was if the Golden Dragon

get closer to the Golden Dragon from time to time. He was using these opportunities so that the Golden Dragon thought that Gravis still had an ace hidden away. After all, no experienced fighter would continue charging in mindlessly like that. Experienced

useless thing, again and again, the Golden Dragon only became warier. The Golden Dragon knew that Gravis was planning something. Even though the Golden Dragon looked

more minutes, Gravis did something new. He transformed into lightning and split himself into multiple bolts. After that, the bolts scattered into different directions but still charged at the

King and the Golden Dragon were surprised by that. Gravis had surprised them multiple times by now, but being

Shing! Shing! Shing!

scattered into multiple bolts, the power also got scattered. Because of that, the lightning bolts slowed down somewhat. The Golden Dragon noticed this and shot a whole spread of spears again. While fighting, it

the lightning bolts transformed into multiple Gravises again. Then, they blocked the spears

Puchi! Puchi! Puchi!

quickly switched into lightning and back into their bodies successively. It seemed like they wanted to take advantage

that their plan had failed. Yet, Gravis' new body had several holes scattered across his entire body with blood flowing out of them. Apparently, all the injuries of the spears had gathered

as his body became weaker. Every onlooker would believe that

In actuality, Gravis

the speed advantage. Every time he created a new body, he could make some small alterations. As long as they weren't

Yet, whenever a spear "penetrated" him, it merely flew through an already created hole inside Gravis' bodies. These small holes were the little changes that Gravis had made to his body. He had not

injuries were transferred to his new body. After all, the enemies didn't know how his Lightning Form worked. As far as they knew, an injury was an injury and wouldn't just vanish. Making the holes bleed also wasn't difficult for

now. Now, he needed to actually get injured. The Golden Dragon wouldn't believe that these fake injuries were enough

become sluggish. From time to time, he was hit by some spears that remained stuck inside his body. To make his act realistic, Gravis couldn't consciously decide where the spears hit him. After all, he would need

body filled with more spears. These injuries were serious, but Gravis could still fight. As long as the Golden Dragon came closer, he could surprise it with an instantaneous Lightning Crescent.