Lightning Is the Only Way

The Golden Dragon looked at Gravis, but it quickly grew confused. What was he doing?

All the liquified ore of the Golden Dragon's body was gathered above Gravis' hand as he concentrated on it fully. Some lightning encased the liquid metal, and Gravis stared at it intently.

'I need to successfully forge this metal on my first try! I don't have enough Energy to try it another time! I must succeed now!' Gravis thought crazily as the metal started changing shape.

CRK!

Yet, it started breaking apart. Gravis grew panicked as he saw that. This was a sign of failure! Why? Why wasn't he able to smith new materials on his first try!?

Fueled by the pressure, Gravis' mind went into overdrive. His concentration reached a peak it had never reached before. Gravis remembered all the diagrams about the different materials' makeup, and, slowly, he realized several patterns between them.

He remembered what had happened with all the materials he had tested previously and instantly recognized some patterns, which he hadn't seen before.

BANG!

As if struck by lightning, Gravis suddenly realized why the materials all acted in such unforeseen ways when he had tried to forge them previously. The whole makeup of the different materials fused together into a single concept in his head.

The ore stopped cracking as it quickly morphed into the shape that Gravis envisioned.

By now, the Golden Dragon realized that Gravis was using its own body to create something abominable. The Golden Dragon was able to shape the metals in the earth into whatever shape it wanted, but this weak ant was now doing this to the Golden Dragon's body.

Rage exploded inside the Golden Dragon. This was the most disrespectful thing that had ever been done to it! It wasn't some material that some weak ant could manipulate however it wanted!

The Golden Dragon shot forward with unreal speed and attacked Gravis with one of its claws.

BANG! BANG!

A loud noise erupted, but that wasn't the noise of the attack. This was made by the metal that had been compressed together into a new form. This was what the Opposer had shown Gravis. This was the second way of tempering a weapon, something that Gravis would only be able to learn later.

The second loud sound was the attack of the Golden Dragon. Its claws hit something incredibly hard, and Gravis was shot into the distance by this attack. Gravis' body smashed through more mountains until he finally managed to stabilize himself.

The attack injured his body, but the injuries were only minor. Most of the damage had been absorbed by the thing Gravis currently carried in his right hand.

Was it a saber?

No!

a saber, he would only be helplessly suppressed. He would have never gotten a chance to regenerate his power

entity. They still had the Golden Dragon's will on them, but as long as they didn't

these materials, he also immediately realized how he could compress them. He simply needed to move the Energy

understanding, Gravis managed to create a shield with a hardened layer. If Gravis hadn't hardened that shield, it would break apart with a powerful attack from the Golden Dragon. Only by being hardened would it be

Golden Dragon saw that Gravis wasn't even

BOOOM!

earth under it in the process. Then, it summoned more

Whooop!

vanished immediately, infuriating the Golden Dragon

BANG!

most of the damage. Yet, Gravis still got injured by this hit. Gravis also quickly realized that his

BANG!

been too straightforward with

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

claws, legs, teeth, and even its tail to crazily attack Gravis. Gravis only managed to evade some of the attacks, which

the earlier power since the Golden Dragon distributed its power among multiple attacks instead of concentrating it into one. This attack didn't even

it transformed parts of its body into metal to make its attacks stronger. This would increase the power of the attacks again,

had

eyes as he infused his shield with some of the Spirit and lightning that he

BOOM!

enough to liquify more of the Golden Dragon's body. It wasn't nearly as much as when the

body smashed through more mountains. Then, he immediately resummoned them and started forging again. His knowledge about the material had allowed him to release just enough lightning to heat the

had lost nearly all its rationality in its fury. The fact that Gravis still managed to hold on infuriated it to no end. Why wouldn't

BANG!

that was the new pair of shoes he had just created. Gravis knew all the basic Formation Arrays for

hadn't fought someone with a real set of armor yet, but that didn't mean that those didn't exist. Gravis had made shoes filled with Formation Arrays that

attacks rained down on

BANG!

some minutes, Gravis had regenerated enough of his power to release another Lightning Blast from his shield. On top of that, this blast

from the Golden Dragon's body as Gravis used them to create gauntlets. He filled these with Formation Arrays that allowed the gauntlets to connect