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 massive, golden shield in his right hand. He knew that if he made a saber, he would only be helplessly suppressed. He would have never gotten a chance to regenerate his power like that. Instead, he decided to

droplets of the Golden Dragon's body left it, they became their own entity. They still had the Golden Dragon's will on them, but as long as they didn't touch the Golden Dragon's body, Gravis could easily wipe that will away

about these materials, he also immediately realized how he could compress them. He simply needed to move the Energy that made up the materials in a peculiar

hardened layer. If Gravis hadn't hardened that shield, it would break apart with a powerful

that Gravis wasn't even that injured, it grew

BOOOM!

in the

Whooop!

spears vanished immediately, infuriating the Golden Dragon

BANG!

but the shield absorbed most of the damage. Yet, Gravis still got injured by this hit. Gravis also quickly realized that his injuries accumulated even faster than the

BANG!

Golden Dragon attacked again, but this time, Gravis evaded the attack. The Golden Dragon had been too straightforward with this attack, allowing Gravis

BANG! BANG! BANG! BANG!

crazy as it used its claws, legs, teeth, and even its tail to crazily attack Gravis. Gravis only managed to evade some of the attacks, which was already a miracle in and of itself. Sadly, several

distributed its power among multiple attacks instead of concentrating it into one. This attack didn't even

roar as it charged crazily at Gravis. Then, it transformed parts of its body into metal

these attacks rained down on him. He had only regenerated a minuscule amount of

as he infused his shield with some

BOOM!

exploded out of his shield as an attack from the Golden Dragon hit it. Yet, this explosion was enough to liquify more of the Golden Dragon's body. It wasn't nearly

resummoned them and started forging again. His

its rationality in its fury. The fact that Gravis still managed to hold on infuriated it to no end.

BANG!

some very minor injuries. The reason for that was the new pair of shoes he had just created. Gravis knew all the basic Formation Arrays for

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

BANG!

his power to release another Lightning Blast from his shield. On top of that, this blast was even more powerful

to create gauntlets. He filled these with Formation Arrays that allowed the gauntlets to connect with the shield. With