Lightning Is the Only Way

The beasts still weren't able to come to terms with the current situation. A normal level three Lord had easily won against two of the most outstanding level five Lords in existence. Those were beasts that could fight two levels above themselves!

"Move your ore away from the arena," the Empress commanded.

Gravis sighed in relief when he heard that. He was afraid that he wouldn't get another opponent after this last fight. In truth, Gravis even felt a bit guilty. He asked for two opponents, got two, and then messed up the fights. It was like he was a kid that had gotten two toys and quickly broke both of them.

Actually, he even felt a bit embarrassed by asking for a third one. He wasn't even sure if he had the shamelessness to ask for a fourth one if he broke this one too.

Only an insane person like Gravis could look at life and death battles like they were toys. Even the craziest beast would act superior and arrogant after finishing these two fights like this. Then, the beast would shout arrogantly into the surroundings and challenge every other beast for a fight. That's how the opponents were normally chosen.

Yet, Gravis looked at this whole thing differently. An enemy wasn't really an enemy to him. It was more like a beast that offered up their life to help him increase his power. That's why he felt bad about "wasting" two such opponents.

Gravis quickly flew out of the arena and summoned all his ore around 100 kilometers away from the arena. He needed the ore to be outside his Spirit Sense so that he wouldn't be able to get it while fighting.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

One huge chunk of ore after the other fell to the ground until there was a pile nearly 20-kilometers-tall. The sheer amount of ore stunned every beast present. How did he have so much ore!? Where did he even keep such a large amount?

Many of the beasts had already realized that Gravis could store stuff in some kind of separate space, but this was just way more than they had ever thought. How big does a separate space have to be to store that much stuff? Also, wasn't all this ore incredibly heavy?

from his Kingdom, but he hadn't expected it to be that

when Cynthia had followed Gravis to get his ore. After all, this so-called ore was only some kind of hard stone.

his body would grow while he went through the Nascent Nourishing Realm. So, to be on the safe side, Gravis had taken

Gravis had used some ore in his last fight, the beasts quickly realized something terrifying. Gravis might even be able to kill Kings with the help

but to use some

this never happened, no matter in which world one was. Natural worlds didn't have

wouldn't have such a situation appear. That was because ore was a precious commodity, and without enough power, one wouldn't even

the whole concept of balance in fights. One could debate if something like this could be considered as

one hand, he was only using his abilities to the maximum effect, which could be considered as his personal

to such powerful ore. After all, the next world wouldn't

power right now, he would waste a ton of genuine tempering. Also, at some point, there simply wouldn't be any way to gather enough ore

no time at all, but he wouldn't have gotten the understanding and tempering during that time. So, relying on the ore was more damaging than helpful

decided to keep his ore away from him

Elder," Gravis transmitted as he looked

bit surprised that Gravis talked to him. "Yes?" he

something from you. It might seem senseless in the beginning,

an eyebrow. "Go ahead," he

any of these ore-chunks in a fight, you will send an incredibly powerful beast to