Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis and the Grand Elder talked a bit more during the journey. The Grand Elder had a lot of experience, and he told Gravis about some other Laws that lightning had that Gravis didn't know yet.

Apparently, there were Laws associated with every facet of lightning. There were Laws about its destruction, its life, its speed, and more mysterious ones like its accumulation and presence.

Gravis still remembered that, back in the Red Kingdom, he had no idea on which Laws to focus on, except Life. Yet, just by talking a little bit, the Grand Elder gave him more than enough directions.

Gravis had always thought that he already knew all the facets of his own lightning since he already managed to understand the Law of Punishment Lightning. Yet, Punishment Lightning was only a kind of lightning. He knew its specifics but didn't know anything about the more general workings of all kinds of lightning.

It often happened that someone couldn't see the forest due to all the trees blocking their vision. Oftentimes, the answer stared someone right in the face without them knowing.

"Then, why did you say that I wouldn't be able to learn anything in the Law Comprehension Area for Punishment Lightning?" Gravis asked.

By now, the Grand Elder appeared much more open towards Gravis. "Because you can transform into lightning. Why would you need to go to a specific area if you can just look at yourself?" The Grand Elder asked with a smile.

Gravis remained silent for a bit as he looked at the rapidly passing surroundings. "I guess you're right," he said. He had always only transformed into lightning, but he hadn't really looked closely at himself. He simply thought that he was lightning, and that was it.

After some minutes, they arrived. Gravis was a bit surprised about the distance. The Grand Elder had moved with insane speeds for several minutes, and according to Gravis' guess, they had long left the borders of the Icy Pride Empire.

As soon as they stopped, Gravis' attention was immediately claimed by the area in front of them. Tall but thin mountains pierced the dark clouds in the sky as powerful lightning rumbled throughout the horizons.

BANG! BANG!

Swathes of Punishment Lightning hit the mountains. Yet, surprisingly, the mountains weren't destroyed or broken by the Punishment Lightning. Gravis noticed that these mountains were made out of a lightning-resistant material in the Law Comprehension Rank.

Such a terrifyingly powerful mountain range would provoke world wars in middle worlds with humans present. Just one of these mountains would equip an entire Sect for a lifetime.

Yet, in this natural world, nearly no one cared about such ore. Usually, only beasts with metal and earth affinities would care about these mountains. But the difference between these beasts and humans was that the beasts wouldn't want to change or take the mountain range. They would simply just lay beside it.

Of course, no earth or metal beast rested near these mountains. Punishment Lightning was incredibly destructive in nature, and if they wanted to stay near these mountains, they would need to continually resist the avalanche of lightning assaulting them.

was within Gravis' Spirit Sense, and he furrowed his brows. "There

Icy Pride Empire all the time. We keep a set amount of them on standby, but all the others are free to go to these areas

snake said as it flew closer to them. It wasn't big since it hadn't revealed its true size yet, but Gravis wasn't able to feel its power. This meant that this snake was

returned to his usual calm. "Yes. I will try to

snake said as it flew back. It didn't pay any attention to Gravis since he

looked at the retreating snake with a glint in

Elder said to Gravis, "you can find any free mountain and sit upon it. With me present, no one

a raised eyebrow from the Grand Elder. Gravis' demeanor had changed as soon as they had arrived. However, that was to be expected. After all, Gravis had some

turned away from Gravis after some seconds and flew towards

"Grand Elder."

at least he tried to, but

the Grand Elder asked as

have two things to show you," Gravis said slowly

Elder felt a bit suspicious because of Gravis'

this," Gravis said as he

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Gravis' hand. The air around

terror. Such a compressed ball of Punishment Lightning would even be able to

of lightning," Gravis explained with the lightning ball still present over his hands. "No matter how powerful the lightning or what kind, it doesn't matter

together with the deadly lightning ball

BZZZZ!

hand scattered and returned to the clouds. "I did this to demonstrate to you the

was unsure what Gravis was

my control over the lightning in your

if Gravis wanted to do something to him, he

the Grand Elder said with furrowed

Elder felt the lightning inside his body go wild and circulate around his body without his will.