Lightning Is the Only Way

Contrary to what one might believe, Ferris didn't immediately understand another Law as soon as he arrived here. He probably also didn't have much experience with plants, which was why he was also taking a long time to understand any Laws related to them.

Gravis looked at all the plants surrounding him and observed them based on their position, not their kind. Gravis wanted to understand a lot of Laws anyway. Concentrating on only a single kind might actually be harder than looking at all of them. By now, Gravis knew very well that a lot of knowledge about one topic might cross into another. Trying to understand the whole thing would be better than understanding only a part of it.

Due to that, Gravis started the long track of understanding Laws.

Two years passed.

"Hey, Gravis! I managed to understand a Law!" Ferris said as he arrived besides Gravis.

Instead of lamenting his own progress, Gravis only smirked. He knew that he wouldn't understand any new Laws for quite a few years since he wasn't concentrating on anything in particular, but that would change in the future. This situation could best be described with the proverb: Sharpening one's axe didn't take away time from cutting wood. Gravis was preparing himself.

"That's great, Ferris," Gravis said with a smile. "What did you understand?"

Ferris looked incredibly excited with his tail wagging crazily. "I think I managed to comprehend one of the Laws that you want to understand," Ferris said.

Gravis lifted an eyebrow. "Oh? What is it?"

"It's the Composition of Wood," Ferris said. "I haven't nearly seen as much wood as I have seen other elements in my life, but I have seen the bulwark fight a couple of times. Additionally, with my fire, I have seen how wood breaks down."

Gravis scratched his chin in thought. Ferris had just managed to comprehend the Composition Law of another element. Had any beast ever even tried to do this in this world?

"That's indeed one of the Laws I'm interested in," Gravis commented. "Hey, Ferris. Could you show me what you can do with that Law?"

Gravis wasn't entirely sure if these Composition Laws had any kind of benefit towards one's Battle-Strength when they came from a different element. By understanding the Composition Law of one's own Element, one would be able to summon their element with less Energy cost. Yet, if one wasn't able to use the element, that advantage would become useless.

"Sure thing, Gravis!" Ferris shouted with excitement. Then, he touched a tree with one of his claws.

SSSHHHH!

away by the wind. Only the leaves, roots, and water canals inside the tree

BANG!

as it collapsed without the support of the wood. Gravis watched this happen in

the same thing on that one?" Gravis asked. The tree had been far

he's supposed to nurture plants and not turn them into dust,"

gain to the beast community,"

CRR!

at the spot of the old one, but this one was

your love for all things

they

and it shook a bit. Yet, it was still in one piece. Gravis looked at it while scratching his chin in thought. "What were you able

I managed to weaken the wood. Right now, the tree should only be as hard as a level three

a plant or a beast using wood as a weapon or shield, this will be

"I guess so,"

"If every element were distributed with the same likelihood, 10% of your opponents would be weakened by you. After all, there

loudly, "weakening one's opponent is an entirely different power scaling than strengthening yourself. Your own strengthening always takes

speed, I would be able to move around 50 times faster for an instant while using up a ton of Energy. Pushing that to 51

If their speed is a bit above average for their level, they would be a slight bit faster than me since my speed

an entire level, they wouldn't be 64 times

to Ferris but also half to himself. Gravis often talked to himself when he was thinking. "This is a very specialized counter Law," Gravis said. "If I don't fight someone with a

if you

of confirming Ferris' words, Gravis' smirk

fucking unfair! Did you suck a God's dick or something to be born a human!?"

he shouted. "I have a Spirit! This means that I don't have to touch the enemy to use it! Any enemy that comes close to me with that element

to touch the enemy since he had a Spirit. For the first time, Ferris felt envious of Gravis a bit. Yet, he was

had been frozen. Then, his face

body is lightning, and if I fight another human that knows the Lightning Composition Law for my kind of lightning,