Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis and Borro brawled for multiple hours. Whenever Borro unleashed the sound wave, Gravis transformed into lightning and evaded the attack. He hadn't used that technique in a while, but it had proven quite effective in this fight.

When the beasts saw Gravis transforming into lightning for the first time, their eyes nearly fell out of their heads. They hadn't known that this was possible!

Yet, ironically, even though they knew more than the several Lords that had seen Gravis transform into lightning in the past, their elevated knowledge made them assume the wrong thing. The Lords had realized that Gravis could transform into lightning, while these experienced Kings and Emperors thought that this was just some kind of exotic Law.

So, even though the Emperors knew so much more than Lords, their knowledge made them arrive at a wrong conclusion. None of them even suspected that Gravis was actually lightning.

This was a logical conclusion. For example, if Gravis could do magic and showed it to a mortal, the mortal might believe that Gravis could do magic. Yet, if he showed his magic to a powerful cultivator, they would simply think that it was some kind of exotic cultivation technique. After all, the cultivators knew how magical cultivation techniques could be while the mortals didn't.

Gravis didn't even realize what an amazing thing he was accomplishing right now.

If one thought back to his fights ever since he had arrived in this world, one would realize that Gravis could never directly confront an opponent three levels above him. He always had to evade every single attack. If he couldn't evade, he would die from just a single attack. His enemies had always been so overpowering that he wasn't allowed to make even one mistake.

Yet, look at him now. He directly fought an opponent three levels above himself without even using his Punishment Lightning as an attack. Sure, Gravis also wasn't injuring his opponent much, but he could actually defend himself against his opponent's powerful attacks.

This transformation had happened very gradually. Over a long period of time, without Gravis even attempting to increase it, he had involuntarily increased his defense, his biggest weakness, to a terrifying level.

It all began with the black scale he had consumed when he had become a Spirit Beast. Back then, his new scales' defensive capabilities had been impressive, but nothing that allowed him to jump an additional level. They had simply been an excellent, extra defense.

Then came his fight against the Golden Dragon. Back then, he had learned the ability to forge powerful weapons. The first thing he had created back then was a shield. That shield had allowed him to defend himself against the Golden Dragon. Yet, he had still been close to death during the entire fight.

Then, Gravis had created his armor, which protected him even more against his enemies' attacks. Yet, even with the armor, without his scales, his organs would have been shot out of his body. The hard but flexible texture of his scales allowed Gravis to protect his organs from any intense attacks.

After that, Gravis changed his torso's makeup to protect his innards even more against such attacks. Together with his shield, armor, and scales, he managed to block the attacks of opponents three levels above him.

Yet, Gravis still had had issues with regeneration. Every injury he had received during one of his blocks had weakened him, but when he had comprehended the Growth Laws of the Body, that weakness had also vanished.

Ever since that point, Gravis had managed to create an overpowering defense against physical attacks. The strongest physical attack of his current opponent, the grey elephant, was a charge with his tusks. This was arguably one of the most powerful physical attacks any beast on this level could produce.

Elephants always had powerful bodies, and the tusks were mighty spears. Yes, Gravis' body was still penetrated by the tusks, but his body didn't transform into chunks, which would have been the case earlier in his life.

to still being able to evade but not needing to. Now, he

attacks were not the only

could produce. The Inquisitor was a good example. His earth spires had been

also been covered up by something. Gravis hadn't expected that his Elemental Composition Laws would do much, but

After all, they were just Composition Laws. How could they help in killing

it. This reduced the attack's power to the same level as the enemy's physical attacks,

were a level one Emperor, everything would be different. Gravis would be able to notice the Spires and destroy them with his Composition Law of Earth before they could even reach him. Gravis could simply charge at the Inquisitor and continue attacking his defense until

his Will-Aura. This even took the auxiliary advantages of the elements and Laws away

before. This was the first time in which Gravis

Suppression took away the speed advantage of the opponent. Additionally, Gravis had always focused

plants with the wood element could attack the soul, and with Gravis'

his Punishment Lightning and Lightning

noticing, Gravis had

had been faster than him, stronger than him, and had

as Gravis, couldn't reliably penetrate his defense, and got injured even

would think that Gravis only met opponents that he countered, but that was far from the

but that wasn't luck. One would think that being able

of every opponent, it could no longer count as

This was strength.

advantages of his

countered the physical attacks of his opponents

elemental attacks of his opponents with his Will-Aura, Spirit, and Composition

of his opponents with his

of his opponent

countered the physical defense of his

opponent. Something like this could no longer be called a

simply how being

of Danger hadn't even been triggered a single time in