Lightning Is the Only Way

BANG!

The arrow hit Arthur's chest and exploded. A fountain of blood and organ pieces exploded into the surroundings, and it was hard to tell if he was still alive or not.

SHING!

Liran charged out of the storm of destruction of their previous attacks as he pulled out a new arrow. In an instant, Liran pointed his bow at Arthur's remains again.

Everything below Arthur's chest was destroyed, but his upper chest, arms, and head were still in one piece.

Arthur was still alive, and Liran wanted to end it.

CRACK! BANG!

Arthur immediately summoned an emblem and broke it into pieces. As soon as he did that, a translucent barrier appeared around him, which blocked the new arrow from Liran.

Liran grimaced as Arthur summoned another emblem and broke it.

SHING!

A seemingly translucent sword cut through the frozen space around Arthur and left behind a deep cut.

"Tch," Liran spat, knowing that he wouldn't be able to kill Arthur today. This madman just spent more money than he was worth. Where did he even get all this money from to buy these two emblems?

Arthur threw one last, cold glance at Liran before he flew into the space cut. In an instant, the cut closed, and Arthur was gone.

"Great," Liran spat. "This will get ugly now."

Liran scanned the surroundings one last time to see if anyone was looking.

SHING!

And then, he vanished.

later, Liran stopped moving. He looked around again to see if anyone was watching before taking a ring off his finger. If Arthur had paid close attention, he would have known that Liran hadn't always worn this

Clink!

the ring

PACK!

that caught the

Gravis' hand and just

What had happened?

win the fight if Liran played it right. As long as Liran managed to provoke a clash of powerful attacks, Gravis could consume the lightning from Arthur's attack, weakening it tremendously.

that wouldn't be the only thing that would change. Another thing was that taking away the element from an attack would severely weaken it. Like this, Liran's attack would be more powerful than Arthur's. Due to the clash of the attacks,

to flee by spending a ridiculous sum of

manage to stay hidden in front

Life Ring and gave it to Liran. This had two advantages. First, Gravis would be directly in the middle of the fight and could intervene at the perfect time. Second, Gravis would be hidden inside the Life Ring. Immortal Kings could see Gravis' real body, and Gravis already had a suspicion that humans and beasts were not the best

long as Arthur didn't closely inspect Gravis, he wouldn't notice that Gravis had a beast body. Arthur obviously hadn't done this since he had ignored everyone but Liran.

unsure if I stand in your debt or not, young friend," Liran said with a smile. "On the one hand, you are the reason why all of this happened in the first place, but on the

"You know what? Screw all this complicated nonsense of debt and gratitude. Let's just say that we are friends from now on.

slightly. "I don't think

Liran's eyebrows furrowed.

Sect Master,

PENG!

finger on his forehead, but it didn't hurt. "You just arrived and are already teasing your Sect Master," Liran said with a smirk, "but that's exactly how a disciple of the Unrestrained Sect has to

want! Say what you

wanted to tell him,

great," Gravis said with a

haven't introduced myself yet. I'm Surem, and I'm responsible for getting new recruits," Surem said. "At least, for now. Dad told me I should get out more and talk with others, which is why I'm

Gravis, the new Ascender. I'm not used to being inside Sects, so don't mind it when I don't call anyone