Lightning Is the Only Way

Blood and body pieces flew through the air as the fire lines passed Gravis' location. Gravis seemingly vanished as his body was blown across the Formation Array. The fire lines passed Gravis' spot and hit the Formation Array, exploding violently.

Stella's brother released a sigh of relief. His sister had won! For a second there, he had worried that Gravis was even more powerful than he had believed. Gravis had been a freak. That was undeniable.

BOOOOOOOOOOOM!

Suddenly, an explosion of lightning and fire appeared that consumed nearly the entire area of the Formation Array, shocking Stella's brother out of his relief.

What happened!?

BANG!

Suddenly, two bodies shot out of the storm of destruction, one fleeing and one chasing.

Nearly half of Stella's face was burned, and she was missing an entire arm. However, instead of nervousness or fear, her face only showed cold determination and severity.

A half-dead Gravis chased after her with a lightning-filled saber. He had to win now! Stella was too powerful, and he had just barely managed to claim the initiative. If he failed now, he might not get a second chance!

What had happened?

When Stella completely countered Gravis' defense against her attack, Gravis had to unleash his Avatar. Gravis had to be careful what he wanted to show of his power since he was now among humans. Seeing such an Avatar might invite unwanted attention.

However, Gravis would have died if he hadn't used his Avatar.

His Avatar of Freedom allowed him to ignore any kind of suppression, which meant that Gravis could accelerate his personal time. Sadly, the Avatar of Freedom only worked for him and not for external things. This meant that Stella's attack couldn't be slowed.

Due to that, Gravis could only survive by sacrificing nearly his entire body. If he had been able to also slow the attack from Stella, he would have dodged the attack unscathed, but like this, he had only been able to save his head. He had to regrow his entire body in the blink of an eye by spending a ton of Energy to convert it to Life Energy with his Law of Energy Healing. However, even then, he was still injured.

Stella and unleashed

As soon as she felt a feeling of danger approaching, she readied her saber again and performed several profound movements. This

with a long wind-up, she created an instantaneous attack with a lot of power. It was like she had unleashed a single slash of fire that split space apart. Of course, none of the two were powerful enough to actually split space apart. However, this attack

creating a powerful storm of destruction. Gravis had been the one in the initiative, which meant that he had received lighter injuries

chased Stella, but he felt

SHING!

If she accidentally hit Gravis' body and realized that Gravis was also made out of Punishment Lightning, Gravis would most likely

was going wild. 'I have never seen anything like

her balance and positioning. Right now, she was under severe stress and was forced to defend herself from a suboptimal position, making her attacks and blocks very rough

this situation, Gravis'

SHING!

searing fire slash barely missed Gravis' body, leaving behind intense sounds of fire. Gravis immediately slashed at Stella before her slash

Clank.

Stella's free

it only lightly tapped Stella's saber. If he had unleashed his full power, Stella would have been pushed into the distance, allowing her to regain her balance

her plans and tried to

PACK!

Gravis, which quickly caught the foot. Some bones in Gravis' arm broke when he received the impact,

PACK! PACK!

Gravis, which quickly grabbed Stella's arms. One of his feet sprouted sharp and aggressive claws, and Gravis kicked Stella's remaining leg,

body was finally showing

the combat-oriented body he had created wasn't useful in the least in the middle world since it was filled with beasts. It would only show

body was finally unveiling its incredible power. All of

first time, Stella felt fear. This was bad! Why had she wanted to test Gravis!? If she had directly followed up her attack with another one, this would have never happened! This was not her style normally!

since Stella was incredibly careful and never underestimated her opponent. She would have readied subsequent attacks against even weaker opponents