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.

Gravis had charged at Stella and unleashed a Lightning

feeling of danger approaching, she readied her saber again and performed several profound movements. This was

single slash of fire that split

destruction. Gravis had been the one in the initiative, which meant that he had received lighter injuries

but he felt

SHING!

body and realized

mind was going wild.

had to stay as close to her as possible so that she couldn't recover her balance and positioning. Right now, she was under severe stress and was forced

Gravis' weaker body

SHING!

body, leaving behind intense sounds of fire.

Clank.

in Stella's free

he had unleashed his full power, Stella would have been pushed into the distance, allowing

and tried to

PACK!

Some bones in Gravis' arm

PACK! PACK!

One of his feet sprouted sharp and aggressive claws, and Gravis kicked Stella's remaining leg, hooking

was finally showing its

a Nascent Nourishing Cultivator, he had realized that 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 its true power against

a human, and his body was finally unveiling its incredible power. All of Stella's

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

attack without any follow-up attacks. This was definitely not her style since Stella was incredibly careful and never