Lightning Is the Only Way

Chapter 110

The big bird watched from the side while Skye stood beside it. They were both very interested in this fight. There were not manyoccasions where they could watch a battle to the death. The parent also wanted its child to learn from the fight. It knew that bothGravis and Silvio were stronger than Skye, so its child could surely glean some tactics from watching the fight.

Silvio didn't shoot a look at the birds even once. Gravis had taken him by surprise two times already, and he couldn't afford athird time. Did Silvio completely believe what Gravis had said about the bird not getting involved in their fight? Usually, hewouldn't believe that, but this time, he had no choice.

If he considered the possibility that the bird would get involved, then why was he even fighting? His death would already be acertainty. So, in order to not lose hope, Silvio could only believe in the possibility that the bird wouldn't get involved. If it did, hismindset would be drowned in a sea of terror and helplessness.

His Energy reserves were already down to under 40%. Blocking Gravis' earlier physical attack has eaten up an entire 10% of histotal reserves. He couldn't afford to let that happen again.

Gravis shot forward at Silvio in an attack. The initiative was essential, and if he got hold of it, he would be at an advantage.Gravis used a chop with his saber, his Martial Arts fully integrated into every attack of his. Silvio didn't block passively but usedhis own attack to stop the saber. With his superior Energy, he could completely destroy Gravis’ balance.

BANG!

The two weapons hit, and Gravis' saber was shot upwards, while Silvio still had his weapon under control. Without waiting foranother second, Silvio's spear thrust towards Gravis’ torso.

BANG!

Suddenly, Gravis’ saber hit the spear again and redirected the attack. Silvio's eyes widened. How was this possible? Gravis hadutterly lost his balance, and it should be impossible for him to regain it that quickly.

What Silvio hadn't seen was that Gravis knew that he would lose a direct exchange, so he had already prepared a backup plan.When his saber shot upward, a lightning bolt left it and hit the ground. Similar to the principle behind lightning movement, thethick lightning bolt pulled the saber downward in another slash. His usage of lightning was brilliant.novelbin

Gravis had thought a lot about potential usages of lightning back in the Proxy-Lightning Guild, and he had also seen theingenious usage of wind from Skye. Only using lightning as an attack seemed a waste of its potential. There were undoubtedlymore uses for it.

After the saber redirected Silvio's attack, his torso was wide open, and Gravis stepped closer to him and slashed with his saber.Lightning came out of his saber and hit the ground behind Silvio. Silvio couldn't retrieve his weapon in this short time frame, sohe could only lift his hand and block the physical attack again with his lightning.

BZZZ! BANG!

Silvio blocked the attack with his lightning but surprisingly lost only 5% of his total Energy reserves. This didn't make him happybut more worried. Why was this attack only half as strong as the previous one? Silvio suddenly felt an incredibly strong impact onhis chest. Gravis had used the lightning, which had hit the ground behind Silvio, as a powerful string to guide his saber in anattack.

While the lightning was using the saber as an attack, Gravis let go of his weapon and unloaded his full physical power into apunch. Silvio's attention was preoccupied with the saber, and he hadn't put up any other defenses. Which idiot would let go oftheir weapon in a fight?

Silvio flew backward for several tens of meters. When he finally managed to stabilize himself, he vomited a mouthful of blood.While Gravis' body was slowly losing its advantage in a fight against higher tier opponents, it was still incredibly powerful.

The bodies of cultivators in the Energy Gathering Realm would also increase with every level up, but the increase was negligiblein comparison to the growth of their Energy. If Silvio hadn't been three levels higher than Gravis in the Energy Gathering Realm,he would have died to this attack.

Yet, he was still heavily injured. Several of his ribs broke and stabbed through his lungs. A cultivator wouldn't die to that sincethey had tempered their organs and blood previously, but it was still incredibly painful and bothersome to heal.

Gravis immediately charged after him. His enemy had been stunned by the attack, and he needed to take advantage of that. Allthese attacks were ingenious and surprising, but they would only work once. If Silvio had seen his attack coming, he would haveattacked with his spear. He would have known that he wouldn't die from such a hit, but Gravis obviously would.

Gravis released his saber again and let it shoot to Silvio, while he quickly circled him so that Silvio couldn't keep watch on bothGravis and his saber. Silvio clenched his teeth and extended his hand to block the saber with his lightning, while he shot hisspear at Gravis.

Contrary to his expectations, Gravis didn't go in for an attack but jumped back. Silvio felt the saber hit the lightning on his hand,which meant another 5% of wasted Energy, but without Gravis there to retrieve it, he could grab ahold of the saber. That woulddoom Gravis.

Silvio kept watch on Gravis, so he couldn't also look at the saber. When he felt the attack weaken, he grabbed to theapproximate location of the saber. Yet, he felt nothing. A cold shudder went down Silvio's back, and he turned to the saber.

It laid on the ground, still. That made no sense. Their fight was so fast that it wouldn't even have fallen 20 centimeters in the timewhere all this happened. How was it already on the ground? Suddenly, out of nowhere, the saber shot at Silvio with unrealspeed.

‘What?!' Silvio couldn't even formulate a proper thought in this scenario. It was absolutely impossible that Gravis had pre-plannedthat action because lightning couldn't be placed with a timer. When it got released from the body, it would immediately do what itwas supposed to do. Delaying it, was impossible.

It was also impossible that Gravis had given the saber a new "command". There had to be a medium for lightning, so Silviowould have seen lightning creep from Gravis’ body to the saber. It couldn't just teleport to the saber. There was no lightningconnecting to the saber, so how did it move by itself?

In order to achieve this maneuver, Gravis had made use of his Elemental Synchronicity. If lightning went into the earth, undernormal circumstances, it would get swallowed up. Yet, with Gravis' Elemental Synchronicity, he could control the earth under himand create a tunnel for his lightning. This allowed him to hide his actions from Silvio's senses and move his lightning to his saber,undetected.

Out of carefully honed reflex, Silvio blocked the saber with his spear. Not forgetting Gravis, Silvio also shot a nearly fully-poweredlightning bolt to his approximate location. That wasted more of his Energy, and Silvio slowly started to feel the panic set in as hisEnergy reserves started dwindling due to his wasteful actions.

CRACK!

Silvio easily blocked the saber, but a humongous impact hit his left knee. Gravis had charged over and slid on his behind whileSilvio's lightning bolt shot over his head. With a fully-powered kick, Gravis decimated Silvio's kneecap.

Due to his kneecap getting destroyed, Silvio started falling over, right on top of Gravis. He turned to him while falling and sawanother kick quickly approaching his face. Silvio managed to barely block the kick to his face with his spear.

SHING!

Silvio only had the kick in his eyes and failed to see the lightning coming out of one of Gravis' hand. The saber, which had stillbeen in the air due to Silvio's block, got pulled to Gravis' hand and severed Silvio's dominant arm on its way.

Silvio couldn't formulate a coherent thought in that situation, and the last thing he saw in his life was Gravis grabbing the saberand it quickly approaching his face. Silvio had died.

Gravis looked at half of Silvio's headflying away and sighed in relief. Silviohad much more po er pag lain lande ey Colston thre ravis violentlyback. Gravis was outclassed inspeed, power, and defense. The onlyadvantage he had was his fightingexperience. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Gravis was also surprised that hedidn't even need to use his Will-Aura.In comparison to beasts, humadidn't have nearly inddsthubtibtebediés Sh they were on the samelevel. Gravis only had to hitsomething to deal damage. Thismade it possible to injure people whowere even multiple levels higher thanhim. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Gravis slowly stood up and dustedoff his robes. He looked at Silvio'scorpse and got reminded of his firstfight with a Iqwgratle Garronebeast.- Sill remembered the lionfrom the practical test and how it hadalso outclassed him in speed,defense, and attack. Back then, hewon thanks to his experience and hisWill-Aura. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

The same thing had repeated itself. Yet, just like that time, a single mistake could have cost him his life.

"This is really just like back then," Gravis sighed as he remembered his homeworld.