Female Novel
Chapter 96
The disciples came to the branch and surrounded it on all sides, so Gravis couldn't flee without jumping off. The wind bird lookedat the humans and kept itself away. It already had immense difficulty in fighting one. If there were more, it would be helpless.
“Betrayer, give yourself up," shouted one of the male disciples.
Gravis looked at him and the others and realized that this wouldn't be an easy fight. There were 15 people in the fourth level ofEnergy Gathering, four people in the fifth level, and that woman in the front was even in the sixth.
"| have done unforgivable crimes, and | will do my best to repay the Lightning Sect, but I can't die yet. So, | am sorry, but | can'tcome with you," shouted Gravis while readying his saber.
Some of the disciples were surprised since they had imagined a bloodthirsty monster, yet, compared to the others, the woman inthe lead didn't bat an eye. "Attack," she coldly commanded. The disciples immediately readied their weapons, most of themspears, and charged forward.novelbin
Gravis grimaced. He wasn't afraid of the fight, but he was already regretting what he was about to do. If they didn't retreat, hecould only kill them. One of the disciples charged at him and thrust his spear towards him. Gravis easily sidestepped.
WHOOM! SHINK!
He activated his Will-Aura and concentrated it on the disciple, who immediately froze. Gravis used this chance to cleave him intwo diagonally. The disciple managed to release one last scream before his two halves fell down the tree.
The disciples on the branches stopped advancing and looked at Gravis carefully. He had killed someone easily, and that showedhis strength. If he managed to kill someone in the fourth level of Energy Gathering that easily, he could probably also fight peopleon the fifth level.
"Go back!" shouted Gravis at them. "I don't want to kill you, but if you keep coming after me, | am forced to! | do not want to hurtthe Lightning Sect! | want to help! We both want the same thing, so stop!" he shouted in a last bit to stop the confrontation. Evenif he didn't want to kill them, he would do it if he had to.
The disciples looked at him more seriously now. Many disciples would die if they fought him. Escura looked at Gravis also inseriousness now, but the coldness in her eyes only increased when she saw how Gravis had killed a disciple.
Gravis, on the other hand, really didn't want to kill the Lightning Guild's disciples. He wanted to help them, and this was the firsttime that he had killed someone on the Lightning Guild on purpose. He didn't want to, but he knew that he had to be coldbloodedif he wanted to survive. If he let them go again, only stronger people would come for him later.
Due to distance, the main guild couldn't be informed about every single little thing. If the disciples didn't return, people wouldbelieve that they were still chasing him. That would delay the main guild's reaction for multiple days. Yet, if someone returnedand reported on him, an immediate hit squad would be sent for his head.
Escura looked at Gravis with a sharp look. "Today, only one party will survive. Everyone Attack!" she shouted with more fervorthan before. Gravis gritted his teeth and readied himself. The disciples all increased their lightning powers further to increasetheir speed, blackening the branches.
CRRK!
Anew branch came out of the current one and swatted one of the disciples away. The disciple hadn't known that the tree was anEnergy Plant and was too shocked to react appropriately. He got flung away for hundreds of meters and was out of range of hislightning movement. The disciple blanched when he realized that he would die since he couldn't survive a fall from a height ofseveral kilometers.
The other disciples looked at him in shock and grew wary of the tree. "Don't worry. As long as you keep your lightning under acertain threshold of power, the tree will ignore us," said Escura calmly. Everyone calmed down a little, and they started movingtowards Gravis.
Gravis was still sticking to the underside of the branch, being ready for the battle. The earth was above and the heavens beneathhim. Gravis concentrated on the fight, and this sight had stopped looking odd to him.
The disciples came closer. Gravis could only see eleven of the remaining 18 disciples. The other seven were on the other side ofthe branch, cutting off his escape route. After a short moment, one of the disciples on the fifth rank readied his saber, infused itwith lightning, and shot forward.
CLANK!
Gravis had also infused his lightning into his Energy Saber and parried the attack. Gravis’ body slightly trembled. 'His Energy isalready as strong as my Energy and physical strength combined,’ he concluded.
BZZZT!
The disciples on the fourth level of Energy Gathering had surrounded him and shot all their lightning at him. As long as thelightning didn't hit the tree, they could use their full power, so they did. Gravis was bathed in lightning and shook. The disciple infront of him realized his advantage and stabbed at Gravis’ chest with his spear.
PUCHI!
Gravis had only acted like the lightning was stunning him and jumped half a meter away from the branch. If he jumped further, itwould be a hassle to get back to the branch, since he was currently upside down. The spear went cleanly through his stomach,and Gravis used that opportunity to attack the disciple.
SHING!
From Gravis' perspective, he saw the shocked head of his enemy falling upwards towards the earth, his body quickly following.The other disciples grew shocked, and their jaws dropped. How could someone a whole level weaker than them have this muchlightning resistance?
"Stop, you fools!" shouted Escura as she charged forward. "Don't you know that all this lightning is useless?" she shouted as herspear shot forward with unreal speed. Gravis did a mix of a sidestep and a parry, yet still got shot away. ‘What power,’ hethought.
The lightning ended, and they grew shocked when they saw no injury on Gravis. The stab wound had already fully healed. Theyfelt like they were in a dream. Wasn't he stabbed through by a spear just now? How did this happen?
One thing had to be known about lightning resistance. Lightning had a ratio of Destruction and Life Energy, yet it also had adensity of both. If disciples used their lightning, they could create more of the lightning, but they couldn't increase its density.
Theoretically, Gravis could bathe intheir lightning as much as he wanted,and he wouldn't care, yet thelightning of a fifth r ou tigher! |di ciplenyoultd ein im severely.The whole concept could becompared with 50 children withdaggers trying to stab throughsomeone's armor. It didn't matterhow many there were. They couldn'tdamage the armor due to theirlimited strength. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Yet, one adult with a dagger could damage the armor. Was one adult person stronger than fifty children? The children'scombined strength would be several times stronger than the adult's, but strength didn't work that way.
So, when all the lightning hit Gravis’body, and all its Destruction Energywas depleted, what owesEnergy cerpgiged: an Cota sorbedby-Gravis body. With all theirlightning, they were essentially allhealers healing him. That's how heregenerated from his wound, thatquickly. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Was the wound necessary? Yes,because Gravis wanted to keep hiscondensed Will-Aura as a trump card.They might not suspebdariythingWith jus Ke first disciple dying likethis, but if more disciples froze upwhile fighting him, they would adapttheir battle strategy. As long as hisWill-Aura was hidden, he still had aweapon to fall back on. The contentis on NovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
‘And I'll need that,’ he thought as he watched Escura, readying for another attack.