Chapter 157: Energy Beast? (2/2)
The wolf-like creature noticed the falling Gravis and released a loud howl as intimidation. It ran to the place where Gravis would land and readied itself, opening its mouth to release powerful lightning. The elemental power of Energy Beasts might be weaker than those of humans, but such a hit would still injure Gravis a little bit.
WHOOOSH!
An unbearable pressure pressed into the creature, and its eyes widened. It was supremely difficult to move, and it couldn't muster the concentration to finish its lightning attack. As Gravis closed in on the ground, more and more trees in the surroundings were crushed into splinters. The intensity of the Will-Aura grew with proximity to Gravis, so a giant crater also started forming. It looked like a humongous, invisible bowl pressed into the earth.
It grew increasingly harder for the beast to move, and soon, it became impossible. It could only look with scared eyes at its approaching doom. Gravis readied his saber for a mighty swing and infused it with 80% of his Energy.
BOOOOOOOM!
Gravis slammed his saber into the head of the beast, and the surroundings erupted in an explosion of dirt and lightning. Gravis had been falling with terminal velocity with his very heavy body, which generated a ridiculous amount of force. Like a meteor, he created an even larger crater with his impact. The shockwave uprooted many trees, and the earth blasted away in a wave.
Gravis climbed out of his hole and looked at the creature, and he saw its headless body lying before the hole. The missing head was blasted onto the surroundings. Seeing that the creature was dead, Gravis absorbed its Energy with the Heaven's Balance Cultivation Technique.
”What?” he exclaimed in shock. What did he feel? This high-grade Energy Beast only gave him like 5% of Energy. That was basically negligible. After Gravis accepted that fact, he could only sigh. ”No wonder you don't bother to hide those beasts anymore. They give nearly no Energy and no tempering,” Gravis spoke.
'Well, at least now I know that killing beasts is nearly useless to me right now. So, that contingency plan fell through,' Gravis thought with another sigh. The whole scamming idea seemed to be the only practical way forward. 'Well, at least I can get something from killing those.'
Gravis searched around in the surroundings and quickly found a fist-sized Beast Core. He walked over and pocketed it. 'I can probably sell that.' Then he turned to Skye. ”You can have the beast.”
Skye had been quite impressed by Gravis' attack. It still had some trouble fighting other high-grade Energy Beasts, but Gravis had instantly killed it in one attack. Now, it truly felt the distance between Gravis and it. Instead of getting demotivated, its hunger for power only increased. Without waiting, it flew down and started devouring the beast. The corpse was rather big, so that would take a while.
After Skye had its fill, around another half remained of the corpse. Skye gestured to Gravis to jump onto its back, and he complied. Then, it grabbed the remaining half and continued flying to the Earth Guild. It could always eat the other half later.