Chapter 203: Debts (1/2)

It had been two days since Gravis first tested his new Lightning Board. During that timeframe, he rode around nearly all day, trying to get used to it. He learned how to turn better, accelerate faster, and fight while on his Lightning Board.

Though, fighting while on the Lightning Board was complicated. Melee attacks were nearly impossible to perform, and any big swing had significant consequences for Gravis' balance. On top of that, not being able to do sharp turns took away Gravis' flexibility. Gravis could probably only use the board for chasing people or fleeing from them.

But Gravis didn't mind it that much. His body and lightning were already perfect for instant acceleration and sharp turns. If he also concentrated his lightning on his feet, his acceleration would even become unreasonably fast. The Energy cost for that was rather high though, but he guessed that there was no one able to accelerate as quickly as him on his level.

What about the wind element? Sure, the wind element was generally considered as the fastest one, but Gravis was an outlier in that field. His Destruction Lightning was a little over double as powerful as natural lightning, which made him about just as fast as someone with the wind element. On top of that, other cultivators weren't able to explode their condensed element beneath their feet. Their feet would explode into bloody chunks, even if they had a powerful body equal to their Realm.

The only thing that allowed Gravis to do that was his immunity and absorption of lightning. If his Spirit hadn't been tempered by lightning, he wouldn't have been able to do that, even if he still had his Elemental Synchronicity. The Elemental Synchronicity would have made his body ignore the lightning's damage, but that would have also significantly weakened the effect of its blast, therefore slowing the acceleration.

Because of all these reasons, Gravis didn't care about him not being able to use the board for direct fighting.

After these two days of testing, Gravis' other four boards had been finished. The first one took the longest since they had to design and forge it from the ground up. The following ones were produced faster, with more ease and finesse.

”Thank you,” said Gravis as he put the four new boards into his Spirit Space.

”No, thank you,” said the Vice-Guild Master of the Fire Guild. ”Designing this and looking at its effect gave me a lot of inspiration and motivation. Maybe I can manage to design similar things for the other elements. One question though, are you fine with me selling this design to other people?” he asked.

Gravis shrugged. ”I don't mind. You designed it after all,” he said nonchalantly.

The Vice-Guild Master smiled and summoned a cube of gold. ”Thank you. As repayment for that, I'll give you your gold back.”

Gravis furrowed his brows. ”I have paid you for your work,” he said. ”Your work is finished, so this gold belongs to you now. I won't take it back.”

The Vice-Guild Master laughed slightly. ”Hehe, I think you don't understand what you have done for me just now,” he said. ”This design will revolutionize how Spirit Forming Experts move. If I sell that design to our Fire Sect, I will get over ten times that amount. I am actually giving you way less than what you deserve.”

Gravis thought about this and nodded. After that, he pocketed the gold. ”You're right. Thank you for your honesty! Consider all debts settled with this gold cube.”

The Vice-Guild Master nodded again. ”Sounds good. Thank you!”

Gravis summoned one of the Lightning Boards and stepped on it. ”I'm off,” he said. ”Bye!”