Chapter 791: Defeat (1/2)

Gravis just lay inside his Life Ring, looking at the bright sky. The sky inside his Life Ring wasn't real, but it also wasn't really fake. After all, to make such a Life Ring, one had to know the Law of the Dead World. So, even though it was not the sky of an actual world, it was created out of the same things and with the same Laws.

'Weapon Cultivation doesn't work for me, huh?' Gravis thought. 'I don't have Energy. I only have lightning, and lightning doesn't want to combine with anything else.'

Gravis snorted. 'Actually, the signs have been there since the very beginning,' he thought. 'Back in the lower world, when Byron gave me the Rakshasa's Saber, I managed to combine it with my lightning. No one else managed to do that.'

'Why? Because my Will-Aura was part of me, and I am lightning. Therefore, combining my Will-Aura with my lightning wasn't really hard.'

'I wonder,' Gravis thought. 'My Laws of Perceived Reality work on my Will-Aura and make it more powerful. Then, my Will-Aura fuses with my lightning when I create a Lightning Crescent. So, I kind of already have integrated my Laws of Perceived Reality into my lightning.'

Gravis snorted again. 'How ironic. One of the reasons why I came to this world was to learn Weapon Cultivation. However, I actually have already used Weapon Cultivation. Back in the lower world, I have already managed to combine my lightning with my Laws of Perceived Reality by using my Will-Aura as a common denominator.'

'I actually don't need a Focus. My Will-Aura directly combines with my lightning, and I don't even have to transform anything.'

Gravis sighed. 'I thought that I could push my Battle-Strength even further, but I have already used everything. The fusion between my Will-Aura and my lightning already is a Focus.'

Gravis did some math in his head as he watched the fake clouds. 'Let's see, if I don't use any of my Laws of Perceived Reality to strengthen my Will-Aura and fight against someone at my same level…'

Gravis envisioned the attack of a Weapon Cultivator on his level with the same element and the same Will-Aura.

'Actually, my Lightning Crescent would be a bit more powerful than a Weapon Technique since it goes through no conversions whatsoever.'

Gravis had to sigh again. 'I think I should be proud that I managed to create such a powerful Weapon Technique while not even having come into contact with any Laws. Sure, if I could transform all of my Laws of Perceived Reality into physical reality and then fuse them with my lightning, my attack would be far more powerful, but it just doesn't work like that.'

'All the Laws I know already have their true meaning, and one of these true meanings is that lightning and the Laws of Perceived Reality can't mix. They both have something in there that makes it impossible to combine. Well, my lightning does, at least. My Laws of Perceived Reality would be fine with combining.'

'So, that leaves two options. One is to change the Law of Punishment Lightning, which not even my father can do, and the other is to delete the Law inside my Punishment Lightning.'

Gravis chuckled a bit. 'However, even if I could do that, which I can't, my Punishment Lightning would stop being Punishment Lightning. It just wouldn't exist anymore, basically. No Laws means no power. Then, it would simply be my other Laws in the form of lightning but without lightning's power.'

'Even if I keep everything separate, I would just summon two attacks. However, my Will-Aura would still lose its support, which would make it more efficient to just use two Lightning Crescents instead of two different attacks.'

Gravis sighed yet again, something that he had been doing quite a lot since realizing that Weapon Cultivation just didn't work for him. 'No matter what I do, Weapon Cultivation remains useless for me. All my other weapons are just better.'