Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis' insides churned as he heard Wendy. This came out of nowhere and threw all his suspicions about why she wanted to meet him into disarray. "What do you mean?" he asked with narrowed eyes.

Wendy released a dry laugh. "You're not a Heavenborn. I have felt the Heavenly Pressure of Heavenborn, and I know that they can't keep their Heavenly Pressure up for more than ten minutes," she explained. "When I saw you keeping your Will-Aura up for several hours, I was already sure that you were not a Heavenborn."

She knew his secret, and he couldn't risk her fleeing and telling others. He walked closer and took out the jade token. She didn't seem to mind and didn't attack Gravis even when she stood inside the Formation Array's activation range. Even though Gravis knew that she could have told others earlier, he didn't want to take any chances.

"Tell me," started Gravis. "If you already knew that I am not a Heavenborn, then why didn't you just publicize it? If you did that, I would already be dead."

Wendy smiled slightly. "I don't want to kill you," she said, and Gravis furrowed his brows. He had thought, based on how she had acted, that she wanted his life. Her not wanting his life came as a surprise to him.

"Then why all this slandering?" Gravis asked her.

Wendy looked a little apologetic. "I wanted to meet you," she explained. "How could I meet you when you were inside the Heaven Sect without awaking suspicion? I also don't know where and when your missions would take place, so I had no choice but to become your target."

Gravis furrowed his brows further. "But you know that becoming my target means that I either have to kill you or flee from the Heaven Sect," he said, "and I don't plan on blowing my cover just yet."

"I know that, and I don't want you to

his brows. "Are you telling me

already be dead if she wanted to kill him. She would've just needed to tell others about his Will-Aura. So, Gravis took her offer and sat beside

to tell you my story," she said after a while. "Could you grant me

I'm also interested in what reason you could have to throw away your life like

we were best of friends. My father wanted me to become a strong cultivator, so he had sent me out into the Outer-Continent when I was just

arrived in this lower world when he only had tempered his organs and blood. Gravis looked to the sky and thought about his

looked at Gravis and guessed that he had gone through something similar. She moved her legs closer to her chest and hugged them in a comfortable position. "When we met, he was just a teenager from a town. He was about one year older than me and had already tempered his skin. In the beginning, we fought a lot, but then we started

had also tempered my skin and bones by hunting in the Hunting Guild. We were

and injured. Just when we had decided to rest, some raiders jumped out of the bushes

remembered the raiders that

give me a chance to flee while he remained behind to keep them at bay. I wanted to help him so badly, but I knew

and some blood, but nothing more. I knew how many raiders attacked us, and I saw that only a third of them died to him. I knew that they had taken him captive. Raiders often do business with slave-traders, and someone with tempered

to cultivate and live. I remained in the town and waited for him every day. I couldn't accept that he was gone and spent most of my time looking over the wall of the town, into the wilderness, hoping that I would see

was a miracle from Heaven! I knew that Heaven wanted him to return! I was so happy, and I wept for days out of happiness. All the light in my life returned at that point, and I was happy