Lightning Is the Only Way

"Where did that suddenly come from?" Lasar asked. "You've thought about this debt for over a year, and now you just say that everything is resolved? Sounds like a waste of time to me."

Gravis didn't get angry at that comment. By now, he had regained his calm mind. "I have no other choice," he said.

Lasar lifted a brow. "That sounds weird. What happened?"

While waiting for Gravis' answer, Lasar informed the still present Patriarch and Grand Elder that they should wait a minute. He was still in the middle of explaining how Gravis could become so strong but had to stop due to Gravis contacting him.

Gravis told Lasar everything that happened in the last couple of minutes and also his predictions regarding that situation. After Gravis was finished explaining, Lasar scratched his stubble with his fingers.

"This is interesting," Lasar said in thought. "And you say that this is basically the same feeling that you had had when you were under the influence of Lightning's Temperament in the Proxy-Lightning Guild?"

"Yes. It's exactly the same," Gravis answered.

"Huh, I think I know what's going on with you," Lasar said. "You might know more about how Heaven and the world works, but don't forget that I have been the Sect Master of the Lightning Sect for a while. I have a lot of experience in that regard, and I saw a lot of people being influenced by Lightning's Temperament. So, please take my following words seriously, okay?"

Gravis nodded. "Sure, but you didn't have to show your authority on the subject like that. I wouldn't take your words lightly either way."

Lasar smiled a little. "That's good to hear. Anyway, I think that you are constantly being influenced by Lightning's Temperament, even when you're calm."

Gravis furrowed his brows. "I'm not sure if that makes sense. After all, I don't just kill someone as soon as they look at me the wrong way."

"Let me finish," Lasar said. "Let's say we have two kinds of personalities that an elemental cultivator always has. One personality is their own, while the other is the personality of their element. This makes sense, right?"

Gravis nodded. "Sure."

living in the same body, or under the same roof, if you want to call it like that. The main personality is always in charge and is the one to act, while the second personality keeps itself hidden away. Yet, when the main personality does something that

you want, it acts in different ways. In the case of the earth element, for example, it will just leave. In the case of lightning, since it doesn't like to be restrained, it

think that's a

separate entities that can't communicate with each other. The second personality just

Spirit is adapted to lightning, this second personality has fused with you to some degree. I

"What gave you

your lightning down by forgoing the debt," Lasar explained. "Think back to when you have been influenced by Lightning's Temperament. Would any rationale or reasoning have stopped you from going

his head. "I doubt it. I was basically completely blinded

you did just now. Did your emotions only calm down after you have officially

about the answer. "As soon as I decided to forsake the debt, my rage quickly died down. I was already fully calm

behind it? In your case, the lightning was able to understand your intent and reasoning and calmed down even before you

thought. "That makes sense. If I couldn't reason with my lightning, I wouldn't have been able to hold myself back until you arrived. I would have just killed the old man. Yet, due to my incomplete fusion, the lightning still demanded justice. It held back because it understood that being angry wouldn't

one incident. It normally takes multiple such incidents of when the cultivator and the element don't agree with each other to create such a huge conflict. Yet, with me, it happened directly in the

I have more influence over my lightning. But on the other hand, my lightning

it. Meanwhile, my relationship with my lightning could be compared to a close partnership.

his thoughts. "I think that's a good comparison. In my opinion, I think this is more good than

your lightning, would you be happy

this situation just slide by. It doesn't matter if he was justified in his actions or not. He has attacked me, and therefore, I am in my full right to retaliate. That is what I

by not attacking Reginald, you not only went against your lightning but also against yourself. Does that sound like a restriction

phrase it like that, I think I agree. I was not only acting against my lightning but also against myself. That's what made me so angry." Then, Gravis sighed in relief. "Thank you, Lasar. I was troubled by the thought that my own lightning might suppress me, yet I hadn't realized that I have also acted against myself. As long as

for. We've lived longer and have seen more things. So, now that that's over, I think I have a solution

eyebrow.

could you come closer? Waiting outside the Freya

the Freya Clan. After all, they were talking from quite a distance. Meanwhile, Lasar was talking with

correctly! We have not tried to kill him, and we only intended for him to await trial