Lightning Is the Only Way

"I still think this is going too far," Manuel said after some seconds. "The whole world saw your last trial, and your reputation will be forever tarnished in an unrecoverable way."

Gravis shrugged. "So?"

Manuel was a little taken aback, but then he laughed a little. "Yes, you're right. What does it matter what the world thinks about you? It has no impact on you," then, Manuel sighed. "It seems like my temperament is still not decisive enough."

Gravis rubbed his chin in thought. "I wouldn't be so sure about that," he said.

Manuel raised an eyebrow. "Oh? How so?"

Gravis smiled. "Because it hasn't happened to you, but to someone you consider a friend," Gravis said. "I would probably also be angrier if it happened to you or Joyce. We often feel more pain for someone we are close to than the person might feel themselves. Of course, it strongly depends on the situation, but I think in this case, this is true."

Manuel remained silent for a while. "I think you're right. If that had happened to me, I wouldn't care as much. After all, I know that my power speaks for me. If someone confronted me with that, I could just kill them."

Gravis nodded. "Exactly!"

Manuel walked closer and patted Gravis' shoulder. "It might seem cruel and unfair to my dead master, but I am happy that I met you, Gravis. You have shown me an entirely new outlook on the world, Heaven, and how a cultivator should be. If my dead master could see us, I think he wouldn't regret his death. He was just that kind of person."

Gravis also smiled slightly. "Thank you for your words, Manuel. I also consider you a friend," he said.

Manuel smiled more when he heard that. "Great! That's what I like to hear!"

The group talked some more for a couple of hours, sharing their experiences and outlooks on life. After the conversation lulled into silence, Gravis stood up. "No time to waste," he said.

The others looked at him reluctantly. "Why are you always so impatient?" Joyce groaned. "We haven't seen each other in eight months, and now you want to leave again."

Gravis shook his head with a smile. "I don't want to stop. If I indulge too much, I might become complacent. I can't risk that."

If I hadn't taken 90% of my breaks, I could have probably reached my current Realm a whole year earlier. My Will-Aura would probably also be

what you have for me this time, Heaven. Generally, there are only five trials, not including the last fight between all groups. This is already the third one. Your secret weapon will probably come

He wasn't walking much faster than

the hour was up, Gravis arrived before another door. With a push, he opened it and entered. He saw an arena identical to the arena

there were a priest with the darkness element in here. Gravis also doubted that possibility. The arena was lit and about as bright as the outside during

which he had entered from, and one door that led to the next

of what this trial would entail, and he wasn't happy about that. Yet, there was nothing else he could do. He could only accept his current circumstances. At least, he wouldn't need to kill his own group. Gravis made sure that this wouldn't happen before he entered the Heaven's

the walls and closed his eyes. He would probably need to wait for a couple of days, and sure enough, about four days later,

looked at him. The group looked at Gravis with shock, surprise, and then bitter smiles. They knew of Gravis and his unheard of Battle-Strength. The fact that they felt that his cultivation already reached the Sapling Stage made them give

at the ceiling. First, they lost their Sect Master, and now their Sect was about to lose their most talented disciples.

the group was the group

BANG!

stele appeared in the middle of the arena. "Kill the opposing party to pass the trial," it

they also walked to the middle. One person of the group, who looked

you why," Gravis said as he sat down near the stele. "The only thing I can do for you is to tell you everything about this farce.

After that, Gravis started telling them everything about his life and journey. This was the first time where he told someone absolutely everything without holding anything back.

vast. The concept of teleportation didn't even exist in this world, yet beggars in Gravis' home city could even do that? People who

detail. He also told them about the concept of Karmic Luck and how this whole situation came to be. Either way, they would die, so the least he could do for them

everything took multiple

is the closest Sect to me, except the Lightning Sect. Lasar, the Sect Master of the Lightning Sect, knows some of the things I told you,

in the fourth trial then. Only the fifth

innocent people that got

power of the people in Gravis' Homeworld. They had also been shocked about the fact that there were three more grades of worlds above theirs. All of this just seemed too unreal

one of them said after a while. "Even though we thought that we were free and unrestrained, in reality, we

this. It can't send anything more powerful than a priest at me, so it can't kill me with a fight. That's why