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."

hadn't taken 90% of my breaks, I could have

couple of months," Gravis said as he stepped into the next door. The group also said their goodbyes, and like this, Gravis was alone again. "Let's see 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 at the fifth trial, so

of walking. Of course, Gravis was walking leisurely. He wasn't walking much faster than a mortal. After all, he was

arena identical to the arena of

the arena. Even when he entirely concentrated his senses, Spirit, and will, he still couldn't find an enemy. Gravis was sure that no one could escape his senses, even if there were a priest with

trials had two doors. One of them was the door, which he had entered from, and one door that led to the next trial. This trial had three doors. "So, my enemy

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

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

then bitter smiles. They knew

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

the group was the group from the Wind

BANG!

of the arena. "Kill the opposing party to pass

heavy sighs as they also walked to the middle. One person of the group, who looked especially distraught, could only say one word. "Why?" he

tell you why," Gravis said as he sat down near the stele. "The only thing I can

journey. This was the first time where he told someone absolutely

many of them despair. After all, the gulf was just too vast. The concept of teleportation didn't even exist in this world, yet beggars in Gravis' home city could even do that? People who could fly were

the concept of Karmic Luck and how this whole situation came to be.

everything took multiple

to me, except the Lightning Sect. Lasar, the Sect Master of the Lightning Sect, knows some of the things I told you, but not everything. That's why they have not sent anyone this year.

fight you in the fourth trial then. Only the fifth trial

all in all, you are just innocent people that got dragged into this,"

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 and

one of them said after a while. "Even though we thought that we were free and unrestrained, in reality, we weren't? As long as Heaven exists, we can't be

why Heaven is doing this. It can't send anything more powerful than a priest at me, so it can't