Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis told them how he met up with his copy and how they first tried to destroy the trial. The group was a bit surprised since they hadn't thought about doing anything like that. They had just accepted their trial without trying to break it.

Well, it was understandable, actually. After all, everyone in the group was only in the initial Stage of Spirit Forming. Breaking something like the Heaven's Trial required just too much power. Gravis was in a different situation since he had enough power to fight something like that.

Together with his copy, Gravis could have annihilated the area of every previous trial. The power of two Gravises was just too great. Of course, Heaven had anticipated something like this, which was why it made the area for the fifth trial special.

When Gravis told them about the solution he had found for the trial, the group's eyes widened. Something like this was possible?

"Could we also have done this?" Nero asked nervously. He still felt terrible about how he had won the fifth trial.

Gravis scratched his chin. "You could not have done the same," he said. "You don't have the ability to change yourself into something that can be fused. Two Spirits can't fuse under normal circumstances. The only reason why this was possible for me was that my Spirit could be converted into lightning. At most, you would have been able to fuse your Energy."

Nero sighed. "And since the Spirit is the core of a person, we would have still been forced to kill each other."

Gravis nodded. "Sadly, yes."

"By the way," Joyce said with interest. "I can't feel your Spirit. Does that mean that you have reached the Self Stage?" she asked.

Gravis smirked and nodded.

Instead of being excited and happy, Joyce sighed in sadness. "That means you will leave us soon, right?" she asked.

Gravis also sighed but walked closer to Joyce and put his hand on her shoulder. "It was bound to happen eventually, but let me first tell you about the solution I came up with regarding our situation."

perked up and looked into Gravis' eyes with

Gravis said, destroying Joyce's hopes, "but that won't be the case forever,

"I'm not

and looked at Manuel and Nero. "I need to talk to her privately," he said

just waved dismissively while

my homeworld because if you keep ascending, you will reach it eventually. At that point, we will be in the same world. When

your homeworld? I thought that our worlds have no

with this. Some of the knowledge I am about to transmit to you can be dangerous for your path. If you are not fully committed, it would be

silent for a couple of seconds. She was thinking through these things seriously. If Gravis said that this knowledge was dangerous, then it was probably really dangerous to her.

path, will, and motivation so weak that it could be damaged just because

just because someone said something. My path is more stable than that. So, you can tell

smiled when he heard that. That's what he wanted to hear! If his words actually swayed her, he would have given up on her. Only such a powerful will would be able to

attention and don't tell the others about what I'm going to say now. You have a goal now, so you can deal with this mountain that I am about to

nodded with motivated eyes. "I

Gravis transmitted, and Joyce nodded. This was no

one is the middle world. After that come the higher worlds, and after that comes the highest world, my homeworld. In total,

the next world. The way Gravis had spoken about his homeworld and about his knowledge,

how weak everyone actually was in the grand scheme of

reach my homeworld, we can be together,"

her to reach Gravis' homeworld? It already took decades to reach the Unity Realm. What about the next Realm, or the Realm

This was really destructive for someone's path, but she wouldn't get disheartened by this! "I understand!" Joyce transmitted with motivation. "The only thing I have to do is get stronger! I have been doing that until now, so I just need

smiled when he heard that. Gravis actually told her this for two reasons. One reason was to give her a goal if she really wanted to pursue Gravis, and the other reason was to show her how far the distance was between

bring. Maybe this was all a fancy crush of a young adult. If she grew out of it, that would also