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."

up and looked into Gravis'

destroying Joyce's hopes, "but that won't be the case forever, right?"

furrowed her brows. "I'm not sure what you

only shook his head gently and looked at Manuel and Nero. "I need to talk to her privately,"

waved dismissively while Nero walked

ascending, you will reach it eventually. At that point, we will be in the

eyes widened. "I will reach your homeworld? I thought

tell you more about this, I want to know if you really want to go through with this. Some of the knowledge I am about to transmit to

Gravis said that

that it could be damaged just because someone

to know," Joyce transmitted, "because my path won't be influenced just because someone said something.

he wanted to hear! If his words actually swayed her, he would have given up on

You have a goal now, so you can deal with this mountain that I am about to drop on

with motivated eyes.

of world," Gravis

come the higher worlds, and after that comes the highest world, my homeworld. In total, you have to ascend three times," Gravis said, shocking

highest world. Joyce had thought that there would still be a world after the next world. The way Gravis had spoken about his homeworld

the grand scheme of things. What

reach my homeworld, we can be together,"

would it take for her to reach Gravis' homeworld? It already

clenched her fists. 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

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 them. If, after thousands of years, she still wanted to be with him,

out of it, that would also be fine. There were many outstanding individuals in the world, and some of them might even be able to grasp Joyce's