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' eyes with

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

"I'm not sure what you mean," she

looked at Manuel and Nero. "I need

just waved dismissively while Nero

ascending, you will reach it eventually. At that point, we will be in the same world. When that time happens, and

eyes widened. "I will reach your homeworld? I thought that our worlds have no connection,"

this, I want to know if you really want to go through 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 better not to know

things seriously. If Gravis said that this knowledge

motivation so weak that it could be damaged just because someone

my path won't be influenced just because someone said something. My path is more stable than

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

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

motivated eyes. "I

is the lowest kind of world," Gravis transmitted, and Joyce

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

still be a world after the next world. The way Gravis had spoken about his homeworld and about his knowledge, Joyce had already anticipated something like this.

realized how weak everyone actually was in the grand scheme of

reach my homeworld, we can be

homeworld? It already took decades to reach the

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

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, it would show her love for him. At that time, Gravis would reciprocate

crush of a young adult. If she grew out of it, that would