Lightning Is the Only Way

"Show me!" Gravis said with intensity.

Ferris was a bit taken aback. "What?"

"I want to see the living fire!" Gravis said.

"Okay," Ferris said, still feeling uncertain.

Whooom!

A small fireball appeared beside Ferris and hovered in the air. Additionally, the small fireball moved around a bit and circled Ferris in interest. It even flew over to Gravis to inspect him but quickly lost interest.

Gravis' eyes were filled with intensity as he studied the floating fireball. 'This is beyond powerful!' Gravis thought with seriousness. 'The fireball itself is only a bit weaker than my Punishment Lightning, which means that it is already stronger than the spires from the Inquisitor.'

'My Punishment Lightning and this living fire are both level three Laws, and my Punishment Lightning is a bit stronger, but this only means that this living fire has another advantage that should make it equal to my Punishment Lightning.'

As Gravis continued inspecting it, he found out something terrifying.

'I've never seen anything like this. With this, Ferris might even be able to win against me when he's only one or two levels above me. He might be the only beast in this entire world that can honestly kill me with only a one or two-level advantage.'

What did Gravis find out?

It was rather shocking but also logical.

Gravis couldn't delete the will on the living fire with his Will-Aura.

This meant that Ferris was the only beast in this world that could remotely control their attacks after they had been fired. Ferris could obviously summon many of these flames, and these flames would chase Gravis until they got destroyed. This meant that Gravis wouldn't have the ability to dodge or parry these flames. He could only destroy them by blocking or attacking them.

This meant that Gravis would be forced into a head-on clash. Dodging and parrying had always been Gravis' most reliable defensive methods. Yet, if he fought Ferris, he would be forced to block. With a two-level advantage, Gravis was sure that such an intense fire would kill him very quickly.

be up in the air. At that point, Gravis' armor would be powerful enough to withstand the fire

Gravis not able to delete

body touched would receive its will, but as soon as it left the body, no new will could be put upon the thing

new will could be imprinted on an

fire was its own living thing with its own will. Trying to delete the will on the fire was the same as trying to delete Ferris's will on his

humans had over beasts. With this living fire, if Ferris fought a

had become

interest at his own fire and even played around with it, while

has no idea that he's only alive because of me right

What did Gravis mean?

become poisonous. He had an incredible advantage over every single human, and killing him while being in the

around in the house was something only irrational people did. Gravis was sure that, under normal circumstances, Heaven would have killed Ferris right then and there. Ferris' existence

a plan in mind for Gravis. Ever since that incident when Gravis had newly become a Spirit Forming Cultivator, Heaven never took away any Karmic Luck from any of his friends.

with Gravis? Was it a fail-safe plan to keep

The only truth was that Heaven wanted all of Gravis' friends to become as powerful as

him, but Ferris' earnest, friendly, and exciting demeanor basically forced Gravis to like him. It was almost like Ferris was

but Gravis was sure that Ferris would

directness. Instead of thinking that Gravis was a cold dick, Ferris

much with each other, there was already a bond forming between Gravis

after someone had proven themselves with their power would he consider

cared about Joyce until she proved that her ideology was not as naïve as

about Manuel until Manuel proved to be very mature and

hadn't cared about Nero until Nero proved

him even more powerful. Additionally, Ferris was very positive and honest with Gravis, and Gravis just couldn't be

after looking at Gravis's troubled expression for a while. "Why are you looking so troubled?"

shook his head for a bit. "Sorry,

sure?" Ferris asked with concern. "You looked like something

Gravis thought

that I look like