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.

up in the air. At that point, Gravis' armor would be powerful enough to withstand the fire without

was Gravis not able to delete the will upon

body, no new will could be put upon the thing or attack without touching it again. At least not

Spirit was like an extension of the being, which meant that a new will could be imprinted

and this fire was that this 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 own body. It

if Ferris fought a human, he would

had become a

at his own fire and even played around with it,

only alive

What did Gravis mean?

beasts was to serve as food for cultivators. Yet, Ferris, as this food, had basically become poisonous. He had an incredible advantage over every single human, and killing him while being in the same Realm as him as a human would prove

did. Gravis was sure that, under normal circumstances, Heaven would have killed Ferris right then and there. Ferris' existence was too dangerous to

for Gravis. Ever since that incident when Gravis had newly become a Spirit Forming

fail-safe plan to keep his friends alive and use them as hostages

one it was. The only truth was that Heaven wanted

for much and hadn't gone through any fights together, but their personalities clicked. Gravis acted like Ferris annoyed him, but Ferris' earnest, friendly, and exciting demeanor basically forced Gravis to like him. It was almost like Ferris was an

was sure that Ferris would become terrifying if an enemy appeared. After all, he

logical directness. Instead

hadn't interacted so much with each other,

had a high standard for friends. Only after someone had proven themselves with their power would

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

hadn't cared about Manuel until Manuel proved to

hadn't cared about Nero until Nero proved to

Gravis, and he had comprehended a level three Law now, making him even more powerful. Additionally, Ferris was very positive and honest with Gravis, and Gravis just couldn't be mad

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

for a bit. "Sorry, I was

Ferris asked with concern. "You looked like something

Gravis thought

"No, that's just my thinking-face. I have been told that I look like someone killed my parents when I think," Gravis