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.

the fight would be up in the air. At that point, Gravis' armor would be powerful enough to withstand the fire without problems. Then, it depended on how many of these flames Ferris could

to delete the will upon the living

as it left the body, no new will could be put upon the thing or attack without touching it again. At least not when it was a beast

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

was its own living thing with its own will. Trying to delete the will on the fire was the same as

beasts. With this living fire, if Ferris fought a human, he would take away his opponent's biggest

had become

his own fire and even played around with it,

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

What did Gravis mean?

had an incredible advantage over every single human, and killing him while

normal circumstances, Heaven would have killed Ferris right then and there. Ferris' existence was too dangerous to humans. Beasts were supposed to die

had already realized that the highest Heaven had a plan in mind for Gravis. Ever since that incident when Gravis had newly become a Spirit Forming Cultivator, Heaven

Gravis? Was it a fail-safe plan to keep his friends alive

that Heaven wanted

to each other 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

Ferris had already shown that he liked Gravis very much, but Gravis was sure that Ferris would become terrifying if an enemy appeared. After all, he was an Emperor

Instead of thinking that Gravis was a

they hadn't interacted so much with each other, there was already a bond

someone had proven themselves

Joyce until she proved that her ideology

hadn't cared about Manuel until Manuel proved

about Nero until Nero proved to be powerful

than 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

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

head for a bit. "Sorry, I was just lost

concern. "You looked like something horrible happened

Gravis thought with

have been told that I look like someone killed my parents when