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

to delete the

touched would receive its will, but as soon as it left the body, no new will could be put upon the thing or attack without touching it

extension of the being, which meant that a new will could be imprinted on an attack as long as

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

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

had become

his own fire and even played around with it, while Gravis looked

only alive because of

What did Gravis mean?

in creating 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

have killed Ferris right then and there. Ferris' existence was too dangerous to humans. Beasts were

Heaven had 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

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

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

and Ferris hadn't talked 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

that Ferris

rather well on Gravis' cold and logical directness. Instead of thinking that Gravis

even though they hadn't interacted so much with each other, there

friends. Only after someone had proven

she proved that her ideology was not as naïve as he had

Manuel until Manuel proved to be very

until Nero proved

him even more powerful. Additionally, Ferris was very

after looking at Gravis's troubled expression for

a bit. "Sorry, I was just lost in

concern. "You looked like

again!' Gravis

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