Lightning Is the Only Way

Everyone looked at the new arrival. It was a young man with whitish-blue robes and a saber on his back. Gravis also felt some Punishment Lightning inside of the person, which confirmed his identity.

This was probably one of the Core Disciples of the Punishment Cleaver Sect, the Sect that Gravis would join.

"Junior brother?" Gravis asked. "I'm not your brother yet, so please refrain from addressing me like that."

The expression of the new arrival remained kind, but Gravis could feel some slight changes in him. It was difficult for Gravis to properly evaluate the inner thoughts of someone so many levels above him, but he was sure that this person wasn't as kind as he showed himself to be.

"Junior brother," the man said. "You have already agreed to join our Sect, and with this, you have become my junior brother. As far as I am concerned, you are one of us already, and we need to help each other."

Gravis didn't like that this guy called him junior brother but decided to let him finish his explanation.

"But you can't keep on doing this, junior brother," the man said with a smile. "We of the Punishment Cleaver Sect are kind and respect others, but you are bullying someone weaker than you right now. This is not the way of our Sect, and I know that you are better than this."

"Look at this poor guy," he said as he gestured to Gravis' opponent. "He can only retreat into his shell and hide from you. Do you not feel guilty when you see someone weaker than you cowering before you in fear? This poor guy only made a mistake, and you have punished him enough."

"Let bygones be bygones. People make mistakes, and we shouldn't kill them for every minor mistake they made. Let him retreat and lick his wounds. I'm sure that he will become a better person because of this. Yet, if you kill him, he has no chance to rectify his mistakes in the future. Give him a chance to repay you."

"Kindness begets kindness. Never forget this, junior brother," the man said with a kind tone.

"Eh, yes, yes!" Gravis' opponent shouted. "I acknowledge my mistakes, and I won't repeat them again. I'm sorry for attacking you, but my intent has never been to kill you. I only wanted to gain some justice for my dead soldier."

Gravis looked evenly at his opponent and then turned to the new arrival.

"Come on, junior brother," the new arrival said with a smile. "We are all one big family, and we need to stand together against the armies of beasts. Families bicker from time to time. If every family started killing each other because of a mistake, there would be no families left."

Gravis looked evenly at the new arrival.

Then, he sighed.

"I was mistaken," Gravis said with regret.

"That's good, junior brother!" the new arrival said. "Only when we realize our mistakes can we grow from them."

Gravis looked unamused at the Core Disciple from the Punishment Cleaver Sect.

BANG!

Gravis moved his hand forward, and the spear shot with incredible speed at his opponent.

Mortality

BANG!

shield barrier was destroyed. Yet, Mortality didn't

CRACK!

dug through the shield until it was stuck inside it, half of it behind the shield and half of it

opponent couldn't even process what had happened. Right

Had he survived?

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!

lightning as he was completely consumed. Yet, just a second after the explosion, everything vanished, and a violent storm appeared as the vacuum was filled with Energy and

from the new arrival, the right side of his face lighting up in blueish

Gravis said coldly. "I preferred a lightning-based Sect because of the mindset that lightning brought with it, but I was mistaken. As far as I can see, you act

had learned that mindsets being influenced by the elements was actually not normal. The clerk from back then said

connections to the elements. Because of that, their mindset was also fitting to their

with his own eyes that this was not the case. The elements

Gravis heard the Core Disciple speak, he had to hold himself back to not puke at this

Bullying the weaker ones?

an

trying to kill

his most powerful attack against

Learning from mistakes?

everyone can just try to stage an assassination

Repayment with kindness?

of people. This guy would probably just go to his superior

he hated this Core Disciple even more than his previous opponent. At least the last one was honest with

this guy was talking grandly about kindness and twisted the facts to unbelievable degrees. Suddenly, Gravis was the

join your

the ground to Roger. Roger was different from this Core Disciple, and Gravis could feel that difference clearly. If

was a Core Disciple. Roger was a mask

showed "individual sacrifice for the greater

body shook in rage as he glared at Gravis. This guy looked just

looked back with narrowed

was a 90% chance that Gravis

the other hand, one had to choose one's fights carefully. Going into a fight with a 50% chance of victory was excellent tempering but going into a fight with a 10% chance of victory was far too risky. Gravis

Core Disciple seemingly calmed down

brother, you are obviously talking

in his voice. He wouldn't want to enter