Lightning Is the Only Way

Ryan glared at Gravis with nervousness, rage, and fear.

"You ask why?" he asked through gritted teeth. "Because I will make you live a life worse than death if you don't release my daughter!"

Gravis remained calm as he kept Samantha hanging with his spear. "Didn't the rules say that both combatants had to agree to drop the fight before the fight would end?"

Ryan tried to stay calm, but it was incredibly difficult to stay calm in this situation. He might lose his daughter!

"Yes," Ryan said, "her life and your life are in your hands. Don't make a foolish choice because of your pride and indignation. Be rational right now and realize that killing my daughter will also result in your death."

"This Formation Array is under my control," Ryan said. "The other Sect Masters can't enter if I don't allow them to. If you kill my daughter, you won't be able to escape."

Gravis looked at the Formation Array, which was still being attacked on occasion by some Sect Masters that wanted to put on a show of wanting to help Gravis.

"You know," Gravis said calmly. "I'm a stickler for fairness and justice. As you have seen, I'm a lightning Cultivator, and that's how lightning generally acts."

"My lightning wouldn't be happy if I just let such an opponent live," Gravis said.

Ryan gritted his teeth. "Can't you look at yourself!?" he shouted. "You are currently holding a helpless girl with your spear and are threatening her father with her life. Only a black-hearted devil would do something this evil!"

"Helpless girl!?" Gravis shouted in shock as he broke out into laughter. "You mean the woman that looked down upon me from the very beginning. The woman that didn't even deign to look at me or talk to me? The woman that used the Major Law of Cold and Law of Rage to attack me?"

woman that accepted our challenge without hesitation,

as his mind went wild. "That might be," he conceded after some seconds, "but you have already won. The resource point is already yours, and you have demonstrated your superiority. Killing her now has no meaning. You

be a black-hearted act of

"What, so normal tempering is now an act

like you to understand my sentiments," he said through gritted teeth. "Your actions have already shown your personality. So, this once, let me give you some valuable advice from your elders. Don't step onto this path of slaughter. Learn to forgive. Your life will be much

not being impressed in the

Ryan said slowly, "you might be rewarded if you are a kind

know, all these flowery and holy-sounding words would have had more impact if you didn't put a bribe

difficult!? Couldn't

to see how you would attempt to

your daughter because you loved her and that you didn't give a shit about any rules, I would actually have admired you a little bit. Throwing away the respect others have for you to save a loved one

instead of pleading, begging, or directly threatening me, you only gave me soft-spoken threats, a bribe, and some sermon about being

daughter. Any good father would try everything to save his child, even

was Gravis? He was already threatening the father with his daughter's life, but instead of simply accepting the reality, he seemed to enjoy seeing

also a father, and he could sympathize with Ryan's situation. However, Gravis became more and more

present humans except for Gravis and Samantha had the ability to break the Formation Array and involve themselves. Ryan had blatantly broken the rules of the

saw this as a

Gravis had believed them to some extent. Yet, when an actually powerful person broke the rules, everyone was only silently whispering a "no, don't do

you want?" Ryan asked angrily. "You obviously won't throw your life away, so