Lightning Is the Only Way

Shock.

The onlookers were shocked.

Ryan was shocked.

Everyone had believed that Gravis was only putting on an empty show to get some more advantages from Ryan. After all, if Gravis could paint a picture of being entirely in the right, Ryan would have to pay so much more to save his daughter. This was how leaders often dealt with these situations. The more righteous their cause appeared, the more the enemy would have to give them.

Instead, Gravis had just killed Samantha.

Was he tired of living!?

SHING!

Ryan was so shocked and distracted that he didn't stop Gravis from teleporting. In an instant, Gravis had already arrived at the Formation Array and touched it.

'This has been created with a level four Law, which means I only need my normal Law of Freedom. I don't even need to use the power of my Avatar,' Gravis thought with a smirk.

FWOOOMP!

With that, Gravis simply stepped through the Formation Array like it didn't even exist.

The eyes of the onlookers nearly fell out of their heads as they saw Gravis leaving. This was possible? How was this possible!?

Even more, the onlookers' minds started to race with the new dynamic that now existed. Nothing stood between them and Gravis now, which meant that they couldn't find a reason to not intervene anymore. They could bend the rules, but they couldn't directly break them.

The rules stated that every battle in the Formation Arrays was final, but when someone offered others enough resources, they could look away for a bit.

This was also what had happened when Ryan had heard about Gravis' new opponent. The two other Sect Masters beside him stopped him.

Why?

So that Ryan was required to bribe them. If he didn't pay them enough resources, they would have stopped him. The same was true for the ten other Sect Masters looking on. Ryan promised them some resources so that they might look away this time.

now. Gravis was outside the Formation Array, and Liran immediately appeared beside Gravis. Now, a Sect Master was protecting Gravis,

knew you could do it! Don't worry about anything else. I'm here now, and

the same one he had sent on this mission, he relied on the power of this soldier to escape from someone much more powerful than them. It was like Liran's

Sect Master, he should be the one that

If he were only a normal Cultivator or a disciple of the Sect, Gravis wouldn't care about him, but since Liran was officially Gravis'

weakness was endangering Gravis and the remainder

teammate was more

been afraid of Ryan for even a second. The entire situation was in his

Ryan shouted in absolute rage as he shot out of the Formation Array, directly at Gravis, who only looked at

Sect Masters looked at each other covertly,

SHING! SHING! SHING! SHING!

them to either directly break

like this. After all of this was over, the Sect Masters would sit together with Ryan and create a plan that would result in Gravis' death without anyone knowing that all of this originated from Ryan. The Sect Masters had been paid by Ryan, and they would feel

to keep up the façade of the rules being unbreakable! Ryan had to wait

and his target. Ryan was powerful, but he couldn't fight so many Sect Masters at once. He might be able

they were Gravis' allies and that they would protect Gravis with their lives,

of this and scoffed silently. 'All this hypocrisy

killed my daughter!"

now, you have not committed an unforgivable mistake since my disciple

His words pitted the entire Sect Alliance against Ryan, and his words and cause were righteous

is right!" Another Sect Master shouted. "We can understand your emotional turmoil, but the rules must be upheld! Pay a fine for intervening in a fight, and the matter will be resolved. However,

end of it, all

though I despise such conduct, I have to admit that they are pretty good actors,' Gravis thought. 'Without all the context clues from the earlier situation, I might've even believed

my power to

face. The Sect Master is supposed to protect the disciple from unjust actions. Otherwise, if my superiors don't even protect me from something more powerful than

and fists. He wanted to kill Gravis so badly, but he couldn't! If he attacked now, all of his hidden allies would turn on him. The Sect

The murderer

passed as the Sect Masters threw one righteous sermon after the other at Ryan, dissuading him

while, Ryan seemed to

his mind quickly started planning. 'All of these Sect Masters have been bought by him. Several assassination squads will probably come for me soon, while every other Sect Master will

scratched his chin in thought. 'Is there a way

he had no idea if this