Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis told Stella that he would be back shortly and broke the Emblem.

BANG!

When Gravis broke the Emblem, his surroundings seemingly exploded as space was thrown into absolute carnage. The displacement of the teleportation left behind a small, smoking crater.

Gravis hadn't noticed these changes since he had always already been gone when he broke the Emblem, but Stella noticed them.

And her eyes nearly fell out of her sockets.

Stella knew a lot about teleportation, and she had also used such Emblems several times. However, none of the Emblems she had ever seen had demonstrated such an insane power. To create such destruction with a mere teleportation was basically unheard of.

Could her dead teacher create something like this?

Maybe?

However, it would definitely be beyond expensive, even for her. Yet, Gravis had broken the Emblem just to talk to someone? Whom was he talking to? Who were they?

Was Gravis truly just an Ascender? How could he come into contact with someone with such great power that they could hand out such teleportation Emblems in just a couple of days?

Gravis was already the most bizarre and abnormal human Stella had ever met, but he just continued to become more and more mysterious. After talking with him for a while, Stella had assumed that she knew Gravis better.

And then he pulled that stunt!

Meanwhile, Gravis appeared at Arc's clearing. Instead of arriving at the same position he had arrived last time, Gravis directly appeared close to Arc.

Gravis immediately noticed Arc. Arc sat on a tree stump as he drew some confusing lines into the ground with a smile.

Arc turned to Gravis with a smile, who watched Arc with narrowed eyes.

"Funnily enough," Arc said with a slight laugh. "This has nothing to do with me."

Gravis' brows furrowed further. "How can it not have something to do with you?" he asked. "You are responsible for assigning tribulations, are you not?"

"Yes, I am," Arc said, "but I'm not as involved as you think I am."

you didn't

"That's something else," he said. "Yes, I have assigned you as her tribulation, but that doesn't mean that I manipulated you or

"You put being at the right

smile and a nod,

didn't do that, how can I be Stella's tribulation?" Gravis asked. This whole thing seemed

in the dirt. "You believe

yes, but the other 50% are different," Arc said, "and you just so happen to be part of the other

are these other 50%?" Gravis asked with

when a fitting opponent appears near the one having the tribulation," Arc explained. "If we held ourselves to a strict timetable, someone

and beasts a window of about 200 years before their time is up. If someone that fits the tribulation criteria comes into conflict with the tribulation taker, we can simply count that as the tribulation. We don't have to manipulate everything,

for a bit. Arc's words actually made sense. If the Heavens held themselves to a strict set of rules, in this case, they would have to work several times harder and

The other rules already proved that. Heavens were not supposed to appear in

change the flow of the

powerful opponent possible that just so happened to have an incoming

"Sounds unbelievable when you phrase it like

Gravis nodded.

rephrase it

raised an

your potential targets when you chose the resource point you want to attack," Arc said with a smile. "And when you choose something while

"Or did you choose at random

face transformed into a grimace. He didn't like

on hand. "On one side, we have a Late Minor Circulation Immortal with the worst possible luck imaginable. However, this person is searching for an opponent an

side, we have someone with above-average Karmic Luck, who is

luck of the first individual draws them to a

luck of the second individual draws weaker opponents

magnets that attract each

made in heaven?" Arc asked with

heard Arc's pun, and Arc

very illusory. Gravis knew about his bad luck but evading something like luck was very difficult. Gravis thought that he had enough information to make an informed decision, but he had failed to notice that his information had been

information came from Liran, and the information had been public knowledge. Usually, something like that was rather reliable, but it wasn't perfect. One inaccuracy in thousands of resource points was not bad at all. This meant that thousands of

that

Nearly nothing.

this single inaccuracy would only

Bad luck.