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."

that you didn't assign me as Stella's

assigned you as her tribulation, but that doesn't mean that I manipulated

Gravis asked, unamused. "You put being at the right locations at the right time so that a conflict will appear

with a smile and a nod,

do that, how can I be Stella's tribulation?"

as he drew another line in the dirt. "You

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

what 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 might be in a

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,

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

involving themselves in the normal world. The other rules already proved that. Heavens were not supposed to appear in front of beings, contact them, help them, or destroy them without a very good reason. The highest

the world. Sure, if it was necessary, they

I just so happened to choose the most powerful opponent possible that just so happened

bit. "Sounds unbelievable when you phrase it like

Gravis nodded.

rephrase

only raised an

knew nothing of your potential targets when you chose the resource point you want to attack," Arc said with a smile. "And when

"Or did you choose at random

face transformed into a grimace. He

one side, we have a Late Minor Circulation Immortal

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

the first individual draws them to a very

of the second individual draws weaker opponents

magnets that attract

this sound like a match made in heaven?" Arc asked

he heard Arc's pun, and

something 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,

One inaccuracy in thousands of resource points was not bad at all. This meant that thousands of other resource points still had accurate information on

chances of hitting that single inaccuracy among thousands of

Nearly nothing.

inaccuracy would only blame one

Bad luck.