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

"Yes, I have assigned you as her tribulation, but that doesn't

put being at the right locations at the right time so that a conflict will

said with a smile and a nod, "but that's not what I

can I be Stella's tribulation?" Gravis asked. This whole thing seemed

think you got something wrong, Gravis," Arc said as he drew another line in the dirt. "You believe that we first assign a tribulation and then manipulate the circumstance, but

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

what are these other 50%?" Gravis asked with a

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 dangerous fight and get their tribulation at the same time. That

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

held themselves to a strict set of rules, in this case,

of Heavens 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

Heavens to change the flow of the

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

"Sounds unbelievable when you

Gravis nodded.

I rephrase it

only raised an

with a smile. "And when you choose something while having nearly no information on

choose at random and

grimace. He didn't like what

said as he raised on hand. "On one side, we have a Late Minor Circulation Immortal with the worst possible luck

other hand. "On the other side, we have someone with above-average Karmic Luck, who is also an entire Circulation above the first one, and

first individual draws them to a

luck of the second individual draws weaker opponents

magnets that attract

made in heaven?" Arc

he heard Arc's pun, and Arc

evading something like luck was very difficult. Gravis thought that he had enough information to make an informed decision,

had been public knowledge. Usually, something like that was rather reliable, but it wasn't perfect. One inaccuracy in thousands of resource points was

were the chances of hitting that

Nearly nothing.

this single inaccuracy would only blame

Bad luck.