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're telling me that you

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

what Heavens do?" Gravis asked, unamused. "You put being at the right locations at the right

smile and a nod,

that, how can I be Stella's tribulation?" Gravis asked. This

Gravis," Arc said as he drew another line in the dirt. "You believe that we first assign a tribulation and

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

these other 50%?"

"If we held ourselves to a strict timetable, someone might be in a dangerous fight and get their tribulation

is up. If someone that fits the tribulation criteria comes into conflict with the tribulation taker, we can

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

big fan 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,

Heavens to change the flow of the world. Sure,

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

when you phrase it like that,

Gravis nodded.

about I rephrase it

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 you choose something while having nearly no information on said choice, did you make an informed,

did you choose at random and

transformed into a grimace. He didn't

raised 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 entire Circulation above

who is also an entire Circulation above the first one, and even worse, they have a tribulation

first individual draws

second individual draws weaker opponents

that

this sound like a match made in heaven?"

groaned when he heard Arc's pun, and

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

rather reliable, but it wasn't perfect. One inaccuracy

the chances of hitting that single

Nearly nothing.

single inaccuracy would

Bad luck.