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."

crossed his arms. "So, you're telling me that you didn't

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

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

smile and a nod, "but that's not

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

the dirt. "You believe that we first assign a tribulation and

but the other 50% are different," Arc said, "and

what are these other 50%?" Gravis asked

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

fits the tribulation criteria

for a bit. Arc's words actually made sense. If the Heavens held themselves to a strict set of rules,

supposed to appear in front of beings, contact them, help them, or destroy them

require the Heavens to change the flow of the world. Sure, if it was necessary, they would do so, but if it wasn't necessary,

saying that I just so happened to choose the most powerful

bit. "Sounds unbelievable when you phrase it like that, doesn't it?"

Gravis nodded.

about I rephrase it for

only raised

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

Arc smirked. "Or did you choose at random and bet on

face transformed into a grimace. He didn't like

Arc said as he raised on hand. "On one side, we have a Late Minor Circulation Immortal

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

the first individual draws them to a very powerful

second individual

magnets that attract

a match made in

heard Arc's pun, and Arc laughed

was 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, but

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

the chances of hitting that single inaccuracy among thousands of good

Nearly nothing.

hit this single inaccuracy

Bad luck.