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."

me that you didn't assign

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

the

and a nod,

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

you got something wrong, Gravis," Arc said as he drew another line in the dirt.

other 50% are different," Arc said, "and you just so happen

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

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.

If someone that fits the tribulation criteria comes into conflict with the tribulation taker, we can simply

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

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,

send different opponents to different places all the time would require the Heavens to change the flow of the world. Sure, if it was necessary, they would do so, but if

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

"Sounds unbelievable when you phrase it

Gravis nodded.

rephrase

only raised

resource point you want to attack," Arc said with a smile. "And when you choose something while having nearly no information on said

Arc smirked. "Or did you choose

face transformed into a grimace. He didn't

we have a Late Minor Circulation Immortal with the worst possible luck imaginable. However, this person is searching for an opponent an entire Circulation

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

bad luck of the first individual draws them to a

luck of the second individual draws weaker opponents to

that

sound like a match made in heaven?"

Arc's pun, and Arc laughed loudly when he saw

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

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 other resource points still had accurate information on

that single inaccuracy among

Nearly nothing.

that hit this single inaccuracy would only blame one

Bad luck.