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 assign me as Stella's tribulation?"

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

unamused. "You put being at the right locations at the right

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

can I be Stella's tribulation?"

in the dirt. "You believe that we first assign a

50% of tribulations go like this, yes, but the other 50% are different," Arc said,

other 50%?" Gravis asked with a

tribulation," Arc explained. "If we held ourselves to a strict timetable, someone might be in a dangerous

years before their time is up. If someone that fits the tribulation criteria comes into conflict with the tribulation taker,

the Heavens held themselves to a strict set

normal world. The other rules already proved that. Heavens were not supposed to appear in front of

require the Heavens to change the flow of the world. Sure, if it was necessary, they would do so, but if it

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

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

Gravis nodded.

rephrase

only raised

point you want to attack," Arc said with a smile.

choose at random and

face transformed into a grimace. He didn't

one side, we have a Late Minor Circulation Immortal with the worst possible luck imaginable.

above-average Karmic Luck, who is also an entire Circulation above the first one, and even worse,

luck of the first individual draws them to a very

the second individual draws weaker opponents to

magnets that

match made in heaven?" Arc asked

groaned when he heard Arc's pun, and Arc laughed

luck but evading something like luck was very difficult. Gravis thought that he

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

the chances of hitting that single inaccuracy among thousands of

Nearly nothing.

single inaccuracy would only blame

Bad luck.