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 as Stella's

you as her tribulation, but that

asked, unamused. "You put being at the right locations at the right time so that a conflict will appear

smile and a nod, "but that's

you didn't do that, how can I be Stella's tribulation?" Gravis asked.

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

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

other 50%?"

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

beasts a window of about 200 years before their time is up. If someone that fits the tribulation criteria comes into conflict with the

the Heavens held themselves to a strict set

Heavens were not supposed to appear in front of beings, contact them, help them, or destroy them without a very good reason. The highest Heaven's rules were very

change the flow of the world. Sure, if it was

the most powerful opponent possible that just so happened

a bit. "Sounds unbelievable when you phrase it like that,

Gravis nodded.

rephrase it

only raised an

targets when you chose the resource point you want to attack," Arc said with a smile. "And when you choose something while having

"Or did you choose at random and bet on

into a grimace. He didn't like what he

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

the other side, we have someone with above-average Karmic Luck, who is also an entire Circulation above

of the first individual

the second individual draws

that attract each

a match made in

heard Arc's pun, and Arc laughed loudly

luck was very difficult. Gravis thought that he had enough information to make

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

that single

Nearly nothing.

inaccuracy would only blame

Bad luck.