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 didn't assign me as Stella's

finger. "That's something else," he said. "Yes, I have assigned you as her tribulation, but that doesn't

"You put being at the right locations at the right time so that a conflict

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

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

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

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

other 50%?" Gravis

we held ourselves to a strict timetable, someone might be in

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

sense. If the Heavens held themselves to a strict set of rules,

other rules already proved that. Heavens were not supposed to appear

the flow of the world. Sure,

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

bit. "Sounds unbelievable when you phrase it

Gravis nodded.

rephrase it for

raised

you chose the resource point you want to attack," Arc said with a

smirked. "Or did you choose at random and bet

face transformed into a grimace. He didn't

said as he raised on hand. "On one side, we have a Late Minor Circulation Immortal with the worst possible luck imaginable. However, this

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

the first individual draws

the second individual draws

magnets that

this sound like a match made in heaven?" Arc

Arc's pun, and Arc laughed loudly

bad luck but evading something like luck was very difficult. Gravis thought that he had enough information to make an informed decision, but he had failed to notice that his information had been

Usually, something like that was rather reliable, but it wasn't perfect. One inaccuracy in thousands of resource points was

the chances of hitting that single inaccuracy among thousands

Nearly nothing.

this single inaccuracy would only blame

Bad luck.