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 didn't assign me as Stella's tribulation?" he asked,

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

what Heavens do?" Gravis asked, unamused. "You put being at the right locations at the right time so that a conflict

with a smile and a

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

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

the other 50% are different," Arc said,

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

held ourselves to a strict timetable, someone might be in a dangerous fight and get their tribulation at the same time. That wouldn't be fair,

their time is up. If someone that fits the tribulation criteria comes into conflict with the tribulation taker, we can simply count that as the tribulation. We don't have to manipulate

sense. If the Heavens held themselves to a strict set of rules, in this case, they would have to

proved that. Heavens were not supposed to appear in front of

would 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, everyone would have

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

laughed a bit. "Sounds unbelievable when you phrase it like

Gravis nodded.

rephrase

raised

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

did you choose at random

into a grimace. He didn't like

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

raised his other hand. "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, they

bad luck of the first individual draws them to a

second individual draws

magnets that attract

match made in heaven?"

groaned when he heard Arc's pun, and Arc laughed loudly when he saw Gravis'

like luck was very difficult. Gravis thought that

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

chances of hitting that single inaccuracy among

Nearly nothing.

this single inaccuracy would only blame

Bad luck.