Lightning Is the Only Way

"Gravis, why are you looking like this?" Stella asked. Gravis' troubled expression made her a bit worried. She thought she had a pretty accurate read on Gravis' personality, but this didn't seem to fit him.

Gravis sighed. "Difficult," he said. "There are things that have been revealed to me in the conversation I just had. It's simply difficult for me to find a way to proceed."

Stella combed her hair with her fingers as she looked down. "Well, when I see myself in such a situation, I just go one step at a time."

Gravis scratched his chin in thought. He had also thought about proceeding like this, but he wasn't sure if this was the best course of action.

After some seconds, Gravis sighed. 'Fuck it! There are too many things to keep track of. Too many different situations are intermingled. Maybe I should really go through it one step at a time.'

'So, first of all, I can't make any decisions as long as I don't know how my issue with my lightning will be resolved. Tackling any of the other issues before that makes no sense.'

Gravis nodded. 'I shouldn't tell Stella about our dynamic and simply continue on like nothing has happened. If she takes the initiative to get closer to me, I can still stop her when it happens and give further explanation. Right now, until the issue with my lightning has been resolved, I will simply talk to her like nothing has changed.'

"Thanks," Gravis said as he turned to Stella. "I wasn't sure how I should proceed, but your input helped me in making my choice."

Stella still had no idea what Gravis' issue even was, which made her feel a bit uncertain. However, if Gravis wanted to tell her, he would do so. Right now, Gravis obviously didn't want to share his worries.

"Okay," Stella acknowledged.

"Now!" Gravis shouted to banish the awkwardness in the atmosphere. "Let's forget about my issues and get working on your issues."

If someone didn't know Gravis very well, they would take that as an insult. My issues? You say I have issues!?

Luckily, Stella was very similar to Gravis and knew what he meant. Gravis was obviously referring to her Will-Aura problem.

Stella nodded. "Yes, please, and thank you, Gravis," she said with conviction.

Gravis nodded too. "Okay, there are two things you need to make interferences in fights become irrelevant to your Will-Aura," Gravis said. "Both of them are very hard to grasp, which is why it is so very rare for someone to be immune to something like this. After all, not even your teacher knew the answer."

Stella got reminded of her teacher but nodded.

"This means that it's challenging to grasp both of these things. Understanding only one thing is already incredibly difficult, but understanding both of them is nearly impossible," Gravis said.

"Yet, you need both of them, and both of them rely on you," Gravis said with severity. "I can only marginally help you with them. Everything else completely relies on you."

her red hair

her nod cute, but he quickly distracted himself. After knowing that they were perfectly compatible, Gravis couldn't ignore Stella's subtle movements anymore.

Gravis explained. "By the way, the Law I am

even her

Such a Law had to be

won't be able to watch, see, or perceive the Law yourself, which is why you can't search for it. Even knowing its name might make

was confused. The things Gravis had just said went against the basic philosophy of cultivation. A Law that can't be observed? That exists? Also, knowing about the Law would make it even harder to understand it? How was that even possible? One had to observe and look at the Law to understand it. How was it possible that not looking at the Law would

no sense. If her teacher had not confirmed Gravis' abilities and if Stella didn't know Gravis very well due to their conversation, Stella would not even entertain that such claims were factual. It simply went against

a bit excited. Comprehending Laws was like doing calculations. The more Laws Stella learned, the more sterile and grey they became,

the

part of this

something

subtle sparkle of interest and wonder. She didn't even know what

teachings. 'Fuck! Why did you tell me about our connection, Arc!? You're making this far harder than

Arc was laughing

show you the category and explain to you

Stella nodded with motivation.

know about the Laws of Perceived Reality or

think I've heard about Situational Laws before, but only a little bit. I think I also didn't hear it from anyone that I deemed as important, or I would have a clearer recollection of their

Gravis nodded.

primary and several secondary categories of Laws," Gravis

with furrowed brows. How could some categories be primary and others secondary? Laws were Laws, and they all had about the same strength as long as they were at the

are secondary," Gravis directly said. If he explained these things, he would need to explain to her why these four

let's just go through the four primary categories of Laws," Gravis

topics wasn't to Stella's liking. Did he truly know these things, or did he just put up an empty show of

perceive to hard

Stella knew that Gravis was referring to categories, but the difficulty of understanding a Law didn't depend on the category but

a second," Stella said as she interrupted

"Yes?"

know that I can

to question Gravis, but she also couldn't just accept

blinked a couple of