Lightning Is the Only Way

"Anyway," Gravis said. "This concludes the demonstration of Situational Laws. As the name implies, you need to have knowledge regarding specific situations and understand them. Danger doesn't exist in physical reality but in your perception. That's also why they are so hard to understand."

Stella was still shocked about Gravis' fighting style. Now that she thought about it, she should have won their fight easily. Gravis should have never been able to close in on her, and she should have been able to defend herself better.

It was like physical reality told her that Gravis had had no chance against her, but since both of them believed that Gravis was close to killing her, their combined perception changed physical reality.

It was like Gravis was destroying the combat experience of his opponent with his Laws.

Stella nodded after a while. "So, what about that other thing?" she asked.

"The other thing that you need is a change in mindset," Gravis said. "I'm talking about the illusion of a pure path to power."

Stella's brows furrowed. "Could you elaborate?"

"Not allowing anyone else to interfere has a lot to do with the illusion of wanting to reach supreme power with one's own strength alone," Gravis said. "We want to say that we have gained the power we currently have all on our own. We want to say that it was solely our own hard work that allowed us to become so powerful."

"But that's not true," Stella interrupted Gravis.

Gravis lifted an eyebrow. That didn't sound like a question but a statement. Stella sounded like she had had similar thoughts in the past.

Gravis gestured for her to continue.

Stella combed her hair with furrowed brows. "I've had these thoughts before," she said slowly. "I am obviously very talented. Otherwise, my teacher wouldn't have chosen Liam and me. "

"However, teacher and a lot of elders showed me the correct way. It's true that I had to build my strength myself, but they have shown me the direction. If I didn't know the direction, I would have long died."

"Additionally, inside the Sect, I've never had to fight someone that was straight-up impossible to beat. There had always been a chance of victory, even if my opponent was far more powerful than I. Of course, when I went outside, that didn't hold true anymore. I had to flee for my life more than once. I've also had to find shelter and hide before."

Gravis didn't interrupt as he let her continue explaining.

with a forlorn expression. "How can I call this power my own when all my close ones have shown me the way forward? Without their help, I

doubts, people told me that I was talking nonsense. They told me that without my own hard work and talent, I would have long since died. They said that no one

were nonsense and that I shouldn't demean my own accomplishments," Stella said and looked at Gravis. "But I'm not! Yes, I am very talented,

been granted access to several Law Comprehension Areas, resources, safety, and techniques? Plenty of people don't have access to these things. Wouldn't they think that my

looked with

the point that he even felt like a little kid. However, not even that was enough! After that, the Black Magnate had told Gravis about the truth that power was absolute. It didn't matter where this

to find that out on

to him in something. Usually, Gravis was always the best in his cultivation Realm. He always had the most powerful Battle-Strength, knew the most Laws, had the most expansive horizon, had the greatest strategies, but not this

realize something that Gravis hadn't been able to see on his own. Gravis had needed others to

and humility. Denying the pureness of one's path was like saying that everything one stood and worked for had

was humility, did Stella know the Law of Humility, the antithesis to the Law

with these revelations, he felt some of the magic of

that he was

No.

been on the same level as him. Orthar was incredibly smart, calculating, and

reason why Gravis saw Orthar as his closest friend. Gravis could talk however he wanted with Orthar and share

was very powerful. After all, personality-wise, Orthar and Gravis were like fire and water. Orthar suppressed and manipulated everyone for his own personal gain, while Gravis only

and resources above anything else, no matter the cost, while Gravis did whatever he wanted. As long as no one bothered Gravis, he wouldn't bother

despite all this, Orthar and Gravis were good

the dynamic between Gravis and

equal to him in basically

also superior in other

opposites meeting. They were both good in basically everything, but they had different attributes in which

knew about Laws

had a superior ability to reflect on

both knew a ton about Matter and Life

Laws of Perceived Reality, but Stella knew