Lightning Is the Only Way

Nearly half a minute of silence passed as Gravis was stuck cursing Arc while Stella was uncertain on how to proceed.

"So, my mindset is okay?" she asked carefully.

Gravis' head jerked to her as her voice interrupted his frustrating thoughts. "Oh, sure! It's more than okay!" he said quickly. "This mindset is one of the integral parts of making you immune to external interference. To be honest, it has taken a lot for me to understand it myself."

Gravis sighed. "Meanwhile, you understood all of this on your own."

Stella remained silent for some seconds. "Can you tell me about it?" she asked.

Gravis looked with a complex expression at Stella, and Stella quickly gestured that she didn't want to intrude with her hands. "You don't have to if you don't want to," she said. Then, her fingers intersected, and she twiddled her thumbs as she looked to the side. "But I want to know more about you."

Gravis' heart beat faster as his breathing quickened. 'How is she so cute!?'

Gravis quickly shook his head to regain his bearings. "I can tell you some about it, but I have to keep a lot of details secret," he said as he looked at her. "Don't take it the wrong way, but some of my secrets may elicit greed in others."

"I'm not saying that I don't trust you," Gravis said, "but I am saying that I don't trust the people you trust. I can't bet my life on something like this."

Stella completely understood where Gravis was coming from and nodded. "That's okay."

Gravis nodded too.

Then, he told her an abridged version of his meeting with the middle Heaven. Gravis simply replaced the middle Heaven with someone much more powerful than him that was interested in maliciously playing with Gravis. That was kinda true.

After relaying the middle Heaven's words in an abridged form, Gravis told Stella about his encounter with someone incredibly powerful. Of course, this being was the Black Magnate.

"So, in short," Gravis said. "It has required two different, extremely powerful beings to literally punch that truth into me. Without either of them, I wouldn't be able to have this mindset."

Stella combed her hair as she fell into thought. "These two people sound powerful. Can you tell me their names? They should now also be in this world. By the sound of it, they should have already made a name for themselves."

Gravis had a complex expression on his face again. That was why he didn't want to tell Stella much about his past. The reason was questions like these. These were not beings that would reside in a higher world, but since Stella believed that Gravis came from a middle world, it was only logical to assume that these two were now in the higher world.

"Sorry, I can't tell you," Gravis said as he looked to the side. He was not a fan of keeping all of these things secret. He much rather preferred directly telling someone.

However, this world was full of humans, and the humans have already shown their hypocrisy and greed. If Gravis had been as open with his secrets in this world as he had been in the last world, several Immortal Kings would have already kidnapped him.

Gravis was already treading on thin ice with his incredible Battle-Strength. Anything further might motivate someone to become active.

On top of that, Gravis didn't forget the lesson he had learned in the lower world. Back then, Gravis had told Wendy all his secrets without knowing that someone from the Darkness Sect had secretly listened in.

What if Immortal Kings or Immortal Emperors were watching him?

What if they had some kind of method to intercept voice transmissions?

"Oh! That's okay! Sorry for asking," Stella said quickly.

"It's okay," Gravis said. "Anyway, that's everything you need to know. I will try to create a situation that might give you insights into the Law you need. You won't notice when these situations appear, which is the tricky part."

said with a sigh. "I can lead you into the situation, but

nodded. However, she was still in wonder about this

known to exist. These Laws also worked in such mystical ways. Manipulating the perception of

understanding these Laws worked utterly different from understanding other Laws. She had to comprehend a situation and change her perception to understand these Laws? It almost sounded

now?" Stella

can't just create these situations. We can only continue cultivating and wait for a good

just continue as

"Okay," she said. "So, do you want to talk about

a helpless smile. "Honestly, I would love to talk more with you, but I need to get on cultivating. I want to create my Saber

eyes widened. "You don't have a Saber Intent!?" she

bitterly and nodded. "I haven't really come into contact with Weapon Cultivation until I arrived in this world. Until recently, I didn't even know what

fight with me without even having your Focus?" Stella

Focus. This probably meant that the more powerful Sects in the world also used

at Gravis, making him feel uncomfortable. "Then, how powerful will you be when you create

more powerful than now. My Battle-Strength is already lower than before

has been lowered!?" Stella

me killing someone five levels above me was about 10%. Right now, it's 0%. I hope with a Focus and the Major Law of the Elements, I can

what Gravis was saying. That was

three levels above oneself was already the stuff of

fight four levels

he wanted to go even

actually know how hard it is to understand the Major Law of

said as he interrupted

taken aback again. "All of

I attacked you. I wanted you to force me into mortal danger so that I would comprehend a Law that would increase my

I didn't manage to learn

so willing to enter a situation of assured mutual destruction. He specifically created a

found that mindset a

Battle-Strength was insane. She might think that this mindset was too extreme, but maybe that's exactly the reason why her Battle-Strength wasn't as extreme

was continually going all-in on a coin-toss, one time after

was

side. 'I

but try to remain somewhere I can contact you. A fitting situation for you might

if you need anything. After all, I'm still in your debt since you

"No problem," Gravis said.

but stopped after a step. Then, her head lowered as she scratched

a second,"

as he

to me. So, in return, I want to demonstrate something

"Hm?" Gravis asked.

to Gravis again

"Look closely," she said.

fingers went to