Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked at the head with furrowed brows. He hadn't noticed this person at all, but Stella had been able to feel him.

"How did you notice him?" he asked.

Stella noticed that Gravis wasn't angry at all, which meant that he truly wasn't connected to this uninvited guest. "He used the Law of Shadow to hide. I know that you already know this Law, but he probably also had the Law of Shadow as his Avatar. This meant that his Law of Shadow exhibited the power of a level four Law."

Gravis nodded. "Additionally, the level difference between us is too much," Gravis said. "If I were an early Major Circulation Immortal, I might have noticed him."

Stella nodded.

"Do you recognize his aura?" Gravis asked.

Someone had become so interested in Gravis that they had commissioned a Peak Immortal to keep watch over him. This meant that at least one Sect Master was already very interested in Gravis' secrets.

"I don't need to recognize the aura to know who that is," Stella said. "This style of espionage is trademarked by one of the organizations."

"Organizations?" Gravis asked. "So, it's not a Sect?"

"Not entirely," Stella said as she crossed her arms. "They are similar to Sects but not identical. Usually, Sects take territories for themselves and work under one banner. This organization is different in the sense that they are all over the world without any real headquarter."

Gravis scratched his chin. Based on what Stella said, Gravis could already imagine the organization. "Let me guess. You said that they weren't really Sects and that they are basically all over the world without a headquarter. Do they teach their own members?"

Stella's eyes shone a bit in surprise, and she shook her head.

Gravis looked closely at the head. "If they don't teach their disciples, it probably means that they recruit them from outside. However, nearly any Immortal is a Cultivator that all the Sects want. This means that membership for this organization is either nonexclusive or that no one wants to go against them."

kind of mercenary organization?" Gravis

surprised that Gravis managed to combine the clues this quickly. "Yes," she answered. "The organization

"For example?" Gravis asked.

collection, and any other kind of task that the world sees as unsavory," Stella

truly

do you

an organization would never exist among beasts,"

you so sure?" Stella asked with interest. She wanted to

"You only order an assassination on someone when you don't want others to know that you were the one that wanted the target killed. If beasts want to kill someone, they just kill them. They don't need to pay someone else to do it. The other actions you named are similar. Only if some kind of hypocrisy is involved would someone employ another power for such

not everything. Intelligence gathering and trade might not need hypocrisy,

but it didn't sit right with Stella that he was talking about humans like that. He was a human too, wasn't he? Additionally, she was also a human. By talking about humans like this, Gravis was indirectly also talking about

hypocrisy, right?"

this. Probably not even half of the humans are this hypocritical. People that employ these kinds of tactics are mostly

only a mask and a lie. Why try to appear better than you actually are? Just do

had a complex expression on her face. "It's not that easy," she said. "In the past, I have also been like

care about the opinions of the entire world. He simply

the entire world had seen him as an evil overlord when doing it. Their opinions changed nothing. That was probably also one of the reasons why Gravis had disliked

have been powerful," she said, believing that Gravis' father, who

"He is," Gravis said.

thought. "He's still alive?" she asked. "Is he in this

"but

grimaced a bit. "How

exist," Gravis said, confusing Stella even more. What kind

you talking