Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked at all of this with an even expression. 'The Sect Alliance is truly beyond saving. The minority of disgusting, selfish people have the entire Sect Alliance in control. Even if I wanted to waste my time by slowly investigating the entire Sect Alliance, I still wouldn't be able to root out all of them.'

'The fact that Arthur was able to influence the entire Sect Alliance with such a flimsy reason showed as much. What protecting the Sect Alliance? What playing favorites? All of this is nonsense that has no bearing on the greater picture. This entire reasoning only relies on status and on feeling superior to others.'

Liran slowly lifted his head and looked at the three Sect Masters in front of him.

He didn't care anymore.

He had lost everything.

So what if he died today?

Liran didn't resist.

"One life is not enough to pay for your crimes," one of the three said. "You will pay for your crimes in your next life too. However, I'm not a monster. I still wish you peace on your journey."

Then, that Sect Master flew closer and unleashed a wave of darkness with his two daggers.

The wave closed in on Liran, and Liran only looked at it.

CLANK!

"How dare you resist your just punishment!?" the other Sect Master shouted.

Liran had taken out his bow and had blocked the attack.

Liran's expression had changed.

He no longer had a weak and self-loathing expression on his face.

What expression did he wear now?

Rage? Hatred?

No.

It was fear.

Liran was deathly afraid.

"I… I can't die!" he said more to himself than to others.

Liran had wanted to give up his life, but as soon as the enemy had attacked, his survival instincts kicked in.

He didn't want to die!

He wanted to live!

He was afraid of dying!

Arthur only sneered and also shot forward with his saber. "There's no saving a sinner like him. Just get it over with."

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Liran was barely able to

me!" Liran transmitted

help me, so why should I help you?" Gravis transmitted

tried to kill you!" Liran answered. "It is your duty to protect your

protect my Sect," Gravis answered. "However, you

Sect Master, I order you to help me!" he transmitted back

Gravis didn't answer.

defended against some more

hatred. "Then, if I'm going down, you are going down

Variant Black Demon in disguise!" Liran

stopped for

Black Demon?" One of the watching Sect Masters asked in shock

Will-Aura hadn't been this strong! Thus, I

other with

beast infiltrate

What did this mean?

didn't change. He had expected

true," Arthur said with a smirk.

he thought. However, Gravis knew that

it didn't matter. The truth only mattered if someone was willing to find it. If someone wasn't interested in the truth, they wouldn't care about

if Gravis didn't have a beast body, he would still be condemned as a beast and killed. It literally made

finish this," Arthur

The other two nodded.

this, the fight resumed,

Liran was dead…

last words had been the name of his

It was over.

Unrestrained Sect had

had completed

his son, so Arthur

it would end like this?'

the Unrestrained Sect, I had believed that we would fight against the Lightning Cleaver Sect in a soft war. I thought we would slowly suppress them

when I joined the Unrestrained Sect, I was thinking about making them become more powerful, maybe help Liran along the way. As the most powerful member of the Sect Alliance, I would have had protection and an endless amount of resources

become bigger and bigger. After that, we could have gone to the Core Regions. Get new people, new disciples, more

mindset to mine, an organization with enemies that would

looked at some hair that

last thing that

else had been

be thrown for a

regret my

'No.'

there, Liran would have run the Sect into the ground. The Sect was already doomed to die. The

he turned to

"Why?" Gravis asked flatly.

didn't show any nervousness or fear. Anyone in his situation would have talked on and on about being

that this was no ploy from