Lightning Is the Only Way

After several days of teaching, Gravis finally dismissed class after everyone started to become unruly. They were probably not used to staying in one place for so long.

Fortunately, Gravis' concentration was powerful enough to easily handle such a long teaching session. This was nothing in comparison to comprehending Laws or forging equipment.

Gravis activated his Spirit Sense and saw Arc sitting on a tree stump a couple of kilometers away.

SHING!

Gravis teleported over.

"Really? You teleport even for such a small distance?" Arc said with a smile without looking at him.

"Well, I don't have as much time as you," Gravis said.

"Yes, but when you move too fast, you miss the beauties of life," Arc said as he smiled at Gravis. "Isn't that the very reason why you are here?"

Gravis blinked a couple of times.

Arc was right.

Gravis had only chased power for the last 2,500 or so years, which had changed him subtly. Gravis thought about why he had teleported and realized that this minuscule time difference actually was negligible.

Gravis sighed. "How did you know?"

"Because you're a smart person, Gravis," Arc said. "You realize the dangers of only chasing power and know that chasing power will invalidate the very reason why you want to become powerful."

Gravis fell into thought.

Then, Arc started laughing. "I'm just messing with you. Everyone takes breaks," Arc said with mirth in his voice.

Gravis also had to laugh when he heard the genuine mirth in Arc's voice.

"No, but seriously, you need to connect to your human side between sessions," Arc said. "You don't want to end up becoming an emotionless power machine."

"Speaking of human side," Gravis said as he remembered one of his questions. "How come that the beasts in the class act more like humans?"

"That's because they are part human," Arc said like it wasn't a big deal.

that, but he quickly realized the answer. "So, they're children of beasts and humans, just

beasts can assume human form, romance between them and humans becomes more common. However, it still

all my children became beasts with slight human features. What can happen when a true

whether they have a human body or a beast body, and the second one is whether they have a

can be true humans, true beasts, beasts with a Will-Aura and Spirit but with weak bodies, and humans with no Spirit or Will-Aura but with powerful bodies," Arc said. "Then, of course,

of the four can

"How come?" Gravis asked.

with a frown. "Humans and beasts are mortal enemies in this world, Gravis. A human with a powerful body but no Spirit will be killed by humans since they know that one of their parents is a beast. The same thing is true for beasts

the beasts kill these mixed children for fear of them allying themselves with

"You're not saving these mixed

a temporary home for them. As soon as they leave this home, which is when

most powerful being in this world, but he still wanted to be as fair as possible. There were not even 200 beings

children in a

I want to give them a home where they can live like humans until they eventually die or

with the

"Humans are so very diverse that a human that acts like a beast is simply another human. Additionally, their

Gravis said. "There

"Ask away."

this one guy with nearly no Karmic Luck. Did

my creator, but he is very good at keeping a world healthy. I don't interfere with Karmic Luck. The system simply checks the actions and the intent behind the action. If it deems the Cultivator to be more damaging than beneficial for Energy gathering, it reduces the Cultivator's Karmic

as he scratched his chin. "However, it's not a Law in the normal sense, but in the sense of a rule of

you can't comprehend it,"

not everything was handled by the Heavens. Some of the stuff also

you doing all the time?"

those fights to see if their longevity should be increased or not. At the same time, I need

of work," Gravis said

or two," Arc said with a dismissive wave. "By now, all of it

he just couldn't imagine getting used to something like this. It sounded way too

you have Heaven's Trials?" Gravis

higher world, isn't it? I need to continually refine all Cultivators. We

had also used a Heaven's Trial, but using it in a lower

of the weakest and most arrogant Heavens, while the other was the second strongest and

way, could you do

Gravis asked back. What could Arc ask