Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis appeared in Arc's clearing.

THUNK! SPLAT!

However, Gravis immediately walked against a hard wall.

Gravis' eyes involuntarily closed as he rubbed his nose with teary eyes. Yes, even Immortal Kings weren't immune from tearing up when their nose was punched. It just happened.

'Wait, why is my hand wet?' Gravis thought as he looked at his hand.

Red and brown juice and mush.

Gravis' eyes widened in horror.

He had carried one of his fruits in his hands to ask Arc about them, but he had just been teleported in front of a wall.

His fruit had been smashed!

Gravis' mind was going wild as his Will-Aura involuntarily activated due to stress. Then, he quickly looked around the clearing.

He saw Arc with a smirk on his face and a red-brown fruit in his hands.

Gravis became confused again and looked at the remains of his fruit in his hand.

There was no Life Energy inside them.

Gravis gritted his teeth. "Fuck you, Arc! That's not funny!" he shouted as he pointed at Arc aggressively.

And then, Arc broke down in laughter.

Gravis had just thought that he had lost one of his fruits! He had paid a lot for them, and they had been his gateway to his first level five Law. They were really important to him!

And then, this asshole played a prank on him and switched the fruit, making Gravis think that he had lost one of them!

Gravis only glared at Arc for several seconds, but Arc continued laughing.

"Stop laughing!" Gravis shouted.

That only made Arc laugh harder.

Splash!

Suddenly, Gravis felt a wet hand wiping something onto his clothes. Gravis immediately turned to his left and realized that the wall he had run into wasn't a wall.

A tall, blonde man had wiped off the fruit juice from his robes and had cleaned his dirty hand on Gravis' robes. The man had no expression. It was just like he was mindlessly cleaning his hand.

he realized that he had run into another guy and

"You should get used to teacher's weird sense of

more. "Hey, weren't you

the same person that had stopped the time around Gravis outside the Unrestrained Sect to

"Your particular

glanced at Arc for a second and scoffed. Then, he turned back to the man as he

be so kind as to answer two

brows. Meanwhile, Gravis only smirked at Arc. 'You want to play a prank on me,

man looked at the fruit and also at Gravis with a side-eye. He was a bit surprised that Gravis seemed completely calm. One had to know that he was the eldest disciple of Arc and one of the world's

and dirtied his robes with fruit juice, they

interested the blonde man, and

he saw that the blonde guy

fruit vanishes, and is it

of these things were important to know. The first part was important since it decided if Gravis ate the fruits before or after his tempering. The second question was important for his future. After all, if something showed a Law with too much clarity, it would make it far harder to

looked at the fruit. "You met Narcissus?"

bit confused, but the small tree in the center of the Law Comprehension Areas appeared in

brows. "You're

asked

several Soul Laws, and he can easily tell humans from beasts,"

he felt like his heart was gripped by

mean that the tree knew that Gravis was a

was he

Gravis asked the blonde man in

my second brother," the man said. "He is also part of this clearing, and he probably felt teacher's emblem

used to check one's Spirit. However, he couldn't be blamed for that. These level

as soon as Gravis thought about that, the root network came back into

that surrounds the beast territory?" Gravis

"His main body resides in the Law Comprehension Area you visited while

Gravis quite a bit. That gigantic root network and that tiny tree

Narcissus. Narcissus had known from the very beginning that

This terrified Gravis.

past the mighty, sleeping lion, but the lion had actually noticed him

in his

in every fucking world! I always believe that I am in control, but I'm not!

learn!' Gravis thought aggressively to

from the side with an eye roll. "Someone needs to know the level six Law of the Soul to see that you have a Will-Aura. No sane person would think that there would be anyone in this world that knows this Law. After

expression. Did Gravis actually blame himself for that? No one could have seen something like this

he try to take control over forces that are far beyond his reach? It was impossible to

that wasn't in Gravis' control was a danger to him. Freedom meant having control over oneself, and if one didn't

also the main reason why Gravis continued cultivating. Sure, freedom was also a

early to control everything,' Gravis thought. 'However, it still

SHING!

finger. The fruit rotated on Arc's finger like a ball. "Anyway, you wanted to know