Lightning Is the Only Way

A man appeared.

In front of Gravis flew a middle-aged man with silver hair. His robes were black and white, and on his back, he carried a peculiar sword. It was over a meter long and slightly curved. It was thin, and it only had one edge. The last time Gravis saw a sword like this was in the lower world when he fought someone from the Fire Guild.

The sword radiated an incredible power of cutting, even more powerful than the cutting power of Storm. For a second, Gravis was confused. What could cut even better than the Element of Storm?

However, the more Gravis felt the aura of the sword, the more he felt familiarity.

'Space?' Gravis thought with confusion. 'Space can cut with such ferocity?'

The Spirit Sense of the new arrival extended, and he noticed Gravis and Siral. His eyes immediately fell on Siral, and he ignored Gravis.

"He is not your opponent," Gravis said.

The man looked at Gravis.

WHOOOOOM!

He activated his Will-Aura, which was on the level of a Peak Immortal King. His Will-Aura was just as powerful as Gravis' Will-Aura, but there were five levels between them.

By all intents and purposes, Gravis should be unable to move right now. The difference in Will-Aura was so much that Gravis would be suppressed by 100%.

WHOOOM!

Gravis' Avatar appeared, and it shone as brightly as never before.

Gravis could still move, but his eyes narrowed. 'My Avatar is at its limit,' he thought. 'This has never happened before.'

Gravis' Avatar was shaking, and it looked like it was close to breaking. It was like it was using 100% of its full power to resist the suppression of the enemy's Will-Aura.

'Generally speaking, the power of an Immortal King is associated with level five Laws. My Law of Freedom is a level four Law, but since it is also my Avatar, it has the power of a level five Law. The enemy's Will-Aura is at the peak of the Immortal King Realm, which means that its strength should also be at the peak of a level five Law.'

'This means that if my opponent had a Will-Aura at the level of an Immortal Emperor, I would be suppressed by some degree. Sure enough, if my Avatar of Freedom could protect me against every suppressive power, no matter how powerful, there wouldn't be different levels of Freedom.'

The man looked at Gravis' Avatar with intensity. He had never seen such an Avatar, and he could not tell what kind of Law this was.

Gravis moved closer a little bit to demonstrate that he could still move, but there were still kilometers between them. The eyes of the man slightly widened in surprise. He had expected that Gravis wouldn't be able to move.

I've said, I'm your

closely. "You were the

"Yes," Gravis directly said.

eyes

or are you simply there to take the fall for your master?" the man

and he is the

something like that?" the

first thing he had

his Life Ring

Why!?

had a Life Ring,

would hunt

said,

had been nervous, but that had vanished when he saw the glint of greed in the

was, the more the man would want to keep Gravis' identity a secret. If the man could get the Life Ring and offer

him in this fight if he realized that he might die. However, if he did that now, he would need to share the Life Ring with that other person as well. Additionally, the other person could inform the Life Sect of the Life Ring and act like the man didn't intend to hand it over. At that point,

Life Ring for precisely this

that no

of red and brown Energy were already fusing in Gravis' stomach. When Gravis had realized Arc's plan, he had eaten the third

man said as he fully turned towards Gravis. "You showed this ring on purpose, hoping that

was an open scheme, which meant that it was irrelevant if the opponent knew the goal of the scheme or

means you are confident," the man said. "Tell me, what makes you so confident? Is it your

servant won't involve

you're saying that you believe you have the power to contend with

"I have killed several beings four levels above me already, and you

expected my arrival?" the man asked with narrowed

said. "However, I will be overtaking his tribulation for today since I need to push

any kind of nervousness on Gravis. Someone like Gravis shouldn't be able to lie to him, which meant that Gravis was either a masterful liar that knew the Law

a powerful Battle-Strength. If you had not killed my granddaughter, we could have been friends. Alas, you won't see

and it started to warp and change. Space

Force Sect," Gravis said. "Are

eyebrow. "Quite a clever boy. Yes, I'm from the Purist Sect," the man said. "I know

a ton of extremely powerful materials and created a lot of weapons. It was important to be

he realized something, and his eyes narrowed. "Your weapon has only been forged with the Hard Pure

tell what they did, based on context clues. Ironworkers were probably Forgers that knew several Battle Laws of the Core Element, which increased the power of a weapon. Forgers with a

made myself,"