Lightning Is the Only Way

"I killed some beasts," Mortis answered.

Gravis narrowed his eyes inside Arc's clearing.

"How many?"

"…A couple," Mortis answered after a pause.

"How many!?" Gravis asked again.

"I don't know. I didn't count," Mortis answered with annoyance. "Like maybe 40 or so."

Gravis furrowed his brows. "And they are probably all Immortal Kings?" Gravis asked.

"Most of them, yes," Mortis answered.

"Why?"

"Because they interrupted my Law Comprehension or didn't allow me to trade for their resources," Mortis answered. "You know that we need to go to multiple different places to comprehend the Soft Pure Law, and most of them just stopped me and said that this was their territory."

"So, I killed them," Mortis said.

Gravis scoffed. "What? Are you the Opposer? Is your solution to everything just killing?"

"What's wrong about that?" Mortis asked in annoyance. "Your father managed to become powerful this way. It's a proven method."

"Yes, but back then, the concept of Karmic Luck either didn't exist, or father had a normal amount of Karmic Luck. Instead, in your case, if you manage to anger even one powerful person, the chances are high that this person would want to kill you," Gravis explained.

"So? Then I just wasn't powerful enough," Mortis said coldly. "If I die, I die."

"You gotta give yourself enough time to become powerful!" Gravis shouted angrily. "You can't expect a rabbit to walk into a crocodile's mouth and then saying that it wasn't powerful enough. No, it wasn't that the rabbit wasn't powerful enough, but that the rabbit wasn't smart enough!"

"Are you calling me stupid?" Mortis asked with a freezing and threatening tone.

"No, but you're acting stupid!" Gravis shouted. "You are part of me, and I know that you are definitely not stupid, but your idiotic pride that says that giving even a small inch means being inferior makes you do stupid things!"

it happened that I underestimated others? Remember Byron? Remember Morus? Remember Narcissus?

you, not me,"

"So, learn from my mistakes so that you

had fucked up big time, but he didn't want to admit it in front of

to become powerful, but now, Mortis was stuck in this

this place. He wasn't allowed to summon any

was just stuck sitting there,

it been

No.

decided to ignore some beasts, he would have already finished the Soft Pure

be stuck on their current Realm and comprehension while watching their longevity shrink and shrink. It was basically

argued for over ten more minutes. Gravis was always on the aggressive side, while Mortis was on the defensive side. He knew that he had committed a mistake, but he just couldn't admit it to his perceived weaker

thinking.

so weak that you can't even admit that you have made

dare call me weak!" Mortis

without questioning yourself? Do you believe that conviction in your belief is a strength instead of a weakness?" Gravis

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

The only thing that will happen is that you have admitted a mistake. The pain of jumping over your stupid pride will transform into

is growth, not

mistakes. If it were anyone else, Mortis wouldn't find it difficult. He would simply

front of

front of the version of himself that was supposed to be a weaker version

be admitting that the other Gravis was the

noticed that Mortis still didn't

disadvantages, Mortis,"

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

category compared to Gravis? Specifically this weakness allowed him

and wasn't Battle-Strength the most important? Power was everything,

version of Gravis. It was just that

"I made a mistake. I

"No problem. Now, do you need any

sentence is 5,000 years long, and I already finished 3,500 of those. 1,500 years isn't so long, and it might be better to