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!"

Byron? Remember Morus? Remember Narcissus? You are part of me, and I'm very

was you, not me,"

back. "So, learn from my mistakes so

He knew that he had fucked up big time, but he didn't

better to become powerful, but now, Mortis was stuck in this shitty prison

beasts. He wasn't allowed to leave this place. He wasn't allowed

just stuck sitting there, doing absolutely

been

No.

decided to ignore some beasts, he would have

they were doomed to be stuck on their current Realm and comprehension while watching their longevity shrink and shrink. It was basically damaging their future potential by taking

and Mortis argued for over ten more minutes. Gravis was always on the aggressive side, while Mortis was on the defensive side. He knew that

was thinking. After all, Gravis

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

dare call me weak!"

be stuck in your way without questioning yourself? Do you

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

a mistake. Your Battle-Strength won't decrease. The only thing that will happen is that you have admitted a mistake. The pain of jumping over your stupid pride

is growth, not regression," Gravis

for a while. He knew that Gravis was right, but it was so very hard to admit his mistakes. If it were anyone else, Mortis wouldn't find it difficult.

front of

himself that was supposed to be a weaker version without any

be admitting that the other Gravis was the

Mortis still didn't

and disadvantages,

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

category compared to Gravis? Specifically this

and wasn't Battle-Strength the

more powerful version of Gravis. It was just that in

said finally. "I made a mistake. I shouldn't

Now, do you

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