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 susceptible to

was you, not me," Mortis

was me, not you!" Gravis shouted back. "So, learn from my mistakes so that you don't

had fucked up big time, but he didn't want

to show Gravis that his way was better to become powerful, but now, Mortis was stuck in this shitty prison while Gravis

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

sitting there, doing

been

No.

some beasts, he would have

on their current Realm and comprehension

while Mortis was on the defensive side. He knew that he had committed a mistake, but he just couldn't admit it to

well what Mortis was thinking. After all, Gravis was the blueprint

admit that you have

dare call

is powerful, but what about your personality? Will you forever be stuck in your way without questioning yourself? Do you believe that conviction in your belief is a strength instead of

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

Your Battle-Strength won't decrease. The only thing that will happen is that you have

a mistake 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

in front of

that was supposed to be a weaker version without

admitting that the other Gravis was the superior

that Mortis still

and disadvantages,

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

compared to Gravis? Specifically this weakness allowed him

Battle-Strength, and

It was just that in some very specific situations, his mindset was not

Mortis said finally. "I made a mistake.

brightly. "No problem. Now, do you need any

again. "My sentence is 5,000 years long, and I already finished 3,500