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!"

happened that I underestimated others? Remember Byron? Remember Morus? Remember Narcissus? You are

not

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

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

show Gravis that his way was better to become powerful, but now, Mortis

kill beasts. He wasn't allowed to leave this place. He wasn't allowed to summon any Laws to

stuck sitting

been

No.

Mortis had just decided to ignore some beasts, he

and comprehension while watching their longevity shrink and

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

Mortis was thinking. After

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

call me

without questioning yourself? Do you believe that conviction in your belief

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

by now. "You won't be injured by admitting 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

growth, not regression," Gravis said with

that Gravis was right, but it was so very hard to admit his mistakes. If it were anyone

in front of

the version of himself that was supposed to be

the other Gravis was

that Mortis still didn't answer and

disadvantages, Mortis," Gravis

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

Gravis? Specifically this weakness allowed him to be

more powerful than Gravis in Battle-Strength, and wasn't Battle-Strength the

powerful version of Gravis. It was just that in

made a mistake. I shouldn't have

problem. Now,

said, making Gravis furrow his brows again. "My sentence is 5,000 years long, and I already finished 3,500 of those. 1,500 years isn't so long, and