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!"

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

was you, not

you!" Gravis shouted back. "So, learn from my mistakes so

with Gravis. He knew that he had fucked up big time, but he didn't want to admit it in front of the perceived weaker version

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

to leave this place.

just stuck sitting there, doing absolutely

it been worth

No.

beasts, he

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

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 he had committed a

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

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

you dare call me

forever be stuck in your way without questioning yourself? Do you believe that

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

thing that will happen is that you have admitted

growth, not regression," Gravis said

but it was so very hard to admit his mistakes. If it were anyone else, Mortis wouldn't find it difficult. He would simply say nonchalantly that he had committed

front

supposed to be a weaker version without any courage to

be admitting that the other Gravis

noticed that Mortis still

and disadvantages,

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

category compared to Gravis? Specifically this weakness allowed him to be superior to Gravis

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

was still the more powerful version of Gravis. It was just that in some very specific situations, his mindset was

finally. "I made a mistake. I shouldn't have killed

problem. Now,

sentence is 5,000 years long, and I already finished 3,500 of those. 1,500 years