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!"

often has it happened that I underestimated others? Remember Byron? Remember Morus? Remember Narcissus? You are part of me, and I'm very susceptible to overestimating my own

you, not me," Mortis

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

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

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

leave this place. He wasn't allowed to

sitting there,

been worth

No.

beasts, he would have already finished

on their current Realm and comprehension while watching

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

thinking. After all, Gravis was the blueprint

that you can't even admit that you have made

call me

Battle-Strength is powerful, but what about your personality? Will you forever be stuck in your way without questioning yourself? Do you believe that conviction

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

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

growth, not regression," Gravis said

right, 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

in front

front of the version of himself that was supposed to be a weaker version without

he be admitting that the other Gravis was

Mortis still didn't

and disadvantages,

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

to Gravis?

was still more powerful than Gravis in Battle-Strength, and wasn't Battle-Strength the most important? Power was

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

said finally. "I made a mistake. I

problem. Now,

I already finished 3,500 of those. 1,500 years isn't so long, and it might be better to just finish it