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

was you, not

me, not you!" Gravis shouted back. "So, learn from my mistakes

but he didn't want

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

this place. He

just stuck sitting there, doing

it been

No.

Mortis had just decided to ignore some beasts, he would have already finished

After all, 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

the defensive side.

thinking. After all,

that you can't even admit that you have made

call me weak!"

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

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

thing that will happen is that you have admitted a mistake. The

not regression," Gravis said

silent 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. He would simply

front

of himself that was supposed to be a weaker version without

he be admitting that the

noticed that Mortis still didn't answer and

and disadvantages, Mortis,"

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

weaker in this category compared to Gravis? Specifically

Gravis in Battle-Strength, and wasn't Battle-Strength the most important? Power was everything, after

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

made a mistake. I

Now, do you need any

Mortis 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