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!"

Morus? Remember Narcissus? You

was you, not me,"

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

but he didn't want to admit

show Gravis that his way was better to become powerful, but now, Mortis was stuck in this shitty prison while Gravis had never been in prison

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

just stuck sitting there,

it been worth

No.

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

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

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.

you so weak that you can't even admit that you have made a mistake?"

you dare call me

questioning yourself? Do you believe that conviction in

Mortis didn't immediately answer.

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 your stupid pride will transform into motivation to never make

growth, not regression," Gravis

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

in front

was supposed to be

that the other Gravis was the superior

still

and disadvantages,

Then, Mortis' eyes shone.

compared to Gravis? Specifically this weakness allowed

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

powerful version of Gravis. It was just that in some very specific situations, his mindset was not

a mistake. I shouldn't have killed so

"No problem. Now, do you need

is 5,000 years long, and I already finished 3,500 of those. 1,500 years isn't so long, and