Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis hadn't been so angry in a very long time, and he was sure that it wasn't because of Mortis.

The Nine Elements Sect DARED to suppress Stella!?

The Nine Elements Sect was suppressing the person Gravis loved. Gravis wanted freedom more than anything else, and Stella also knew the Law of Freedom. Suppressing Gravis or his loved ones was one of the worst things that someone could do in Gravis' mind.

However, Gravis was still clearheaded enough to make rational decisions. He wouldn't eliminate the entire Sect just because some people with a high status made some horrible decisions. Gravis would only take revenge on those that actually supported this idiotic decision.

"I feel quite a bit of anger coming from you," Mortis' voice suddenly appeared in Gravis' mind. "That's a nice change of pace for once."

Gravis narrowed his eyes. "Your comments are not helping right now," Gravis answered.

"What happened?" Mortis asked neutrally.

Gravis told Mortis everything about what had just happened and his guesses.

"You won't mind if I make the Nine Elements Sect our enemy?" Gravis asked after telling Mortis everything.

"No," Mortis answered directly. "You obviously have a good enough reason for it. Just because I prefer Joyce doesn't mean that I dislike Stella. She is still one of the very few beings that I would consider a friend. If you didn't take revenge, I would be the one that would."

Gravis was relieved when he heard Mortis' words. Gravis didn't want to implicate Mortis because of his conflict. He wasn't like Mortis, who simply didn't care that much about how his actions affected others. Hearing Mortis' support only strengthened Gravis' resolve.

'I need to plan everything out,' Gravis thought. 'When I win the tournament, the Nine Elements Sect will surely try to twist facts to avoid handing Stella over to me. This means I need to have a way to flee with Stella from the headquarters of the Nine Elements Sect. Luckily, I bought that one emblem from Underworld. Without it, this would be much harder.'

Gravis scratched his chin as he thought. 'The first hurdle will be to appear close to Stella without being noticed. This means that I need to appear more normal. Being able to win against the strongest geniuses in the world with a four-level difference would be too conspicuous. I should increase my Realm first. The Late Major Circulation Immortal King Realm sounds just perfect.'

'I still have 350 years left, which is more than enough. Seems like it's time to pay another visit to the beast territory.'

A cold gleam appeared in Gravis' eyes. 'However, this time, it's not for tempering, but for corpses.'

Gravis teleported away and directly journeyed to the beast territory. It only took him a couple of days.

he met Narcissus

now, Gravis was about to consume Peak Immortal Kings, and every Peak Immortal King was important. Usually, it didn't matter. After all,

Immortal King that died to

as he

said as he summoned

"Yes, Master," Siral answered.

and collect information about High-Level Sects. The beasts are kind enough that they are willing to allow me to consume some of their beasts, and its only right that I should

kind of High-Level Sect are you searching for?" Siral

The next most important criterium is that they should be from the Nine Elements Sect's faction. The last criterium is their Realm. They need to be a Peak Immortal King. When you found a fitting Sect, inform me,"

"Yes, Master," Siral answered.

to be quite useful to Gravis, but his true worth would only appear when Gravis went through

was like a silent,

that this was a fair exchange and that everything was fine. Gravis didn't

two Peak Immortal Kings in the beast territory, but that had changed. Now, he would

didn't directly choose the first one. While he was already here, he could also search for expensive ore. After

Peak Immortal King that had a metal affinity. Beasts with metal affinities always

took about a day, but Gravis found

was a kind of steel falcon that sat on

here, four levels were very difficult to surmount, but now,

'This is not tempering.'

his challenge and waited for all the trees to move away. It was important to give the

hidden inside the beast territory since beasts were not really great at forging. Not even Narcissus

its body into tough steel. It obviously knew several Battle Laws related to defense. Its level five Law had something to do with wings. Gravis wasn't entirely

falcon was very, very fast, nearly too fast for Gravis to

defense and ridiculous speed. Killing something like that would

everything

was four levels lower than it, and it specialized in speed. If Gravis had warned the falcon of his

not tempering. There was no reason for Gravis to warn the

BZZZZ!

violently with Divine Lightning as he slashed