Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis' Spirit Sense encompassed the Life Ring, showing to Stella and Liam that he was currently in there.

Stella and Liam were currently just sitting in front of each other, probably talking with voice transmissions.

"We should be safe," Gravis said. "I'm just in front of the northeastern river. Whatever happens outside shouldn't include this region."

"We'll come out in a second," Stella said. Then, she looked at Liam with a knowing look and nodded.

Liam nodded back.

After that, both of them left the Life Ring and appeared in the small underground room.

This far down, the temperature and gravity were still far more powerful than on the surface, but Gravis wasn't so deep down that they couldn't resist.

It was just a bit uncomfortable for them.

Gravis sat at one side while Liam and Stella sat on the other side, side-by-side.

For some seconds, everyone only looked at each other.

Then, Stella sighed.

Gravis' heart began racing.

"Gravis," she said slowly. "I need to know everything about you."

Liam nodded on the side.

"I know that you have saved both of us, and we are immensely grateful, but there are too many unknowns about you," Stella said. "For example, you know this powerful plant, which brings up several questions about your affiliation with the beasts."

"You also have a beast body, and we don't know where you got it from."

"I know that you trust me, but I want you to also trust Liam," Stella said as she gestured to Liam. "Liam is my closest person, and I don't want to keep secrets from him."

"If you want us to stay in contact, you need to trust my brother too," Stella finished.

Gravis closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

Trusting Stella was easy, but trusting Liam?

Difficult.

Liam and Gravis weren't close, and if he told the humans Gravis' secrets, it would become very dangerous.

Maybe even people from Arc's clearing would want to target him.

After all, Gravis knew a lot about the highest world, which was the next world that every Ascender would go to.

They would want to know everything about the highest world, and they would also want to know the secrets of the highest world.

Some people might even believe that Gravis had things from the highest world with him, and that was actually the case.

Even more, they would know that Gravis could make World Weapons, which would put an even bigger target on Gravis' back.

Maybe a powerful Ascender or Ancestor of the All-Matter Sect would want to kill him.

Maybe some other Sect coveted Gravis' World Weapon to sell it.

Maybe even the beasts would become interested.

In that case, Gravis could go nowhere in this world.

Telling Liam everything would put Gravis in a lot of danger.

Sure, maybe Liam would keep everything a secret, but what if Stella accidentally died?

What then?

Would Liam still keep Gravis' secrets?

Maybe he would fault Gravis for Stella's death, and unveiling all his secrets would be the best way to take revenge.

It was risky.

waited for some seconds

Stella during this time, but he couldn't read

risk for a chance to

put his life on the line

there even to think about?'

already put my

I already probably offended the entire

another

Gravis said. "I will

knew that someone like Gravis probably had world-shaking secrets. Otherwise, his Battle-Strength wouldn't

willing to share these secrets also with Liam showed how important she was to him,

only furrowed his

we two don't see eye-to-eye, I want

a hand

However, for her, he was willing to

not something easy

also felt a bit

impossible to like

Liam turned

Gravis nodded.

world, which is the world above this

sentence was already a shock to Stella

The highest world?

was from an even higher

his life in the highest

other hit Stella

was as powerful

his story, the less

that could fight the

story, Liam and Stella

really

how unbelievable his story was,

it was fiction, it was still interesting to hear about

words was when Gravis told them about his

shown

truly have

Gravis' tale of

the lower

close to anyone while being surrounded

It was depressing.

After all, wasn't he intending

to kill

It made no sense.

Gorn's death, they felt even worse for

was one of the

the guilt alone

surprising part was Wendy's death at Gravis'

to choose between power and going against his own will and

an intense conflict that obviously left scars in Gravis' mindset back then. He might have recovered by now, but Stella and Liam knew exactly how something like

lived for over

He had felt too many horrible feelings in too short of an amount of time. A teenager

story became

surprise came when Gravis told them that his Spirit had been

was something like that even

It made no sense!

knew a ton of Laws, and

adapt their Spirits to Energy was that Energy was basically devoid of any temperament. It adapted to any

mind with a

Someone couldn't survive that.

do that, and they were Peak Immortal

how to combine lightning with

It just wasn't possible.

was against the very Laws

the first time Stella

should know that we can't believe something like that," she said

about the world than back then, and he also realized that something like this should

prove it," Gravis

"How?" Liam asked.