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.

for some seconds as

this

a risk for a chance to be with

his

is there even to think about?'

I already put my life

I already probably offended the

another

Gravis said. "I will

like Gravis probably had world-shaking secrets. Otherwise,

Gravis was willing to share these secrets also with Liam

only furrowed

anyone else of your secrets," Liam said. "Even if we two don't see eye-to-eye, I want my sister to be happy. I might

put a hand

for her, he

also not something easy to

and she felt happy. She also felt a bit guilty,

was impossible to

Liam turned to

Gravis nodded.

world, which is the

already a shock to Stella and

The highest world?

was from an even

them about his life in the

the other

background was as powerful

more Gravis told his story, the less believable

person that could fight the most powerful

story, Liam and Stella became

really telling

No matter how unbelievable his story was, they wanted to hear

was fiction, it was still interesting to hear

that made them doubt Gravis' words was when

hadn't shown

he truly have

tale of the lower

lower world, even Liam felt bad

to anyone while being surrounded

It was depressing.

this also made Gravis' story even more unbelievable. After all, wasn't he

did he intend to kill Stella by being close

It made no sense.

Gravis told them about Gorn's death, they felt even worse

oneself was one of

alone might

next surprising part was Wendy's death

choose between power and going against his own will and

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

had lived for over

chance that Gravis would suppress his emotions. He had felt too many horrible feelings in too short of an amount of time. A teenager

sure enough, they noticed that the Gravis in the story

biggest surprise came when Gravis told them that his Spirit had been adapted to Destruction Lightning instead

was something like that even

It made no sense!

knew a ton of Laws, and they knew how a

why Cultivators could adapt their Spirits to Energy was

Lightning would fill Gravis' mind

Someone couldn't survive that.

could do that, and they

know how to combine lightning with

It just wasn't possible.

very Laws and

first time

should know that we can't believe something

he also knew far more about the world than back then, and he also realized that something

prove it,"

"How?" Liam asked.