Lightning Is the Only Way

"That's not necessary," Arc answered.

SHING!

A token appeared in front of Gravis. "As soon as you reach an isolated place in the eastern continent, crush this token. Exar will quickly arrive and talk about the specifics."

Gravis nodded. "Thanks, Arc."

Arc smiled. "Wish you luck."

"Is that a joke?" Gravis asked.

"Yes," Arc said with a slight chuckle.

Gravis rolled his eyes.

Then, Gravis and Stella waited for Liam's return. They wanted to give him enough time to think about his current situation.

In the meantime, Gravis and Stella talked to some beings in the clearing.

Gravis and Stella had to deal with a lot of insinuating comments and jokes made at their expense. After all, making someone embarrassed was always fun.

A couple hours later, Liam returned.

This time, he didn't have a cold expression but a relatively neutral one. However, he still shot Gravis a couple of complex looks.

To Liam, the situation between him and Gravis still felt a bit awkward.

Luckily, Gravis was good in conversations and could reduce the awkwardness to a minimum.

After talking for a bit more, the three of them set off.

SHING!

All three of them broke their emblems as they returned to the hot and uncomfortable underground room that Gravis had dug out.

Gravis quickly put the two of them into his Life Ring and transformed into his beast form.

After that, he passed through Narcissus' barrier and entered the beast territory. Traveling across the river in the human territory would be risky. After all, the Purist Sect controlled that river, and Gravis didn't know how their defenses were set up. It was far easier and safer to go through the beast territory.

After a couple of hours, Gravis reached the barrier to the eastern continent. Gravis dug into the ground again and officially entered the eastern continent.

no map of this part of the world, which meant that he had no idea where he would

CRACK!

of the ground, and he saw a mortal woman that had just dropped a vase in shock when she saw the head coming

that he had appeared in

focus in her eyes as she looked

of a mortal

that, he made himself basically invisible and left the ground. He was already back in his human form and manipulated perceived reality in such a way that he appeared like a

searched for some isolated forest and broke Exar's

SHING!

arrived around half a minute

"You're ready?" Exar asked.

"So, why did you want to

of your shop directly.

"Oh, you already found a

big city while the other one goes directly into the beast territory. However, you should build something that makes it impossible to

of times.

his head and teleported

around an hour, Exar and Gravis

the frontlines, near the coast

this location. It was very different

the fact that no one

this location, even though it was

wall of roots that seemingly split the world

inspected the wall of roots for a bit and noticed that this

showing yourself above ground, Narcissus?" Gravis

a neutral Immortal Emperor plant," Narcissus answered. "I won't let beasts

on his face. "But

agreement with it. It would not let any beasts pass through this territory, but in exchange, we have

That was already far better than anything he

he had two of the most powerful beings in the world

again,

out. It was around a hundred meters wide and a kilometer

long, while the tunnel leading to the human territory was very short. In fact, it

was a bit confused as the tunnel to the human territory

"We don't want the location of the trading firm to become public

Arrays so that people can't just look through your

"I guess since the Elder hasn't been here yet, he also shouldn't know about

don't like to force my Elders to do anything they don't agree with. Just answer his questions honestly, and there