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.

He had no map of this part of the world, which meant

CRACK!

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

he had appeared in a mortal village.

mortal woman quickly lost the focus in her eyes

the perception and memories of a mortal was

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

some isolated forest and

SHING!

arrived around half a minute

"You're ready?" Exar asked.

why did you

want to show you the location of your shop directly. I don't like to

in surprise. "Oh, you already found a

other one goes directly into the beast territory. However, you

of times. "Sure, sounds great!"

with his head and teleported away. Gravis followed

hour, Exar and Gravis

near

surprising about this location. It was very different from the

obvious difference was the

no humans and no beasts in this location, even though it was directly at

wall of roots that seemingly split the world

for a bit and noticed that

come you're showing yourself above

let beasts pass

his face. "But wouldn't the humans still be

myself and noticed that its intentions of neutrality were pure. I came into an agreement with it. It would not let any beasts pass through

nodded. That was already far better

two of the most powerful beings in

again,

been dug out. It was around a hundred meters wide and

of kilometers 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

later," Exar explained. "We don't want the location of the trading firm to become public knowledge, or people might find out your

will also place Spirit Isolating Formation Arrays so that people can't just look through your trading firm to see the

hasn't been here yet, he also

knows," Exar said. "However, he wants to ask you several questions personally before he creates the Formation Arrays. I don't like to force my Elders to do anything they don't agree with. Just answer his questions