Lightning Is the Only Way

It took quite a while for Mortis to calm down.

In fact, it took several days.

However, when he finally calmed down, Gravis immediately smiled and contacted Stella.

"Hello, honey! How's it goooin?" he asked.

In the eastern continent, Stella, who was currently in a cave with burning walls, opened her eyes and looked at the front with a smile.

"Honey?" she asked with a smirk.

"Yes," Gravis answered, "we are a couple. Why not give each other cute nicknames?"

Gravis couldn't stop his smile as he talked with his lover.

"I prefer calling you Gravis or dummy if you do something stupid," Stella answered with a smirk.

"Oh, don't hurt my fragile feelings, honey," Gravis answered with a melodramatic tone. "If you continue like this, I might go into a cold room and stare into a corner for some years, just playing with some knives."

Stella had to laugh at the image.

"So, what happened?" Stella asked. "Why did you contact me?"

"Well, I want to talk to you," Gravis answered. "That's literally the entire reason. I do what I want, and, right now, I want to talk with my cute honey!"

Stella chuckled a bit again. "Honey is sweet, not cute, dummy," she answered.

"You are honey, and you are both," Gravis answered self-righteously. "You can't warp the truth."

Stella giggled a bit again. She had been so focused on comprehending Laws that she had totally forgotten how it felt to be with Gravis.

She didn't mind delaying her Law Comprehension for some couple-time.

While Gravis and Stella were talking, Mortis gritted his teeth.

'He's wasting time again!' Mortis thought with hatred. 'How can he feel so much happiness while I feel so distraught and pressured!?'

When Mortis felt the feelings of love and happiness radiating off Gravis, his hatred exploded again, drowning out all the feelings of happiness.

'Gravis!' Mortis thought with gritted teeth.

Mortis' goal was reaching supreme power, and he focused his entire life on this goal.

Yet, a guy who only used power as a means to an end while not taking it seriously was gaining power faster than Mortis!

felt hatred, jealousy, and envy if they were in Mortis' shoes. They

wasn't

unfair, but he realized that it wasn't the world that was

his way

what he

Mortis didn't hate Gravis.

No, he hated himself!

for not being as good as Gravis, even though they were

I need more power!' Mortis

this was happening, Gravis sighed in

conversation short," Gravis said. "Mortis is

smile into a concerned look. "Oh, it's fine. I understand your current situation. Just contact me again later when Mortis calms

was currently filled with hatred and self-loathing,

too,"

off the connection with

'This sucks!'

against the Black Demon, just like

knew the same Laws but wasn't able to use them to the same

instead of calming down, Mortis' hatred

comprehending Laws!' he thought

Battle Style is not

has the

'Why!?'

is it

can't I be as good as

'What am I lacking!?'

and

released some practice slashes in the beginning, but by now, he was going all out. Kilometers of land around him were turned into

appeared below him, and it only became deeper and deeper as Mortis was creating more and

Gravis was sitting with his

anger and hatred!' Gravis thought with gritted teeth. 'What the fuck is wrong with you, Mortis!? I swear, if you don't calm down soon, I'll fucking beat the shit

Gravis wouldn't think like this, but Mortis'

time, Mortis

feelings of inferiority inside him were transformed into pure anger, making

Energy was decreasing, his attacks became

attacks started

with hatred, unleashing one last

BOOOOM!

Suddenly, Mortis stopped.

Mortis gritted his

is a useless level three Law of

fucking level three