Lightning Is the Only Way

"Dorian even managed to hit you, Gravis. I guess my loss to him is not unjustified," a beautiful woman with azure-colored hair said as she stepped forward.

"Hey, Azure," Gravis said. "Glad you're still alive. How have you been?"

Azure smiled slightly as she gestured to the old man with white hair to her said. "Styr and I have been quite well. We also became quite powerful, but we both couldn't beat Dorian, which was surprising. We had both been sure that we were more powerful than him, but, somehow, he still won."

Styr also nodded. "His techniques are varied, bizarre, and incomprehensible," Styr said with praise. "He is impressive."

"Did you guys all fight each other before I came here?" Gravis asked with a lifted eyebrow.

Azure and Styr nodded. "We met each other when we waited for you, and we all got talking since we know you. In the end, after seeing that we are all on the same level, we decided to fight each other to compare our power."

"Oh? How many joined the fight?" Gravis asked.

"Twelve."

"So many?" Gravis asked in shock.

Azure nodded. "You built up quite a circle of connections in your life, Gravis," Azure said.

"Who won?" Gravis asked, looking at the group.

Silence.

"You know who won," Azure said with a frown.

Gravis thought about this for a bit.

"Was Stella part of the fight?" he asked.

Azure nodded.

"Okay, that explains it," Gravis said with an uncomfortable smile. "Where is she?" he asked, not seeing her in the gathered group.

"She wants to give you some time to meet your old friends first. She is currently spending most of her time with your three children," Azure said.

Gravis rubbed the back with discomfort. "You mean our children," he said.

"I don't really care. You should know that, Gravis," Azure said evenly.

Gravis had to sigh again as he got to know Azure again.

It still felt weird to Gravis that Azure didn't care about her children.

However, Gravis' three kids also must have had quite a lot of children since they managed to become Nascent Nourishing Beasts in the middle world. Yet, they had never even talked about them.

The familial ties of beasts still felt alien to Gravis.

"I guess they are all somewhere else right now," Gravis said.

Azure nodded. "They all know that you would want to spend the most time with them, which is why they're waiting somewhere else."

Gravis nodded with a weak smile.

probably Stella's

sure had made the right decision when choosing her as

really powerful, Gravis," Arc said from

Gravis' life, which meant that he also knew

have," Gravis

should fight them?" Arc

is

saw

he looked at the people that

and Styr had already spoken to him, leaving three people that haven't talked to

went to the first

a beautiful woman with green hair and a terrifyingly stunning body. She looked like a seductress

one time," Gravis said.

and down. "Don't talk too much to me, or

as he saw her true body

was a humongous, green

the

had initiated the conflict between the Ultimates in the middle world and also

her desires, and she had

"Where's Meadow?" Gravis asked.

higher world," Sary said. "Meadow takes her time in cultivating, and she plans to use up nearly her entire longevity. She will probably remain in the higher world for another 1.8 million years, their time. I can't live that

the higher world. However, the total power

unkillable

nearly unkillable in the most powerful

difference between these

to keep in mind that Narcissus was far older than

can talk later," Gravis said. "Let me

over to a young man with green hair and a peaceful

looked at him with a complex

you were already dead," Gravis

young man chuckled a bit. "The ways of the world are unchanging and unforeseeable. Sometimes, our

gotten more mysterious with age and

This was Manuel.

world, but Manuel's master had unveiled Byron's deception. After

his father had told him that Manuel had stopped

Obviously, things have changed.

push Manuel back

Orthar wanted as many of Gravis' friends as possible to survive to secure his cooperation in

happened to your

expression didn't change, but Gravis could see some sadness in his

all died of old

nodded. "As tragic as it is, it is

Orthar might have killed off Manuel's family, but that

have

was not really interested

himself. The fight was even, but his

took revenge for Lazar,"

nodded with a

everyone made it to the

also heard that Nero