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.

was probably Stella's

decision

Arc said from the side with a

which meant that he also knew

Gravis said with

I should

groaned. "Arc, this is not funny,"

grinned as he saw Gravis'

head as he looked at the people that

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

to the

terrifyingly stunning body. She looked like a seductress

here. We've only met one time," Gravis said. "However, I'm happy that

bedroom eyes at Gravis as she looked him up and down. "Don't talk too much

as he saw her true

was a humongous,

Sary, the Life Ultimate, Meadow's

the conflict between the Ultimates in the middle world and also the one that had taught Azure about having children to learn more about the Laws of

desires, and she had also hit on

"Where's Meadow?" Gravis asked.

in the 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 long, and I don't want to wait that long, but you don't need to worry about her. From what I've heard, her status

was basically unkillable in the higher world. However, the total power of Narcissus and Meadow still

nearly unkillable in her

unkillable in

was a huge difference

had to keep in mind that Narcissus

said. "Let me first go

a young man

him with a

were already

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

with age and power, Manuel," Gravis said with

This was Manuel.

him in the lower world, but Manuel's master had unveiled Byron's deception. After that, they had become friends

father had told him that Manuel had stopped cultivating after

Obviously, things have changed.

to push Manuel back into

friends as possible to survive to

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

killed off Manuel's family, but

and Lazar have died, right?"

him. Apparently, he was not really

from behind Gravis. "He tried to jump two levels above himself. The fight was even, but

for Lazar," Dorian said with narrowed

nodded with a

made it to

Nero stopped cultivating," Gravis