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

made the right decision

friends have become really powerful, Gravis," Arc

Gravis' life, which meant that he

have," Gravis

I should fight them?" Arc

groaned. "Arc, this is not funny," he

only grinned as he saw Gravis' uncomfortable expression. "Yes,

shook his head as he looked at the

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

to the

with green hair and a terrifyingly stunning body. She looked like a seductress that could wrap any man

see you here. We've only met one time," Gravis

eyes at Gravis as she looked him up and down. "Don't talk too much to me, or your woman might get jealous," she

he saw her true body with

a humongous,

Sary, the Life Ultimate,

and also

was very open with her desires, and she had also hit on Gravis

"Where's Meadow?" Gravis asked.

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 and power are similar

was basically unkillable in the higher world. However,

unkillable

in the most powerful

a huge difference

in mind

Gravis said. "Let me first go to the

to a young man

him

you were

the world

with age and power, Manuel," Gravis said with a

This was Manuel.

deception. After that, they had become

higher world, his father had told him

Obviously, things have changed.

to push Manuel back into

as many of Gravis' friends as possible to survive to

your

didn't change, but Gravis could see some

died of old

tragic as it is,

had feared that Orthar might have killed

Lazar have died, right?"

was not really interested in

Gravis. "He tried to jump two levels above himself. The fight was even, but his opponent comprehended

took revenge for Lazar," Dorian said with

nodded with a

it to

that Nero stopped cultivating,"