Lightning Is the Only Way

Silence.

For several seconds, no one said a thing.

Gravis' friends kept themselves out of this since this had nothing to do with them.

Mortis looked at Orpheus coldly.

Orpheus had betrayed him, and it hurt Mortis deeply.

"Worthless."

As soon as these words were spoken, it was like the entire atmosphere had changed.

These words were spoken coldly and with hate.

Mortis had completely cut off Orpheus from his life.

This betrayal had hurt him deeply, and he had to repay Orpheus for that pain.

One should never forget that, while Mortis' personality had changed a lot, he was still one with lightning.

A betrayal from one of his family members was unforgivable to him.

However, Orpheus was quite clever while apologizing.

He had specifically lowered himself and had shown that keeping the Emotional connection between him and Gravis was important to him.

Severing this connection was enough for Mortis.

If Orpheus hadn't put much value on their emotional connection, Mortis would have found a different way to repay Orpheus for this pain.

One should never forget that Mortis was nice to his friends but absolutely ruthless to his enemies.

If Orpheus didn't feel sufficient pain by severing their emotional bond, Mortis would have grown more powerful until…

He would kill Orpheus.

Mortis was very similar to Gravis but very different in some regards.

However, Orpheus wasn't stupid.

He knew everything about Gravis' and Mortis' lives in the higher world, and he had planned accordingly. He knew that he had to get emotionally invested in Mortis.

Orpheus knew that he had to feel sufficient pain.

Otherwise, he would die.

Could Orpheus kill Mortis?

Yes, he was more than powerful enough.

However, that would bring problems upon problems.

would forget the Law of

wanted Gravis

Opposer wanted Gravis to become

for Orpheus to kill Mortis, and even if he managed it, this would make Gravis hate

knew that if he offended Mortis,

that it

like Gravis. In essence, Mortis was a

he heard Mortis'

didn't say

the three of them, and it was

didn't say

his own being, and Gravis would

Mortis didn't try to kill Orpheus, everything

noticed how

from the purity and honesty of the apology. After all, Orpheus went in with a plan

one could even argue that this counted as a

Mortis with pain. "I'm sorry,

You know exactly why you haven't drawn my killing intent. You planned for everything, and I see that you are just as shrewd and scheming as all these hypocritical Sect Masters

forth, you are nothing more than a random person with a personality

took another shaky

this, but it was

to Mortis to regain their emotional bond, but he knew that

was not a

been so afraid of telling Gravis the truth in

the lower world, he had just gone over an emotional hurdle, which made him emotionally fragile. On top of that, Gravis had also been influenced by the temperament

Orpheus had told the truth back then, Gravis would have reacted very

wanted to kill him, but

Mortis with regret and

said

bridge of

forgiving Orpheus if he hadn't apologized in such a planned and

a lot of

emotional

Gravis hated schemes.

planned this very thoroughly," Gravis commented

because I don't want

come clean but want to keep

me, and I can't give up on our connection. Our connection

Gravis sighed with frustration.

wouldn't have met another time in our life," Gravis said. "You knew that, which

Orpheus didn't say anything.

you had told me after I returned from the middle world, I would have been forced to abandon you due to the issue with my lightning. I wouldn't have wanted

was that you wanted to flee from the

essence, you have acted like a weakling that

"I ran away from the pain because you are too important to

sighed again

I'm not influenced by the temperament of lightning. This gives

as he tried

It wasn't easy.

Orpheus felt, but one shouldn't forget that Gravis also