Lightning Is the Only Way

After thinking about his life for a bit longer, Gravis decided to contact Stella again.

Stella quickly told Gravis that she was still comprehending, and Gravis simply nodded.

Gravis didn't know what kind of Law Stella was focusing on, but she obviously didn't have as much experience in comprehending Laws as Gravis. So, logically, it would also take her longer.

Gravis visited his friends and spent some time reacquainting himself with them. A lot of time had passed again, but rekindling friendship was easier than rekindling love due to the different intensities of the emotions.

By now, basically everyone was already a level nine Star God. Weaker Star Gods became very rare.

When Gravis focused on all these people in Manuel's faction, he felt a bit nervous.

'Every single person in this faction is so powerful that they would serve as incredible tempering for me,' Gravis thought.

'If only one of them decides to attack me, I would have an immensely difficult fight ahead of me.'

'Yet, if two attack, I would definitely die.'

The world had outgrown Gravis.

Gravis was still a level four Star God, and everyone in the faction was a level nine Star God.

Gravis felt a mortal threat from every single member, and it made Gravis feel humbled.

'All of my friends are more powerful than me. A lot of them even have Will-Auras on the level of Ancestral Gods.'

Gravis had become an oddity. He was a level four Star God, and level four Star Gods didn't exist in Manuel's faction.

However, Gravis didn't forget why he was so weak right now.

Gravis had accumulated Laws for a long time.

After Mortis comprehended the True Law of Adamantite's Explosiveness, the two of them will have comprehended a grand total of 17 level seven Laws.

Even more, Gravis had even comprehended a level eight Law.

Right now, Manuel's faction didn't have a single member that knew a level eight Law.

All of them only knew several level seven Laws at most.

Meanwhile, Gravis knew two level eight Laws and one level nine Law.

Even more, Gravis would soon comprehend another level eight Law when he combined all his Battle-Laws into a new Form Law.

Of course, Gravis had become the butt of all the jokes in his friend group.

This was the first time Gravis wasn't the most powerful one out of his friend group.

Gravis didn't only receive jokes made at his

lot of

Why?

powerful enough to actually feel

that none of his friends felt it, but now, all of them had become powerful enough to finally

Manuel had only looked at Gravis with shock

he had taken a deep breath through

are you so powerful?" Manuel had

past, Manuel had only been able to see what Gravis could do,

he could feel it, and

Dorian had seen Gravis, he had only gritted

only let out a

met Mortis only recently, and he had

else was constantly talking about how they should take care

had come to Gravis and told him that she would take care of everyone who bullied her

of these jokes were only that, jokes. All of them knew

a level four Star God because he didn't want

he could become an Ancestral God

even had all the money he

nostalgia when he

again and how he had feared that not everyone could become a Star

had

Sary, Skye, Yi Lu, Siral, Joyce, Broad

Eight friends, eight deaths.

all their faces, their

and

and kind

charismatic and funny

and

unreliable but well-intentioned

quiet but

the unstable and angry

the simple

of them had

Gravis looked at his living friends, a small smile grazed

the reliable and mysterious

the eccentric but

the simple and

the curious but

Stella, Gravis' eternal love.

Aris, Gravis' mature firstborn.

uncouth but reliable

Narcissus, the prideful tree.

taciturn and intelligent