Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis left Manuel's faction after saying goodbye to everyone.

To alleviate their fears, Gravis told everyone that he would probably be gone for quite a while. Back then, the Heaven's Trial had taken Gravis over four years, which had been an incredibly long time for him.

Maybe this Heaven's Trial would also take an incredibly long time.

He also told them that, as long as his father didn't inform them, it meant that he was still alive.

Like that, they didn't have to worry about the unknown.

Gravis also said sorry that he couldn't be there for Stella's tribulation. Stella would undergo her tribulation in about 45,000 years, and Gravis assumed that the Heaven's Trial would take longer.

In fact, it wasn't only Stella undergoing her tribulation. Most others had become Star Gods just shortly after Stella, shortly meaning 100,000 or 200,000 years later.

Gravis referred to hundreds of thousands of years as shortly.

Eventually, Gravis left. Obviously, Mortis followed him, but he kept himself intangible. After all, he had only bought one token, which was for Gravis, and he wouldn't buy a second token if he could just enter for free.

Orthar owned the Heaven's Trials, not the Eternal Fire Sect.

After teleporting for a couple of hours, Gravis arrived near an empty mountain range.

WHOOOM!

An incredibly powerful Will-Aura suppressed Gravis as a blue-haired teenager appeared in front of Gravis.

It was hard for Gravis to feel his Realm, but Gravis guessed that he was probably a level four or level five Ancestral God.

"You are not from the Eternal Fire Sect," the teenager said.

"And yet, I have an entry token," Gravis answered with a voice transmission. "If you could retrieve your Will-Aura, I could show you."

The teenager narrowed his eyes, but he complied.

The pressure on Gravis weakened, and Gravis summoned the entry token, which quickly got taken away by the teenager.

The teenager looked at the entry token with concentration and then at Gravis.

CRK!

The teenager destroyed the entry token and nodded. "You can go in."

Gravis nodded politely and passed the teenager, who just teleported away again.

Gravis went to the foot of one mountain and landed.

Before Gravis was a small cave. It wasn't any bigger than a mortal iron mine, and it felt rather rustic.

for a while, and as he walked forward,

kilometers wide and high, and a humongous, golden gate appeared in front of

with gold, and it gave off a kind of holy aura. Everyone that saw this

bitterly. "The Eternal Fire Sect put the mountain around the gate to hide this gate. They probably don't want others to know that they own this Heaven's

gate, Gravis

It's quite

power, but the gate still

heavy is this thing!?" Gravis shouted

CRR!

into his beast form and put all his

It still wouldn't budge.

BANG!

to increase his power and also

CRRR!

was already using all of his

little help, please!" Gravis shouted

don't need to open

gritted his teeth in exertion. "But I want to open both gates," he shouted

Mortis answered,

pushed harder, and after minutes of exertion, he finally managed to

a tiny crack in the gates appeared, a bright light

momentarily blinded by the light, but he only grinned with

more, and the cave brightened even

lone Black Demon was pushing a gigantic gate, which

managed to open the gates just wide

light behind the gate bathed Gravis, and Gravis closed his eyes in happiness, his entire body being enveloped

with outstretched arms as if he wanted to embrace the

asked from

Gravis only grinned.

had

state and had

Gravis saw the light come through the gates, he got an amazing idea about a joke, and he went through with

laughed as he saw

bit, Gravis walked forward, putting his

Whoop!

hand basically fell

don't have to be so cold. You're a Star, you know? You're supposed to

Gravis with

was no reaction visible on his

Mortis also didn't answer.

Heaven's Trial,"

forward along the dark corridor. Just like with the Heaven's Trial in the lower world, this Heaven's Trial

person that walked here would walk to their

a couple

looked forward with narrowed eyes