Lightning Is the Only Way

"I disagree," Gravis answered.

The Sect Master furrowed her brows.

She hadn't expected that answer.

"So, you're saying that you're justified in attacking one of my Vice-Sect Masters with the intention to kill?" she asked with a cold voice.

"No," Gravis answered.

The Sect Master waited for clarification.

"According to your standards, I wouldn't be justified. In the mind of the Eternal Fire Sect, I was basically a visitor that demanded something without offering something in return. It was a demand, nothing else," Gravis explained.

"However, I'm not part of the Eternal Fire Sect, and my priorities are not your priorities."

"Your priorities are material. You are interested in resources and people. You're right in the fact that my action is going against the optimal way of getting cooperation and profits."

"However, as I've said, my priorities are not your priorities," Gravis repeated.

The Sect Master looked at Gravis with narrowed eyes. "And what are your priorities?"

Gravis looked into the Sect Master's eyes.

"My priorities are whatever I want," Gravis said. "I want to meet my friends, and if you stop me, I will do everything in my power to change things."

"Yes," the Sect Master said, "and the best way to accomplish that is to discuss the matter and talk."

Gravis said. "I will meet my friends,

Sect Master said. "You can't just demand

need to offer anything. After all, you are the very

but you don't. People can meet each other whenever they want. You say that it's for security reasons,

meeting them. Yet, you artificially put a blockade in

so that people can look at them. Yet, who decided that you are the owner of these Law

no one disagree with that assertion? Because you are more powerful than the people that are actually interested in

I have the power to declare that I own the entire Eternal Fire Sect, I should

is the ability to visit my friends. Your people have stopped me from doing so. They've stepped into my way while I was minding my own business. This doesn't concern

their business, but they stepped into my path

that, I don't think that I have acted incorrectly, even if I had killed

what I want, and everything and everyone that stands in my path will be warned to go to the side, and if they don't comply, I

I'm warning them is already more

Gravis finish his explanation while looking at him with cold

expected that Gravis would be

the Sect Master said. "Everyone agrees on how ownership works and what right the owner of said things has. Saying that we only own our Law Comprehension Areas because we have the biggest fist is undermining the very basics of

this, we would all be barbarians that continually kill each other for the most minor of infringements. At that point, Sects might as well not

your enemy, making basic human cooperation impossible from your end. Even the beasts have integrated into human society in this world, which shows that having basic human cooperation is more efficient than a mindset saying that everyone is reliant

a dead end. At some point, you won't be able to advance on your own anymore. At some point, you will

sermon. "And that's why

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