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."

want to discuss the matter," Gravis said. "I will

Sect Master said. "You can't just demand something without

anything. After all, you are the very people that are

like you have the right to stop me from meeting my friends, but you don't. People can meet each other whenever they want. You say that it's for security reasons, but that doesn't matter to me. I'm a single person, and the only thing I want to do is to

in meeting them. Yet, you artificially put a blockade in my way and act like tearing down the blockade is a kind act from your part that

Comprehension Areas. You own them, and you demand resources so that people can look at them. Yet, who decided that you are the

disagree with that assertion? Because you are more powerful than the people that are actually

by that logic, if I have the power to declare that I own the entire Eternal Fire Sect, I should also have the

not doing that. The only thing I want 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 them, and it makes no difference to them

but they stepped into

I don't think that I have acted

will be warned to go to the side, and if they don't comply, I will simply

them is already more

his explanation while looking

had expected that Gravis would be rational, but

and actions are common conventions," 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

kill each other for the most minor of infringements. At that point, Sects

becomes your enemy, making basic human cooperation impossible from your end. Even the beasts have integrated into human society in this world,

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

finished her sermon. "And that's why you're not

Master's eyes opened

did he

Was he criticizing her!?

about the Opposer?"

the

the strongest

those cares about organizations and basic