<h4>Chapter 788 - 788 – Ste''s Demonstration </h4>
Nearly half a minute of silence passed as Gravis was stuck cursing Arc while Ste was uncertain on how to proceed.
"So, my mindset is okay?" she asked carefully.
Gravis’ head jerked to her as her voice interrupted his frustrating thoughts. "Oh, sure! It’s more than okay!" he said quickly. "This mindset is one of the integral parts of making you immune to external interference. To be honest, it has taken a lot for me to understand it myself."
Gravis sighed. "Meanwhile, you understood all of this on your own."
Ste remained silent for some seconds. "Can you tell me about it?" she asked.
Gravis looked with aplex expression at Ste, and Ste quickly gestured that she didn’t want to intrude with her hands. "You don’t have to if you don’t want to," she said. Then, her fingers intersected, and she twiddled her thumbs as she looked to the side. "But I want to know more about you."
Gravis’ heart beat faster as his breathing quickened. ’How is she so cute!?’
Gravis quickly shook his head to regain his bearings. "I can tell you some about it, but I have to keep a lot of details secret," he said as he looked at her. "Don’t take it the wrong way, but some of my secrets may elicit greed in others."
"I’m not saying that I don’t trust you," Gravis said, "but I am saying that I don’t trust the people you trust. I can’t bet my life on something like this."
Stepletely understood where Gravis wasing from and nodded. "That’s okay."
Gravis nodded too.
Then, he told her an abridged version of his meeting with the middle Heaven. Gravis simply reced the middle Heaven with someone much more powerful than him that was interested in maliciously ying with Gravis. That was kinda true.
After rying the middle Heaven’s words in an abridged form, Gravis told Ste about his encounter with someone incredibly powerful. Of course, this being was the ck Magnate.
"So, in short," Gravis said. "It has required two different, extremely powerful beings to literally punch that truth into me. Without either of them, I wouldn’t be able to have this mindset."
Stebed her hair as she fell into thought. "These two people sound powerful. Can you tell me their names? They should now also be in this world. By the sound of it, they should have already made a name for themselves."
Gravis had aplex expression on his face again. That was why he didn’t want to tell Ste much about his past. The reason was questions like these. These were not beings that would reside in a higher world, but since Ste believed that Gravis came from a middle world, it was only logical to assume that these two were now in the higher world.
"Sorry, I can’t tell you," Gravis said as he looked to the side. He was not a fan of keeping all of these things secret. He much rather preferred directly telling someone.
However, this world was full of humans, and the humans have already shown their hypocrisy and greed. If Gravis had been as open with his secrets in this world as he had been in thest world, several Immortal Kings would have already kidnapped him.
Gravis was already treading on thin ice with his incredible Battle-Strength. Anything further might motivate someone to be active.
On top of that, Gravis didn’t forget the lesson he had learned in the lower world. Back then, Gravis had told Wendy all his secrets without knowing that someone from the Darkness Sect had secretly listened in.
What if Immortal Kings or Immortal Emperors were watching him?
What if they had some kind of method to intercept voice transmissions?
"Oh! That’s okay! Sorry for asking," Ste said quickly.
"It’s okay," Gravis said. "Anyway, that’s everything you need to know. I will try to create a situation that might give you insights into the Law you need. You won’t notice when these situations appear, which is the tricky part."
"In short, you can’t prepare yourself," Gravis said with a sigh. "I can lead you into the situation, but I can’t make you understand. Everything depends on you."
Ste nodded. However, she was still in wonder about this mystical Law.
Gravis had demonstrated Laws that she hadn’t even known to exist. These Laws also worked in such mystical ways. Manipting the perception of the opponent? Something like that was possible?
On top of that, understanding these Laws worked utterly different from understanding other Laws. She had toprehend a situation and change her perception to understand these Laws? It almost sounded too magical to be true.
"So, what now?" Ste asked.
Gravis shrugged. "Nothing much," he said. "I can’t just create these situations. We can only continue cultivating and wait for a good opportunity to present itself."
"So, just continue as usual," Gravis said.
Ste nodded. "Okay," she said. "So, do you want to talk about something else?"
Gravis smiled a helpless smile. "Honestly, I would love to talk more with you, but I need to get on cultivating. I want to create my Saber Intent."
Ste’s eyes widened. "You don’t have a Saber Intent!?" she shouted in shock.
Gravis smiled bitterly and nodded. "I haven’t reallye into contact with Weapon Cultivation until I arrived in this world. Until recently, I didn’t even know what Weapon Cultivation was and how it worked."
"Wait, so you managed to fight with me without even having your Focus?" Ste asked in shock.
Gravis noticed that Ste used the word Focus. This probably meant that the more powerful Sects in the world also used this word. "Yes, I don’t have a Focus yet."
Ste stared in wonder at Gravis, making him feel ufortable. "Then, how powerful will you be when you create your Focus?"
Gravis shrugged. "Dunno. Probably more powerful than now. My Battle-Strength is already lower than before due to my two breakthroughs."
"It has been lowered!?" Ste nearly shouted.
Gravis nodded. "When I arrived in this world, the chances of me killing someone five levels above me was about 10%. Right now, it’s 0%. I hope with a Focus and the Major Law of the Elements, I can boost it to 50%."
Ste still almost couldn’t believe what Gravis was saying. That was insane!
Fighting three levels above oneself was already the stuff of legends!
However, Gravis could fight four levels above himself!
And he wanted to go even further beyond!?
However, something else piqued her interest. "Do you actually know how hard it is to understand the Major Law of the Elements? You need to learn so many other-"
"I know them," Gravis said as he interrupted her.
Ste was taken aback again. "All of them?"
"All nine, yes," Gravis said. "Our fight has given me a lot of insights into this Law. In actuality, I was banking on understanding exactly this Law when I attacked you. I wanted you to force me into mortal danger so that I wouldprehend a Law that would increase my defense against the elements by so much that you would die, and I would survive. That Law would have been the Major Law of the Elements."
Gravis frowned. "Sadly, I didn’t manage to learn it."
"So that’s why," Ste said quietly to herself. That was why Gravis had been so willing to enter a situation of assured mutual destruction. He specifically created a situation where he would definitely die unless he became more powerful.
Ste found that mindset a bit too extreme.
However, Ste also couldn’t deny the fact that Gravis’ Battle-Strength was insane. She might think that this mindset was too extreme, but maybe that’s exactly the reason why her Battle-Strength wasn’t as extreme as Gravis’?
In her mind, it was like Gravis was continually going all-in on a coin-toss, one time after the other. This was incredibly risky, and he would lose everything at some point.
However, Gravis was still alive.
Ste sighed and looked to the side. ’I wish I had his luck.’
"I’m going toprehend my Focus now," Gravis said. "You can do whatever you want, but try to remain somewhere I can contact you. A fitting situation for you might turn up."
Ste nodded. "Okay. I will be reflecting on what you have told me. Call me if you need anything. After all, I’m still in your debt since you are helping me."
"No problem," Gravis said.
Ste turned around to leave but stopped after a step. Then, her head lowered as she scratched her chin.
"Gravis, wait a second," she said.
"Yes?" Gravis asked as he turned to her again.
"You demonstrated something incredible to me. So, in return, I want to demonstrate something incredible to you."
"Hm?" Gravis asked.
Ste turned to Gravis again with a smile.
"Look closely," she said.
Then, one of her fingers went to her chest.
WHOOOOOM!
As she pulled her finger away again, some kind of light-wheel appeared. An about 30-centimeter-wide wheel made of light floated in front of Ste. The wheel had nine shiny jewels embedded near its edges in a circle. All of the jewels had different colors.
Gravis felt the aura of the wheel and noticed all of the level three Law elements were present. These nine jewels represented the nine base level three Law elements. Gravis knew all of these Laws already, but he wasn’t able to unleash them since he was missing the Law.
Ste obviously already knew the Major Law of the Elements, which was why she could unleash them.
"The Burning Sky sh is a technique from the Seething Inferno Sect," Ste said. "However, as you already know, Ie from a different Sect. My Sect is called the Nine Elements Sect, and we only ept disciples that know the Minor Law of the Elements. We are not many, but all of us are very powerful."
"This is our core Weapon Technique, the Nine Elements Wheel," Ste said. "I thought you might be interested in seeing it."
Gravis nodded and looked at it closely.
"Let me show you," she said.
Clink! Clink! Clink!
Ste moved her right middle finger to the red jewel, then to the purple jewel, andstly to the light-green jewel. These three jewels vibrated, and something appeared on Ste’s middle finger.
It was a concentrated ball of Punishment Lightning and Inferno. The Storm Element was used as support and added speed and power to the other two elements.
Judging by the reverberations of Energy Gravis was feeling, he was sure that Ste had just used around 50% of her entire Energy storage. That was a bit much for a demonstration.
Suddenly, Ste’s smile transformed into a severe expression. Her eyes became narrowed as her Will-Aura activated.
Gravis was taken aback by Ste’s sudden shift, but his Law of Safety and Danger didn’t get triggered.
Then, Ste turned around and pointed at a location.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
Insane destruction wreaked havoc as a mushroom cloud of fire and lightning seemingly consumed the world. Over a hundred kilometers ofnd were destroyed as the forest around them stopped existing.
Ste had just unleashed thebined power of three elements that had had their powers elevated to the power of level five Laws. In addition, she had used them with a Weapon Technique. This meant that this attack had power even stronger than an average level five Law. Lastly, she had also used around 50% of her Energy.
The destruction Ste had shown was absolutely insane. If this were the middle world, the entire world would have been destroyed by such an attack.
Gravis’ eyes widened in shock.
Plonk.
Half a head fell to the ground in the distance.
Gravis felt the remaining aura of the dead Cultivator and concluded with shock that they had been a Peak Immortal, someone two levels above Ste.
"Someone has been listening in on us for quite a while now," Ste said. "I wasn’t sure if you knew them or not since it could be that you simply wanted to protect yourself against me by having someone more powerful stay near us."
"However, I’m pretty sure now that he wasn’t someone that you knew. After all, his Spirit shook quite a bit when he heard that you didn’t have a Focus. Someone you knew would have known that about you."
Meanwhile, Gravis looked at the remains of the head.
’Ste is far too powerful,’ he thought with a sigh.