Female Novel
Chapter 190
Skye's parent listened to Gravis' story patiently. It was happy to hear about what its child had gone through. When it heard thatSkye reached the stage of a high-grade Energy Beast after only a couple of months, it felt pride. Skye's parent also thought thatit was the right decision to let Skye go with Gravis.
Why did it think that this was the right decision? Skye and its parent had always lived away from civilization, so they hadn'tknown about the humans' superior knowledge, battle techniques, and political systems. It had stayed inside the Wind Guild forthe past couple of months, and with its incredible ears and its new Spirit, it had learned a lot about and from humans.
It had listened in on conversations between disciples and elders. Many conversations metaphorically opened its eyes to newways to get stronger. Beasts usually only followed their instincts, which was to fight and kill other just-as-powerful beasts. Yet,when such a fight happened, it nearly always ended with one of the two parties dying and becoming food for the other.
Retreat? In their instincts, that was only something that a weak-willed beast would do. Some of Gravis’ earlier beast-opponentshad tried to flee, yet those beasts had all been weak-willed. A strong Energy Beast wouldn't retreat, no matter howoverwhelmingly powerful the enemy was.
Yet, as Skye's parent heard about the upper echelon speak of times when they fled from a fight, it started thinking. Those wereall very powerful people, and even the Spirit Forming experts have spoken of a time where they had to flee with pride instead ofshame. For humans, retreating was not a shame. It was just another way to fight.
Skye's parent had thought about these things and realized that retreat wouldn't halt its path forward. It had learned manyvaluable lessons by being with humans, and it knew that Gravis had probably also taught a lot of those concepts to its child.Because of this, it was happy that it decided to leave it with Gravis.
Yet, when Gravis told it about how he killed experts from the Fire and Darkness Guild and fed them to Skye, Skye's parent grewangry. It had way more experience than Skye, and it had learned a lot from humans. It had realized that this could bring Skye'sfuture prospects into jeopardy. Maybe it wasn't a good idea to let this human take Skye, after all.
But when Gravis told about his decision to leave Skye, it sighed in relief. That was the best decision that Gravis could have madein that situation. Judging by what it had been told, Skye's parent realized that its child had grown dependent on Gravis. Luckily,Gravis had cut this dependency apart.
When Gravis finished his story, Skye's parent looked into the distance. It heard about how Gravis taught it many things and howstrong and smart its child was. Its worries disappeared entirely. With Skye's power, it wouldn't be in danger in this Middle-Continent. Only someone in the Spirit Forming Realm could kill Skye, yet Gravis had taught Skye about those experts. Skye'sparent was sure that its child was still alive.
"So yeah, that's about it," finished Gravis as he looked at the giant bird beside him.
Skye's parent nodded. "Thank you," it said. Beasts were simple, and a thank you was the most direct method of thanking others.Gravis realized this, too, of course, and smiled.
"No problem. I've also committed some mistakes, but I'm sure that Skye will recover from that," he said.
"Child will," Skye's parent said with confidence. Then, it turned to Gravis and looked at him closely for some seconds.Gravis looked into its eyes and felt a little awkward. "What's up?" he asked.
The bird turned away, looking at the horizon again. "Human too strong, too fast. Human slow down," it said.
Gravis' eyes widened. Skye's parent had really learned a lot of things if it could even tell something like that. Gravis already knewabout this. He had been swimming against the current, trying to increase his power as quickly as possible, but was that a goodthing? Gravis was not dumb, and he knew that he had to take a break at some point.
Gravis still wasn't used to his newfound power. If he immediately went to the Core-Continent and immediately began to increasehis power, he would gain even newer powers without having the chance of getting used to his current ones. This was one of themain reasons why Gravis didn't immediately go to the Core-Continent. He had to get used to his current powers first.
Such a concept was not intrinsic to beasts. That was why Gravis was so surprised that Skye's parent knew about that. Gravissmiled. "| know. That's one of the reasons why | am here, to take a break," he said happily.
There was no immediate danger lurking at the horizon. Ever since Gravis came to the Middle-Continent, he never could trulyrelax. First came the fight at the tree, then he had to keep his identity secret in the lair of his enemy for multiple months, and thenhe had to increase his power in just seven days, or he would die. This was the first time where he could let go and just do whathe wanted.
Gravis looked into the sky while merrily moving his legs back and forth on the tree. ‘Is this what | am searching for? The feelingof freedom? Right now, | can do what | want without fear. Though...’ Gravis looked to the ground with a bitter smile. ‘The HeavenSect will find me at some point. | think this counts as a free-trial of the true freedom that | want.’
"| Core-Continent. Five Days," Skye's parent said.
Gravis nodded. Skye's parent could finally let go and continue on its path. "I wish you all the best," Gravis said.
Skye's parent looked at him and nodded. "You too, human," it said. Then, it flew up and went back to its nest. It probably wantedto finish some things in the next five days before it left for the Core-Continent.novelbin
Gravis also jumped down from thetree and stretched. ‘Talks are nice, hethought. ‘Sadly, this WEN eSLuck of, ingisednta us.’ Gravisidoked one last time at the WindGuild with longing. ‘Man, how | wishto belong to a group of people’Gravis sighed one last time and thenleft the Wind Guild. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Being isolated from humanity hadtaken its toll when he had justreached this lower ￠g, butdyihow,
had giownluser 0 it. He longed tobe with others, but that longing didn'taffect him so much anymore. He hadalready realized that being part ofhumanity was an impossibility. Thecontent is on NovelDrama.Org! Readthe latest chapter there!
His goal in reaching the Unity Realm was the most important thing he had to do now, except for maybe staying alive. As soon ashe reached the Unity Realm, he would return to his homeworld. Everything would be fine then.
As Gravis left, he had one lastthought about this whole thing andthen concentrated on his nextfanget.It woul repabty takeatound 18hbuts to get there if he didn't take abreak. Yet, wasn't his purpose ofcoming here specifically to take abreak? Why not slow down when hehad the time? The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
Like this, Gravis slowly traveled to his next target, taking several breaks to look at the scenery in the process. Of course, whiletraveling, he thought of more applications with his lightning. Lots of battle tactics went through his mind, and time flew by.
Over three days later, Gravis finally arrived at his goal.