Female Novel
Chapter 309
After around an hour, the liquid vanished. Gravis quickly cleaned off the remaining moisture from his body and the room with hislightning. "Well, seems like this trial is done too. | guess it's time for waiting again," he said while cracking his neck.
The stele in the middle of the room vanished, but the door didn't open. "Waiting it is then," Gravis said. "The beginning of theHeaven's Trial was rather exciting, but everything since then was just a bother or boring. | would have expected more out of you,Heaven."
No answer came.
After that, Gravis summoned the body tempering pills that he had gotten from Manuel earlier and started consuming them. Aftereating all of them, his body reached 33% of the Self Stage's requirements. After that, it was back to training. Just like with the lasttrial, Gravis spent his time trying to control the output of lightning with the will-sphere, dodging lightning bolts from the Growth,and fine-tuning his control over his strength.
Like this, eight months passed.CRRRR!
The door opened, and Gravis opened his eyes. "Finally," Gravis said in exasperation. "Honestly, are you trying to bore me todeath, Heaven?" Gravis asked. "I already spent over a full fucking year in this Heaven's Trial, and what happened during thattime? | fought a guy. That's all."
Gravis stepped through the door, which quickly closed behind him. ‘I'm about 93% of the way to the Tree Stage. In total, reachingthe Tree Stage would have taken around 15 months. Reaching the Self Stage would probably also take around 20 months or so.At that point, | could reach the Unity Realm whenever | want. So, | would barely be 22 when | return to my homeworld. Six years,huh?"
After a while, Gravis reached another small hall. Like before, his group was already waiting for him. Joyce jumped forward andhugged Gravis. "You're still alive! Thank goodness," she said. "Thank you so much again for your training. Without it, | wouldn'tbe alive anymore."
Gravis was a little taken aback by the sudden hug, but he quickly pushed her gently away. "As | said, it's nothing. Don't mentionit.”
Joyce pouted a little when Gravis pushed her away, but she didn't really care. Her pouting was more playful than angry. Now,Gravis finally had time to inspect the group. Joyce's Will-Aura had become more powerful, and she was already in the process ofconcentrating it. She probably could only compress it to about 97% or something, but it was a start.
When Gravis saw Manuel, he smirked. Manuel had also managed to condense a Unity Will. He was an Ascender's Talent, andhe had already been close to condensing one before. Together with two trials that had been perfectly tailored to him, condensinga Unity Will wasn't anything special to him.
Claude, the lightning disciple, had a fully condensed Will-Aura now. Only a little more tempering, and he would also condense aUnity Will. The darkness disciple was still a bit off from a fully condensed Will-Aura, but his Will-Aura was powerful enough toreach the Sapling Stage.
Of the group of four, two would already be able to reach the Self Stage, while one would be able to reach the Tree Stage. Thiswas very impressive for a group. Apparently, Heaven really treated the group kindly. Those three would probably become themost powerful group of ascenders that this world had ever produced.
"So, what was your trial?" Gravis asked.
Manuel wanted to speak up, but he was interrupted by Joyce. "It's totally like you said," Joyce said with a chirpy tone. "Thesecond trial was way more difficult than the first one, but not impossible. We had to fight a lot of cultivators."
Gravis lifted an eyebrow. "Cultivators?" he asked.
"Oh, no," Joyce said like she remembered something. "They were not real people directly. They were more like puppets. We hadto fight one-on-one against each puppet and then again in teams in every possible configuration multiple times. All the puppetshad different fighting styles and elements. To top it all off, they were really good at fighting. We also felt them becoming morepowerful as the trial continued."
Gravis rubbed his chin. "So, Heaven gave you a lot of different opponents with different strengths. When you became morepowerful, the enemies also became more powerful. | think it's impossible to find any better tempering in this world," Gravis said.
Gravis also saw a connection to his practical exams in his homeworld again. Those beasts had also had different strengths andweaknesses, but there was still a significant difference between the two types of tempering. The difference between the trial andthe practical exams was the enemy.
It wasn't the fact that one featured puppets mimicking humans and the other featured beasts, but that the puppets were just that,puppets. They lacked the originality, will, drive, and emotion of a living thing. They were great at the beginning, but Gravis wassure that he would find common weaknesses across all puppets after some time. After a prolonged exposure to that, thecultivators might get used to these weaknesses.
So, all in all, the tempering he had received in his homeworld had been even better than this. The more tempering Gravis wentthrough, the more he realized how lucky he had been to be born with such a background. Saying that he had achievedeverything by himself would be a lie.
Yes, Gravis had achieved nearly everything by himself as soon as he reached this lower world, but without the preparationsbeforehand, he wouldn't have been able to achieve such power. ‘Background is also a kind of strength. It can give you the bestpossible start,’ Gravis thought.
Poke!
Gravis regained his focus as someone poked his forehead. "Hey, you're spacing out again!" Joyce said. "Is something wrongwith you?" she asked.
Gravis shook his head. "Sorry, no. | was just lost in thought," Gravis said with a bit of embarrassment.
Joyce put her hands on her hip and then sighed helplessly. "You've been doing this ever since | met you again in the Core-Continent. Are you really sure that everything's alright with you?"
Gravis rolled his eyes. "Yes. | am just lost in thought sometimes."
The group watched all this happen with amused grins. This was just how Joyce was. She always said what was on her mind.Some people might find that attitude rude and invasive, but they thought it was charming.
“Well, it can't be helped if you're just slow in the head," Joyce said with a smile.Gravis furrowed his brows. "I'm not-""Yes, yes," Joyce interrupted with a dismissive wave of her hand. "So, how was your second trial?"
Gravis wanted to say that he wasn't slow in the head, but then he saw her smirk. Then, Gravis sighed and also smirked. ‘Okay,she got me. It's not easy to rile up my emotions."
Then, Gravis started speaking of his trial, and immediately, the whole mood in the hall changed. It changed from relief andlighthearted amusement to anger, frustration, and disgust.
BANG!Joyce punched a wall in anger. "How dare this-"
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The group had stopped breathing for some time while Gravis was talking to them. After waiting for some more seconds, Gravisdeactivated his Will-Aura, and everyone took deep breaths. "Sorry, but | don't want you to throw your lives away like this," Gravissaid.
Heaven might not be allowed to strike them down directly under the watch of the highest Heaven, but it could still steal all theKarmic Luck of a cultivator. Something like this would doom a cultivator.
Joyce breathed hectically and was red in the face from anger. Yet, her eyes not only showed rage but also fear. Due to heremotions, she had nearly committed involuntary suicide. What had she thought when she had shouted these words? Her ragehad nearly cost her her life!
"Thank you," Joyce said silently after a while.
Gravis nodded. "That is why | suppress my emotions," Gravis said. "Emotions can make you do illogical things. When blinded byrage, you will make mistakes. Remember this experience."novelbin
Joyce sighed again. "You're right, but | just got so mad when | heard what happened to you. How can Heaven do such a thing?”she said as she got riled up again. At least, she had herself under control now.
"Because it has power," Gravis said."That's the only truth. It can dowhatever it wants, as long as thereisn't something n powertG? 08)interfering Theoretically, Heavencould create a whole world whereeveryone feels unbearable pain aslong as they are alive, and as long assomething more powerful doesn'tintervene, there's nothing anyone cando." The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!
“But that's wrong!" Joyce said."Yes, it is," Gravis said, "but it happens either way. It doesn't matter if it's right or wrong. It will just happen."
Joyce shook a little in frustration. After some seconds, she averted her gaze. "This thought is just too cold and depressing. | don'twant something like this to be real.”
Gravis sighed. "I'm also not a fan of that, but it's reality. You can only change reality if you are powerful enough, but as long asyou're not that powerful, you have to live with it. Only with power can you change anything you want."
The rest of the group had keptthemselves out of the conversation,but the last couple of statemenfrom Gravis alse.redohated-withther Ayer: elders had told themthe same thing, but it was differentwhen something actually happenedthat proved this. Gravis’ second trialwas proof enough. This changed alogical argument into reality. Thecontent is on NovelDrama.Org! Readthe latest chapter there!
The group remained silent for a couple of seconds as they thought about the current situation.