Gravis told Stella that he would be back shortly and broke the Emblem.
BANG!
When Gravis broke the Emblem, his surroundings seemingly exploded as space was thrown into absolute carnage. The displacent of the teleportation left behind a small, smoking crater.
Gravis hadn’t noticed these changes since he had always already been gone when he broke the Emblem, but Stella noticed them.
And her eyes nearly fell out of her sockets.
Stella knew a lot about teleportation, and she had also used such Emblems several tis. However, none of the Emblems she had ever seen had demonstrated such an insane power. To create such destruction with a re teleportation was basically unheard of.
Could her dead teacher create sothing like this?
Maybe?
However, it would definitely be beyond expensive, even for her. Yet, Gravis had broken the Emblem just to talk to soone? Whom was he talking to? Who were they?
Was Gravis truly just an Ascender? How could he co into contact with soone with such great power that they could hand out such teleportation Emblems in just a couple of days?
Gravis was already the most bizarre and abnormal human Stella had ever t, but he just continued to beco more and more mysterious. After talking with him for a while, Stella had assud that she knew Gravis better.
And then he pulled that stunt!
anwhile, Gravis appeared at Arc’s clearing. Instead of arriving at the sa position he had arrived last ti, Gravis directly appeared close to Arc.
Gravis imdiately noticed Arc. Arc sat on a tree stump as he drew so confusing lines into the ground with a smile.
Arc turned to Gravis with a smile, who watched Arc with narrowed eyes.
"Funnily enough," Arc said with a slight laugh. "This has nothing to do with ."
Gravis’ brows furrowed further. "How can it not have sothing to do with you?" he asked. "You are responsible for assigning tribulations, are you not?"
"Yes, I am," Arc said, "but I’m not as involved as you think I am."
Gravis crossed his arms. "So, you’re telling that you didn’t assign as Stella’s tribulation?" he asked, skeptical.
Arc lifted his right index finger. "That’s sothing else," he said. "Yes, I have assigned you as her tribulation, but that doesn’t an that I manipulated you or her into fighting."
"Isn’t that what Heavens do?" Gravis asked, unamused. "You put being at the right locations at the right ti so that a conflict will appear naturally."
"Correct," Arc said with a smile and a nod, "but that’s not what I did."
"If you didn’t do that, how can I be Stella’s tribulation?" Gravis asked. This whole thing seed shady to him.
"I think you got sothing wrong, Gravis," Arc said as he drew another line in the dirt. "You believe that we first assign a tribulation and then manipulate the circumstance, but that is inaccurate."
"About 50% of tribulations go like this, yes, but the other 50% are different," Arc said, "and you just so happen to be part of the other 50%."
"And what are these other 50%?" Gravis asked with a raised eyebrow.
"That’s when a fitting opponent appears near the one having the tribulation," Arc explained. "If we held ourselves to a strict titable, soone might be in a dangerous fight and get their tribulation at the sa ti. That wouldn’t be fair, obviously."
"So, we leave the Cultivators and beasts a window of about 200 years before their ti is up. If soone that fits the tribulation criteria cos into conflict with the tribulation taker, we can simply count that as the tribulation. We don’t have to manipulate everything, Gravis."
Gravis thought about this for a bit. Arc’s words actually made sense. If the Heavens held themselves to a strict set of rules, in this case, they would have to work several tis harder and would need to get involved more.
The highest Heaven wasn’t a big fan of Heavens involving themselves in the normal world. The other rules already proved that. Heavens were not supposed to appear in front of beings, contact them, help them, or destroy them without a very good reason. The highest Heaven’s rules were very hands-off.
Needing to send different opponents to different places all the ti would require the Heavens to change the flow of the world. Sure, if it was necessary, they would do so, but if it wasn’t necessary, everyone would have it easier.
"So, you’re saying that I just so happened to choose the most powerful opponent possible that just so happened to have an incoming tribulation?" Gravis asked.
Arc laughed a bit. "Sounds unbelievable when you phrase it like that, doesn’t it?" Arc asked.
Gravis nodded.
"How about I rephrase it for you?"
Gravis only raised an eyebrow.
"You basically knew nothing of your potential targets when you chose the resource point you want to attack," Arc said with a smile. "And when you choose sothing while having nearly no information on said choice, did you make an inford, deliberate choice?"
Then, Arc smirked. "Or did you choose at random and bet on luck?"
Gravis’ face transford into a grimace. He didn’t like what he heard one bit.
"Think about it," Arc said as he raised on hand. "On one side, we have a Late Minor Circulation Immortal with the worst possible luck imaginable. However, this person is searching for an opponent an entire Circulation above them."
Arc raised his other hand. "On the other side, we have soone with above-average Karmic Luck, who is also an entire Circulation above the first one, and even worse, they have a tribulation coming up."
"The bad luck of the first individual draws them to a very powerful enemy."
"The good luck of the second individual draws weaker opponents to them."
"Two magnets that attract each other."
"Doesn’t this sound like a match made in heaven?" Arc asked with a smirk.
Gravis groaned when he heard Arc’s pun, and Arc laughed loudly when he saw Gravis’ reaction.
Luck was sothing very illusory. Gravis knew about his bad luck but evading sothing like luck was very difficult. Gravis thought that he had enough information to make an inford decision, but he had failed to notice that his information had been flawed.
His information ca from Liran, and the information had been public knowledge. Usually, sothing like that was rather reliable, but it wasn’t perfect. One inaccuracy in thousands of resource points was not bad at all. This ant that thousands of other resource points still had accurate information on their power.
What were the chances of hitting that single inaccuracy among thousands of good choices?
Nearly nothing.
Anyone that hit this single inaccuracy would only bla one thing.
Bad luck.
"Fuck!" Gravis shouted as he kicked a ton of earth to the side out of anger. "I keep trying to circumvent my lack of Karmic Luck, but I just continually step into it!"
Arc only chuckled a bit. "Don’t beat yourself up over it," he said. "Not even us Heavens know how actual luck works. We know what effect our bestowal of Karmic Luck has on luck, but we also don’t know why and how luck exists. Is it a Law? No, it isn’t."
Arc lifted his right index finger with a smirk. "So, if it isn’t a Law, but we can still see its effects, that only leaves two possibilities. Either luck doesn’t exist, and it’s sothing we create in our own minds, or it is sothing that exists that not even my creator knows how it works."
Arc chuckled a bit again. "And when not even my creator knows how it works, how can you even attempt to understand it with your current power?"
"And if it doesn’t exist, how can you attempt to understand sothing that doesn’t exist?"
Gravis was still frustrated but sighed. "I know," Gravis admitted, "but it’s just so frustrating and annoying!"
"That’s a luxury, you know, Gravis," Arc said.
"Huh?" Gravis uttered, not sure what Arc ant.
"If anyone else were in your situation, they wouldn’t find this annoying or frustrating, but terrifying," Arc explained. "They would constantly fear for their life and shut themselves off from the world, thinking that everything could kill them if they left their ho. A lack of Karmic Luck would be absolutely horrifying to everyone else."
Arc chuckled a bit. "Yet, here you are, just being minorly annoyed by it."
Gravis grunted. "Alright, fine! You win, Arc," Gravis said with a groan.
Arc only smiled. "Also, bad luck can sotis turn into trendously good luck."
Gravis nodded. "I know."
"Like in this case," Arc said with a smirk.
Gravis looked with a questioning look at Arc.
"Honestly, your luck could be called transcendental right now," Arc said.
"What do you an?" Gravis asked with furrowed brows, his frustration forgotten.
"You and Stella are connected," Arc said with a smirk. "In actuality, you have been connected before you even arrived in this world."
"In fact, you have been connected for nearly 4,000 years, your ti, of course."
Gravis’ eyes widened.
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