Chapter 208: Counter-Surprise (1/2)

Why had Gravis not checked for poison?

There were two main reasons for this.

The first reason was that he had not met any such ”snakes” before. Jaimy could be considered one, but he had attacked him out of nowhere, which was more like a direct attack. Gravis had never been subject to such indirect schemes like poison. Sear had also been very convincing with his lies.

Though, that was not the most significant reason. The biggest reason was that Gravis knew that his whole being was so atypical, that probably no poison in this world could affect him.

Poison that attacked the Spirit? His Spirit was full of Destruction Lightning, the purest form of destruction that existed. Anything that entered his Spirit would be annihilated.

Poison that attacked his dantian? His dantian was also not filled with Energy. It was filled with pure Destruction Lightning, just like his Spirit. The same reason applied.

Poison that attacked his will? Gravis already had a Unity Will. A Unity Will corresponded to the Unity Realm, which was the most powerful Realm in this lower world. That basically already counted as something above this world. Nothing would be able to damage his will in this world.

Poison that attacked his body? That was the biggest concern, but his Unity Will or Destruction Lightning could counteract any poison attacking his body.

Basically, no matter what poison was used, Gravis would be easily able to counter it. His whole being was too extraordinary to get influenced by a poison. When Gravis heard that he had been poisoned, he wasn't shocked or distraught, but happy. This would make others underestimate him.

Gravis looked at the others as they readied themselves to leave. ”You do know that I have an exceptionally powerful body, right?” he asked Sear.

Sear laughed. ”Sure, but we can just suppress you one at a time until your stamina runs out. At that point, we will just cut off your limbs and carry you. Though, that's troublesome, so please don't do that. It's just easier if you come with us.”

Gravis didn't answer that statement. Instead, he asked another question. ”So, are you all Heavenborn?”

Sear nodded with a smile. ”Of course! You have remained in the Heaven Sect for a while, so you should know that the Heaven Sect has the best intelligence department in the whole world. Have you never questioned why it was this good?”

Gravis continued looking evenly at Sear. ”Because there are high-level spies in every Elemental Sect?” he asked.

Sear nodded twice. ”Exactly! Most Heavenborn are actually naturally created spies. Our Heavenly Pressure is weaker than the usual Heavenborn, but we can keep it up for way longer. This simulates a Will-Aura. Like this, we join the guilds and climb to highly ranked positions. We have no bottlenecks, after all,” then Sear laughed slightly. ”You would be surprised by how many spies we actually have. 70% of all Heavenborn are just hidden spies in other sects. Impressive, isn't it?”

Gravis thought in silence. This was actually incredible. He hadn't known that there were so many Heavenborn hidden in other sects. No wonder the sects and guilds couldn't keep secrets. Then, Gravis looked at Sear again. ”How did you know which meat stick I would eat?”

Sear continued smiling. ”We didn't. We poisoned all of them. You're the only one who cultivates lightning, so we don't care about the poison. We can just remove it with our element.”

Gravis had already thought as much. That had been his suspicion from the beginning. ”So, who gave you this mission?”

Sear rubbed the back of his neck with a smile. ”Actually, this isn't really a mission. We just call it like that. The Heaven Sect has informed us about your status and what to do with you. When I met you in the Earth Guild, I asked you where you were going just for this. Informing the Heaven Sect would take a while since it's rather far away. If you had left like a week later, it wouldn't be us waiting for you, but a priest. We just couldn't inform them in this short time frame.”

Gravis narrowed his eyes more. ”So, the Heaven Sect doesn't know about my current whereabouts?”

Sear waved his hand nonchalantly. ”No, it's only us. We wanted to surprise our teachers.”

Gravis sighed deeply. ”That's good.”

BOOM BANG!

An explosion of pure lightning came out of Gravis' feet, accelerating him with the greatest speed possible. Gravis instantly reached Sear and punched with his fist, which immediately exploded with lightning. Sear's body exploded into uncountable small pieces before he could even react.

The other Heavenborn looked stunned at Gravis. They had been ready for him trying anything like this. They had even known about all the attacks he had shown in the Earth Guild. With only his physical body, he wouldn't have been able to be this ridiculously fast. Yet, what had happened? Wasn't his lightning disabled?