Chapter 568: Turn of Events (1/2)

The Emperor glared at Gravis while gritting his teeth. He had to end the fight now! He couldn't waste more time here!

BRRRR!

Five more fire-copies appeared around him as he charged at Gravis again.

CRRR! SHING! BANG!

Several bone spikes grew out of Gravis' skin. Then, he broke them off with his Spirit and launched them at the copies, which quickly exploded from a distance. The Emperor grew enraged when he saw this. He couldn't use his fire-copies anymore with this new defensive technique!

BANG!

The Emperor attacked Gravis with his claws, and Gravis used his Spirit to move an arm into his way. The arm immediately exploded since it wasn't powerful enough to resist such an attack without muscles.

BANG!

The attack also broke through the other arm, but when the tail came between them, the attack had been weakened to the degree that it became nearly useless. Gravis was thrown into the distance again as the Emperor continued chasing.

CRRR!

Gravis' limbs regrew, but he narrowed his eyes. 'Regrowing these limbs still takes around 20% of my Life Energy. This is too much! I need muscles!' he thought.

The next attack arrived, but before it could hit Gravis, one of his arms suddenly thickened and blocked the attack. He had finally learned the last Law regarding Body Growth.

Gravis had watched the CMO for a long time, and he had been on the cusp of understanding the Growth Laws regarding the body for quite a while now. This fight allowed him to learn all of them since he needed them to survive.

BANG!

Gravis was thrown back, and the bones in his right forearm broke. Yet, since he had just filled his right forearm with muscles, it didn't get completely destroyed. Gravis could still block another time with this arm before he had to regrow it.

At least, that would have been the case in the past.

CRRR!

Gravis used his new Laws and completely fixed the arm. '5% Life Energy to block one attack. I can deal with that!'

The Emperor grew enraged and nervous as he continued violently assaulting Gravis with everything he had.

Thanks to Gravis' Law of Suppression and his Law of Fire Composition, the attacks never managed to completely destroy his blocking arm in one hit. This allowed him to fix them for a much smaller cost every time.

Gravis fixed his blocking right arm many times between attacks, and several minutes passed. By now, Gravis' usage of Life Energy was just a bit below his regeneration of lightning. As long as nothing unforeseen happened, Gravis could kill the Emperor in the next hour. He only had to survive!

Yet, something unforeseen did happen. Something happened that Gravis would have never expected.

The Emperor stopped attacking and only glared at Gravis for several seconds. Then, he took a deep breath.

”I give up,” the Emperor said.

Gravis was shocked when he heard that. Was this some kind of trick? The fight wasn't over yet! The Emperor couldn't possibly know that Gravis was out-regenerating him.

”What?” Gravis asked, shocked.

”I give up,” the Emperor said again.

”Why?” Gravis asked.

”Look around you,” the Emperor answered neutrally.

For the first time, Gravis had time to pay attention to his magma-filled surroundings.

'So, that's why!' Gravis thought as he realized the reason.

What did Gravis see?

In the surrounding 500 kilometers, Gravis saw a total of four different Emperors watching the fight. These were all Emperors from the land beasts' camp. Several minutes had passed, which was enough for the scattered defensive line to inform the surrounding Empires. The Emperors immediately charged to this location and had been watching the fight.

Of course, none of these Emperors were as stupid as Commander Rime. They all kept themselves out of the fight since this was Gravis' tempering experience. Yet, if the traitorous Emperor decided to flee or if Gravis died, they would charge him.

Gravis' death was only worth something if the traitorous Emperor could claim the reward. Yet, with all these Emperors around him, he knew very well that he wouldn't be able to survive.

This had also been the reason why the Emperor had been so desperate to finish the fight so quickly. He had gambled on the fact that he could kill Gravis before the Emperors arrived. Sadly, he had lost the gamble, and now, it was too late.

The fight was over.

”And you don't want to kill me out of revenge?” Gravis asked coldly.

”What's the point?” the Emperor asked neutrally. ”My goal is supreme power, not your death. You were only a treasure that I wanted to obtain to make me more powerful.”

Gravis sighed when he heard the Emperor. What a disappointing end to a fight. Instead of fighting to his death, his enemy had simply given up. On top of that, he had missed the perfect opportunity of killing Gravis due to his indecisiveness.

What opportunity?

Every Emperor counted as a Divine Beast, which meant that they also all had the all-out attack of Divine Beasts. If the Emperor had used that attack at the right moment, Gravis would have died. Yet, the Emperor hadn't been willing to fall an entire Realm. This had been his undoing.

”Go ahead, end it. I won't defend myself,” the Emperor said neutrally as he just stood there, motionlessly.

”I don't have enough Energy to kill you yet. First, I need to regenerate,” Gravis said.