Chapter 612: Simple Wisdom (1/2)

Gravis told Ferris about what had happened at the Ultimate's Meet, and Ferris became shocked beyond belief as more time passed. Apparently, he hadn't known about anything that had been going on. He had seen Meadow's display, but he didn't go there because of all the Ultimates.

Ferris had no idea that he had just killed the last Ultimate of the land beasts. He thought that there were still the three other ones, not counting Meadow.

”So, I killed the last land beast Ultimate?” Ferris asked.

Gravis nodded.

”Wow,” Ferris said. ”That's awesome! I'm responsible for the world changing. That's so cool.”

Gravis chuckled a bit. ”You don't care about what will happen to the land beasts?”

Ferris looked at Gravis with genuine confusion. ”No? Should I? I'm not part of the land beasts anymore.”

Gravis chuckled some more. ”You're right. It doesn't matter.”

Then, Gravis remembered something. ”By the way, what did you think about the Lightning Ultimate when you saw him?” he asked.

Ferris sneered. ”As soon as I saw him, I immediately disliked him. His whole demeanor and being just rubbed me the wrong way. He felt like the sneaky snakey kind. I don't like the sneaky snakey kind.”

Gravis nodded. 'As expected. Ferris has an excellent intuition regarding other beasts.'

Then, Gravis told Ferris about the ruler change in the Icy Pride Empire, and Ferris wasn't surprised at all about that.

After that, Gravis came to the heavy part. He decided to tell Ferris about his problems and what he was currently thinking about.

After Gravis was done, silence reigned.

”I don't get it,” Ferris said in confusion. ”I don't get the problem.”

Gravis sighed when he heard that. ”I didn't expect you to. You know that I'm a human and that I think differently from beasts. I just wanted to share my problems with someone else.”

”No, no,” Ferris quickly answered. ”That's not what I meant. I can just replace your family with some dear companions, like you, for example. I get what you mean with wanting to stay with your companions, but I don't get how this decision can be so hard. It seems pretty obvious to me.”

Gravis chuckled a bit. ”Tell me, Ferris.” He didn't expect much from Ferris' input, but he was still interested in what Ferris was about to say.

”I mean, who cares about the world? We need to change worlds anyway,” Ferris said. ”First of all, if you want to stay here, you must stop cultivating and die here. That's already a big sacrifice.”

”Then, I also don't get your attachment to this world. It's just a place. Earth, fire, water, air, and stuff is cool and all, but the higher world also has all these things.”

”Lastly, I don't get why you call this world your home. That makes no sense,” Ferris said.

Gravis frowned. ”What do you mean with it makes no sense? I lived here for 90% of my life. Isn't a place where you stay for a long time your home?”

Ferris shook his head. ”No,” he said directly. ”My home is where my companions are. If I become too powerful and must leave my companions behind, I just have to search for new ones.”

”You said that you came from a different world than this one. So, you should have had no one when you arrived here. But now, you have a lot of companions. You can just do the same thing in the next world.”

”Besides,” Ferris said carelessly. ”Aren't all of your companions about to ascend soon anyway? When I'm gone, Azure is gone, Styr is gone, your one octopus friend is gone, who will be left? So, your home is not even staying in this world, but moving to another one.”

Gravis remained silent as he listened to Ferris.

Inside, Gravis felt shaken. How had he not seen that? How had he not seen something so obvious!?

Yes, leaving his companions and family behind would be horrible, but that didn't mean that they wouldn't leave him behind. Gravis was sure that his companions wouldn't abort their cultivation just to stay with him. Gravis also didn't want them to. He wanted them to become powerful.