Chapter 751: Isolated Family (1/2)

No one noticed that Gravis had gone. Even if there had been an Immortal King watching over him, they wouldn't even have realized that he had left. It was like reality had been changed as if Gravis had never been there, to begin with.

SHING!

Gravis reappeared at a different spot, and he immediately felt some vertigo as his body shook a little bit. 'Shit! The sensation of spatial displacement has never been this intense before. This probably means that I have teleported an insanely long distance.'

”Welcome, Senior Brother!” the excited voice of a kid appeared.

Gravis shook his head a bit to regain his bearings as he looked at the speaker.

It was a ten-year-old boy in the Spirit Forming Realm. He looked excited like a little kid as he looked at Gravis with widely opened eyes.

”Oh, sorry,” Gravis said. ”I'm not your Senior Brother.”

”You're not?” the young boy asked with shock. ”But you are here. Everyone is part of my family here!”

Gravis looked around and noticed that the boy was not the only person here.

Around a hundred different people were all looking at Gravis with different expressions. Most of them looked at him with excitement and shock, but the more powerful ones had different expressions.

The young and weak beings looked at Gravis with wonder and excitement, while the older and more powerful ones looked at him with a bit of confusion, hesitation, and skepticism.

Beings?

Yes, there were not only humans here. Gravis could also see that there were a lot of young beasts. Normal humans might not be able to see the subtle differences of age among beasts, but Gravis had lived among beasts for over a thousand years. He could tell that a lot of them were very young.

”Why have you come here?” an Early Minor Circulation Immortal King asked Gravis with furrowed brows. Yes, even Immortal Kings were here. There were even several beings with powers so great that Gravis couldn't even judge their power.

Immortal Kings and Immortal Emperors were experienced enough to feel the subtle differences between Gravis and the normal new members of their family.

The new members always radiated a subtle feeling of isolation.

Gravis radiated a feeling of mature harmony with the world, which meant that he was relatively secure in his life without any significant emotional problems.

The new members always had slightly more powerful Will-Auras than normal, but Gravis' Will-Aura was just far too powerful. Someone with such an insanely powerful Will-Aura for their Realm would not join their family. Someone like that could easily take care of themselves and would count as a valuable genius among the outside world.

The new members always had average or slightly above average Battle-Strength.

However, the experienced eyes of the Immortal Kings could discern Gravis' Battle-Strength.

His Battle-Strength was so unreal that it bordered on a parody or a lie. It easily broke through any kind of common convention.

In short, Gravis stuck out like a sore thumb to all of the Immortal Kings.

Gravis was the complete opposite of what their teacher looked for in new members.

Gravis looked at the Immortal King and scratched the back of his head. ”I'm not really sure myself. Some blonde Immortal Emperor gave me an emblem. Apparently, someone he calls teacher wants to speak to me. However, the Immortal Emperor made it very clear that I would not join your… Sect? Family? Power? Organization? I don't know, really.”

The Immortal King's eyes widened as she looked at Gravis with surprise. ”You have met Eldest Brother?” she asked.

”I don't know his name,” Gravis said. ”He didn't really introduce himself.”

The children were a bit confused. Someone had come here that wouldn't be part of their family? Something like this was possible?

The Immortal King still looked with skepticism at Gravis, but suddenly, her eyes twinkled for a brief moment. Then, she started smiling and bowed in politeness. ”Excuse me for my rudeness. Teacher has just contacted me and told me that I should bring you to him.”

Gravis nodded. ”No problem. Thank you,” he said.

”Nothing to thank,” she said with a smile. Then, she gestured in a certain direction. ”Please follow me.”

”Sure,” Gravis said.

Gravis started following her, but not before he found out several details based on context clues.

First of all, the children were very confused when he said that he wasn't part of their family. This meant that no one entered here that wasn't part of the family. Something like this seemed normal and obvious, but when one thought about something else, one would find out something strange.

Did these people all not have any kind of family or friends outside this ”family” here? If they had, wouldn't these friends and families visit from time to time, making the appearance of someone not from the ”family” normal?

This meant that these people were either shut off from the outside world or weren't allowed to meet their close ones in this place.

Another thing that Gravis noticed was the beasts. Based on how the people Gravis had met before in this world had talked, Gravis was pretty certain that beasts and humans weren't fond of each other. There might even be a war between them to promote tempering.

Yet, in here, beasts and humans talked to each other like they were not different. This might not be unusual in the highest world, but in this world where humans were not fond of beasts? Unusual.