Chapter 864: Blonde Guy (1/2)

Gravis appeared in Arc's clearing.

THUNK! SPLAT!

However, Gravis immediately walked against a hard wall.

Gravis' eyes involuntarily closed as he rubbed his nose with teary eyes. Yes, even Immortal Kings weren't immune from tearing up when their nose was punched. It just happened.

'Wait, why is my hand wet?' Gravis thought as he looked at his hand.

Red and brown juice and mush.

Gravis' eyes widened in horror.

He had carried one of his fruits in his hands to ask Arc about them, but he had just been teleported in front of a wall.

His fruit had been smashed!

Gravis' mind was going wild as his Will-Aura involuntarily activated due to stress. Then, he quickly looked around the clearing.

He saw Arc with a smirk on his face and a red-brown fruit in his hands.

Gravis became confused again and looked at the remains of his fruit in his hand.

There was no Life Energy inside them.

Gravis gritted his teeth. ”Fuck you, Arc! That's not funny!” he shouted as he pointed at Arc aggressively.

And then, Arc broke down in laughter.

Gravis had just thought that he had lost one of his fruits! He had paid a lot for them, and they had been his gateway to his first level five Law. They were really important to him!

And then, this asshole played a prank on him and switched the fruit, making Gravis think that he had lost one of them!

Gravis only glared at Arc for several seconds, but Arc continued laughing.

”Stop laughing!” Gravis shouted.

That only made Arc laugh harder.

Splash!

Suddenly, Gravis felt a wet hand wiping something onto his clothes. Gravis immediately turned to his left and realized that the wall he had run into wasn't a wall.

A tall, blonde man had wiped off the fruit juice from his robes and had cleaned his dirty hand on Gravis' robes. The man had no expression. It was just like he was mindlessly cleaning his hand.

”Oh, sorry,” Gravis said as he realized that he had run into another guy and not a wall.

”No problem,” the guy answered. ”You should get used to teacher's weird sense of humor.”

While Arc continued laughing, Gravis looked at the man some more. ”Hey, weren't you the guy that invited me to this place?” Gravis asked.

Yes, this was the same person that had stopped the time around Gravis outside the Unrestrained Sect to hand him Arc's emblem.

The man nodded. ”I also remember you,” he said. ”Your particular personality, Laws, and body left quite an impression in my mind.”

Gravis glanced at Arc for a second and scoffed. Then, he turned back to the man as he grabbed his fruit from Arc's hand.

”Would you be so kind as to answer two questions of mine regarding this fruit?” Gravis asked.

Arc stopped laughing as he looked at Gravis with furrowed brows. Meanwhile, Gravis only smirked at Arc. 'You want to play a prank on me, huh? Well, seems like we won't be talking this time. Shoulda thought about that before deciding to screw me over.'

The man looked at the fruit and also at Gravis with a side-eye. He was a bit surprised that Gravis seemed completely calm. One had to know that he was the eldest disciple of Arc and one of the world's most powerful beings.

If any other person or beast had run into him and dirtied his robes with fruit juice, they would be apologetic beyond comparison. Meanwhile, Gravis just waved it off and also asked him some questions.

This interested the blonde man, and he nodded.

Gravis' smirk intensified when he saw that the blonde guy agreed.

”How long does it take until the effect of the fruit vanishes, and is it damaging to my future if I take them?” Gravis asked.

Both of these things were important to know. The first part was important since it decided if Gravis ate the fruits before or after his tempering. The second question was important for his future. After all, if something showed a Law with too much clarity, it would make it far harder to comprehend Laws with normal Law Comprehension Areas in the future.

The guy looked at the fruit. ”You met Narcissus?” he asked.

Gravis was a bit confused, but the small tree in the center of the Law Comprehension Areas appeared in his mind. ”That small tree in the middle of the Law Comprehension Areas?” he asked.

The blonde guy furrowed his brows. ”You're lucky you're still alive,” he said.

”Why?” Gravis asked in surprise.

”Narcissus knows several Soul Laws, and he can easily tell humans from beasts,” he said.

When Gravis heard that, he felt like his heart was gripped by terror.

Didn't that mean that the tree knew that Gravis was a human?

Then, how was he still alive?

”How am I still alive?” Gravis asked the blonde man in shock.