Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis felt a pit in his stomach.

Wendy looked down at the ground. "You can probably guess what happened next. The executioner had been sent here to kill my husband," her voice quietened. "He never stood a chance."

Gravis also sighed. Wendy went through a lot of hardships. The closest person to Gravis that ever died was Stella, back in his homeworld, which couldn't be compared with losing one's love. They had only been very close friends, and Gravis had still been young.

Wendy continued narrating. "I was devastated for months, and I only felt pain. How foolish was I to believe that Heaven sent my husband back to me? I tried to cope with the situation by learning about history because I wanted to understand why that happened. I went to a city and learned all I could about Heavenborn and how they acted."

"After a long time and a lot of reading, I realized that Heaven didn't care about the individual. It only cares about the whole. Everything that it deems a danger to its rule would be destroyed. The history books said that no one who managed to condense a Will-Aura in the Body Tempering Realm ever survived to reach the Magic Gathering Realm."

Her eyes grew severe, and Gravis could feel rage coming from her. "I was angry, and I started hating Heaven. Why did my husband have to die when he managed to save his life? Did Heaven doom him to be a slave? Was being a slave his only way to survive? At that point, my ambition had returned, and everything I felt before, vanished."

Gravis sighed and thought that if the same thing happened to him, he would maybe also change into something completely different. Something like this could change a person fundamentally.

Wendy gnashed her teeth. "I know that my husband only wants me to live in happiness, and I also know that he would never wish for me to fight against Heaven," then she sighed, "but I am not that strong. I can't forget him, and I only want to meet him in the afterlife."

allow for it to never pay for what it had done. On that day, I decided to dedicate my life to fighting

nodded. That

wept for my husband, I never said anything bad about Heaven. I knew that I could never release my inner feelings, not even when I was alone," she sighed. "It was incredibly hard to never talk about this, and this

right. Heaven can hear and see everything, but it can't read minds. If you

and, instead, continued telling her story. "I quickly joined the Proxy-Wind Guild and managed to break through

nearly every day with multiple beasts and explored a lot. About a year later, I managed to condense a Will-Aura while I was still in the third level of Magic Gathering, but that wasn't the end. I never stopped tempering myself and never stopped exploring. I knew

and he could empathize with her undying greed for strength. He was similar to her

find an inheritance from someone that had ascended,"

into this world. He was absolutely sure that only his homeworld had that ability, and his homeworld wouldn't allow someone to do something

Gravis. "When people reach the Unity Realm, they can remain in this world for one month before they are forced to ascend. That's probably something that Heaven grants them so that they could get their affairs in order. What can they do anyway? The

heard the name of the fourth major

and wanted to take his revenge. When he broke through, he attacked the Heaven Sect and got beaten back by the High Priest. For some reason, the High Priest didn't kill him and just let him continue living. Seeing that he couldn't take his revenge,

help? At best, I could just do the same as him. What would that change?

when I hugged my mother and father, I felt nothing," she said. "Every feeling of warmth had died, and not even the warmth and love of my family warmed my heart. It was like

He couldn't imagine losing his emotions and growing so cold that even his family couldn't help him recover. Compared to Wendy, his life had actually been easier. She