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."

about Heaven? I couldn't allow for it to never pay for what it had done. On that day, I decided to dedicate my

nodded. That was

release my inner feelings, not even when I was alone," she sighed. "It was incredibly hard to never talk about this, and this is the

nodded again. "You're right. Heaven can hear and see everything, but it can't read minds. If you

joined the Proxy-Wind Guild and managed to break through into the Magic Gathering Realm. According to the history books, Heaven had never attacked someone at the

my father was, I started roaming the Middle-Continent. I fought 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 that a Will-Aura wasn't enough to

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

managed to find an inheritance from someone that had ascended," she said, and Gravis

this world.

month before they are forced to ascend. That's probably something that Heaven grants them

Now, he heard the name of the fourth major Realm for the first time. He wondered why

got beaten back by the High Priest. For some

do anything against Heaven, then what can I do, even with his help? At best, I could just do the same as him. What would that change? After I inherited everything, I became very powerful, and I returned

nothing," she said. "Every feeling of warmth had died, and not even the warmth and love of my family warmed my heart. It

for her. 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