Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis pulled the thing out and looked at it.

"CREEEEEE"

It released a maddened and enraged shriek, but Gravis didn't falter. It was a long, black worm with eyes completely covering its body. It looked like an abomination that parents would make up to scare their children into behaving.

More spires shot at Gravis, but Gravis only tightened his hold on the worm. The spires broke down before they could reach him.

"You look really disgusting, Heaven," Gravis said evenly. "Who would have expected that the thing that has haunted me for six whole years was such a disgusting worm? Would you have ever expected that this day would come?"

"You meddling ant!" it shouted in its screechy voice. "Why won't you just die!? If your father weren't there to protect you, you would have died long ago!"

"And if you weren't born from Heaven, you would have also died many times over. Background is also a part of strength," Gravis said.

"CREEEEEE!"

It shouted as Gravis used more of his strength. This was a shout of pain, and Gravis enjoyed it. Finally, Heaven felt a sliver of what he had felt for the past six years.

"Is it infuriating to be suppressed? Isn't it horrible when someone stronger than you can control your life?" Gravis asked.

"You won't dare to kill me! If I die, this whole world will be destroyed!" it screeched.

Gravis looked at the world as the black holes were devouring it. Then, he turned back to the black worm.

"Sorry, but this world is more important than your life," he said.

The worm became happy, but then, the Void-Stone Saber stabbed through its mouth. It released another high-pitched screech, and Gravis started turning the saber slowly inside Heaven's body. After around a minute, the worm fell silent.

BOOOOOOOM!

A shower of Energy exploded out of the worm as all its saved-up Energy was released into the world. Luckily, the corpse remained in one piece. Without someone guiding the Energy, it merely entered the holes without repairing them. Gravis remained calm as the world was ending around him.

"Don't play jokes on me. You won't let this world go to waste," Gravis said.

Whooosh!

All the holes vanished instantaneously. The destroyed continents were also restored to their status before the fight had begun. Yet, the dead remained dead. Everything recovered, except life.

Whoooosh!

Energy reappeared in the atmosphere, and in no time, it regained its old density. If there weren't so many dead people and beasts, one would believe that everything had been a dream.

hadn't seen the highest Heaven repair the highest world before, he might have believed this lower Heaven. At that point, he would have hesitated. Yet, what was a lower world to the highest Heaven? Even if there were only one lifeless grain

that they were still alive. Yet, the sadness of their dead loved ones immediately hit them. They were happy that they were still alive but sad

Outer-Continent had been spared from the massacre. They only felt the Energy reducing and felt

they were fast enough to escape the destruction. Initially, they had believed that their homes would be destroyed, but with the highest

Spirit Forming Realm had died, while only some in the Energy Gathering Realm died. The people that had it the worst were the Body Tempering

Whoop!

Spirit Space. He might have a use for Heaven's

sigh. Heaven had died, and his enmity had been avenged. Looking across the restored world, Gravis felt a feeling of emptiness. "Was it

saw the grieving people all over the world. He knew that his fight with Heaven would create collateral damage, but not this much. Yet, what could he do? His lightning

I am a monster?" Gravis asked

complicated look on his face but then sighed. "I can't fault you for what you did. I know lightning, and it

had noticed that

She had been excited for Gravis' fight with Heaven, but she hadn't expected that the world would suffer that much. She was an empathic and emotional person, so she felt

what you think of me,' Gravis wanted to say to her but couldn't. He didn't want to hear her

into the distance. There was one last

the Middle-Continent. Gravis stopped as he looked at something, which

hurricane hawk.

It didn't know this human, but the human's aura seemed incredibly familiar.

Snort!

saw that, he sighed again as a lump of guilt formed in his throat.

bird

PACK!

side with its mighty wing. Gravis' body wasn't entirely without strength while flying. Having a body at the Seed Stage was light enough to fly with. Otherwise, his own speed might kill him. Yet, the slap still hurt, and

Plop!

landed on Skye's

this!" Skye transmitted to Gravis with an angry voice. As a Spirit Beast, Skye had the capability to transmit its thoughts. On top of that, it had always been

shocked for a second but then smiled warmly. Skye hadn't been angry because of what he had done,

Skye," Gravis said,

was

Skye hadn't known that it was Gravis who had nearly ended the world. After all, Gravis' voice had only been

Skye didn't know, he grew nervous again. He

done!" it shouted in excitement as Gravis finished his tale. "I'm honored to call

mind that I have killed

automatically makes weaker beings suffer. It's

was simple, but it rang true. Hadn't Gravis thought the same thing after he had realized the change he had brought to the world after he had destroyed the Darkness Sect? How

Skye,"

"Why?" Skye asked.

helped me immensely," Gravis said back. Then,

not?"