Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis exited the hall and saw his homeworld's sky for the first time in six years. It looked similar to the sky of the lower world, but there was one clear difference.

SHOO! SHOO! SHOO!

The sky above him was nearly invisible due to all the flying carts and cultivators shooting around. Above the city, the Sky Community resided. Everyone with a certain minimum of strength could fly around and trade in the Sky Community. This made the Sky Community technically a part of the city, but a humongous one. There was over ten times the number of people in the Sky Community than in the city itself.

One should remember that the teleporting beggars Gravis was talking about were the beggars in the actual city, not the Sky Community. These beggars were more powerful than the people in the Sky Community. That was evident by the fact that they were allowed to live inside the actual city.

Some people might find the prospect of being a beggar to be degrading, but one shouldn't be blinded by the beggar-status. Every single person actually residing in the city had supreme power. If even one of these people felt some pity for a beggar, they might throw something at them. Something that such a powerful person carried with them might be worthless to them, but an unprecedented treasure to the beggars.

Instead of looking down at the beggars, the people in the Sky Community were envious. They wished that they could have the strength to beg in the city's streets. This was the city where the Opposer resided, and he surely wouldn't pick some random spot to settle down.

This part of the world had the densest Energy out of everywhere else. The closer one got to the castle of the Opposer, the denser the Energy. That was due to two reasons. One, the spot was the absolute center of the world, and two, the Opposer pulled Energy to himself like a black hole.

It was common knowledge in the world that nearly all the Energy in the highest world was moving slowly to the Opposer. His attraction towards Energy was just ridiculous.

In the early days, people were afraid of being seen as stealing the Opposer's Energy, but over generations and generations of progressively more courageous people, they had noticed that the Opposer didn't care. They only had to keep a certain distance from his castle. Many lives had been ended by coming too close to the castle, which allowed them to judge the exact distance.

Due to this, the people created a city around his abode without him even ordering it. More people came due to the higher Energy, and they wanted to have buildings to live in. With more people came more buildings, which required more people to manufacture the buildings.

At some point, everything had been so overcrowded that a council for the city had been created, which established the rules. A minimum requirement for power had been put into place. After all, how dare some weaklings reside in such a prime spot? Someone stronger would simply beat them to death and take their place, which created an equilibrium for necessary power.

in the sky created a requirement for

as he was lost in his memories. He remembered how he had watched the Sky Community

a spot for her family in the main city. If she flew to the Sky Community, everyone would make way for her in fear. Yet, she always only watched it

in mind to hurt my father by hurting me. I guess she was a similar existence to the secret High Priest that created the Heaven's Trial, someone that becomes powerful just

choice and then just dying. What's the point of becoming powerful if

minutes, Gravis regained his usual calm and smiled a bit. "Well, now I can finally fly up there and join them," he

been out of reach for him. He had always longed to fly

Whoosh!

his full speed was only equal to his

a minute to reach the lowest

were at the edge of the

I wonder how many Gods reside in this city. How

was lost in

up space, kid," a voice came from the shop beside

in a bad mood, apparently. He was close

aura was so mighty that Gravis felt helpless in

you deaf?" the guy said again.

block the entrance for new customers. "I was stunned by the

feel my power says good things about your strength, kid. But