Lightning Is the Only Way

Some seconds passed in silence.

"By the way," the Opposer said. "You can probably also guess now why the old bastard and I are enemies."

Gravis was a bit surprised when he heard that. He had expected that they had some enmity because of something that had happened previously, yet his father said that he could guess it now?

Surprisingly, finding out why his father and Heaven were enemies was more difficult than finding out why death existed. But after some seconds of thinking, Gravis felt like he found the reason.

"You're a humongous storage of Energy without a key to open it," Gravis said.

His father smiled. "Well done. You always were a smart kid," the Opposer said.

Gravis felt happy to hear his father praise him.

"After a certain time," the Opposer explained, "I have reached a Realm that no one had reached before me, but the old bastard had noticed it too late. At that point, I was able to resist his influence. Obviously, I can't tell you exactly how I did that since that would definitely force him to act against you."

"So, after I was able to resist his influence, I became the strongest magnet for Energy in the whole world. Yet, since the old bastard can't kill me, he can't access my Energy. As you said, I'm a huge storage room of Energy that the old bastard can't access. So, he tried to kill me with everything he had. This created our enmity."

"Honestly, though," the Opposer said while furrowing his brows. "I don't know if the old bastard is truly unable to defeat me or if he is only acting like he can't. After all, I am an incredible source of attraction for Cosmic Energy. It could also be that he can kill me but just wants me to become fatter."

Gravis' insides shivered. He couldn't hear worry from his father's voice, but he was pretty sure that he felt his father worry. This was the first time in his life where his father appeared like he didn't have full control over everything. That possibility hadn't even crossed his mind.

The Opposer sighed something that Gravis hadn't seen before. "Actually, around five days ago, I felt like I fell into the old bastard's scheme."

"What do you mean?" Gravis asked with worry.

"That was the time when you reached the Spirit Forming Realm,"

passed for me while

opened a tunnel for lighting to enter you," the Opposer explained. "Energy doesn't have a will, but lightning does. Yet, without a Spirit or soul, lightning can't become

what it could do best:

had expected that he had died back then but hearing it from his father

started summoning and absorbing more lightning. The old bastard hadn't noticed it since you were too weak for him to care about, but I had," he

should know that the manifestation of lightning would have absorbed all the lightning in your lower world in a couple of seconds.

that around 50% of his power would be in lightning and if the manifestation absorbed

killed the old bastard and then the manifestation. After all, I'm more of an all-rounder. Lightning is only a small part of my power. Like this,

the life of only one of thousands of children. In Gravis' mind, he guessed that he would have

want to lose you," he said, his sad and warm tone shaking Gravis' insides again. "I fell to the schemes of Heaven and had love dictate my judgment. I always believed that following Heaven's schemes, and by extension,

has created love to make us stronger, but now, the same thing I have avoided to feel for my entire life has affected my judgment. I wanted to sacrifice your life for Heaven's

hand, he felt happy that his father loved him this much, but on the other hand, he felt guilty that his father wasn't able to achieve his goal. Maybe it

guilty, Gravis," he said strongly. "I have made my decision, and I don't regret it. Don't forget that

remained silent as he

that you have committed a mistake or injured me. My decision to choose your life over my enmity just made everything return to how it was before. Don't forget that this all

unprecedented affinity towards lightning because of this. If anyone ever reaches my Realm, they can only be weaker or equally as strong as me since we followed the same

full strength. So, while there is a possibility that you won't be stronger than me, you

came out of Gravis' eyes. He had never felt much fatherly love from his father, but everything had changed today. His father had chosen him over his lifelong goal. He had often doubted that his father even loved him, but today, he was proven

him. For the first time in a long while,

Gravis said with some

it. You're

as Gravis enjoyed

a smirk. "You managed to kill one of the bastard's children without ascending! No one has ever managed to do that before," he said with