Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis kept close watch over his developing children as the years passed. In the beginning, these eggs didn't feel any different to him than looking at any other beast. Yet, as time passed, Gravis slowly started building a connection with them.

In the beginning, his feelings hadn't truly realized that these were his children, but Gravis kept telling himself, "these are my children," over and over again. He kept saying that to himself as he saw their slow development through the transparent eggs.

As time passed, he started feeling for them. A close feeling of kinship appeared as Gravis felt things he had never felt before. To him, it felt warm and soft. Just watching the growth of these small things felt enticing and interesting to him. It was like he couldn't pay attention to anything else anymore.

In the fourth year, they slowly started developing traits that were similar to Gravis. Their scales hadn't appeared yet, but their general body shape started reflecting Gravis' body shape. Tiny arms, tiny legs, and tiny tails also started appearing on their bodies over time.

In the sixth year, these small things started moving a little bit from time to time. By now, Gravis' had already realized that these small things were three fragile lives that existed only because of him and the Empress. He had created these small babies, just like his father and mother had created him.

"Am I truly ready to be a parent?" Gravis asked himself with uncertainty. As his connection with the tiny things strengthened, he started becoming nervous. What if he made a mistake? What if he wasn't able to guide them correctly? What if he hurt them unknowingly?

These were his children, and children were nearly always more important than the lives of the parents. By now, Gravis started thinking that stopping to cultivate in order to have a family wasn't such a bad thing after all.

Yes, Gravis still hadn't achieved his goal, and he still wanted to have true freedom, but if he were put before a choice, he wouldn't know what to choose anymore. Thinking about being before such a choice hurt him immensely, and he tried to distract himself whenever his head went to that place.

'I only need to stay with them until they can fully rely on themselves. When I tell them my problem in the future, I'm sure they can understand my viewpoint. I don't need to choose between my children and cultivation. With enough time, I can have both,' Gravis thought to himself.

in mind. Right now, he only watched them because he felt close to them. He simply wanted to watch his children's growth. Gravis even only partially paid attention to

he sighed and looked at the sky. 'Father has told me that Heaven has only created these feelings of closeness so that it will drive us to power when

it felt alone in its world and betrayed. Maybe it only

Heaven were a mystery, and not even his father managed to see through all of them. One could only discern things about Heaven based on what it had shown them. Unfortunately, the highest Heaven kept to

to sacrifice their lives for people in need that they didn't even know,

similar to humans? Just because nearly everyone believed in Heaven's fairness, did it automatically mean that it was fair? Just because his father believed Heaven to be an evil and selfish being, did it

There were people in the world that believed themselves to be kind and good but would be willing to kill someone

to kill someone for wealth, they would find a justification to not take the wealth. Maybe they said that they didn't need the wealth of someone that weak? Maybe they said that it was beneath them to kill someone

as much Energy as possible and acted that way. Maybe Heaven truly had the power to kill his father but decided not to kill him due to

that stood on its level. There was a realistic chance that Heaven simply didn't want to be alone, just

head. 'Thinking about this is useless. Maybe I am simply projecting my

children. Right now, he didn't care about his incoming breakthrough to the Nascent Nourishing Realm or about his progress in understanding more Laws. As long as

'My progress has halted, but my days have been as colorful and joyful as never before. Every time I see them move, I have this urge to

By now, the three little lives inside looked almost identical to him. The only thing missing was their scales since they still

for them. By now, he had realized that his

someone as powerful as Gravis. This showed him that his children had nothing human in them. Yet, was that so bad? No, it wasn't. In terms of personality, Gravis agreed with beasts