Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis and Yersi were still in shock for some hours. They had not seen this turn of events coming at all. The trio that had been together for around 200 years suddenly split up. Now, only the two of them lived together in this apartment.

Gravis was not sure how he should feel about Orthar leaving. On one hand, Orthar was his closest friend, and he had just left. This made Gravis feel a feeling of loss and abandonment.

Yet, on the other hand, Orthar found something out about his being. So, wasn't this a good thing for him? Gravis' father told him that Orthar was still himself and that he was safe. Wasn't that everything that Gravis needed to know?

Was this any different from all the other times Gravis split off from his friends?

When Orthar left, Gravis started thinking about his other friends again. He thought about them occasionally, but there was nothing he could do, which was why he hadn't asked about them.

'I think this is the perfect opportunity to ask how many of my friends are actually still alive,' Gravis thought. 'Additionally, Aris and Cera have already spent 2,000 years in the higher worlds. They are probably still Immortals, but I hope they are well.'

"Yersi, I'm going to ask father about Aris, Cera, and some of my old friends," Gravis said.

Yersi released a sigh. Now, for the first time, she was feeling the same feeling that Gravis had felt whenever he asked his father about the wellbeing of his friends. She felt the uncertainty. What if Aris and Cera were already dead? What then?

"Do you want to come with me?" Gravis asked.

Yersi waited for some seconds.

"No, I don't think I want to," she said. "Just tell me about it later."

Gravis could understand that decision and nodded. "Sure."

SHING!

And Gravis teleported to his father.

Gravis looked around his father's room, but he couldn't see the Black Magnate anywhere.

"He left," the Opposer said.

"How come?" Gravis asked.

"He can't always remain here with me and decided that he wanted to re-experience the world. A lot of things have changed, and he wants to see if he can find other, like-minded individuals," the Opposer said.

nodded and sat down in front

Whoop!

he said. "You said you would talk with me about a way to

some coffee for himself. "Yes," he said. "Usually, you would only need to rent a garden and grow your own plant. This

drank a mouthful of coffee, and the taste immediately carried him away into nostalgia. "Usually?" Gravis asked. "This probably has

impossible for you. Unraveling the makeup of a being is not difficult, but transforming it into something completely different while still retaining its being encroaches on the territories of the

need to fuse it with the Law of the Dead World to create the Law of the Living World," the Opposer

even more powerful and advanced than the Law of the Dead World

The Opposer nodded.

it then," Gravis said. "That's a bit overkill for just

Some silence returned.

"Many years have passed, and I would

many beings that you call friends," the

unimportant ones, his friends from the lower world. So much time had passed, and they

is over twice as long as the longevity of someone in the Law Comprehension

meant that his friends were either

There was no in-between.

Lasar had already died. This left Nero, Joyce, Manuel, Old Man Lightning, Skye, and

about Nero?"

was that again?"

I met in the Heaven's Trial, the one who

to Nero, the Opposer's memory and perception were still

time and watched Nero's

After nearly dying in a tempering experience, he decided to slowly comprehend Laws and raise his Realm. He reached the late Nascent Nourishing Realm and realized that his Will-Aura was too weak. Because of that, he abandoned cultivation and took up a position as an

of longevity ran out. That was

him, but he still felt a pit in his stomach when he heard that Nero died. Gravis didn't grieve for the dead Nero but for the death of

he had spent a bit more time with him. They had never really

Gravis sighed and nodded.

about Aion?"

Opposer looked

know," Gravis said. "That one Heavenborn that helped

the timestream

In the middle world, he was no longer being hunted by everyone, and he settled down. In the end, he became a merchant, fathered a ton of