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.

and sat down in front of his

Whoop!

cup of coffee appeared in front of Gravis, who quickly accepted it. "This reminds me," he said. "You said you would talk with me about a way to grow and

said. "Usually, you would only need to rent a garden and grow your own plant. This would involve changing its

the taste immediately carried him away into nostalgia.

the makeup of a being is not difficult, but transforming it into something completely different while still retaining its being

you need to comprehend the Life Law first. After that, you need to fuse it with the Law of the Dead World to create

more powerful and advanced than

The Opposer nodded.

then," Gravis said. "That's a

Some silence returned.

"Many years have passed, and I would like

far too many beings that you call friends,"

was the moment of truth, but Gravis wanted to start with the relatively distant and unimportant ones, his friends from the lower world. So much time had passed, and they probably had

friends from the lower world, over 22,000 years had already passed. This is over

that his friends were either already in the higher world

There was no in-between.

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

Nero?"

again?" the

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

thought back and remembered the quiet kid. Even though he didn't pay attention to Nero, the

time and watched Nero's entire life in a

raise his Realm. He reached the late Nascent Nourishing Realm and realized that his Will-Aura was too weak. Because

remained in that position until his 3,000 years of longevity ran

had already accepted that his old friends would drift apart from him, but he still felt a pit in his stomach when he heard that Nero died. Gravis didn't grieve

end, Gravis wished that he had spent a bit more time with him. They had never really gotten to know each

Gravis sighed and nodded.

Aion?" Gravis

looked at

said. "That one Heavenborn

inspected the timestream of

something that he had never thought would be possible. In the middle world, he was no longer being hunted by everyone, and he settled down. In the