Lightning Is the Only Way

Chapter 1000

"Arc, are you truly only helping me because you want our fight to be enjoyable?" Gravis asked, looking at the horizon.

"Why not?" Arc asked. "It would be boring otherwise."

Silence.

"Arc, are you not afraid of death?" Gravis asked.

"Death, huh?" Arc repeated with a distracted voice.

"Death is a distant concept for me, Gravis. I see death all around me, but I never felt like the concept had anything to do with me. It's like watching an animal. I'm not an animal, yet I know a lot about the animal."

"So, while I do know that death might even come for me, I don't feel like it will."

Silence.

"Isn't that how nearly everyone thinks?" Gravis asks.

"I guess so," Arc said with a slight chuckle. "Anyway, isn't it normal to temper yourself on your path to power? I haven't tempered myself in a really long time. What makes our fight any different from normal tempering?"

"The difference is that I don't want to kill you," Gravis answered, looking at Arc.

Silence.

Then, Arc sighed.

"I know," he said. "I also don't want to kill you."

"Sadly, there's nothing we can do. You need my Energy to become a Star God, and you won't give up your dream of freedom for my life. We both know that."

"The thing that forces you into this decision is my Creator, and you're not powerful enough to resist him yet. For now, you have no other choice but to follow his will," Arc explained.

Gravis also sighed.

"I know," he said with a bitter voice. "I might perceive myself as free, but that is only perceived reality. In physical reality, I'm not free. That's why I need power."

"See?" Arc asked with a smirk. "So, why ask that question? You can't change anything about physical reality anyway. You're a couple Realms short."

Silence.

"But why are you helping me, though?" Gravis asked again, looking into Arc's eyes. "Every living being has the drive to survive, and by helping me, you are specifically going against that drive. You are pushing me out of a burning pit by jumping into it. You can just decide not to jump into the burning pit. No one would fault you for that."

"We are friends, but we are not so close that we would sacrifice our lives for each other."

"So, why? Why continually walk closer to your death?"

Silence.

More silence.

"You misunderstood something, Gravis," Arc said with a neutral voice. For once, his voice didn't sound chipper or lighthearted.

Instead, it sounded serious and emotionless.

"You said that every living being strives for survival, but that isn't the case."

Gravis furrowed his brows at Arc.

"Living beings don't strive for survival but for life."

Gravis lifted an eyebrow.

surviving, but not living. Don't forget that there is a

life that's worse than death is surviving,

being too far into darkness, they will

"Tell me, Gravis."

living or

insides shook when he heard these

Gravis feel in

one

know enough about the concepts of the Cosmos

the highest world was entirely different from being trapped

highest world that knew

knew, except for the Major Law of Death and the highest

step separated the Heaven's Magnates and the highest

about this

Major Law of the True

closest person to him had been Exar, who knew the

know the Major

know the Major

didn't know the Major Law of Perceived

was integral to understanding the

years of being

Arc was not free.

have anyone he could truly connect with except

any love for

wife, his family, and the highest

Heaven had

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

Gravis would soon

first time, Gravis realized that Arc wasn't truly as carefree as he made

years of unchanging loneliness had probably

situation, someone might actually prefer a battle to the death over

seeking death, Arc?" Gravis asked, looking into

bitterly and slowly shook his

someone else grow and

looked at the

in isolated darkness for an eternity, even the smallest glimmer

but he

it pity? Empathy? Sympathy? Sorrow? Guilt?

Gravis wasn't sure.

was that he didn't like that feeling one

small light to shine as bright as possible, even if it puts you in mortal danger. If you survive, it will be a cherished memory, and if

"Is that it?"

back of his head awkwardly with a

you could phrase

made Gravis

must life be so

create terrible lives with basically

many people envy the Heavens and want to

want to be

at the

the highest Heaven that forced Arc

Heaven,

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