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.

but not living. Don't forget that there is a famous phrase: I'll make you

that's worse than death

a being too far into darkness, they will prefer

"Tell me, Gravis."

living

shook when he heard these emotionless words from

Gravis feel in Arc's

in one world, unable

know enough about the concepts of the Cosmos to truly

the highest world was entirely different from

beings in the highest world that

knew all the Laws that the highest Heaven knew, except for the Major Law of Death and the highest

step separated the

what about this

the Major Law

been Exar, who knew the Major Law of the

didn't know the Major Law

didn't know the Major Law

Major

Laws was integral to understanding the

billion years of being

Arc was not free.

he could truly

didn't feel any love

family, and the highest Heaven, even if

highest Heaven

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

Gravis would

wasn't truly as carefree as he

unchanging

prefer a

Arc?" Gravis asked, looking into

and

"I just want to make the most of my time. Seeing someone else grow and teaching them about

looked at

eternity, even the smallest glimmer of light shines

complex feeling appeared in Gravis' heart, but he

pity? Empathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

know was that

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 you die, you didn't

"Is that it?"

his head awkwardly with a bitter

you could phrase it like

made

must life be

can create terrible lives with basically no

people envy the Heavens and want to

many Heavens want

the sky with furrowed

essence, it's the highest Heaven that forced

Heaven, I can't

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