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.

is captured and tortured for the remainder of their natural life is surviving, but not living. Don't forget that

than death is surviving,

being too far into

"Tell me, Gravis."

I living

insides shook when he heard these emotionless words

would Gravis feel in

being trapped in one world, unable to

know enough about the concepts of

was entirely different from being trapped in

beings in the highest world

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

the Heaven's Magnates and the

what about this

Major Law of the True

had been Exar, who knew the Major

the Major Law of

the Major Law

know the Major

integral to understanding the

ten billion years of

Arc was not free.

not have anyone he could truly connect with except for

any love for

his wife, his family, and the highest Heaven, even if he didn't like

Heaven had

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

would soon

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

the endless years of unchanging loneliness had probably ground

someone might actually prefer a battle to

seeking death, Arc?" Gravis asked,

and slowly shook his

grow and teaching them

looked at the

even the smallest glimmer of light shines

heart, but he

it pity? Empathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

thing he did know was that

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?"

the back of his head awkwardly with a bitter

could phrase it like

words made Gravis

life

create terrible lives with basically no

Heavens

Heavens want

at the sky with

it's the highest Heaven that

I don't like the highest Heaven, I can't put all the blame

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