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.

of their natural life is surviving, but not living. Don't forget that there is

life that's worse than death is surviving, not

push a being too far into darkness,

"Tell me, Gravis."

I living

heard

would Gravis feel in Arc's

trapped in one world,

enough about the concepts

was entirely different

several beings in the highest world

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

single step separated the Heaven's Magnates and the

about this

the Major Law of

been Exar, who knew

didn't know the

know the Major

the Major

integral to understanding

ten billion years of

Arc was not free.

could truly connect

any love for

had his wife, his family, and the highest Heaven, even if he

Heaven had

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

Gravis would soon

time, Gravis realized that Arc wasn't

the endless years of unchanging loneliness had

a

seeking death, Arc?" Gravis asked,

bitterly and slowly

want to make the most of my time. Seeing someone else grow and teaching them about the world might

at the

an eternity, even the smallest glimmer of light shines as

Gravis' heart, but he wasn't able

pity? Empathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

that he didn't like

as possible, even if it puts you in mortal danger. If you survive, it will be a cherished memory, and if you die,

"Is that it?"

the back of his head awkwardly with

you could phrase it like

made

must life be

situations can create terrible lives with basically

the Heavens and want

want to

at the sky with

essence, it's the highest Heaven that forced Arc

highest Heaven, I can't put all the

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