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

than death is

too far into darkness, they will prefer

"Tell me, Gravis."

I living or

when he heard these emotionless words from

would Gravis feel in Arc's

in one world, unable to

being around beings that know enough about the concepts of the

world was entirely different

in the highest

that the highest Heaven knew, except for the Major Law

step separated the Heaven's

what about this

Major Law of the True

him had been Exar, who knew the Major Law of the

the Major Law

didn't know the Major

the Major

Laws was integral to

years

Arc was not free.

anyone he could truly connect with

didn't feel any love

the highest Heaven, even if he didn't

Heaven had the

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

would

time, Gravis realized that Arc wasn't

the endless years of unchanging loneliness had probably ground him

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

Arc?" Gravis asked,

bitterly and slowly shook his

else grow and teaching them about the

looked at the

darkness for an eternity, even the smallest glimmer

complex feeling appeared in Gravis' heart, but he wasn't able

Empathy? Sympathy? Sorrow?

Gravis wasn't sure.

was that

mortal danger. If you survive, it will be a cherished memory, and if you

"Is that it?"

back of his head awkwardly with

think you could

words made Gravis

life

terrible lives with basically no

the Heavens and want

many Heavens want to be

the sky

it's the highest Heaven

the highest Heaven, I can't put all the blame on

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