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.

natural life is surviving, but not living. Don't forget that there is a famous phrase:

worse than death is surviving,

push a being too far into

"Tell me, Gravis."

living or

he heard

would Gravis feel

trapped in one

that know enough about the concepts of the Cosmos to

highest world was entirely different from being trapped in a

in the highest

the highest Heaven knew, except

a single step separated the Heaven's Magnates and

about

knew the Major Law

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

know the Major

didn't know the Major Law

know the Major Law

integral

ten billion years of being

Arc was not free.

could truly connect with except

any

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

Heaven had the

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

Gravis would

Gravis realized that Arc wasn't truly as carefree

years of unchanging loneliness had probably ground him

situation, someone might actually prefer a battle to the death

seeking death, Arc?" Gravis asked, looking into

bitterly and slowly shook his

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

looked at

when you have been in isolated darkness for an eternity, even the smallest

but he wasn't able to

pity? Empathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

only thing he did know was that he

this 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

"Is that it?"

the back of his head awkwardly with

think you could phrase

made Gravis sigh

must life be

lives with

envy the Heavens

Heavens want to be

the sky with furrowed

essence, it's the highest Heaven that forced Arc into

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

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