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.

living. Don't

that's worse than death is surviving,

you push a being too far into darkness,

"Tell me, Gravis."

I living

when he heard these emotionless

would Gravis feel

one

around beings that know enough about the concepts of

in the highest world was entirely different from being trapped

in the highest world that knew all the

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

separated the Heaven's Magnates and the highest

about this

Major Law of the True

who knew the Major Law of the

the

know the

the Major Law of Perceived

integral to understanding

years

Arc was not free.

not have anyone he could truly connect with except

any love for

the highest Heaven, even

highest Heaven had

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

would

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

years of unchanging

prefer a battle to the death over the unchanging

Arc?" Gravis asked, looking into Arc's

smiled bitterly and slowly shook

of my time. Seeing someone else grow and teaching them about the world might appear interesting to you, but it isn't a life-changing

looked at

have been in isolated darkness for an eternity, even

in Gravis' heart, but he wasn't

it pity? Empathy? Sympathy? Sorrow?

Gravis wasn't sure.

that he didn't like that

it puts you in mortal danger. If you survive, it

"Is that it?"

scratched the back of his head awkwardly with a bitter

could phrase

made

must life

can create terrible lives with

Heavens and

Heavens want

at the

Heaven that forced Arc

the highest Heaven,

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