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.

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

a life that's worse than death is

push a being too far into darkness, they will

"Tell me, Gravis."

living

he heard these emotionless words

would Gravis feel in Arc's

being trapped in one world,

being around beings that know enough about the concepts of the Cosmos

the highest world was entirely different from

were several beings in the highest world

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

separated the Heaven's

about

the Major Law of

been Exar, who knew the Major

know the Major Law of

know the Major

didn't know the Major Law of Perceived

Laws was integral to understanding

years of

Arc was not free.

anyone he could truly connect

feel any

the highest Heaven, even if he didn't like the

highest Heaven

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

would soon leave

Gravis realized that Arc wasn't truly

unchanging

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

you seeking death, Arc?" Gravis asked, looking

bitterly and slowly

else grow and teaching them about the world might appear interesting to you, but it isn't

at

even the smallest glimmer of light shines as bright as

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

Empathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

thing he did know was that he didn't

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

"Is that it?"

the back of his head

could phrase it

made

life be so

lives with

many people envy the Heavens and

how many Heavens want to be just

the sky with

the highest Heaven that forced Arc into this

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

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