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.

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

that's worse than

far into darkness, they

"Tell me, Gravis."

living or

heard these emotionless words

feel in Arc's

in one world, unable to

that know enough about the concepts of the

highest world was entirely

beings in the highest world that knew all

the highest Heaven knew, except for the

separated the

about

Law of

Exar, who knew the Major Law of the Dead

didn't know the Major Law of

the Major

Major

was integral to understanding

ten billion years of being

Arc was not free.

did not have anyone he could truly

feel any love

family, and the

highest Heaven had the

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

would

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

unchanging loneliness had

might actually prefer a battle

Gravis asked, looking into Arc's

bitterly and slowly shook

he answered. "I just want to make the most of my time. Seeing someone else grow and teaching them about the

at the

been in isolated darkness for an eternity, even the smallest glimmer of light shines as bright

Gravis' heart, but he wasn't able to

Empathy? Sympathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

was that he

possible, even if it puts you in mortal danger. If you

"Is that it?"

back of his head awkwardly

think you could phrase

made

life be

create terrible lives with basically

Heavens and want to

want to be just

looked at the

essence, it's the highest Heaven that forced

highest Heaven, I can't put all

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