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.

not living. Don't forget that there

life that's worse than death is

into darkness, they will prefer death over

"Tell me, Gravis."

I living or

insides shook when he heard these emotionless words from

feel in

in one world, unable to

beings that know enough about the

highest world was entirely different from being trapped in

the highest world that knew all

all the Laws that the highest Heaven knew, except for the Major Law of

single step separated the Heaven's Magnates

what about this higher

knew the Major Law

person to him had been Exar, who knew the

know the

didn't know the Major Law of

know the Major Law of Perceived

these Laws was integral

billion years of being

Arc was not free.

he could

didn't feel any love for

the highest Heaven, even if

highest Heaven

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

Gravis would soon leave

first time, Gravis realized that Arc wasn't

the endless years of unchanging loneliness had probably ground him

a

Gravis asked, looking

smiled bitterly and slowly shook

of my time. Seeing someone else grow and teaching them about the world might

at

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

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

pity? Empathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

only thing he did know was that

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

"Is that it?"

of his head awkwardly

think you could phrase

words made Gravis sigh

life

can create terrible lives with basically no way of

many people envy the Heavens and want to be

Heavens want

at the sky with

essence, it's the highest Heaven

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

The Novel will be updated daily. Come back and continue reading tomorrow, everyone!

Comments ()

0/255