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 there is a famous phrase: I'll make you live a life

a life that's worse than death is

being too far into

"Tell me, Gravis."

living or

he heard these emotionless words from

feel in Arc's

trapped in one world, unable to

enough about the concepts of the

world was entirely different

the highest

Heaven knew, except for the Major Law of Death

step separated the Heaven's Magnates and the highest

about

Major Law of

him had been Exar, who knew the Major Law

know the

know the Major Law

the Major

Laws was integral to understanding

years

Arc was not free.

he could truly connect with except

didn't feel any love

the highest Heaven, even if

highest Heaven

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

would soon leave

first time, Gravis realized that Arc wasn't truly

the endless years of unchanging loneliness had probably ground

someone might actually prefer a battle to

death, Arc?" Gravis asked, looking into

bitterly and slowly shook

"I just want to make the most of my time. Seeing someone else grow and teaching them about the world might appear interesting to you, but it isn't a

at

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

in Gravis' heart, but

pity? Empathy? Sympathy? Sorrow? Guilt?

Gravis wasn't sure.

know was that he didn't like that feeling one

if it puts you in mortal danger. If you survive, it will be a cherished memory, and if you die, you didn't die surrounded

"Is that it?"

of his head

could

words made Gravis

life be

can create terrible lives with

envy the Heavens and want to

many Heavens want

looked at the

Heaven that forced Arc into this

I don't like the highest Heaven, I

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