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.

their natural life is surviving, but not living. Don't forget that there

worse than death is surviving, not

too far into darkness, they will

"Tell me, Gravis."

living

when he heard these

Gravis feel in

being trapped in one

the concepts of the Cosmos to truly talk with

highest world was entirely different from being

several beings in the highest world that knew

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

a single step separated the Heaven's Magnates

what about this higher

the Major Law of

Exar, who knew the Major Law

know the

the Major

Major Law

Laws was integral to

billion years

Arc was not free.

have anyone he could truly connect

feel any love

his wife, his family, and the highest

highest Heaven

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

Gravis would soon leave

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

unchanging loneliness had

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

Gravis asked,

bitterly and slowly shook his

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

at

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

heart, but he wasn't able to decipher it

pity? Empathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

he did know was that he didn't like that feeling one

this small light to shine as bright as possible, even if it puts you in mortal danger. If you survive,

"Is that it?"

his head awkwardly with a bitter

think you could phrase it like

made Gravis sigh

must life

create terrible lives with

Heavens and want

want to be just

at the

it's the highest Heaven that forced Arc into

the highest Heaven, I can't

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