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.

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

life that's worse than death is surviving, not

being too far into darkness, they will prefer death

"Tell me, Gravis."

living

insides shook when he heard these emotionless words from

feel in

trapped in one world, unable

being around beings that know enough about the concepts

highest world was entirely different from being trapped in

in the highest

highest Heaven knew, except

single step separated the

what about

knew the Major Law of the

who knew the Major

didn't know the

the Major Law

didn't know the Major Law of

Laws was integral to understanding the

billion years of being

Arc was not free.

did not have anyone he could truly connect with

feel any love

family, and the highest Heaven, even if

highest Heaven

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

would

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

unchanging loneliness had probably ground

that situation, someone might actually prefer a

seeking death, Arc?" Gravis asked, looking into

smiled bitterly and slowly shook his

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

looked at

even the smallest glimmer of light shines as bright as

but he wasn't able to

Empathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

only thing he did know was that he didn't like that feeling

mortal danger. If you survive, it will be a cherished memory, and if

"Is that it?"

the back of his

could phrase

made

life be so

and situations can create terrible lives with basically no way

Heavens and

want to be

looked at the sky with furrowed

it's the highest Heaven that forced Arc

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

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