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.

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

that's worse than death is surviving,

a being too far into darkness, they will prefer

"Tell me, Gravis."

living or

heard these emotionless words from

feel in Arc's

one world, unable

about the concepts of the Cosmos to truly talk with

was entirely different from being trapped in

beings in the highest world that knew all the

probably knew all the Laws that the highest Heaven knew, except

the Heaven's Magnates and the

about this

Law of

been Exar, who knew the Major

didn't know the Major

the Major

know the Major Law of Perceived

was integral to understanding the

years of being

Arc was not free.

he could truly connect with

feel any love

his family, and the highest

Heaven had the

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

Gravis would soon leave

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

years of unchanging loneliness had probably

actually prefer a battle to the death over

death, Arc?" Gravis asked, looking

smiled bitterly and

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

looked at

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

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

pity? Empathy? Sympathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

only thing he did know was that

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

"Is that it?"

scratched the back of his

think you could

words made Gravis sigh

life

terrible lives with basically no

Heavens and

how many Heavens want

at the sky

Heaven that forced Arc into

like the highest Heaven, I can't put all the blame

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