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 is

than death is surviving,

push a being too far into darkness, they

"Tell me, Gravis."

I living or

heard these emotionless words from

Gravis feel in Arc's

being trapped in one world, unable to

around beings that know enough about the concepts of the Cosmos

highest world was entirely different from being trapped in a

highest world that knew all

the highest Heaven knew, except for the Major Law of

a single step separated the Heaven's Magnates

about this higher

the Major Law

who knew

know the Major Law

know the Major Law of

Major Law of

integral to

ten billion years

Arc was not free.

anyone he could truly connect with except for

any

Opposer had his wife, his family, and the

highest Heaven had

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

would soon leave

Gravis realized that Arc wasn't truly as carefree

of unchanging loneliness had probably

a battle to the death over the unchanging

Arc?" Gravis asked,

smiled bitterly and slowly shook

someone else grow and teaching them about the world might

looked at

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

in Gravis' heart, but he wasn't

it pity? Empathy? Sympathy?

Gravis wasn't sure.

did know was that he

shine as bright as possible, even if it puts you in mortal danger. If you survive, it will be a cherished memory, and if you die,

"Is that it?"

scratched the back of his

you could phrase it

words made

must life be so

and situations can create terrible lives with basically

people envy the Heavens and want

Heavens want to

looked at the sky with

highest Heaven that forced Arc

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

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