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

a life that's worse than death

push a being too far into darkness, they will prefer

"Tell me, Gravis."

living or

heard

would Gravis feel

trapped in one world, unable

enough about the concepts of the Cosmos to truly talk with

in the highest world was entirely different

in the highest world that knew

the highest Heaven knew, except for the Major Law of

a single step separated the Heaven's Magnates and

about

Law of

person to him had been Exar, who

the

the Major Law of

didn't know the Major Law

Laws was integral to understanding the

years of being

Arc was not free.

have anyone he could truly connect with

feel any

his wife, his family, and the highest Heaven, even

highest Heaven had

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

would soon leave

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

endless years of unchanging

actually prefer a battle to the death over the

death, Arc?" Gravis asked,

and slowly shook

most of my time. Seeing someone else grow

looked at

eternity, even the smallest glimmer of

complex feeling appeared in Gravis' heart, but he wasn't

pity? Empathy? Sympathy? Sorrow? Guilt?

Gravis wasn't sure.

that he didn't like

danger. If

"Is that it?"

of his head awkwardly with a bitter

you could phrase

made Gravis sigh

must life be so

terrible lives with basically no

Heavens

want

at the sky with furrowed

Heaven that

highest Heaven, I

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