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.

surviving, but not living. Don't forget that there is a famous phrase: I'll make you live a life worse

than

into darkness, they will prefer death

"Tell me, Gravis."

living or

heard these emotionless words from

feel

in one world, unable to

enough about the concepts of the Cosmos

trapped in the highest world was entirely different

were several beings in the highest world

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

separated the Heaven's Magnates

about this higher

knew the Major Law of

closest person to him had been Exar, who knew the Major Law of the Dead

didn't know the Major

the Major

Major Law of

these Laws was integral to understanding the

ten billion years

Arc was not free.

did not have anyone he could truly

didn't feel any

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

Heaven had

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

Gravis would

realized that Arc wasn't truly

truth, the endless years of unchanging loneliness

might actually prefer a battle to the

Arc?" Gravis asked,

smiled bitterly and slowly shook his

else grow and teaching them about the world might appear interesting to you, but it isn't a life-changing

at the

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

heart, but he wasn't able

pity? Empathy? Sympathy? Sorrow? Guilt?

Gravis wasn't sure.

he did know was that he

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

"Is that it?"

back of his head

think you could phrase it like

made Gravis

must life be

create terrible lives with basically

the Heavens and

many Heavens want to be

looked at the sky with furrowed

highest Heaven that forced Arc into

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

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