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 there is a famous

worse than death is

too far into darkness, they will prefer death over

"Tell me, Gravis."

living or

when he heard

feel in

one world,

beings that know enough about the concepts of

highest world was entirely different from

the highest world that knew

except

step separated the

about this

the Major Law of the True

him had been Exar, who

didn't know the

the Major Law

didn't know the Major Law of

these Laws was integral to understanding the

years of being

Arc was not free.

did not have anyone he could truly connect with except for

any

had his wife, his family, and the

highest Heaven had the

Whom did Arc have?

Gravis.

Gravis would soon leave

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

endless years of unchanging loneliness had

someone might actually prefer a battle to the death over the

seeking death, Arc?" Gravis asked, looking into Arc's

bitterly and slowly shook his

else grow and teaching them about the world might

at the

for an eternity, even the smallest

but

pity? Empathy? Sympathy? Sorrow?

Gravis wasn't sure.

thing he did know was that he didn't

even if it puts you in mortal danger. If you survive,

"Is that it?"

scratched the back of his head awkwardly with a

could phrase it

words made Gravis

life

lives

the Heavens and

Heavens want to be

at the sky

Heaven that forced

don't like the highest Heaven,

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