Lightning Is the Only Way

"You won?" Gravis asked the Black Magnate.

"Of course I won!" the Black Magnate answered with a snort. "You think Sinister Sally can fight me? She always only uses tricks. She always weakens her enemies slowly before their fight to give her a higher chance of victory."

Gravis looked with an awkward expression at the Black Magnate. "Why did you attack the Undying Doctor?" he asked.

The Black Magnate snorted. "Undying, eh? Not so undying anymore, right?" he said with a laugh.

Gravis wasn't in the mood to laugh since something was weighing on his mind.

Why did the Black Magnate attack the Undying Doctor right now?

If it were because of him, Gravis wouldn't feel comfortable. It felt like too big of a favor.

"Tch," the Black Magnate spat when he saw Gravis' expression. "It's not because of you," he said.

"Then, why?" Gravis asked.

"I was supposed to be her opponent anyway. Her longevity would have run out in around three million years, and I was the closest one in power to her. I would have been her opponent regardless. The only difference would have been the time," the Black Magnate explained.

"As I've said, Sinister Sally loves weakening her opponents. I've already seen how her sinister claws had started to extend towards me. She made my life harder through several means. Old friends suddenly didn't want to talk to me as much. Other Heaven's Magnates suddenly started talking in an even more depressing manner."

"She was trying to sap me of my motivation to continue living. In her mind, I would have spent the remainder of my life resisting these influences, which would have slowly weakened me by a bit. However, a bit could already make the difference between life and death."

"So, instead of waiting, I decided to fight her right now. I'm not fighting her on her terms but on my terms. Also, I've always hated these false, hypocritical assholes," the Black Magnate ranted.

Gravis was relieved when he heard the Black Magnate's words, but he also knew that he had been somewhat involved in today's fight. "Thank you regardless," Gravis said.

"You better thank me," the Black Magnate said with another snort. "Sinister Sally's fan club would have hounded you for the next three million years."

Suddenly, the Black Magnate looked at Eve.

hanging from Orpheus' spear, and she looked at the Black Magnate with shock in

around you," the Black Magnate commented with a laugh. "You're mostly shocked, but deep inside,

person that should hate Sinister Sally the most

in shock

Magnate asked with a laugh. "What

think you're so talented that Sinister Sally wanted you to become a Heaven's Magnate by dying again and again? That's not

on your first try, you won't ever be able to do it. Resurrecting you doesn't make you stronger, but weaker," the Black

were

Sinister Sally's first disciple? No, she's done that plenty of times. Sinister Sally is bored like every other Heaven's Magnate. So, she tries to find a way to

herself? Well, it was to grab someone with an

think right now. The Black Magnate's words

was like he was telling Eve that everything

you didn't even realize you were making a mistake. You're an

didn't even think for a moment that you might have been in the wrong. Such a

and extraordinary Star Gods in existence. A retarded monkey would have realized that the origin of those two couldn't

several years just waiting for them in front of a level

you had simply looked at that guy over there for a bit." The Black Magnate pointed at Orpheus. "You would have realized that he

were super weak, he could

to die. Everything you did was a perfect example of

hurt because you're about to die. Like what? How? You were searching for death with all your power, and you are unhappy when you achieve

tremendous job on you," the Black Magnate

world was breaking

words made Eve feel like an absolute idiot. If the Black Magnate had talked about someone else, she wouldn't even have believed him. The actions of that person were

couldn't possibly

had been the

narrated her story, but in her mind, she still

that she should have made sure that Mortis and Gravis had died the first

of introspection," the Black Magnate added. "It's like Sinister Sally crippled your brain or something. You can't even

like something inside her had

sure what she