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.

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

the Black Magnate commented with a laugh. "You're mostly shocked, but deep inside, you're unwilling. You think that I'm some monster that killed your

that should hate Sinister Sally

eyes widened in

Black Magnate asked with a laugh. "What destiny? What

that Sinister Sally wanted you to become a Heaven's Magnate by dying again

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

shock were written

disciple? No, she's done that plenty of times. Sinister Sally is bored like every other Heaven's Magnate. So,

herself? Well, it was to grab someone with an outstanding mindset for Cultivation and slowly morph their mindset

think right now. The Black

was telling Eve that everything she had ever known was

so entitled that you actually break the rules of your dream job because of a personal vendetta. Even worse, you didn't even realize you were making a mistake. You're an Ancestral God, for fuck's sake!

inevitably commit your mistake and get thrown out, you get angry with the very victim you wanted to doom. You didn't even think for a moment that you might have been in the wrong. Such a mindset is understandable for a Unity Realm Cultivator, but not

special, and extraordinary Star Gods

spent several years just waiting for them in front of a level five Ancestral

at that guy over there for a bit." The Black Magnate pointed at Orpheus. "You would have realized

even if he were super weak, he could have informed their background. What

you did was a

about to die. Like what? How? You were searching for death with all your power, and you are unhappy

did a tremendous job on you," the

world was

the Black Magnate had talked about someone else, she wouldn't even have believed him. The actions of that person

like that couldn't possibly reach the Ancestral God

Eve realized that she had been the one acting

mind fell into chaos. She sounded like the stupidest Ancestral God alive when the Black Magnate narrated her story,

that she should have

the Black Magnate added. "It's like Sinister Sally crippled your brain or

felt like something

even sure what she should