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.

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

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

ironic. The person that should hate Sinister Sally the most actually defends

eyes widened in

with a laugh. "What destiny? What rebirth? What

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

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

were

think you're 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

someone with an outstanding mindset for Cultivation and slowly morph

couldn't think right now. The Black Magnate's

he was telling Eve that everything she had ever known

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! You should know that you can't just speak for The

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

you actively try to kill the two most outstanding, special, and extraordinary Star Gods in existence. A retarded monkey would

for them in front of a level five Ancestral God inside the Sect

simply looked at that guy over there for a bit." The Black Magnate pointed at Orpheus. "You would have realized that he isn't weak. Yet, he didn't even enter

he

Everything you did was a perfect example

you get all sad and 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

Sinister Sally did a tremendous job on you," the

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

couldn't possibly reach the Ancestral

she had been the one acting

Black Magnate narrated

in Eve's mind had been that she should have

added. "It's like Sinister

something

wasn't even sure what she