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.

from Orpheus' spear, and she looked

commented with a laugh. "You're mostly shocked, but deep inside, you're unwilling. You think that I'm

person that should hate Sinister Sally the most

in

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

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

ever be able

were

she's done that plenty of times. Sinister Sally is bored like every other Heaven's Magnate. So, she tries to find a

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

The Black Magnate's words only

like he was telling Eve that everything she had

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

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

most outstanding, special, and extraordinary Star Gods in

more, you spent several years just waiting for them in front of a level five Ancestral God inside

at that guy over there for a bit." The Black Magnate pointed at

he could

like you wanted to die. Everything you did was a

the best part, 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 achieve

Sally did a tremendous job

was breaking

like an absolute idiot. If the Black Magnate had talked about someone else, she wouldn't even

like that couldn't possibly reach the Ancestral God

she had

She sounded like the stupidest Ancestral God alive when the Black Magnate narrated her story, but

Eve's mind had been that she should have made sure that Mortis and Gravis

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

felt like something

sure what