Lightning Is the Only Way

After the Economistress had shown Stella her God Stone ocean, Stella realized that she had given up too early.

She had tried to help Gravis by comprehending Formation Arrays, and she was definitely making some headway in that direction, but she was sure that there was even more she could do.

Even if it wasn't much, she could still help Gravis with more things.

And she already had a plan.

However, the plan would take a long time to come to fruition.

But for now, Gravis and Stella only stayed together for a long while. Of course, Gravis didn't forget his other friends.

In the beginning, it was a bit awkward to talk with his friends, but eventually, the old feeling of friendship returned. They hadn't seen each other in a long while, but they had also known each other for a long time.

However, a lot of things had still changed in the last 150,000 years.

For example, Yersi and Jake had a couple of children now.

When Gravis heard that, he was shocked and asked why they hadn't informed him.

Yersi answered that she didn't want to distract Gravis.

Additionally, the lives of the children could pass very quickly.

One of Yersi's kids had decided against Cultivating, and she had died in her eighties with a loving family.

That had happened several thousand years ago, and by now, so many generations had passed that there basically wasn't any connection between them anymore.

Yersi had stopped cultivating to stay by their daughter in her life.

Sadly, to beings that were hundreds of thousands of years old, a hundred years passed in the blink of an eye.

They had also stayed in contact with their grandkids and their great-grandkids, but eventually, the visits had become more and more infrequent, and eventually, they hadn't visited in 200 years.

Any kind of familial connection had already been severed.

The only thing connecting them was a tiny part of their blood.

Gravis could only sigh when he heard all of that.

Sure enough, having children was difficult when one was also cultivating.

If the child decided to live a mortal life, their entire life would pass in the blink of an eye.

If they decided to cultivate, their life would pass even faster. After all, the chances of becoming truly powerful were minuscule.

In both cases, the child would only live for a tiny, bright moment.

It was like a spark that brightened up the surroundings, but as soon as the spark vanished, only darkness remained.

Comprehension Realm, and

told Gravis where he could find his granddaughter,

she was trying to

of connection between him and his granddaughter. He wanted to go over there and meet her, but he decided

be nice, but I don't want to remain in her mind. A hundred thousand years

meet her if she manages to

make this decision, but he had already

involuntarily remembered the time he

Gravis had asked why he hadn't seen any of his other siblings, and Orpheus had said that Gravis' life was

Gravis had understood their reasons, but he also didn't

had told Gravis the truth, which was that the familial feeling had basically already died out

I doing the same

Silence.

a while. 'I'm not doing this because I don't love her or because

had, and it's better if

watched his granddaughter for a while,

Gravis returned, Yersi and Jake asked if that was truly the

the best decision he

and Jake

he also thought about

also had a younger sister called Artemis once,' Gravis thought. 'Sadly, she has

longevity has long

Gravis' brows furrowed.

any other children after that, and several hundred thousand years have

my brothers and sisters that decided not to cultivate

remembered that one time he had met

been in the Unity Realm, and he had immediately disliked her as

two also very quickly parted

'Back then, she had been impossibly more powerful than me, but now, she has

least I guess she was

how many of my brothers and sisters are actually

come to a

am I even thinking about all of this? I can

traveled to Opposer City again and sat down in front of his

and Gravis enjoyed

to ask

"Yes?" the Opposer asked.

many siblings do I

four," the Opposer answered

Gravis asked

"Due to the extraordinary nature of our situation, your mother and I have decided to take a pause. Normally, we like to have some children every couple thousand

old bastard might change. I don't know if everything will go well, if you will

nodded. The

are the others? I only know Orpheus," Gravis

meet them?" the

for a

isn't anything between us except our connection to