Lightning Is the Only Way

The Opposer had been born into a poor farmer family with four other children.

The four children and the two parents worked on the farm, but they didn't have enough money to give work to all of them.

In essence, the children weren't working much, but that wasn't a good thing.

The family had nearly no money, and they could barely live off their own food.

The farm was truly tiny.

When the mother had become pregnant with her fifth child, the two parents began to despair.

They couldn't just kill the child since it was their child. On top of that, they didn't even know how to do something like that without endangering the mother's life.

So, they had decided to give it away to the army of the nearest town. They always accepted young boys since they would be future soldiers.

Yet, when the new mother saw her newborn, she couldn't bring herself to give him away.

That was when the father stepped in.

He tried to get the newborn from his wife after a lot of arguing, but she wouldn't give him away. She even attacked her husband.

So, the husband knocked her out with a shovel and took the newborn away.

He couldn't risk the life of his other four kids for his fifth one.

He brought the newborn to the town guards, who accepted it without question.

They didn't care where the children came from.

When the father returned, he had noticed that his wife hadn't woken up.

Even more, a pool of blood had formed on the ground between her legs.

The head injury had killed her.

The father's world broke down.

He hadn't wanted to kill his wife!

Yet, reality couldn't be changed.

His wife was dead.

A couple months later, the guards noticed that the wife of the farmer was absent, and they investigated.

They eventually found her corpse and concluded that the father was the culprit.

The farmer was killed, and his four children were forced to join the guards of the town.

The newborn Opposer knew nothing of these things.

As far as he remembered, he had been born into these barracks.

Eventually, the Opposer grew older.

Yet, on his tenth birthday, a beautiful and noble girl in her late teens took a liking to him.

So, she bought him off the guards.

The guards couldn't refuse since the background of the girl was too powerful.

The young boy entered the powerful household of a nearby city lord.

The city lord was in the Energy Gathering Realm, and for the people living there, he might as well have been as powerful as a God.

Why had the girl taken a liking to the young boy?

Because he was fragile.

Her parents were forcing her to cultivate, and her masters were constantly abusing her. She was above them in status, but they still dared to hit her!

Of course, the masters weren't actually abusive.

were just

paid extra to be so strict towards the

Why?

would

rough treatment

didn't want to become stronger but

weak little boys to abuse

They were her outlet.

were hell

all the servants and the girl, and if he dared to

a deep hatred and resentment

do anything against the servants

did, the punishment would be far worse than

mind hardened, the

He didn't break anymore.

he just took

his eyes… his

were filled with hatred, disregard, and

was worthless in

supposed to

he feel

to kill him, but it

servants was fine but killing them was akin to

forest in the night, and she

from behind, but surprisingly,

all his bottled hatred exploded, and he

for long enough, but now,

and will were superior to the young woman's, and he vented all his

in all forms one could

telling him that what he was doing was wrong, but that feeling was buried by

Then, he fled.

city lord issued an arrest warrant, and he even

was when the Opposer's life

had been placed in all nearby settlements, and he couldn't

accidentally

and the young

he managed to temper his body by only doing battle and

father of the woman he

but the young boy barely

he condensed his

his unending hatred, the Opposer went back to the city that had

single living

had a breath died under

were his

watched as

did anything

He hated them!

Hated them!

hated all

guards treated

treated

treated

peasants treated

treated him

dogs barked

sneered at

deserved

his massacre, he looked into the bloody and

tried

thought of that feeling

himself for being

Compassion was weakness!

He needed power!

his enemies with

whatever

would treat him

He hated the world.

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