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.

just

had been paid extra to be

Why?

would want revenge and

rough treatment had the

to become stronger but

little

They were her outlet.

years were hell for the young

and the girl, and if

a deep hatred and

anything against the servants

be

young boy's heart and mind hardened, the

He didn't break anymore.

just took

eyes… his

filled with hatred, disregard,

was like she was worthless

was supposed to be

feel

she decided to kill him, but it had to

servants was fine but killing them was akin

ordered him into a forest

him from behind, but surprisingly, the young man didn't fall

exploded, and he

in check for long enough, but

to the young

in all forms one could imagine, and after he was done, he

what he was doing was wrong,

Then, he fled.

an arrest warrant, and he even searched for the young

when the

been placed in all nearby settlements, and he couldn't come close to another human

accidentally

after him, and

managed to temper his body by only doing battle and healing himself

when the father of the woman

brutal, but the young boy barely

he condensed

the city

living thing he

a breath died under his

were

all watched as he had been

did anything to

He hated them!

Hated them!

hated all of

guards treated him

treated him like

servants treated him

peasants treated him

treated

barked at

sneered at

deserved

his massacre, he looked into the bloody and quiet streets

tried

of that

himself for

Compassion was weakness!

He needed power!

his

could do whatever

him like shit again

He hated the world.

that he wasn't powerful enough to take his revenge on this world that treated him