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 very

to be so strict

Why?

that she would want revenge

the rough treatment

become stronger

little boys to

They were her outlet.

next four years were hell for

constantly got abused by all the servants and the girl, and if he dared to show weakness, they

young boy hit puberty, a deep hatred and resentment formed

he couldn't do anything against

did, the punishment would be far worse

young boy's heart and mind hardened, the

He didn't break anymore.

just took

his eyes… his

were filled with hatred,

was like she was

was supposed to be the worthless

feel that she

she decided to kill him, but it had

fine but killing them

a forest

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

exploded, and he

had kept himself in check for long enough,

the young woman's, and he

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

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

Then, he fled.

his daughter, the city lord issued an arrest warrant, and he even searched for

the Opposer's life truly

posters depicting him had been placed in all nearby settlements, and he couldn't come close to another human since

accidentally spotted him, all

and the

to temper his body by only doing

father of the woman he had killed found

fight was brutal, but the young boy

was when he condensed

the city that had belonged to the

every single living thing

that had a breath died under his

were

as he had

never did anything to help

He hated them!

Hated them!

all

treated

nobles treated him

servants treated

peasants treated him like

treated him

dogs barked at

sneered at

all deserved

with his massacre, he looked into

guilt tried to

of that feeling as

himself

Compassion was weakness!

He needed power!

kill his enemies

could do whatever

would treat him like

He hated the world.

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