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 so strict towards the young

Why?

that she would

rough treatment

to become stronger but

she bought weak little boys to

They were her outlet.

years were hell for

the girl, and if he dared to

young boy hit puberty, a deep hatred and

anything against the

did, the punishment would be far worse than what he

young boy's heart and mind hardened, the young woman

He didn't break anymore.

he just took

his eyes… his

filled with hatred, disregard, and

was like she was

supposed to

dare he feel that

but

killing them was akin

forest in the night,

surprisingly, the

bottled hatred exploded, and he punched the

long enough, but now, everything

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

her in all forms one could imagine, and after

what he was doing was wrong, but

Then, he fled.

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

when the Opposer's

him had been placed in all nearby settlements, and he

even had to kill children that accidentally spotted him, all

the other went after him, and the

he managed to temper his body by

the father of the woman he

fight was brutal, but the young boy

was when he

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

living thing he

breath

all were

all watched as he had been

never did anything

He hated them!

Hated them!

all of

treated him

nobles treated

servants treated him

peasants treated him like

children treated him like

barked

cats sneered at

deserved

he looked into the bloody

tried to

thought of that

himself

Compassion was weakness!

He needed power!

kill his enemies

do whatever

treat him

He hated the world.

that he wasn't powerful enough to take