Lightning Is the Only Way

The three of them talked for several days. Gravis and Mortis were telling Zero's Essence about their entire life, and Zero's Essence was very intrigued by the story.

She had thought that her own story was very incredible, but it was nothing in comparison to Gravis.

Gravis had met several different Heavens while no one alive had even met one!

It was like the entire Cosmos was unfolding before Gravis and Mortis, breaking normal convention.

The entire time, Zero's Essence only listened, and she rarely spoke up. Gravis even asked several times if he was boring her, but she always gave a negative answer.

"No, continue. I'm very intrigued," she kept saying.

And then, she became silent again.

Gravis knew that Zero's Essence was probably a very introverted person, but her introversion was really something else. Gravis assumed that she saw Gravis' story as a show or entertainment, not a dialog.

In these days, it was basically only Gravis talking with Mortis adding some things at the side. Yet, even Mortis was talking more than Zero's Essence.

"And that's when you showed up," Gravis finished.

Zero's Essence didn't react.

Gravis looked at Mortis uncertainly, and Mortis just shrugged.

"So, is there anything else you want to know?" Gravis asked, trying to disperse the awkward atmosphere.

"Why did you tell me all of this?" Zero's Essence asked calmly.

That question surprised Gravis a bit. "Why not? We're family, and I like talking with people."

naïve," she said. "Family is only a bond by blood. However, it's worthless when considering powerful Cultivators. We have not grown up together, and this is the first time

of these things? Do you expect something

would have assumed her comment to be derisive since she basically interpreted

why Gravis was doing this, and

his friends and family, and she even knew

was Gravis' biggest weakness, and he had unveiled it

he do

as a friend

know me," she

I do," Gravis

raised

freedom is true. I only have

you normally consider since you don't like it. Additionally, I am far weaker than you. If you wanted to kill me, you would just kill

can see me telling you all of this stuff as a form of trying to gain goodwill from you, but that's just how normal human relationships work. People try to gain the goodwill of someone they like subconsciously or consciously. The only difference

if I don't know much about you, I know that telling you my story won't be a danger to me. After all, you won't use it against me," Gravis

a while, Zero's

entire personality?" she

Reality is the reason for

Life only supports life with the

instinct. That life is essentially

understanding of consciousness and intelligence. Complex relationships and complicated thought patterns are part of

since I know the True Law of Perceived Reality, I can watch your reactions and Law fragments from different perspectives, which slowly dispels their complex relationships with each other. When stripped of complexity, I

fell into thought with furrowed

sounded very simple, but

she knew everything Gravis knew, she still wouldn't be able to navigate another person's mind to such a degree

made it

were so many complex and almost illogical connections in someone's personality. A good example would be a writer. That writer would want