Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis stood alone on top of one of the walls of the Heavenly Divine Sect.

He had been standing here for hours, simply looking aimlessly at the horizon.

Gravis was still in shock, and it was difficult for him to accept everything.

He hadn't expected that so many had died.

The feeling of losing his loved ones was not foreign to Gravis, but it was difficult every time.

Especially this time.

"You were her father, right?" a man said to Gravis after approaching him.

Gravis looked over at the person and read his Law fragments.

Then, he wordlessly nodded as he looked at the horizon again.

The man joined Gravis at the wall.

The two of them had never met each other before, but they felt the same thing right now.

Grief.

"She often spoke of you," the man said.

"She did?" Gravis asked absentmindedly.

"Yes," the man answered. "She always said that she didn't regret her choice, but I think that she regretted it a little bit. After she became a Star God, she gained a human mindset, and with it, feeling."

"Yet, so much time had passed, and she never found a good opportunity."

"I think she wanted to meet you again and bury the past," the man explained. "She always talked about how much she hated people running from their emotions, but I think that's because she was hating her past self for her decisions."

Silence.

"You know, I always hated you," the man said.

Gravis didn't answer.

"It was like your existence put an impossible pressure on her. She always wanted to push herself to the top. She always said that she had to overtake you. Every time she achieved something, it never was enough. She always said that her achievements were worthless. After all, you would have already long overtaken her."

"That pressure she put on herself was also extended to me, her husband," the man said. "I always had to listen to complaints. No matter what I did, I wasn't powerful enough. I wanted to spend more time with her. I just wanted to be with her."

"Yet, it never happened. She was fully focused on becoming more powerful. Honestly, I don't even know why she chose me as her husband."

The man took a deep breath.

"But I loved her. I loved her with all my heart."

dead. Dead because of a war that started because of you,"

where my faults lie," Gravis answered neutrally. "I always wanted to be there for her, but I didn't even know where I could find her. Additionally, I wanted to let her have her space. If she didn't want to meet me, that was her decision. I wasn't about to interfere

we want someone else to take the initiative?

took a deep breath. "And when she finally

could find

you, this war happened, and she decided to join the stalling group. Her disregard for your group of friends in the past disgusted her so much that

man snorted with disregard, but that disregard was targeted

alive. Why? Because I wasn't powerful enough to join the

merely a level three Divine God. She

Gravis didn't answer.

man said as he

Then, the man left.

looked at the

truly loves you, Cera," Gravis

he was just as stricken with

admit it, and he hated himself for it, but he

daughter, and yes, losing her

each other in a very

once in the tournament, but Cera hadn't seen Gravis back

time

had left

Gravis had only been a bit older

A thousand years.

Gravis was 4.6

there was bound to be a feeling of

she

that, she wasn't even the only

the friends he had

to his tribulation in the Ancestral God Realm.

Ancestral God Realm was as far as

his

around him and his own creativity. Yet, every opponent in the Ancestral God

He had managed to close the gap in power with his very creative techniques, but at some point, the gap simply became too

Dorian had had

heard, Dorian had

he seemingly hadn't taken it seriously. It was like he had already accepted

the last years of his life, he had simply done whatever he

still remembered when he had

once saved Gravis from certain death, and he had

grandson, Lasar, had died in the middle world, but Dorian had managed

to the Late Ancestral

many beings could

beings could live for millions of

and he could be proud of

Just like Ferris.

Sadly, his