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."

now, she's dead. Dead because of a war that started because of you,"

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 in her freedom and force

you realize that, sometimes, we want someone else to take the

man took a deep breath. "And when she finally wanted to meet you again, she couldn't find

one could find

years of not being able to see you, this war happened, and she decided to join the stalling group. Her disregard for your group of friends in the past disgusted her

but

at me. I'm still alive. Why? Because I wasn't

Divine God. She was a

Gravis didn't answer.

said as he turned around.

Then, the man left.

only looked at the

least you found someone that truly loves you, Cera," Gravis

at Cera's husband. After all, he was just as

want to admit it, and he hated himself for it, but he didn't mind Cera's death as much as

she had been his daughter, and yes, losing her

they hadn't seen each other in a very long

tournament, but Cera hadn't seen

was the last time Cera had seen

had left for the higher

only been a bit older than a

A thousand years.

was 4.6 million

such a long time, there was bound to be a feeling of disconnect between

now, she was

of that, she wasn't

thinking about the friends he had

mentor had died to his tribulation in the Ancestral God Realm. His opponent had killed

God Realm was as

where his journey

with the help of everyone around him and his own creativity. Yet, every opponent in the Ancestral God was

his talent. He had managed to close the

Dorian had had a great

what Gravis had heard, Dorian had already expected to die to

It was like he had already accepted

last years of his life,

he had met

once saved Gravis from certain death, and he had even given Gravis his first

died in the middle world, but Dorian had managed to get all the way to the Late Ancestral

world to the

could reach

beings could live for millions

and he could be

Just like Ferris.

the Peak Ancestral God Realm. Sadly, his tribulation also