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 because of a war

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

man asked with a snort. "Don't you realize that, sometimes, we want someone else to take the initiative? She didn't want to admit

a deep breath. "And when she finally wanted

one could

millions of 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 so much that she joined a fight that would almost certainly end in

snorted with disregard, but that

Because I wasn't powerful enough to join the

Divine God. She was

Gravis didn't answer.

all I wanted to tell you," the man said as he turned around. "I hope this was

Then, the man left.

looked at the

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

all, he was just as

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

and yes, losing her

each other

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

last time Cera had seen

she had left for the

Gravis had only been a

A thousand years.

was 4.6 million

was bound to be a feeling of

she was

of that, she wasn't even the

thinking about the friends he

his tribulation in the

Realm was as far as Dorian could

where his journey

pushed to the extremes of power with the help of everyone 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

had

Dorian had already expected to die

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

his life, he

he had met Dorian, Old Man

saved Gravis from certain death, and he had even given Gravis his first real home in the

grandson, Lasar, had died in the middle world, but Dorian had managed to get all the way

the lower world to the Late

beings could reach that

live for

and he could be proud

Just like Ferris.

Ancestral God Realm. Sadly, his tribulation also spelled the