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."

of a war that started

could find her. Additionally, I wanted to let her have her space. If

sometimes, we want someone else to take the initiative? She didn't want to admit it, but I know that she

she finally wanted to meet

could find

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

with disregard, but that disregard was targeted at

still alive. Why? Because I wasn't powerful enough

three Divine God. She

Gravis didn't answer.

I wanted to tell you," the man said as he turned

Then, the man left.

only looked at

truly

all, he was just as stricken with grief as Gravis,

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

been his daughter, and yes, losing her deeply

other

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

was the last time

had left for the

had only been a bit

A thousand years.

4.6 million years

there was bound to

she was

of that, she wasn't even the

thinking about the friends

died to his tribulation in the Ancestral God

Ancestral God Realm was

his journey

power with the help of everyone around him and his own creativity.

long time, Dorian had effectively fought above his talent. He had managed to close the gap in power with his very creative techniques, but at some point, the gap simply became

least Dorian had

heard, Dorian had already expected to die

taken it seriously. It was like

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

when he had met Dorian, Old Man

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

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

the lower world to

beings could reach

many beings could live

he could

Just like Ferris.

Sadly, his tribulation