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,"

I wanted to let her have

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

she finally wanted to meet you again, she

one could

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 her

with disregard, but that

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

level three Divine God. She was a level

Gravis didn't answer.

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

Then, the man left.

looked at the

someone that truly loves you, Cera,"

husband. After all, he was just as stricken with grief

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

been his daughter, and yes, losing her

each other in

her once in the tournament, but Cera hadn't

the last time Cera had seen

left for

been a

A thousand years.

Gravis was 4.6

such a long time, there was bound

she

top of that, she wasn't even the only

thinking about the

of his friends and previous mentor had died to his tribulation in the Ancestral

Ancestral God Realm was as far as Dorian could

where his

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

had managed to close the gap in power with his very

least Dorian had had

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

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

the last years of his life, he

remembered when he had met Dorian, Old

death, and he had even given Gravis

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

to

could reach

live for millions of

got very far, and he could be proud of

Just like Ferris.

God Realm. Sadly, his