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

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 in her freedom and force my existence upon

take the initiative? She didn't want to admit it, but I know that she missed you. Yet, you never

a deep breath. "And when she finally wanted

one could find

Her disregard for your group

but that disregard was

alive. Why? Because I wasn't powerful

a level three Divine God.

Gravis didn't answer.

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

Then, the man left.

only looked at the

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

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

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

daughter, and

seen each other in a very long

seen her once in the tournament, but

time Cera

left for the higher

been a bit older than a

A thousand years.

was 4.6 million

long time, there was bound to be a feeling of

now, she

she wasn't even the only

about the friends he

had died to his tribulation in the Ancestral

was as far

where his

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

close the gap in power with

Dorian had had a

had heard, Dorian had already expected to die

hadn't taken it seriously. It was like

his life, he had simply done

had

he had even given Gravis his first real home in the

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

lower world to the Late

beings could reach that

live for millions

and he could be proud of

Just like Ferris.

God Realm. Sadly, his tribulation also spelled the end of