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."

because of a war that started because of you," the

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 want to meet me, that was her decision. I wasn't about to interfere in

take the

she finally wanted to meet you again, she

could

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

with disregard, but that disregard was targeted

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

three Divine God. She was a

Gravis didn't answer.

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

Then, the man left.

only looked at the

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

angry at Cera's husband. After all, he was just as stricken with grief

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

she had been his daughter, and yes, losing her deeply

other in a very long

tournament, but Cera

last time

left

had only been a

A thousand years.

4.6 million years

there was bound to be a feeling of

she

she wasn't

the

had died to his tribulation in the Ancestral God

God Realm was as far

his

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

He had managed to close the

had had a

what Gravis had heard, Dorian had already expected

taken it seriously. It was like he had already accepted his

years of his life, he had simply done whatever

he had met

certain death, and he had even given Gravis his first

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

world to the Late Ancestral God

many beings could

could live for

got very far, and he could be proud of his

Just like Ferris.

Realm. Sadly, his tribulation also