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

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

that so?" the 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 it, but I know that she missed you. Yet,

she finally wanted to meet you

could find

stalling group. Her disregard for your group of friends in the past disgusted her so much that she joined a fight that would

but that disregard was targeted at

alive. Why? Because I wasn't powerful enough to join the

merely a level three Divine God. She was a level

Gravis didn't answer.

all I wanted to tell you," the man said as

Then, the man left.

only looked

least you found someone that truly loves you,

was just as stricken with grief

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

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

other in a

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

time Cera had seen

left for the higher

been a bit

A thousand years.

Gravis was 4.6 million years

bound to be a

she was

of that, she wasn't even the only

thinking about the friends he

and previous mentor had died to his tribulation in the

Late Ancestral God Realm was as far as Dorian

where his journey

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

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

Dorian had had

heard, Dorian had

hadn't taken it seriously. It was

life, he had simply

had met Dorian, Old

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

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

to the Late Ancestral God

could reach

live for

got very far, and he could be proud of

Just like Ferris.

God Realm. Sadly, his tribulation