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."

war that started because of you," the

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 her freedom and force my

snort. "Don't you realize that, sometimes, we want someone else to take the initiative? She didn't want to admit

a deep breath. "And when she finally wanted to meet you again, she

one could

for your group of friends in the past disgusted her so

snorted with disregard, but that disregard was targeted

now look at me. I'm still alive. Why? Because I

Divine God. She was a level four

Gravis didn't answer.

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

Then, the man left.

only looked at

truly

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

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

daughter, and

they hadn't seen each other

had seen her once in the tournament, but Cera

time Cera had seen

left for

been a

A thousand years.

was 4.6 million years

a long time, there was bound to be

now, she was

of that, she wasn't even

about the friends he

died to his tribulation in the Ancestral God Realm. His

Ancestral God Realm was as

where his journey

him and his

He had managed to close the

least Dorian had had a

heard, Dorian had already expected

hadn't taken it seriously. It was

his life, he had simply

had met Dorian, Old

had once saved Gravis from certain death, and he had even given Gravis his first

the middle world, but Dorian had managed to get all

lower world to the

beings could reach

could live for

far, and he could

Just like Ferris.

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