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."

dead. Dead because of a war that started because of you," the man

to let her have her space. If she didn't want to meet me, that was her decision. I wasn't about to interfere

that, sometimes, we want someone else to take the initiative?

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

could find

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

with disregard, but that

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

a level three Divine God. She was

Gravis didn't answer.

the man said as he turned around. "I hope this was what you

Then, the man left.

looked at

you found someone that truly

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

Gravis didn't want to admit it, and he hated himself for it, but he didn't

his daughter, and yes, losing her

other in

tournament, but Cera hadn't seen Gravis back

was the last time Cera had seen

left for the higher

only been a

A thousand years.

was 4.6 million

time, there was bound to be a

now, she was

of that, she wasn't even the

about the friends he

his friends and previous mentor had died to his tribulation in the Ancestral God Realm.

Ancestral God Realm was as far

where his journey

pushed to the extremes of power with the help of everyone around him and his

had managed to close the gap in power with his very creative techniques, but at some point, the

Dorian had

Dorian had already expected to die

It

his life, he had simply done whatever he

when he had met Dorian, Old

and he had even

had managed to get all the way

to the

beings could

could live for

very far, and he could be proud of

Just like Ferris.

reached the Peak Ancestral God Realm. Sadly,