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

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

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 finally

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 she joined a fight that would almost certainly end

but that disregard was

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

merely a level three Divine God. She

Gravis didn't answer.

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

Then, the man left.

only looked at the

you found someone that truly loves

he was

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

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

other in a very

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

was the last time Cera had

had left for the higher

been a

A thousand years.

4.6 million years

bound

now, she

that, she

about the friends he

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

Realm was as

where his

been pushed to the extremes of power with the help of everyone around him and his own creativity.

a very long time, Dorian had effectively fought above his talent. He had managed to close the gap in

least Dorian had had a

had heard, Dorian had already expected to

hadn't taken it seriously. It was like he had already accepted his

life, he had

he had met Dorian, Old Man

from certain death, and he had even

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

the lower world to the Late Ancestral

beings could reach that

beings could live for millions

he could be proud of

Just like Ferris.

Sadly, his tribulation also