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."

of a war that

know 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 her freedom and force

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, you never

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

one could find

the stalling group. Her disregard for your group of

snorted with disregard, but that disregard was targeted

still alive. Why? Because

Divine God. She was a level four Divine

Gravis didn't answer.

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

Then, the man left.

only looked at the

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

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

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

daughter, and yes,

each other in

in the tournament,

the last time

she had left for

a bit older

A thousand years.

Gravis was 4.6 million

a long time, there was bound to be a feeling of disconnect

now, she

that, she wasn't even the

continued thinking about the friends he had

to his tribulation in the Ancestral God Realm. His opponent had killed

Ancestral God Realm was as far

where his journey

around him and his

Dorian had effectively fought above his talent. He had managed to close the gap in power with his very creative techniques, but at some

had had a

Gravis had heard, Dorian had already expected to

hadn't taken it seriously. It was like

of his life,

remembered when he had met Dorian, Old Man

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

died in the middle world, but Dorian had managed

the lower world to the Late Ancestral

many beings could reach that

many beings could live

very far, and he could

Just like Ferris.

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