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 because of a war that

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

a snort. "Don't you realize that, sometimes, we want someone else to take

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

one could find

disregard for your group of

snorted with disregard, but

at me. I'm still alive. Why? Because I wasn't powerful enough to

God. She was a level

Gravis didn't answer.

man said as he turned around.

Then, the man left.

looked at

found someone that truly

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

to admit it, and he hated himself for it,

been his daughter, and yes, losing

each other in a very long

her once in the tournament, but

time

left for the higher

only been a bit older than a

A thousand years.

was 4.6 million years

such a long time, there was bound to be a

now, she was

of that, she wasn't even the

the friends

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

Late Ancestral God Realm was as

his journey

help of everyone around him and his own creativity. Yet,

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

Dorian had had

Gravis had heard, Dorian had already expected

seriously. It was like he had already accepted

last years of his life, he

he had met Dorian,

from certain death, and he had even given Gravis his

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

lower world to the Late Ancestral

could reach that

beings could live for millions of

very far, and he could be proud of

Just like Ferris.

Sadly, his tribulation also