Lightning Is the Only Way

It was difficult for Gravis to comprehend his current situation.

The things Peaceful Serenity was talking about were as far away from the truth as they could get.

Heaven wants allies?

Definitely not!

Gravis knew how Heaven Breakers got their power, and letting someone with so much Energy and power leave their Cosmos would weaken them massively!

Sure, the new Heaven Breaker might repay their previous Heaven, but that was an uncertainty. It relied fully on trust.

Was Orthar a trustful person?

Was Orthar someone that gave others a selfless present just to hope that they might repay him in the future?

Definitely not.

Orthar valued control above everything else!

Everything must be within Orthar's control at all times.

After a while of trying to grasp his current situation, Gravis realized that Peaceful Serenity's thoughts actually weren't absurd.

If one didn't know about the Primordial Chaos and Heaven Breakers, one might actually believe that Heaven wanted allies.

After all, why would Heaven allow them to reach the Heaven Realm if it didn't want them to succeed?

It would just kill them.

Of course, one might still doubt Orthar's sincerity. After all, there were also the three old foggies. They believed that they were destined to die, no matter what they did.

If someone knew all the information, one might believe Peaceful Serenity's beliefs to be ridiculous. However, if one were in the same situation, the chances were very high that they would believe the same thing.

Why?

Ambition and optimism.

If one had strived to reach their goal for their entire lives, the realization that the goal led to a dead-end would be too hard to handle.

It would invalidate their entire existence.

The Heaven's Magnates had worked harder than anyone else to reach their current spot, and that realization would hit them that much harder because of that.

They couldn't accept that, after everything they had invested, they would walk right into death.

There had to be a different reason, right?

Life couldn't be this hopeless, right?

And with no one directly telling them the truth, they were more likely to believe something that was easier to swallow.

As Gravis thought more about this, he realized how terrifyingly effective Orthar's conduct had been.

Orthar was raising valuable crops just to harvest them.

And even more, the crops happily jumped into the sickle.

Peaceful Serenity was the perfect example. She had told Gravis all of the secrets of the Cosmos.

Sadly, these secrets weren't the actual secrets.

were a

were a

They didn't exist.

had painted a beautiful picture of the outside world,

was a picture of

he couldn't. This was still Orthar's Cosmos, and Orthar wouldn't allow any

crops, and he

Orthar. They

have decided to try to make Peaceful Serenity understand regardless. After all, he didn't need to

didn't really

knew what was

bit later while knowing the truth didn't make a

her

show me how to overcome the lightning tribulation?" Gravis asked

answered. "The lightning tribulation is the last obstacle before the Heaven Realm. Only after overcoming the lightning tribulation can you make

the name suggests, is a tribulation that involves Heaven attacking your Cosmos with lightning as you try to create it.

strikes allow you to feel out the weakest parts of your Cosmos. Without them, our Cosmos might be born in an incomplete

It is sacrificing its own Energy to

react to

perspective, the surroundings were

optimistic child shortly before the enemy army raided their

It didn't matter.

It made no difference.

It changed nothing.

whatever you like," Gravis said

a bit of pain and melancholy as he saw

was so

purpose was so

with purpose that it was difficult to dislike

truth of the situation,

Gravis pitied Peaceful Serenity.

heard Gravis accept, she took

good day," she said with a bright voice. "I have remained in this Cosmos for far too long. It is interesting to watch life go on, but there is more for

What else is out there? Are the previous Heaven's Magnates that managed to leave this Cosmos still alive? Will I meet them? How unimaginably powerful are the people out

Serenity's mind was filled with

watched her with a bit of pain in

Peaceful Serenity said. "I will show you how to overcome

Gravis only absentmindedly nodded.

excited expression, Peaceful Serenity flew far into the

WHOOOM!

world appeared behind her, but her world was different from the worlds of the other

black sphere, which was nearly empty. Only in the middle of it could one see

This was a Cosmos.

represented the filter. This filter protected the Cosmos against forces other than

space that one could use to create worlds. At the moment, there was only one world inside Peaceful Serenity's Cosmos. Later, all of the empty space would be filled with

summoned her Cosmos, the sky began

shot throughout the clouds, slowly gaining

felt these lightning bolts, he released a

as I've thought,' Gravis thought. 'How naïve

one with lightning, I can stop Heaven's

just lightning. This is

ember of hope that hadn't been extinguished yet left

began to expand

lightning attacked her Cosmos, nearly breaking it. However, Peaceful Serenity had already seen that coming, and she had managed to shape it into a form

the second lightning bolt

And the third.