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

were a perceived

They didn't exist.

of

was a

Peaceful Serenity the truth, but he couldn't. This

Orthar's crops, and he

Orthar. They were

After all, he didn't need to say any specifics. Maybe he could just

now, it didn't really matter

what

Peaceful Serenity died now with illusions or a bit later

as well let her

show me how to overcome

tribulation is the last obstacle before the Heaven Realm. Only after

that involves Heaven attacking your Cosmos with lightning as you try to create it. This might sound like an attack, but it is

the weakest parts of your Cosmos. Without them, our Cosmos might

sacrificing its own Energy to help us. This is

react to anything Peaceful Serenity

were mired in grey

child shortly before the enemy army

It didn't matter.

It made no difference.

It changed nothing.

you like,"

way, Gravis felt a bit of pain and melancholy as

power was so

was

so filled with purpose that it was difficult to

the truth of the situation, seeing

Gravis pitied Peaceful Serenity.

Gravis accept, she took a deep breath and nodded with a

have remained in this Cosmos for far

Are the previous Heaven's Magnates that managed to leave this Cosmos still

Serenity's mind was filled

with a bit of

will show

Gravis only absentmindedly nodded.

Serenity flew far into the

WHOOOM!

world appeared behind her, but her world was different from

was nearly empty. Only in the middle

This was a Cosmos.

spherical border represented the filter. This filter protected the

use to create worlds. At the moment, there was only one world inside Peaceful Serenity's Cosmos. Later, all

the sky began to darken

shot throughout the clouds, slowly gaining

lightning bolts, he released

thought. 'How

long as I am one with lightning, I can stop

just lightning. This is Orthar's lightning. I can't control

Gravis realized this, a tiny ember of hope that hadn't been

Peaceful Serenity began to expand her

had already seen that

the second lightning

And the third.