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.

secrets were

were a perceived

They didn't exist.

had painted a beautiful picture of the outside world, filled with purpose

was a

Peaceful Serenity the truth, but he couldn't. This was still Orthar's Cosmos,

Orthar's crops, and he wouldn't allow anyone

to Orthar. They were

he didn't need to say any specifics. Maybe he

it didn't really matter

what

bit later while knowing the truth didn't make

her go on her

me how to

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

is a tribulation 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

helping us create our own Cosmos. It is sacrificing its own Energy to help us. This is the last and most costly

really react to

surroundings were mired in

child shortly before the enemy army raided their

It didn't matter.

It made no difference.

It changed nothing.

whatever you like," Gravis

way, Gravis felt a bit of pain and melancholy as he

power was

purpose was

that it was

knew the truth of the situation, seeing

Gravis pitied Peaceful Serenity.

accept, she took a deep breath and nodded with a

she said with a bright voice. "I have remained in this Cosmos for far too long. It is interesting to watch life go

I can finally leave this Cosmos and see the wider world. 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

mind was filled with

with a

will show you how

Gravis only absentmindedly nodded.

expression, Peaceful Serenity flew far

WHOOOM!

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

empty. Only in the middle of it could

This was a Cosmos.

This filter protected the Cosmos against forces

inside the sphere represented 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

Peaceful Serenity summoned her Cosmos, the sky began to darken with

lightning bolts shot throughout the clouds,

felt these lightning bolts, he

Gravis thought. 'How

long as I am one with lightning,

not just lightning. This is Orthar's

a tiny ember of hope that hadn't

Serenity began to expand her

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

second lightning bolt

And the third.