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 a

a

They didn't exist.

a beautiful picture of the outside world,

that picture was a

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

were Orthar's crops, and he wouldn't

Orthar. They were

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

didn't

knew what was

illusions or a bit later while knowing the truth didn't make a

well let her

show me how to

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

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

feel out the weakest parts of your Cosmos. Without

our own Cosmos. It is sacrificing its own Energy to help us. This is the last and most costly sacrifice Heaven can give

didn't really react to

Gravis' perspective, the surroundings were mired in

child shortly before the

It didn't matter.

It made no difference.

It changed nothing.

whatever you like," Gravis

felt a bit of pain and melancholy as he saw Peaceful

was so

purpose was

that it was

of the

Gravis pitied Peaceful Serenity.

took a

Cosmos for far too long. It is interesting to watch life go on, but there is more for me out

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 people

Serenity's mind was

watched her with a bit of pain

said. "I will show you how

Gravis only absentmindedly nodded.

Serenity flew far into the

WHOOOM!

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

was a black sphere, which was nearly empty. Only in the middle of it

This was a Cosmos.

the filter. This filter protected

emptiness 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 space

Cosmos, the sky

black lightning bolts shot throughout the clouds, slowly

lightning

thought. 'How naïve

one with lightning, I can stop Heaven's lightning,

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

tiny ember of hope

Peaceful Serenity began to expand

had already seen that

second lightning

And the third.