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

were a perceived

They didn't exist.

beautiful picture of the outside world, filled with

that picture was a picture of

couldn't. This was still Orthar's

were Orthar's crops, and he wouldn't

to Orthar. They

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

now, it didn't

what was

died now with illusions or a bit later

let her go on her own

to show me how to overcome the

the Heaven Realm. Only after overcoming the

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

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

own Energy to help us. This is the last and most costly sacrifice Heaven can give for its children," Peaceful

really react to anything Peaceful Serenity

the surroundings were mired

was like an optimistic child shortly before the enemy army

It didn't matter.

It made no difference.

It changed nothing.

whatever you like,"

of pain and melancholy as

power was so

purpose was

was so filled with purpose that it

truth of the situation, seeing someone like this only felt

Gravis pitied Peaceful Serenity.

Serenity heard Gravis accept, she took a deep breath and nodded

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

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 there? What have they gone through in their lives

was filled

a

"I will show you how to overcome

Gravis only absentmindedly nodded.

an excited expression, Peaceful Serenity

WHOOOM!

behind her, but her world was different from the

was nearly empty. Only in the middle of it could one see the

This was a Cosmos.

filter. This filter protected the Cosmos against

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

Cosmos, the sky began to darken

bolts shot throughout

lightning bolts,

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

as I am one with lightning,

lightning. This

of hope that

Peaceful Serenity began to expand her

that coming, and she had managed to shape it into a form that

the second lightning bolt

And the third.