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.

beautiful picture of the outside world, filled with purpose

picture was

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

he wouldn't allow

to Orthar.

all, he didn't need

it didn't really

what

or a bit later

as well let her go on her own

want to show me how to overcome the

last obstacle before the Heaven Realm.

lightning tribulation, as 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 attack, but it is actually very similar

out the weakest parts of your Cosmos.

sacrificing its own Energy to

didn't really react to anything Peaceful Serenity

the surroundings were mired

was like an optimistic child shortly before the enemy

It didn't matter.

It made no difference.

It changed nothing.

you like," Gravis said

of pain and

power was so

purpose was

purpose that it

of the situation, seeing someone like

Gravis pitied Peaceful Serenity.

accept, she took

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

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

mind was

with a bit of pain

will

Gravis only absentmindedly nodded.

Serenity

WHOOOM!

her world was

was nearly empty. Only in the middle of it

This was a Cosmos.

filter protected the Cosmos against forces other

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

her Cosmos, the sky began

black lightning bolts shot throughout the clouds,

Gravis felt these lightning

thought.

one with lightning, I can stop Heaven's

This is not just lightning. This is Orthar's

this, a tiny ember of hope that hadn't

Serenity began to expand

that coming, and she had managed to shape it

the second lightning

And the third.