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.

beautiful picture of the outside world, filled with purpose

was a picture

couldn't. This was still Orthar's Cosmos, and Orthar wouldn't

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

Orthar.

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

it didn't really matter

knew what

bit later while knowing

her go on her

show me how to overcome the lightning tribulation?" Gravis asked

obstacle before the Heaven Realm. Only after overcoming the lightning tribulation can you make your Cosmos a

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

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

Energy to help us. This is the last and most costly sacrifice Heaven can give for

to anything Peaceful Serenity

were mired in grey and

optimistic child shortly before the

It didn't matter.

It made no difference.

It changed nothing.

you like,"

a way, Gravis felt a bit of pain

power was so

was

that it was difficult to

when one knew the truth of the situation, seeing someone like

Gravis pitied Peaceful Serenity.

she took a

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

is out there? Are the previous Heaven's Magnates that managed to leave this Cosmos still alive? Will I meet them? How unimaginably

mind was filled

silently watched her with a bit of

said. "I will show you how to

Gravis only absentmindedly nodded.

Serenity flew far into the

WHOOOM!

her, but her world was different from the worlds of

in the middle of it could one see

This was a Cosmos.

filter protected the Cosmos against forces

space that one could use to create worlds. At the moment, there was only one world inside Peaceful Serenity's

her Cosmos, the sky

throughout

lightning bolts, he

thought.

with lightning, I can stop Heaven's lightning,

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

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

Serenity began to expand her

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

the second lightning bolt

And the third.