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.

of the outside world, filled with purpose

picture was a

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

crops, and he wouldn't allow

Orthar. They were

might have decided to try to make Peaceful Serenity understand regardless. After all, he didn't need to say any specifics. Maybe he could just steer her mind in the

now, it didn't really

what

or a bit later while knowing the

let her go on her

to overcome the lightning tribulation?" Gravis asked

Heaven Realm. Only after overcoming the lightning

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

the weakest parts of your Cosmos.

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

react to

were mired

child shortly

It didn't matter.

It made no difference.

It changed nothing.

you like," Gravis said

bit of pain and melancholy as he saw

was

purpose was so

was so filled with purpose that it was difficult to

of the situation, seeing someone like this

Gravis pitied Peaceful Serenity.

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

a good day," she said with a bright voice. "I have remained in this Cosmos for far too long. It

managed to leave this Cosmos still alive? Will I meet

was

with a bit of

said. "I will show you how

Gravis only absentmindedly nodded.

an excited expression, Peaceful Serenity flew far into

WHOOOM!

was

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

This was a Cosmos.

filter. This filter protected the Cosmos against forces other

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

the sky began

lightning bolts shot throughout the clouds, slowly gaining

felt these lightning bolts, he

thought,' Gravis thought. 'How naïve

one with lightning, I can stop Heaven's

This is

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

Serenity began to

However, Peaceful Serenity had already seen that coming,

the second

And the third.