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

They didn't exist.

beautiful picture of the outside world, filled with purpose and

picture was a

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

crops, and he wouldn't allow anyone

Orthar. They were

After all, he didn't need to say any specifics. Maybe he could just steer her mind in the

now, it didn't really

knew what

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

let her go on

how to overcome the lightning tribulation?"

the last obstacle before the Heaven Realm. Only after

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,

you to feel out the weakest parts of your Cosmos. Without them,

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

react to anything

the surroundings were mired in grey and

was like an optimistic child shortly before the

It didn't matter.

It made no difference.

It changed nothing.

like," Gravis

a bit of pain

power was so

was so

with purpose that it

when one knew the truth of the

Gravis pitied Peaceful Serenity.

heard Gravis accept, she took a deep

for far too long. It is interesting

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 out there? What have they

was filled

with a bit

Peaceful Serenity said. "I will show you how to overcome the

Gravis only absentmindedly nodded.

Serenity

WHOOOM!

her, but her world was

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

This was a Cosmos.

filter. This filter protected the

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

her Cosmos, the sky

black lightning bolts shot throughout the clouds, slowly gaining

these lightning bolts, he released a

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

as I am one with lightning, I

is not just lightning. This is Orthar's lightning.

ember of hope that

began

breaking it. However, Peaceful Serenity had already seen that coming, and she had managed to shape it into a form that

second lightning bolt

And the third.