Chapter 495: Watching (2/2)

Was Heaven similar? Maybe Heaven truly believed that it only wanted as much Energy as possible and acted that way. Maybe Heaven truly had the power to kill his father but decided not to kill him due to his Energy attraction. At least, that's what it maybe believed itself.

Maybe, Heaven actually didn't want to kill his father since he was the only being that stood on its level. There was a realistic chance that Heaven simply didn't want to be alone, just like many other humans. Maybe it had created humans like this because it felt alone?

Gravis sighed again as he shook his head. 'Thinking about this is useless. Maybe I am simply projecting my own way of thinking onto a being that I can't understand.'

In the seventh year, Gravis only paid attention to his children. Right now, he didn't care about his incoming breakthrough to the Nascent Nourishing Realm or about his progress in understanding more Laws. As long as his children's path wasn't steadfast and clear, Gravis wouldn't care about anything else.

'Is it really bad to build attachments?' Gravis asked himself. 'My progress has halted, but my days have been as colorful and joyful as never before. Every time I see them move, I have this urge to watch, hug, and protect them.'

Gravis kept looking at the eggs. By now, the three little lives inside looked almost identical to him. The only thing missing was their scales since they still hadn't completely appeared. Yet, some small things started growing out all over their skin. Gravis was sure that these little things would become their scales in the future.

Gravis thought of himself as a human, and his children didn't look like humans at all, but that didn't stop Gravis' love for them. By now, he had realized that his children were pure beasts. There was no inkling of a developed will or Spirit inside them.

Feeling a Spirit or will wasn't anything difficult for someone as powerful as Gravis. This showed him that his children had nothing human in them. Yet, was that so bad? No, it wasn't. In terms of personality, Gravis agreed with beasts more than with humans anyway. Did it matter that his children were beasts and not humans?

Gravis didn't think that it mattered. No matter how they looked or how they acted, they would be his children. As he thought this, Gravis also realized why his father still kept in touch with his more pampered and arrogant siblings.

To Gravis, it didn't matter if these siblings of his died or not, but that wasn't true for his parents. Just like Gravis had watched his children, his parents had watched their children. In Gravis' mind, even if his children turned out to be beasts that he wouldn't like one bit, he would still love them and think of them as his own flesh and blood.

'Yet, is that good?' Gravis thought with uncertainty. 'If one of them becomes someone that suppresses everyone else and relies on my love and goodwill to suppress good beasts, is it really right for me to support them then?'

Normally, Gravis would have immediately said that doing that would only be corrupting the children and that it would be hypocritical. Yet, right now, Gravis only wanted his children to be happy. Was it so wrong to play favorites when it was regarding the closest beings he had in his life?

BZZZZ!

His lightning didn't like these thoughts one bit. Gravis felt himself becoming angrier at himself as his thoughts continued. Lightning wanted fairness and honesty, and these thoughts were not fair nor honest.

After some minutes, Gravis calmed down again and released another sigh. ”Maybe it's better this way. I think my love may have blinded me. If they are hellbent on becoming truly powerful, I will act according to my lightning. Pampering them would only hurt their future path anyway.”

”But, if they want to live in peace, I will bring them to a place where they don't have to worry about fighting,” Gravis said to himself.

His lightning was fine with that answer.