Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis looked into the sky for some more seconds and then refocused again. He looked around some more with his Spirit and noticed that his saber and other belongings were strewn across the plain. "Might as well try my Spirit Space," Gravis muttered.

WHOP!

All his belongings vanished into thin air as they reappeared in Gravis' Spirit Space. The lightning inside his Spirit Space seemed to ignore those belongings as it violently stormed around them. Gravis looked into his Spirit Space and saw that he had about five cubic meters of storage space. 'That's a lot,' he thought.

With another thought, Gravis willed his saber to reappear in his hands, and it did. Retrieving his weapon like this would be faster than unsheathing it from his back. As Gravis experienced how the Spirit Space worked, he got several new ideas of how to utilize it.

Then, Gravis looked to Aion, who was standing unsurely around a kilometer away. Gravis had had the ability to feel others' Spirits before, but now it felt like he could interact with their Spirit. Was this how he could transmit his thoughts?

"Hey, Aion," Gravis willed for his thoughts to enter Aion's Spirit. Aion's eyes widened slightly, and then he smiled bitterly.

"Hey, Gravis," he sent back.

Gravis nodded as he got a grasp on how to use Thought Transmission. Yet, Gravis wanted to know something else.

"Say," Gravis transmitted, "what actually happened?"

Now Aion's eyes widened fully. "What?" he sent back. "That's what I want to ask!"

Gravis only smiled. He was happy about regaining his old life-priorities, and he was also incredibly happy about his newfound power. He didn't mind telling Aion what happened. Heaven already knew what happened, after all. Aion was not Gravis' enemy, but only a pawn of his enemy.

"I used lightning instead of Magic to form my Spirit," Gravis transmitted.

shock. "How are

transmitted back. "I'm not so sure. I think I have died while doing this, yet I am

"Sure," he transmitted back. "You were screaming hysterically after that barrier appeared. At the time, I wasn't sure what would be able to shake someone with a Unity-Will this

before. Lightning came out of your whole body, and I had a distinct feeling that that wasn't you anymore. Then, you summoned lightning from the Heavens and just absorbed

no memory of that. He only remembered being in pain and then vanishing into nothingness. The next memory had been his reawakening. "Interesting," Gravis sent

thought back to what happened. "After you absorbed the lightning, the earlier…

like the man didn't exist, yet he did. The man made Aion feel like he shouldn't exist. His whole thoughts and emotions had resonated with one

No.

was the purest form of rejection. The man made Aion feel something higher than worship, but also something way worse than terror. His feelings and instincts rejected this person's existence because it was impossible that something like this

he thought back to the image of the Opposer. Gravis noticed that and

Gravis' father due to their similar looks, but his being hadn't accepted that possibility. Yet, when Gravis confirmed it, it could only be

regain his bearing. "After your father appeared, something else happened too. It felt like the whole world changed, and…" Aion made a pause here, "it felt like Heaven was no longer there, replaced

just involve himself like this, or the highest Heaven would lose all decorum with Gravis. If the highest Heaven actually wanted Gravis to die, he wouldn't even know how he died. So, the appearance of his father

then?" asked

vanishing until you simply stood there with closed eyes. You should know

lower world, his father wouldn't be able to intervene due to the highest Heaven,

pondered about the situation, he couldn't get to the answer. The only explanation would be if he had become a danger to the highest Heaven, but that was

after a while. "It's my turn.

I had formed my Spirit with lightning, my mind and Spirit both got absorbed by something. I have no idea what had absorbed them, but I feel like I have died at that point. The next thing I remember is waking up in my Spirit Space and

luck. "Then, what was this other existence that came together

should be the highest Heaven," Gravis

Heaven?