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

have died while doing this, yet I am still alive. Could you tell me what happened from

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 intensely. Though, the lightning

didn't hear you anymore, and the barrier vanished. When I saw you, you seemed completely different than before. Lightning came out of your whole

only remembered being in pain and then vanishing into nothingness. The next memory had been

little as he thought back to what happened. "After you absorbed the

he was looking at something that didn't exist. It was like the man didn't exist, yet he did. The man made Aion feel like

No.

form of rejection. The man made Aion feel something higher than worship, but also something way worse than terror. His feelings and instincts rejected

for some seconds as he thought back to the image of the Opposer. Gravis noticed that

due to their similar looks, but his being hadn't accepted that

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

father couldn't 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 must have had

happened then?" asked

stood there with closed eyes. You should know everything that happened after that better than me," Aion finished

dangerous. If Gravis died in the lower world, his father wouldn't be able to intervene

Gravis 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 absolutely impossible. Gravis was too weak for

"It's my turn.

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

of luck. "Then, what was this other existence that

the

"Highest Heaven?