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.

in shock. "How

"Actually," he transmitted back. "I'm not so sure. I think I have

were screaming hysterically after that barrier appeared. At the time, I wasn't

continued. "After a while, I 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 body, and I had a distinct feeling that

only remembered being in pain and then vanishing into nothingness. The next memory had been his reawakening. "Interesting," Gravis sent back. "So,

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

was looking at something that didn't exist. It was like the man didn't exist, yet

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

seconds as he thought back to the image of the Opposer. Gravis noticed that and smiled slightly. "That

similar looks, but his being

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,

die, he wouldn't even know how he died. So, the appearance of his father must have had the agreement of the highest Heaven. This other power that Aion had felt had probably

happened then?"

lighting around you started vanishing until you simply stood there with closed eyes. You should know everything that happened after that better

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

how much 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

while. "It's my

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 slowly regaining

more, but apparently, he was out of luck. "Then, what was this other existence that came

that should be the highest Heaven,"

rose. "Highest Heaven? What do