Lightning Is the Only Way

There was darkness as far as the eye could see. Everything was black around Gravis, and he felt an itchy sensation all over his body. It wasn't really bad, just annoying. Gravis lifted his hand and looked at it. Sure enough, it was slowly dissolving into nothingness.

Flakes of his skin left his body as they vanished into dust. Seeing your own body get dissolved into nothingness and vanishing would be a traumatic experience for every mortal, but Gravis had already been prepared for that. His father had told him what would happen.

'Sure enough, it doesn't hurt,' he thought, 'that's, at least, something.'

There was no air around or anything, but Gravis didn't need that to begin with. His body was also dissolving at a much slower rate than he had expected. At this rate, it would probably take a couple of hours. Though, that was hard to determine without any visible indicator for the passage of time.

Gravis tried to sigh but failed since there was no air. 'This will take a while,' he thought. 'I wonder how long I will stay in this space. Father said that I have to wait until a compatible body dies. The middle world is huge, but it might take some time until something with a fitting elemental affinity dies with a somewhat whole body. Most beasts eat the corpse, making it hard for the corpse to stay whole.'

Gravis sat down onto whatever he stood on previously and began to wait. There was nothing to do.

'Oh, right!' Gravis thought suddenly. 'I should retrieve my Life Ring and Obsidian Ring into my Spirit Space.'

Whoop!

And like that, everything was gone but his clothing. He had enough spare clothing inside his Spirit Space, but he really doubted if he would need those. After all, he was about to inhabit a different body. Since his Spirit Space would follow him into the new body, everything would remain safe inside it.

While waiting for the process to finish, Gravis looked at the CMO inside his Life Ring. The blob was just sitting on top of a stony mountain. Gravis had already ordered the mushroom to keep away from it, but he just wanted to be sure. So, he placed it outside its reach.

Speaking of the mushroom, without anything else threatening it, it grew at a rapid pace. It didn't become stronger, but it became bigger. By now, it covered a territory that was over 20 kilometers wide. That was quite impressive for a single mushroom.

The CMO just sat there, doing something. Gravis looked at it and concentrated his Spirit on it. His Spirit wasn't powerful enough to see the underlying Laws or Energy that created it, but he could see its effect.

It was changing color slowly. By now, it was completely red. Gravis expected that it probably had developed an affinity for fire. On top of that, it wasn't really a blob anymore. Some bone spurs broke out of its "skin" without any rhyme or reason. Other parts of the blob had weird appendages coming out of it.

all these things inside of it,' Gravis thought, 'speaking

was powerful enough to see the microscopic level, but he didn't find anything. He had the theory that maybe some small living things made up living beings, but that wasn't true.

it, he could now see many different parts. Sometimes, it was creating some random scales. Other times, it grew some weird hair or nails. It was actually bizarre to see the blob

they fell away from the body. Curiously enough, the blob either created some kind of tentacle to grab the fallen appendage or

discern that it needs its own mass back to survive. If it doesn't reabsorb its own "meat", it would shrink. On top of that, I feel that it is absorbing a little bit of Energy. When it creates something harder, it absorbs more Energy than usual. Truly interesting,' Gravis thought as his

just kept watching the CMO. Its

while, Gravis looked away and checked on

'How long did I watch the CMO? How much time has

no idea how much time had passed. His Life Ring didn't have any day and night cycle, and he couldn't discern the time by looking at the outside. There was

'I should be careful in the future. The CMO has distracted me for quite a while. However, it shouldn't have been too long.

now, Gravis was nothing more than a minuscule flying orb. This was his tiny Spirit Space. It was huge on the inside, but on the outside, it was smaller than

the sun. Gravis made it move around a bit and noticed that he still had full control. It was like the lightning was still inside his

nothing else to do, Gravis

Like this, time passed.

Whooom!

as he felt a pull. He had been watching the CMO for who knew how long. Gravis

Spirit Space. He noticed that, as the force of the pull increased, his Spirit Space and lightning started to

be conscious and see your whole

Psh!

of his… chest? Gravis wasn't sure where he felt that. The pain

new body. He quickly used his eyes and Spirit to look around.

only 10 kilometers around him, surprising him quite a bit.

him about his suppression of

the ocean floor, on some sand. Some kelp and other kinds of flora were around him. Yet, everything was completely dark. He could only see with his Spirit. On

I need to swim upward,' he thought, 'But first,