Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis grumbled for several minutes about his body. 'An electric eel? Really?' he thought with frustration. 'Is this some kind of joke?'

Gravis blew some more bubbles in frustration. 'Anyway, I'm stuck with it now. I can change it however much I want in the future. At least, the body is only at the level of a ferocious beast.'

'Actually, the more I'm thinking about it, the more I think that it wasn't Heaven that made me inhabit this body. The highest Heaven probably won't allow the same mistake to happen again. It probably still keeps an eye on this middle Heaven and me. I think that's just my lack of Karmic Luck.'

'I remember that the first time I appeared in the lower world, I have been transported to the top of a volcano. Since I still had my Elemental Synchronicity at that time, this couldn't have been considered bad luck,' Gravis thought as he tried to scratch his chin, unsuccessfully.

'If Heaven chose my body, I would probably have entered a body that was already at the Unity Realm. At that point, I wouldn't be able to achieve Unity again, making my path more difficult in the future. I wonder, does a lack of Karmic Luck work in the way that it chooses the thing worst for me, or something that the majority of people would consider bad luck?'

Gravis thought about this for a while.

'Enemies are good for me, yet, I still run into them, even though I would count that as lucky instead of unlucky. I guess most people would think it's bad luck if they were transported into an electric eel at the bottom of the food chain.'

'Yet, that's good for me. I have a lot of time and evolutions to redesign my body. Interesting,' he thought.

Whoom!

Gravis used his Will-Aura to stop a fish that was just about to swallow him. It was rather huge with a body length of over 20 meters. 'High-grade Demonic Beast,' Gravis judged. 'That would be pretty devastating to a newcomer inside the body of a ferocious beast.'

The fish remained still inside the water as Gravis' Will-Aura was delicately suppressing it. He didn't want to completely destroy it. After all, he needed food to survive and become stronger.

Leisurely, Gravis tried out his new body. Moving his fin wasn't an issue, but the new flexibility of his body felt weird. His signals were being sent to entirely different places. When Gravis tried to bend to the right slightly, he felt his whole body coil. It was like his chest was going all the way to his tail.

After some minutes of trying out his new body, he turned to the still-frozen fish. 'Time to eat,' he thought.

He swam around the fish to inspect it. 'Am I just supposed to bite into it? I haven't eaten raw meat before. I wonder if it tastes different to beasts.' Some more bubbles came out of his gills as he sighed. 'Well, let's just try it.'

Clank!

his teeth bounced off of the fish's scales. 'Seems like I can't bite something off of the

his new body, the inherent connection between his centers of power had vanished. Apparently, Unity wasn't possible without all three centers of power working

'I could eat the tongue,' he thought. Then, he moved to its back and saw its behind. If he were a human, he would show a conflicted look right now. 'The ass

Gravis shook his head. 'I won't eat some ass,' he thought. 'Anyway, let's first kill

CRRR!

killing it immediately. Gravis also tore the tongue from

he tried, he couldn't tear the tongue apart. After some seconds of trying, Gravis released some bubbles as

CRRR!

torn apart into tiny pieces, which quickly vanished as they got absorbed by his Spirit Space.

Gravis still felt hungry due to the small size of the piece of meat, but he didn't

meat, or, at least, it tried to. Sadly, his stomach wasn't able to digest this meal. When Gravis saw no progress after several more minutes, he groaned

so I have to find weaker prey,' he thought as he looked up. 'I'm not sure if the beasts at the surface are more powerful or weaker, but I'm sure of one thing.' Gravis looked down. 'I saw a ferocious beast at the bottom.

he wasn't very fast. Seeing his slow progress,

Whooom!

time, he also used his Spirit to move the water to the side. Like this, his body wouldn't get destroyed by the water resistance or pressure. 'Why didn't I think of this

some seconds, he reached the floor again. He also saw the small particles of the former crab. Gravis decided against eating that. The previous crab could only be described as dust now, which probably didn't

surroundings with his Spirit and quickly found some other crabs and similar animals. He also found a tasty looking flounder,

Maybe the crabs can only survive down here since

swam to the flounder and circled above it. Sure enough, the flounder didn't react

Whoom!

ring appeared in front of Gravis, and he held it with his

SSSSSHHH!

water appeared as all the ferocious beasts in a ten-kilometer-radius shot into his ring. Absorbing such weak beasts was as easy as breathing to Gravis. Though,

Gravis. What was this weak eel doing? Actually, it didn't matter.