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!

of the fish's scales. 'Seems like I can't

As soon as he entered his new body, the inherent connection between his centers of power had vanished. Apparently,

Then, he moved to its back and saw its behind. If he were a human, he would show a conflicted look right now.

'I won't eat some ass,' he thought. 'Anyway, let's first

CRRR!

the tongue from its mouth with his Spirit and made it

into the tongue, but he couldn't even draw blood. No matter how hard he tried, he couldn't tear the tongue apart. After some seconds of trying, Gravis released some bubbles as he groaned.

CRRR!

into tiny pieces, which quickly vanished as they got absorbed by his Spirit Space. 'I'll just swallow them whole. It's like using a

piece of meat, but he didn't know what would happen if a beast ate meat that was way above its league. So, he first wanted to see what would

the meat, or, at least, it tried to. Sadly, his stomach wasn't able to digest this meal. When Gravis

are more powerful or weaker,

fast. Seeing

Whooom!

his Spirit to shoot himself through the water. At the same time, he also used his Spirit to move the water to the side. Like this, his

reached the floor again. He also saw the small particles of the former crab. Gravis decided against eating

found some other crabs and similar animals. He also found

Spirit beast,' Gravis judged. 'Maybe the beasts at the bottom are stronger after all. Maybe the crabs can only survive down here since the powerful beasts don't care about them. I doubt that any Energy Beast

his hypothesis. Using his body, he slowly swam to the flounder and circled above it. Sure enough, the flounder didn't react

Whoom!

of Gravis, and he held it with his teeth. It was the

SSSSSHHH!

shot into his ring. Absorbing such weak beasts was as easy as breathing to Gravis. Though, he didn't have

was this weak eel doing? Actually, it didn't