Lightning Is the Only Way

Sleeping felt weird to Gravis. It also took him quite some time to fall asleep since he wasn't used to it anymore. Luckily, he didn't dream. The brain of his new eel-body probably wasn't developed enough to have dreams.

After who knew how long, Gravis woke up again. Apparently, a lot of time had passed while his consciousness was asleep. Gravis awkwardly stretched himself and thought about how weird it felt to sleep again. He also saw the flounder patrolling around him, looking at everything. At least it was doing its job.

"Master," it transmitted as it noticed that Gravis woke up.

"Continue patrolling," Gravis said.

"Yes," the flounder transmitted back.

Whoop! CRRR!

Gravis summoned several shrimp and tore them apart with his Spirit. Then, he separated edible from inedible and shoved the edible parts into his stomach. He didn't even taste any of it. It was about as much meat as previously, but Gravis didn't feel as bloated.

'It seems like my body has gotten more powerful,' he thought. 'It probably won't take too long to achieve my first evolution.'

But now, Gravis had no idea what he should do. The digestion couldn't be accelerated, and he wasn't tired anymore. After some minutes, boredom set in, and Gravis decided to look at the CMO some more. Seeing it constantly change form felt enchanting.

Of course, only his Spirit Sense was inside the Life Ring. Everything else remained outside as his eel-body just laid on the sand. During his sleep, a lot of other beasts appeared in the vicinity, but nothing dared to come too close to that imposing flounder.

From time to time, some demonic beasts also appeared, but that was a relatively rare occasion. The demonic beasts might become enticing enough to a Spirit Beast if it felt hungry. So, they kept themselves away. It wasn't that they were smart enough to realize the danger, but that their long honed instinct made them fear the deep.

Whoom!

Gravis' body started shaking suddenly. 'Oh, I'm becoming a demonic beast,' he thought with some excitement. 'Let's see how this whole evolution thing works.'

As his body shook, Gravis felt the Energy inside his body move, but it wasn't the Energy that he used to heal himself. It was the Energy that made up the whole body. This was something fundamental and completely different, Energy in the form of matter. Something Gravis had no real experience with.

Gravis felt himself become bigger and longer. He felt his instincts driving him forward as an image of a bigger eel appeared in his mind. 'No! Change!' Gravis willed, and slowly, the image in his mind started changing.

he wanted. His father had told him that he couldn't change too much at once. So, Gravis had to take it slow. As soon as he had seen his body previously, he thought about his future

up much time. The main reason for that was that he had already planned the evolution for every possible body type when he had been taking a break in his homeworld. Of

similar to what he would do with an eel-body. Thus, Gravis already had a pretty solid plan in

receiving the scale from his father, and hearing about the fact that he could morph into a human when he became an Immortal, changed his plan slightly. He wasn't planning on creating a perfect

thought with a

like his body would no longer be himself if he went through with the change. 'So, that's the threshold. As long as I don't overstep this

as his physical body started morphing into the image inside his mind. After some seconds, Gravis finalized the image inside his head and willed his

faster, and after a minute, the

with satisfaction

What did he change?

was a change of his bones and their structure. His spine now looked more like that of

he had seen that he could still change some other stuff after

was his

His head.

became bigger and now looked very similar to the head of an alligator.

the mouth wasn't as big or cumbersome as a crocodile's. Yet, to him, this

Not being able

right now, Gravis' look could only be described as weird. He hadn't changed his slimy skin, after all. So, his alligator head didn't have any scales. It was just a slimy, fleshy head in the shape of an alligator. On top of that, he still didn't have any

on a six-meter-long eel looked weird, but Gravis didn't mind that. 'It doesn't matter how

happened, master?" the flounder asked. "Look different," it

always the best path to power," Gravis

a concept. Even for a

Gravis didn't bother to continue his explanation. He might have had the patience to teach Skye, but the

so that he could smile and frown with his

all, I'm a low-grade Demonic Beast now,' Gravis thought with

Whoop!

hadn't increased in size, so he couldn't fit more of the meat into