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.

form he wanted. His father had told him that he couldn't change too much at once. So, Gravis had

type when he had been taking a break in his homeworld. Of course, a long, snake-like body

worm would go through were similar to what he would do with an eel-body. Thus, Gravis already had a pretty

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

perfect for battle?' Gravis thought with a smirk as his body shook. 'The more weapons I have at

his mind changed, Gravis started to feel a disconnect. It was like his body would no longer be himself if he went through with the

did some more modifications to the image as his physical body started morphing into the image inside his mind. After some seconds,

morphed faster, and after

with satisfaction as he looked at his new

What did he change?

One of them wasn't visible from the outside. It was a change of his bones and their structure. His spine now looked

his spine after he had seen that he could still change some

his

His head.

looked very similar to the head of an alligator. His snout poked

wasn't as big or cumbersome as a crocodile's. Yet, to him, this was more than enough. He wouldn't use his mouth as his primary weapon, after all. It would only function as an auxiliary or backup

that he could actually show expressions. Not being able to show expressions felt weird to him. Now, he could finally sigh, smile, sneer, and most importantly,

all. So, his alligator head didn't have any scales. It was just a slimy, fleshy head in the shape

a six-meter-long eel looked weird, but Gravis didn't mind that. 'It doesn't matter how I look right now. This is only temporary, and

flounder asked. "Look

best path to power," Gravis transmitted

didn't have the capability to understand such a concept. Even for a Spirit

teach Skye, but the flounder wasn't his friend. After all, it had tried to kill him previously. The fact that it

could smile and frown

I'm a low-grade Demonic Beast now,'

Whoop!

crab appeared, and Gravis repeated the usual process. His body hadn't increased in size, so he couldn't fit more of the