Lightning Is the Only Way

"You are finally able to craft the perfect body," the unfamiliar Lord said from the side.

The Lord could be described as some kind of weird octopus. His head was only a meter tall, but his tentacles had five times the length. Additionally, his whole body was covered in tough scales.

Of course, this unfamiliar looking Lord was Orthar.

His tentacles ended in long and sharp claws. Yet, instead of being round, his claws had the form of a four-pronged hook. Orthar was able to move them around, and if he put them together, they would take the form of a powerful spear. After penetrating a target with that spear, he could move the hooks around inside the target to injure it or keep himself glued to its body.

He could crawl along his enemy's body, piercing them with many small hooks along the way. His tentacles also had several more hooks that he could move around. This would allow him to open holes to dig into his enemy's body and kill them from the inside.

When Gravis had first seen Orthar's new body, he was surprised by his small size. Yet, Orthar had told him that he wasn't able to truly make his body that small. When asked for an answer, Orthar told him that this was only his temporary size.

Gravis didn't exactly know what he meant. So, Orthar explained it to him. Apparently, starting at the Unity Realm, beasts were able to make themselves appear bigger or smaller. Yet, when they changed their size, they could only unleash about half their power.

Changing one's size required concentration and put the body under stress. If they wanted to fight, they needed to return to their original size. With his original size, Orthar's head had the length of about ten meters, not nearly as small as he wanted.

When Gravis asked him why he made himself appear that small, Orthar simply said that it was easier to walk around like this. On top of that, fewer beasts would notice him, and he might be able to find out some interesting information by listening to them.

When Orthar had evolved, he went to Gravis to show his new body and to watch him evolve too. Orthar wanted to see what Gravis' perfect body looked like. That's why he was currently beside Gravis.

Right now, Gravis was inside his own cave inside the Spire. Just as planned, the cave was at ground level and could only be accessed by the hole that connected the Abyss and the peak of the Spire. The cave was vast, taking up nearly half the width of the Spire. After all, Gravis needed the cave to be big enough to fit everyone if he required his officers to gather.

There was no furniture or light in the cave. Beasts didn't know the concept of furniture, and Gravis also didn't care. The only human-like thing in the cave was a door that Gravis created. He didn't like it that everyone could just look into his cave.

Right now, Orthar was watching Gravis with interest while Gravis was planning his evolution. His most critical evolution was coming up, and nothing could go wrong now.

When Gravis felt the tickling sensation, he checked his Spirit Space and summoned Heaven's body. His father told him that he should eat it when he reached the Unity Realm again.

When the black worm, filled with eyes, appeared, Orthar looked at it with a mixture of emotions. Somehow, when he looked at the body, he felt himself like an ant before an emperor. It felt holy, powerful, and awe-inspiring. It felt like something that could never be desecrated or hurt.

Crunch!

Then, he simply swallowed the other half. Orthar somehow felt impressed that Gravis simply tore this seemingly divine thing apart without any reaction. It looked like Gravis only saw this

himself get transported to a different world. A vision appeared in his awareness, and Gravis felt like he saw the lower world

and he felt his awareness expand until the whole world appeared before his eyes. He saw everything, including the edge of the world. At its edges, the lower

knew how it looked like. It was a singular continent floating in a mass of chaos, protected

some peculiarities. He saw all the Elemental Sects and also noticed that all the dead people had revived. He saw Byron, Old Man Lightning, Lasar, Joyce, and everyone else he knew. He also saw Aion overlooking the south-eastern branch of

quickly realized that this was the world before he had arrived. He mostly concluded

happened. He could bestow Karmic Luck and steal it. He felt like he could form the

elements followed his calling. He could summon lightning, lava, wind, rain, fire,

he noticed something. He noticed that he couldn't control the elements of the beasts or cultivators. Their elements belonged to them, and he had

is how Heaven feels, huh?'

not with his Spirit, but with his actual body. His fifty-meter-long, snake-like

the elements fusing with his body. When Gravis felt that, he immediately knew what was happening. He also

could keep his affinity towards lightning, but Gravis could also regain the Elemental Synchronicity that he had lost. At that point, he

Yet, Gravis sneered.

BANG!

elements broke apart until Gravis felt nothing but lightning. When he destroyed his connections to the other elements, he felt his consciousness expand.

on his mind. He hadn't

a fan of that,' Gravis thought

Whoooom!

mind concentrated entirely on lightning. He felt his mind becoming more strained, but at the same time, his

qualms about destroying it. All the cultivators and beasts with lightning affinity died as their lightning left their bodies. Additionally, the lightning storms all

gathered together to appear in front of Gravis as a

BZZZZ!

massive lightning ball changed until it was fully converted into Punishment Lightning. After that, Gravis

at it with a smirk and felt the drain on his mind. It felt like controlling this lightning was

only lightning,"

swallowed the

it wasn't just mindless destruction that his lightning brought. When the lightning "ate" part of his body, it left behind an identical

All matter in the world was made out of Energy, but not these parts. There was