Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis changed his goal from the Soft Complex Law to the Mixed Elemental Laws. The Soft Complex Law took parts of different elements and was a level two Law. If he managed to understand the Mixed Elemental Laws, understanding the Soft Complex Law would surely become even easier.

'Understanding level one Laws is far easier than a level two Law. So, let's check them out,' Gravis thought as he thought about how to procure different elements to experiment with. 'I have enough metal. I have enough earth. I also have enough lightning. That already covers three of the six elements I need.'

'Air and wind shouldn't be a problem. I also have a ton of water in the Grand Lake. As for fire, I just need to split up the magma to create a powerful fire. Let's check out steam first since it seems to be the easiest one to create.'

Thus, Gravis returned underground and retrieved a ton of magma into his Spirit Space. Inside his Spirit Space, he split the magma apart into fire and stone. Gravis had complete control over his Spirit Space, which allowed him to preserve the materials as they were.

Then, Gravis summoned some fire and threw it into the Grand Lake.

SSSSSSSS!

Immediately, an explosion of steam appeared, and Gravis looked intently at the process.

He spent the next year like this.

'This is truly fascinating!' Gravis thought. 'I've always thought that the heat of the fire would simply transform water into steam, but the fire actually fuses with the water to become steam. This goes completely against common sense!'

Gravis spent another four years trying to understand steam until…

BOOOOM!

'Got it!' Gravis thought with excitement. 'Sure enough, understanding a level one Law is far easier than understanding a level two Law. If I wouldn't have such a crazy amount of experience with different kinds of Laws, understanding this Law would have taken me many decades, maybe even a full century. After all, it has absolutely no affinity with me.'

Gravis was happy that he managed to take another step into the Mixed Elemental Laws.

Yet, what he didn't know was that his constant experimentation with steam created powerful rainstorms around the world since he had created an unreal amount of steam. Lots of mortal plants and animals drowned in these storms.

But even if Gravis knew that he was responsible for it, he wouldn't stop. He had accepted that his efforts in trying to understand more Laws would have tremendous effects on the weaker beings. There was no way around it, and he prioritized his own power over the wellbeing of mortal beings.

Grand Lake was constantly raining. It hadn't stopped raining for the entire

imagined that he would grow so apathetic towards life. Yet, as one grew

Law, mud!'

Luckily, since

muddy as he retrieved several tons of

five years passed. Gravis had been in seclusion

BOOOOM!

water in front of him being beyond muddy. Of course, Gravis was smart enough to clean the water of the earth periodically. He still remembered that the Striders were not big fans of their water being stolen. Gravis was not powerful enough to contest with a

mud apart, threw the water back into the Grand Lake, and created a mountain of dirt

they comprehended Laws. They simply looked

would only be created very localized. If beasts wanted to comprehend water, they

see how things worked and interacted. Instead of simply looking at things, he destroyed them, fused them, and split them apart. This violently affected the terrain around

behavior towards the environment also was a much more effective way to comprehend Laws. This aspect was one of the reasons why humans were better

and metal!' Gravis thought as he

the water, he grew uncertain. 'How am I supposed to

over metal nor over water. I'm also unsure what would come out of this,' Gravis thought as he scratched his chin. 'Fuck it! I'll just use

as hard as he could. Gravis had to use

the metal thanks to my relevant Composition

to see the change with

not seen this coming!?' Gravis thought in

force had worked, and Gravis successfully created the element

It was liquid metal.

have been searching for was just something that I could have created

get to it, but this Law will probably take longer than the others since it

with this, Gravis spent a long

30 years on it. By now, he had been in

BOOOOM!