Lightning Is the Only Way

After planning his next course of action, Gravis shot into the sky. If the world became hotter the further down one got, the world should also get colder the higher one got. Otherwise, how could the normal world have a normal temperature if there was no cold temperature that equalized the heat?

In comparison to the lower world, the ceiling of this middle world was far higher up. Back in the lower world, after only some tens of kilometers, one wouldn't even be able to feel any Energy anymore. Yet, in this world, the Energy was even present at the height of over a thousand kilometers.

After 1.000 kilometers, Gravis could already feel the cold. Air was no longer present, but he didn't need air anyway. The tearing force of the vacuum was also absolutely negligible. Something like that would be an issue for Spirit Beasts, but not for a King.

After 5.000 kilometers, even Lords would have issues surviving. The temperature was just far too low.

When Gravis reached the height of 10.000 kilometers, even he had issues surviving. Parts of his body quickly froze over, but he used Heated Lightning to warm his surroundings. Gravis was immune to lightning, but Heated Lightning also had fire in it. Typically, if he used the Heated Lightning so close to his body, he would get burned.

Luckily, since Gravis had comprehended the Law of Heat as well, he could reduce the heat of the Heated Lightning to such a degree that he could keep himself alive. Of course, Gravis didn't make the temperature normal. If he didn't feel the cold, he couldn't comprehend it. Because of that, he kept the temperature at such a point that he would use up just enough Energy that his regeneration could keep up with it.

Yet, there was nearly no Energy that far up. If there were no Energy that Gravis could absorb, he couldn't regenerate his Energy storage. Thankfully, Gravis found a way around that.

What did Gravis use to regenerate Energy?

It was his Life Ring.

His Life Ring automatically absorbed Energy from the surroundings to keep the miniature world inside it going. This meant that it was also a massive storage for Energy. Sadly, Gravis couldn't absorb the Energy faster than usual. After all, it was just another atmosphere filled with Energy. There was no difference in absorbing this Energy and the Energy of the outside world.

Of course, that was only true when the outside world had as much Energy in the atmosphere as the Life Ring. Right now, in this area without Energy, Gravis could regenerate just as much Energy as if he were on the ground.

The Heated Lightning moved around his body, heating up the parts of it that were about to freeze and die. The rest of his body was exposed to the cold.

insane temperatures created enormous pain, but physical pain could not bother or annoy Gravis. He had grown so used to it that it made no difference to him

this, Gravis stopped in the darkness. Of course, darkness was only relative in this case since the sun directly shone upon him. All his surroundings were dark, with

he had closed in on the sun. 'Interesting. I thought that the sun would be further away, but it's actually not that far away.

same time, Gravis also

were moving at quite some rapid speeds. This meant that he was also very close

increased the power of his Heated Lightning. Then,

2.000 kilometers, Gravis reached one of the stars. Surprisingly, it was only around 20 kilometers wide, far

which meant that he couldn't remain here indefinitely. Yet, his interest in the stars was just too

star without any issues,

Energy!' Gravis thought

of Energy. It even had a far higher density than

Heaven didn't create useless things. Gravis was very sure that Heaven didn't

Gravis reached a possibility that

saw three Ascenders absorbing several Striders at the same time, but the Energy density of the core of the world only dropped by a little bit. Normally, one Strider should

that's where Heaven keeps all the backup Energy. Additionally, no one would notice some stars vanishing when a Strider

over all the stars. Then, he flew around some more to see if he missed any. His Spirit Sense didn't reach so far that he could encompass

some minutes, Gravis was sure that he found most of the stars. 'I need to do some calculations,' he thought as he compared the Energy inside a Strider with the Energy inside

Striders. So, together with the already existing ten Striders, this world has enough Energy to keep 20 Striders alive without it affecting the Energy density of the world. That's why I only felt the Energy density drop after nearly all Striders had been

of being happy that he found out about a secret of the world, Gravis frowned. 'That's a problem,' he thought. 'When I become a level five Emperor, I would need to eat a total of 40 Striders to become an Immortal. That would even empty out the Energy

wouldn't have sent me here. He knows far more than me, and he has surely foreseen my Energy requirements and how much I

to become more powerful, father would simply call me back. After all, I shouldn't forget that he is not Heaven. He is not bound by any rules. If he so wanted, he could kill all my enemies, and there would be nothing that Heaven could