Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis stood beside the still Grand Lake as he felt the death of a world.

How many beings were able to experience the death of an entire world?

How many beings could feel the feeling of absolute isolation that such a situation gave one?

Gravis took in the feeling for half an hour as he stood completely still.

"It's time, Heaven," Gravis said, his voice the only sound in this world.

"Don't be impatient," a genderless voice said as someone appeared close to Gravis.

Gravis was shocked.

Heaven had answered him?

Gravis looked to his left, where he saw a human looking silently at the Grand Lake.

This was Heaven.

Heaven looked like a young and thin person, its gender indiscernible. Yet, there was one major difference. This human had seven eyes instead of only two, all their eyes arranged in a circle.

"Take in the feeling of a dead world, Gravis," Heaven said, not looking at him. "This is a rare opportunity, and you shouldn't waste it."

Gravis didn't want to follow what Heaven said, but he also felt like Heaven wouldn't use such a trick to attack him. The highest Heaven wanted Gravis to become powerful, and this Heaven followed its ancestor's commands and teachings.

Gravis also looked at the Grand Lake as he started to lose himself in the stillness of nothingness.

His mind wandered as incomprehensible thoughts shot through it. He had no idea what he was thinking, and as time passed, he started to forget everything in the stillness.

Nothing moved.

Not even Gravis moved.

His body, mind, soul, and being stilled as he became one with the world.

BOOOOOM!

Gravis' head suddenly shot up as consciousness returned to him. He was pulled out of the feeling of stillness as he had just comprehended a Law.

Minor Death, Gravis," Heaven said from beside Gravis. "You have remained on this spot for

widened. "50 years!?" he

pass in a second, and a second might pass in an eon. You

had experienced this

Then, it hit him.

waiting for a new body!" Gravis said. "When I left

Grand Lake. "Back then, you had waited

he

at this strange organism inside your ring for 200 years. You think you are 1,000 years old, but you're actually 1300 years old.

He had just heard that he was actually 30% older than

something only a select few beings can experience," Heaven said. "This is a Law not even I had known until now. It can increase the power of

at the Grand Lake. "It

"It is," Heaven answered.

Silence.

me

to become more powerful," Heaven

to do

Silence.

answer for

have emotions, just like you humans?" Heaven asked as it suddenly changed the

time, Gravis was the silent

happiness, wonder, rage, sadness, grief, pressure, frustration, elation, relief, and all other emotions. We

"As are humans."

Heaven's words. Humans had been modeled after the highest Heaven, and the Heavens were too. This meant that

love this world, Gravis," Heaven said, its genderless even voice resonating with the world. "I have seen its birth. I have seen its rise. I have seen the

anything I have

are you telling me this?" Gravis said with a cold voice. "You know exactly

Heaven turned to

"My ancestor is the Cosmos. My ancestor is everything. This world is his. I

So, it was not only his

is not something I can relieve. I am my ancestor, and my ancestor wants to give

saying that I'm not able to win against you without this Law of

into

you are still not able to win

but deep

that couldn't

as powerful as it was possible for this world. Heaven might be as powerful as him