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.

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

"50 years!?"

said. "When there is no meaning to time, eons might pass in a second, and a second might pass in an eon. You have experienced this feeling

had experienced this feeling

Then, it hit him.

Gravis said. "When I

Heaven said, still looking at the Grand Lake. "Back then, you had waited for

almost couldn't believe what he was hearing. "200 years?"

Laws of Life so quickly. Without knowing, you had been staring 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. Without noticing it, nothingness has taken 300 years from

how he should feel right now. He had just heard that he was actually 30% older than he had believed. Was this

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

at the Grand Lake. "It

"It is," Heaven answered.

Silence.

allowed me

to become

to do

Silence.

answer

like you humans?"

time, Gravis was the

pressure, frustration, elation, relief, and

"As are humans."

been modeled after the highest Heaven, and the Heavens were too. This meant that the Heavens could feel the same things that humans could feel. Did that make them any different from

resonating with the world. "I have seen its birth. I have seen its rise. I have seen

is like my child," Heaven said. "Slowly seeing it deteriorating into nothingness has pained me more than anything I have ever felt. If you were not here, this world would still be alive. My child would still be

telling me this?" Gravis said with a cold voice.

turned

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

was not only his father that assigned a gender

can relieve. I am my ancestor, and my ancestor wants

to win against you without this Law

into Gravis' eyes.

are still not able

narrowed his eyes, but deep inside, he

couldn't be

as it was possible for this world. Heaven might be as powerful as him but so much more powerful