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.

beside Gravis. "You

widened. "50 years!?"

meaning to time, eons might pass in a second, and a second might pass in an

mind raced. He had experienced this feeling

Then, it hit him.

was waiting for a new body!" Gravis said. "When I left for this world,

then,

couldn't believe what he was hearing.

reason why you managed to learn the Laws of Life so quickly. Without knowing, you had been staring at this strange organism inside your ring for

should feel right now. He had just heard that he was actually 30% older than he had believed. Was this good? Was this bad? Should he be thankful? Should he be

a Law not even I had known until now. It can

at the Grand Lake.

"It is," Heaven answered.

Silence.

allowed me to comprehend it?" Gravis

become

power got to do with you?"

Silence.

didn't answer for a

have emotions, just like you humans?" Heaven

Gravis was

sadness, grief, pressure, frustration, elation, relief, and

"As are humans."

been modeled after the highest Heaven, and the Heavens were too. This meant that the Heavens

"I have seen its birth. I have seen its rise. I have seen the birth of all living beings,

nothingness has pained me more than anything I have ever felt. If you were not here, this world

said with a cold voice. "You know exactly that

first time, Heaven turned to Gravis and looked at

world is his. I am his. You are his. Time is his. Space is his. Destiny is his. Life is his. Death

Gravis thought. So, it was not only his father that assigned a gender to

my ancestor is everything, my actions are also his. Therefore, my unending hate towards your existence is not something I can

not able to win against you without this

looked into Gravis' eyes.

that you are still not able to

narrowed his eyes, but deep inside, he felt

that couldn't be

be as powerful as him