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.

from beside Gravis. "You

years!?" he said

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

He had experienced this feeling once

Then, it hit him.

said. "When I left for

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

what he was hearing. "200 years?" he

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

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

Death is something only a select few beings can experience," Heaven said. "This is a Law not even I had known until

the Grand Lake.

"It is," Heaven answered.

Silence.

allowed me to

need to become more

got to

Silence.

answer for

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

Gravis was the

also feel love, hate, happiness, wonder, rage, sadness, grief, pressure, frustration, elation, relief, and all other emotions. We have been modeled after our

"As are humans."

he thought about Heaven's words. Humans had 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

even voice resonating with the world. "I have seen its birth. I have seen its rise. I have seen the birth of all living beings, but I have

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

this?" Gravis said with a cold voice. "You know exactly that I

Heaven turned to Gravis

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

only his father that assigned a gender to the

can relieve. I am my ancestor, and my ancestor wants to give you a chance to win against

to win against you without this Law of Minor Death?"

looked into

that you are still not able

eyes, but deep

that couldn't

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