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 for

widened. "50 years!?"

there is no meaning to time, eons might pass in a second, and a second might pass in an eon. You have

raced. He had experienced this

Then, it hit him.

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

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

what he was hearing. "200

had been staring at this strange organism inside your ring for 200 years.

30% older than he

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 Composition Laws and your

at the

"It is," Heaven answered.

Silence.

me to comprehend

need to become more powerful," Heaven

got to do

Silence.

answer for

emotions, just like you humans?" Heaven asked

Gravis was

sadness, grief, pressure, frustration, elation, relief, and all other emotions. We have been modeled after our

"As are 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

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

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

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

turned

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

his father that assigned a gender to

also his. Therefore, my unending hate towards your existence is not something I can relieve. I am my ancestor, and

I'm not able to win against you without this Law of Minor Death?" Gravis asked

looked into

are still not able to win against

narrowed his eyes, but deep inside, he

that couldn't be

Heaven might be as powerful as him