Lightning Is the Only Way

Silence.

Deafening silence.

Gravis had gone through intense emotional turmoil, and he felt like he had reached the absolute bottom. He felt like he had lost control over his entire life, and the worst thing was that he accepted it.

If Heaven weren't powerful enough to kill him right now, would he have still done this? Would he have handed over his children?

Gravis wasn't sure.

He wasn't sure about anything anymore.

Gravis' human form began to regress more in age until he only looked to be about twelve years old. He felt like a child under the control of adults. When adults talked, children were supposed to be quiet and follow what the adults said.

"Don't overdo it," Heaven said. "Look at yourself. You feel like a child now? Stop feeling sorry for yourself. This situation all stems from your decision to fight me. Don't escape into your childhood to dodge responsibility."

Gravis gritted his teeth.

'How pathetic am I?' he thought with frustration.

In a matter of seconds, Gravis returned to the body of a young adult.

'So what!?' Gravis thought with gritted teeth. 'I'm not dead! My family isn't dead! Heaven is right! Everything stems from my arrogance! I have made this choice, and I need to bear the consequences!'

'I have already reached rock-bottom! It can only go up from here!' Gravis thought.

'Yes, I have taken a huge setback, but only when I give up will I truly lose! I might have failed in having a pure path to power. I might have failed in reaching supreme power without the highest Heaven's help, but I still have my dream of freedom! Isn't freedom my most important goal!?'

freedom?' Gravis thought as uncertainty returned to his being. 'Is

shook his

narrowed eyes. 'Just because I can't see a way out now doesn't mean that I won't see a way out in the future. I must trust in my future self! I believe my past self to be an arrogant idiot, and my

matter how much Gravis tried to motivate himself,

can't hang onto these feelings of uncertainty right now,' Gravis

to his mother, Gravis suppressed his emotions again. He knew that this was risky and that it may endanger his eventual future, but if he couldn't access his full power

managed

became cold and emotionless as

about

care

didn't care

didn't care

that all the pain would return

but the longer he remained inside it, the harder it was to get out of

Gravis accepted that. Right now, this was a price

BOOOOM!

but

the level

away from them, and Gravis knew that. But so what!? If he had to run away to survive,

comprehended your first Law

evenly at Heaven. "How come?"

from my emotions and my

didn't want to admit

when you slowly killed my child, I didn't run away," Heaven said. "Would you also become apathetic if I were to slowly

now. You don't need to act all high and mighty, or is this your way of hurting me because your ancestor suppresses you? Is this meaningless, pathetic comment an attempt to

first time, Gravis saw some emotion inside Heaven's