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!?'

is this true freedom?' Gravis thought as uncertainty returned to his being. 'Is it truly my

violently shook

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 future self will think of me as an idiot! Yet,

Gravis tried to motivate himself, he still felt uncertainty

uncertainty right now,' Gravis

eventual future, but if he

was hard, but if one managed to

eyes became cold and emotionless

care about this

didn't care about

didn't care about

didn't care about

that all the pain would return in the

a temporary state of mind, but the longer he remained inside it, the harder it was to

that. Right now, this was a price he needed to

BOOOOM!

managed to understand a new Law, but instead of being happy, he only

comprehended the level two

Gravis knew that. But so what!? If he had

your first Law that not even I know," Heaven

Heaven. "How come?"

and

want to admit it, but that comment

said. "Would you also become apathetic if I were to slowly kill

of this meaningless show of superiority?" Gravis asked emotionlessly. "I have already accepted that you are more powerful than me right now. You don't need to act all high and mighty, or is this your way of hurting me because your

Gravis saw some emotion