Lightning Is the Only Way

The problem with Gravis' lightning had to be resolved at some point, but Gravis wished that it hadn't come so early.

He still didn't know how to solve it.

However, he had no more time to think of a plan.

The will of Divine Lightning was attacking his consciousness, and he felt that it was quickly gaining ground. Emotions like happiness, love, companionship, solace, mirth and calm were vanishing.

Gravis felt himself changing.

The image of his past self in the lower world appeared in his mind. Back then, Gravis had been in tune with his lightning, and he had felt nothing but cold detachment, apathy, rage, pride, and greyness.

The world started to lose all of its colors as everything started to turn grey in Gravis' eyes. He felt himself not caring about family and companions anymore. He felt himself not caring about Stella anymore.

Gravis was slowly turning into the very thing he didn't want to become. He was turning into a person similar to the old Black Magnate, into his old self.

There was only power.

He wanted more power.

He needed more power!

'No!' Gravis shouted in his mind as he went against everything. 'Power is not the goal, but the tool to achieve my goal!'

'What if I become powerful? What then? Will I search for even more power? However, everything has to have an end! At some point, there is no more power to be gained. What then? What will I do then?'

'As long as I tie my happiness to something external, all of it will vanish as soon as I stop advancing! Then, only bitterness remains!'

'And I will stop advancing at some point! There can't be an ever-growing scale of power!'

'Can't you see this truth, Divine Lightning!? Can't you understand!?'

However, nothing that Gravis said mattered to his Divine Lightning.

The Divine Lightning had been suppressed for far too long, and all of its rage exploded outward. Gravis had suppressed it for far too long, and nothing would stop it from claiming control over his Spirit!

Nothing!

and legs

Who was Gravis?

What made a person?

of him. A being needed a soul and

only had one Spirit and one will.

personality wouldn't be suppressed or anything. It wasn't like he would be locked

it was

sprung from their Spirit and will. Based on the Spirit and will, one became a person

lost to his Divine Lightning, he would still be Gravis. After all, it was the same Spirit

his personality would

that Divine Lightning might feel, and his goals and priorities would align with Divine Lightning. His old emotions and his old

Gravis wasn't being replaced, but

terrified Gravis even more than being suppressed inside his own

Gravis would wake up and believe his old self to be a fool. He would wholeheartedly believe that something like love and

sense of self, and heritage would remain. One would even be able to see quite some

still

be his current

Was this good?

Was this bad?

changed as they got

all of these changes

one's goals better in the past

am Gravis!' Gravis shouted at

'I want freedom!'

possibilities of how to solve the issue

his choice in any way. After all, he would have changed to

this truly

way, Gravis could become even closer to his lightning, and

Gravis knew that he would never feel happy again in the future. Sure, he would feel pride in his accomplishments, but that was very different from

Law of Divine Lightning from himself while he was still

Lightning out

this meant giving up his

Spirit would no longer be made up of Divine Lightning but something completely new and different. It would be a kind of

wouldn't be more powerful, and it wouldn't be less powerful. It would simply be Energy, but different. It would

could save his personality. After all, if there was no more lightning around, it

since his new form of lightning would be