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!

personality and Spirit vanishing. His arms and legs became harder to

Who was Gravis?

What made a person?

honest, there were not two people inside of him. A being needed a soul and

had one Spirit and one will. There was no

wasn't like he

was

personality and emotions sprung from their Spirit and will. Based on the

he would still be Gravis. After all,

his personality would

his goals and priorities would align with Divine Lightning. His old emotions

wasn't being replaced, but he was

terrified Gravis even more than being

want to change anymore. After the clash, Gravis would wake up and believe his old self to be a fool. He would wholeheartedly

remain. One would even be able to see quite some similarities between this Gravis and the other

would still

be his current self

Was this good?

Was this bad?

as they got

not all of

one's goals better in the past than in the

Gravis!' Gravis shouted at himself in

'I want freedom!'

to solve the issue reappeared

way. After all, he would have changed to such a point that his new self would seem perfect

truly so

become even closer to his

knew that he would never feel happy again in the future. Sure, he would feel pride in his accomplishments, but

banish his Law of Divine Lightning from

cut the Law of Divine Lightning out of himself and threw it into the distance, his lightning would

this meant giving up

of Divine Lightning but something completely new and different. It would be a

less powerful. It would simply be Energy, but

Gravis did that, he could save his personality. After all, if there was no more

Sure, he would still be immune to lightning since his new form of lightning would be able to accommodate other