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!

arms and legs became harder to move

Who was Gravis?

What made a person?

two people inside of him. A being needed a soul and a

meant that there was only one Gravis. After all, he only had one Spirit and one will. There was no Gravis and Divine Lightning. All of this was simply

be suppressed or anything. It wasn't like

was

and emotions sprung from their Spirit and will. Based on

if Gravis lost to his Divine Lightning, he would still be

personality would change

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

Gravis wasn't being replaced, but he

terrified Gravis even more than

then, Gravis wouldn't even want to change anymore. After the clash, Gravis would wake up and believe his old self to be

sense of self, and heritage would remain. One would even be

still be

be his current self

Was this good?

Was this bad?

they got

of these changes

the truth of the world and one's goals better in the past than in the future. Some people might lose their

Gravis!' Gravis shouted at himself in

'I want freedom!'

how to solve the issue reappeared

in any way. After all, he would have

truly

to

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

his Law of Divine

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

meant giving

and Spirit would no longer be made up of Divine Lightning but something completely new and different. It would be a kind of lightning without a Law. In short, it would basically become a new form

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

all, if there was

would lose all lightning powers. Sure, he would still be immune to lightning since his new form of lightning would be able to accommodate other forms of