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

Who was Gravis?

What made a person?

not two people inside of him. A being needed a soul and a will to

had one Spirit and one will. There was no Gravis and Divine Lightning.

anything. It wasn't like he would be locked away, being forced to

was very

on the

would still be Gravis.

personality would

far more susceptible to emotions that Divine Lightning might feel, and his goals and priorities would align with Divine

wasn't being replaced, but he

than

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

remain. One would even be able

would still

he wouldn't be his

Was this good?

Was this bad?

they got

of these

would be able to see the truth of the world and one's goals better in the past than in the future. Some

Gravis shouted at himself in his

'I want freedom!'

of how to solve the

feel any regret about his choice in any way. After all, he would have changed to such a point that his new self would seem perfect to

truly

could become even closer to

Sure, he would feel pride in his accomplishments, but that was

Law of Divine Lightning from himself while he was

simply cut the Law of Divine Lightning out of himself and threw it into the distance, his lightning would lose all sense of self and become just another random

this meant giving up

no longer be made up of Divine Lightning but something completely new and different. It would be a kind of lightning without

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

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

powers. Sure, he would still be immune to lightning since his new form of lightning would be able