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!

His 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 will

one Gravis. After all, he only had one Spirit and one

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

it was very

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

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

personality would

might feel, and his goals and priorities would

being replaced,

than being suppressed inside his

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

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

still be

be his

Was this good?

Was this bad?

as they got older,

not all of these changes

the past than in the future. Some people might lose their way and

shouted at

'I want freedom!'

of how to solve the issue reappeared

wouldn't feel any regret about his choice in any way. After all, he

truly

to his lightning, and his

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

possibility was to banish his Law of Divine Lightning from himself while he was

out of himself

meant giving up his

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

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

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