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 Spirit vanishing. His arms and

Who was Gravis?

What made a person?

A being needed a soul and a will to

one Gravis. After all, he only had one Spirit and one will. There was no Gravis and

wasn't like he would be locked away, being forced to watch someone else

was very

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

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

his personality would change

his goals and priorities would align with Divine Lightning. His

being replaced, but

terrified Gravis even more than being suppressed inside his own

Gravis wouldn't even want to change anymore. After the clash, Gravis would wake up and believe his old self to be a fool. He would wholeheartedly believe that something

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

would still

he wouldn't be

Was this good?

Was this bad?

they got

of these changes

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

shouted

'I want freedom!'

how to solve the issue reappeared in

could simply let himself get taken over. He wouldn't 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

this truly so

Gravis could become even closer to

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

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

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

giving up

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

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

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

still be immune to lightning since his new form of lightning would be able to accommodate other forms of lightning, but