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!

of his personality and Spirit vanishing. His arms and

Who was Gravis?

What made a person?

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

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

anything. It wasn't like he would

was very

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

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

personality

Divine Lightning might feel, and his goals and

short, Gravis wasn't being

this terrified Gravis even more than being suppressed inside his

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

and heritage would remain. One would even be

still be

wouldn't be his current

Was this good?

Was this bad?

changed as they

all of these changes were

and one's goals better in the past than in the future. Some people might

shouted at himself in his

'I want freedom!'

to solve the issue reappeared

wouldn't feel any regret about his choice in any way. After all, he would have changed to such a point that his

truly so

this way, Gravis could become even closer to his lightning, and

the future. Sure, he

Law of Divine Lightning from himself while he was

body and Spirit were made up of Divine Lightning right now. If he simply cut the Law of Divine Lightning out of himself

giving up

different. It would be a kind of lightning without a Law. In short, it would basically become a new

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

After all, if there was no more lightning around, it couldn't influence him

his new form