Lightning Is the Only Way

SSSHHH!

Runes of Laws started to leave Gravis' Spirit. As they touched the outside world, they combined with the inherent Laws of the world and vanished. It was like a drop of white water was thrown into an ocean of black. The drop vanished and scattered as it got absorbed by the world and became part of it.

Gravis felt himself become furious.

However, it wasn't himself that became furious, but his Divine Lightning.

It would not stop until it became Gravis!

SSSHHH!

More runes left Gravis' Spirit, but he still felt himself changing.

His movements became slower as he started questioning himself.

'Is that truly necessary?' he asked himself. 'So what if I change? I'm still me, right?'

'Why do I need to get rid of my lightning? That would be stupid. This is an integral part of my power, and I can't abandon it.'

'How did I even come up with that idea?'

Gravis started to hesitate as the runes stopped leaving his Spirit. Was this truly the right decision?

'Is it truly me that is deciding to stop now?' Gravis asked himself. 'Has my lightning changed me so much that I no longer see an issue with keeping it?'

'Why was I even so adamant about abandoning it?'

'I don't get it,' Gravis thought.

This was the effect of lightning's influence. The speed at which it took over Gravis' Spirit had slowed down, but it still made progress.

Suddenly, Gravis started thinking that it wasn't so bad to keep his lightning.

After all, it gave him immense power.

How would he be able to achieve supreme power without it?

Without noticing it, Gravis' priorities had already started shifting. He was not considering happiness but power.

Suddenly, Gravis frowned.

'Yet, I still want freedom, and my lightning is influencing me. Isn't being able to be yourself part of being free? I want to do what I want and be what I want.'

'But what do I actually want?'

'Power?'

'Yes, I want that pretty badly.'

'Happiness?'

'Sure, sounds great.'

'Freedom?'

…

…

…

'Yes, I think freedom is what I want, and freedom means being myself.'

SSSSHHHH!

Spirit

of an overlapping

Divine Lightning wanted power.

Gravis wanted happiness.

both of them

the crossroads of the future, a person influenced by two competing sides decided to take

go towards

go towards

go towards

path that led straight ahead was intrinsically linked to the

had decided on something in-between traveled onto a neutral path that would lead into a path that one party

and doing what you

allowed someone to be free. After all, freedom

They were intrinsically connected.

didn't necessarily require

mortals felt happy and free, and they certainly didn't have

WHOOOOM!

of Freedom began shining as it started to

desired freedom, and

left Gravis' Spirit,

realized that his

had to get

he would never be

Divine Lightning resisted with

left Gravis' Spirit, it would

would return to that

able to

lose

the weakening resistance of his Divine Lightning, and an expression of

also only desire

so long, you also only want to be able to make your own decisions. You want to think for yourself and do

emotions and personality might clash with

want to suppress anyone that isn't an enemy, and you

leaves me the option to kill you

my Spirit, not

time to gather the remaining

got

His Spirit was lightning.

truly his

his Spirit. After all, he had been born with it. This was

Spirit. This

a sense, its will was also

and

'Isn't that just

WHOOOOOOM!

he stopped what he was doing. At the same time, his

many different concepts. Disconnected rules suddenly started

just Perceived

'It is Perceived Reality!'

BOOOOM!

to become more

Suppression, and Freedom started to resonate with

Everything made sense now!

different parts of one big thing, which was

BOOOOM!

Avatar, which had always looked like a ball of ethereal wind, was

as it got replaced with a grey, warping motion. The Avatar was no longer blowing free

into the Avatar, one would be able to see many

from a different perspective, they appeared sad and pitiful. Trees

truth, the