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!

left Gravis' Spirit as he resumed banishing

the result of an overlapping priority that both

Divine Lightning wanted power.

Gravis wanted happiness.

them also desired

the crossroads of the future, a person influenced by two

wouldn't go

go

would go

path that led straight ahead was intrinsically linked to the path of

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

yourself and doing what

be free. After all, freedom was an integral part

They were intrinsically connected.

didn't necessarily require supreme

and free, and they certainly didn't

WHOOOOM!

it started to

and

runes left Gravis' Spirit, he felt

that his earlier indecision was

to get rid

he would never

the Divine Lightning resisted with all its

Spirit,

would return to that black ocean of

be able to change or

would lose its

resistance of his Divine Lightning, and an expression of

only desire freedom, huh?'

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

might clash with mine, but we both want

anyone that isn't an enemy, and

me the option to kill you since your freedom encroaches on

my Spirit, not

grabbed his Spirit one last time to gather the remaining runes of the Law

he got

His Spirit was lightning.

this truly

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

that, from the lightning's perspective, this was its Spirit. This

sense, its will

and both of them saw it

'Isn't

WHOOOOOOM!

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

felt his Spirit starting to combine many different

just

'It is Perceived Reality!'

BOOOOM!

Safety started to become more powerful until they reached the power of level

the Laws of Control, Suppression, and Freedom started

Everything made sense now!

of one big thing, which was

BOOOOM!

which had always looked like

grey, warping motion. The Avatar was

into the Avatar, one would be able to see many

to appear. They appeared happy, but from a different perspective, they appeared sad and pitiful. Trees appeared

the Avatar was now