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 as he

of an overlapping priority that both

Divine Lightning wanted power.

Gravis wanted happiness.

of them

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

wouldn't go towards

go

would go towards

the path that led straight ahead was intrinsically linked to the

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

meant being yourself and doing what you

be free. After all, freedom was

They were intrinsically connected.

didn't necessarily require

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

WHOOOOM!

it started

and freedom

left Gravis' Spirit,

that his earlier

get rid

would never be

as the Divine Lightning resisted with

Spirit, it would stop

would return to that black

able to change or think

would lose its

weakening resistance of his Divine Lightning, and an expression

also only desire freedom, huh?' Gravis

want to be able to make your own decisions. You want to think for yourself and

personality might clash with mine, but we

that isn't an enemy, and you

leaves me the option to kill you since your freedom encroaches on

my Spirit, not

Spirit one last time to gather the remaining

got reminded of his

His Spirit was lightning.

truly

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

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

will was also born with

Spirit, and both of

'Isn't that just Perceived

WHOOOOOOM!

he was doing. At the same time, his Avatar

to combine many different

this just

'It is Perceived Reality!'

BOOOOM!

started to become more powerful until they

and Freedom started to

Everything made sense now!

of these things were just different parts of one big thing, which was the concept of

BOOOOM!

Avatar, which had always looked like a

got replaced with a grey, warping motion. The Avatar was no

one looked into the Avatar, one would be able to see many different

They appeared happy, but from a different perspective, they appeared sad and pitiful. Trees appeared that seemed beautiful, but they also appeared ugly. Food that was

of only showing one objective truth, the Avatar was now