Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis arrived in Arc's clearing and looked for him. He saw Arc sitting on a stump, drawing lines in the dirt.

He was probably guessing Laws from the highest world again.

"Hey, Gravis," Arc said with a grin without looking at him. Arc felt a feeling of kinship towards Gravis since they both desired freedom. Additionally, Gravis knew a lot about how the Cosmos worked, giving him the ability to have an actual conversation with Arc. "What brings you here?"

"You didn't notice?" Gravis asked.

Arc frowned. "Did you summon another gate from the Primordial Chaos?" Arc asked as he turned to Gravis.

Gravis chuckled a bit. "No, something else."

"Look!"

Gravis absorbed some Energy from the surroundings and let a small flower grow on his palm. This flower had no will but a tiny soul.

Arc's eyes sparkled for a bit.

"Did you make a detour?" Arc asked with a smile. "Weren't you supposed to concentrate on the Emotional Laws? Why are you suddenly interested in the Life Laws?"

"It just happened," Gravis told Arc as he sat down on a different stump. "It just came naturally after I comprehended the Major Law of Life Energy."

Arc nodded.

"You probably already combined your Law of the Dead World with your Law of Life, right?" Arc asked.

Gravis nodded.

"The Law of the Living World, huh?" Arc said as he looked at the sky with a nostalgic expression. "I still remember how I comprehended that one. Gaining the ability to create an entire world filled with life felt surreal."

Gravis nodded. "It sure does. I feel like I'm still on my way to the top, and I still feel like I have a huge distance left to traverse, but I can already create life now."

Arc only smiled. "Yet, is all life equal?"

Gravis' brows furrowed.

"What do you mean?"

"You're looking at the creation of life from the viewpoint of a mortal, Gravis," Arc explained. "Yes, you can create mortal life, but there is still a vast difference in complexity, and therefore also a vast difference of worth."

"The Life Composition Law, the Life Growth Law, and the Law of the Soul already allow you to create life. This shouldn't be something new to you. The inclusion of the Law of Energy Healing simply allows you to skip using your own Energy as an intermediary."

"Creating mortal life actually isn't that hard. After all, even mortals can do it, right?" Arc asked with a smile.

Gravis blinked a couple of times. "I mean, yeah, they can. They can have children."

Arc nodded. "Exactly. The Law of Life by itself is pretty impressive, but it's still missing something."

"However, the Law of the Living World is different."

"Look!"

CRRRRR!

oceans, rivers, mountains, crevices, deserts, and everything else that made up a dead

was a

can do the same. Why don't you

with an

CRRRRR!

in the air beside the other

longer for him to reshape the planet, and it also

was far

"Do you feel

realized that. So, he

while, Gravis felt

little that Gravis wouldn't even

feel it, but

would probably have to absorb Energy for millions of years to absorb even

and creating such a vast sphere

about using it to gather

was simply

"Now, look," Arc said.

closely looked

Gravis noticed that a tiny seed had appeared on

stored Energy of the planet," Arc explained. "This

difference in the amount of Energy absorbed?" Arc

but it was difficult to

was just too

tell,"

hours," Arc said. "Just look at

he looked at Arc's

became a

you feel a difference now?"

sure,"

of the

some calculations, and his

years, more

planet on its own. The more life

of Energy the planet absorbs is taken from my

Arc said with a smile. "What's the difference between this

brows furrowed again as he tried to

didn't find an

think there is

Law of the Living World isn't anything different from any

at your planet," Arc

for the first time in several hours

had life on

different from the life

plant that didn't exist

planet was filled

already had

from my actual world," Arc explained. "The life on my planet has been created