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!

a short moment, oceans, rivers, mountains, crevices, deserts, and everything else that made

was a miniature

can do the same. Why don't

before him with an uncertain expression and tried

CRRRRR!

kilometer-wide sphere appeared in the air

to look appealing, but it took far longer for him to reshape the planet, and it also didn't have the appeal

Arc was far better in

explained. "Do you feel how

he looked at his

while,

the planet, but it was so little that Gravis wouldn't even have felt it if he hadn't specifically searched for

it, but it's

Energy for millions of years to absorb even 1% of the Energy

to remember that Gravis was an Immortal King, and creating such a vast sphere of matter cost

thinking about using it to gather Energy for himself,

was simply too

"Now, look," Arc said.

looked at Arc's

tiny

and I haven't used up the stored Energy of the planet," Arc explained. "This tiny seed has been created by the passive absorption of

the amount of

but it was

difference was just

can't tell," Gravis

hours," Arc said. "Just look at it and think

he looked at Arc's

hours, the seed became a plant, and more seeds appeared

a difference now?" Arc

sure," Gravis

of the Energy I used

made some calculations, and his eyebrows

more

than the entire planet on its own. The more life grows on the planet, the greater its draw of Energy. Life

Energy isn't endless," Arc explained. "Every tiny part of Energy the

the difference between this planet and an island in my higher

furrowed again as he tried to think

didn't

think there is a

the Living World isn't anything different

at your

planet for the first time

planet also had

different from the life on Arc's

that didn't exist in this higher world. Additionally, over 99% of Arc's planet was still

Gravis' planet was

already had plants growing on

from my actual world," Arc explained. "The life on my planet has been created naturally, which is why there