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!

one-kilometer-wide sphere of dirt appeared in the air before Arc. In a short moment, oceans, rivers, mountains, crevices, deserts, and everything else that made up a dead world

was a miniature

same. Why don't you try?"

with an uncertain expression and tried

CRRRRR!

sphere appeared in the

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

Arc was far

"Do you feel how your tiny

realized that. So, he looked at his

a while, Gravis

tiny amount of Energy was flowing into the planet, but it was so little that Gravis wouldn't even have felt

feel it, but

planet would probably have to absorb Energy for millions of years to absorb even 1% of the Energy Gravis

to remember that Gravis was an Immortal King, and creating

planet was absorbing Energy, he was thinking about using it

was

"Now, look," Arc said.

looked at Arc's

noticed that a tiny seed had appeared on the small

used up the stored Energy of the planet," Arc explained. "This tiny seed has been created by the passive

you feel a difference in the amount of

but it was

difference was just

can't tell,"

said. "Just look at it and

nodded as he looked at

became a plant, and more seeds appeared

a difference now?"

not sure,"

it take to absorb 1% of the Energy I used to

some calculations, and

900,000 years, more or less," Gravis

entire planet on its own. The more life grows on the planet, the

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

the difference between this planet and an island

brows furrowed again as he

didn't

think there is a difference,"

the shape, which isn't relevant. In short, this Law of the Living World isn't anything different from any random island. It still requires Energy to exist, and if this small 'living world' weren't in an actual world, it wouldn't be a

at your

the first time

had life on

this life was different from the life

had created an entirely new kind of plant that didn't exist in this higher world. Additionally, over 99% of Arc's

was filled with

free space already had plants

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