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!

short moment, oceans, rivers, mountains, crevices, deserts, and everything else that made up a dead world were

a

can do the same. Why

looked before him with an uncertain expression and

CRRRRR!

kilometer-wide sphere appeared in the air beside

longer for him to reshape the planet, and it also didn't have the appeal of the tiny planet Arc

far better in

world is a domain," Arc explained. "Do you feel how your tiny

hadn't realized that. So, he looked

a while, Gravis

so little that Gravis wouldn't even have felt it if he

it,

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

Gravis was an Immortal King, and creating such a vast sphere of matter

Energy, he was thinking about using it to gather Energy

this was simply

"Now, look," Arc said.

looked

that a tiny seed had appeared on the small planet's

Energy of the planet," Arc

the amount

again, but it was

difference was

tell," Gravis

"Just look at

nodded as he looked

hours, the seed became a plant, and more seeds

you feel a difference

sure," Gravis

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

calculations, and

years, more or less,"

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

"Every tiny part of Energy the planet absorbs is

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

furrowed again as he tried

he didn't find

think there is a

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,

at your planet," Arc

over at his planet for the first time in several hours and was

also had life on

was different from the

created an entirely new kind of plant that didn't exist in this higher

planet was filled with

free space already had

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