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!

Arc. In a short moment, oceans, rivers, mountains, crevices, deserts, and everything else that made up

a

the same. Why don't you

looked before him with an uncertain expression and

CRRRRR!

kilometer-wide sphere appeared in the air beside the other

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

far better in

"Do you feel

realized that. So, he looked at

a while,

the planet, but it was so little

feel it, but it's

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

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

Gravis heard that his planet was absorbing Energy, he was thinking about using it

was simply too

"Now, look," Arc said.

looked at

minutes, Gravis noticed that a tiny seed had appeared on the

planet," Arc explained. "This tiny seed has been created by

feel a difference in the amount

it was difficult to

was just too

tell," Gravis

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

as he looked at

seed became a plant, and more seeds appeared

you feel a difference now?" Arc

sure," Gravis

1% of the Energy I used to create this planet," Arc

some calculations, and

900,000 years, more

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

of Energy the planet absorbs is taken from my higher

the difference between this planet

as he tried

didn't

there is a difference," Gravis

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

your planet," Arc

his planet for the first time in several hours

planet also had

this life was different from

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

planet was

already had plants growing

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