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!

sphere of dirt appeared in the air before Arc. In a short moment, oceans, rivers, mountains, crevices, deserts, and everything

a

the same. Why don't you try?" Arc

before him with an

CRRRRR!

appeared in the air beside the other

Gravis shaped the planet 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

was far better in

explained. "Do you feel how your tiny planet is absorbing Energy on its

he looked at his

while, Gravis

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

feel it, but

estimation, this planet would probably have to absorb Energy for millions of years to absorb even 1% of the Energy Gravis had used

an Immortal King, and creating such a vast

about using it to gather Energy for himself, similar

was

"Now, look," Arc said.

looked at Arc's

minutes, Gravis noticed that a tiny

haven't added any Energy, and I haven't used up the stored Energy of the planet,"

feel a difference in the amount of

concentrated again, but it

was

tell,"

"Just look at it

as he

next couple of hours, the seed became a plant,

feel a difference now?" Arc

not sure,"

to absorb 1% of the

calculations, and his

more or less," Gravis

on its own. The more life

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

smile. "What's the difference between this

brows furrowed again as he

he didn't find an

think there is a difference,"

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,"

first time in several hours and was

planet also had life on

different from the life

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

was

free space already

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