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

was a

same. Why don't you try?"

an uncertain expression and tried

CRRRRR!

sphere appeared in the air beside the

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

Arc was far

Arc explained. "Do you feel how your tiny planet

realized that. So, he looked at

a while,

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

feel it, but it's

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

and creating such a vast sphere of

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

this was simply too

"Now, look," Arc said.

closely looked at

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

of the planet," Arc explained. "This tiny seed has

in the

but it was difficult

difference was just

can't tell,"

Arc said. "Just look at it

as he

next couple of hours, the seed became a plant, and more seeds appeared after

a difference

not sure,"

take to absorb 1% of the

calculations, and his

900,000 years, more or

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

part of Energy the planet

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

furrowed again as he tried to think of

he didn't find an

think there is a difference,"

In short, this Law of the Living World isn't anything different from any random island. It still

your planet," Arc

his planet for the first time in

had life

from the

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

planet was

already had plants growing on

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