Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis sat down and gathered all the different insights of all the different element-specific Battle Laws he had comprehended.

Then, he isolated the element-neutral aspects of these Laws, leaving about 33% of each Law behind.

All of this only took Gravis a couple of days.

After that, Gravis looked at the best aspects of the remainder, leaving behind only about 15% of the different element-specific Battle Laws.

This took Gravis a couple of weeks.

However, that still left far too much. After all, 15 times 14 was 210. This meant that Gravis had to reduce the Laws yet again.

This time, it took Gravis a couple of years. It took so long because Gravis had to test the effectiveness of the different aspects and compare them to each other. He also had to see if these aspects could work with each other.

In the end, about 10% of each Law was left. He only had to reduce it a bit more, but it was already proving to be quite challenging.

The next refinement took Gravis nearly 50 years, and 9% were left.

Still a bit too much.

By now, Gravis had reached a point where he didn't want to give up anything. All of these things were absolutely top-notch, but he couldn't have duplicates for the same concepts.

The next refinement took Gravis 500 years, and he was left with about 8% of the insights.

'Just a little bit more!'

The next refinement took Gravis nearly 5,000 years, but in the end, he was done.

He had created a blueprint for his Law.

'I had to give up so much good stuff,' Gravis thought with a sigh. 'However, only the best things are left!'

'Time to finish the Law!'

Gravis took out his saber and tried out many different concepts by swinging his saber. He knew that these concepts all made sense and that they fit together, but they didn't really create a whole. He needed to fuse the aspects together.

As Gravis tried every possible attack he could do with his saber, he tried to make the connection between them as smooth as possible, which was not easy.

Gravis even felt like his concentration was being used up at a terrifying rate. His mind was going through an uncountable number of calculations every instant.

Another 5,000 years passed, and Gravis became much better at condensing the Law.

'Over 10,000 years for a Form Law,' Gravis thought with a bit of frustration. 'That's way too much!'

Gravis was only a single step away, but that step was impossibly hard to take.

Everything had already perfectly clicked into place, but there was one spot between two different concepts that just wouldn't flow smoothly, no matter how much Gravis tried.

It was like these two concepts couldn't be incorporated.

'I mean, I have a different concept from a different Law that I could insert here, but I like this one way better. I don't want to give up this one!'

trying to make

time passed, Gravis grew more and

this working!?' Gravis

It should work,

perfect! There is absolutely no error

doesn't this work!?' Gravis thought with

idea what he should do anymore, which made him decide to check out some other Laws. Maybe something could make the transition between the

after a

SHING!

Gravis suddenly uttered

a bit smoother just

help me in making progress? It's actually ironic. Form Laws require a perfect control over

Law did Gravis

level three Law

reduced one's control over their attacks in exchange for

of Rage a bit more as

Rage, controlling his own attacks became

but that one aspect that had caused Gravis

he was onto something here and checked out some

of Calm during the other segments, and, sure enough, they flowed

'Perfect!' Gravis thought.

activated both the Law of Rage and the Law of Calm. If their forces had identical strength, they would cancel each other out, but Gravis didn't do that, of course. He simply used them in alternating powers

noticed that he could incorporate these two

couple of days, Gravis had perfectly gotten used to using these Emotional Laws as support for his attack. He even incorporated the

Empathy was useless. An attack with a saber had nothing to do with

Gravis lost himself in comprehension again. Swinging his saber like

traveling through the lands of

traveled through a dead

all

a desert, representing the Law of Rage.

Gravis saw a tranquil

that the ocean and the desert were separated by a small

Gravis thought that this didn't really fit. The only

right hand and moved it a

SSHH!

desert flowed over the cliff,

looked at his surroundings

were

One was the desert.

One was the ocean.

And the last one?

last one was

eyes widened as comprehension shone

BOOOOM!

BOOOOM!

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