Lightning Is the Only Way

The two of them entered the Gate of Death.

And the effect was immediate.

BANG!

Before Gravis and Mortis could even look at their surroundings, a violent impact hit both of their Spirits.

It was like a sledgehammer had hit their Spirits, severely cracking them.

Then, they felt like they had been thrown into the coldest thing in existence.

However, their bodies weren't freezing.

This feeling of coldness came from a mysterious force that was consuming their Life Energy.

It wasn't the Darkness Element, but something very different.

It was like they had reached the end of their natural life.

Their organs were no longer producing Life Energy, and the remaining Life Energy they had was leaving their body.

There was no Energy in the surroundings.

There was no air.

There was no earth.

There was nothing.

Everything was black.

The cracks in their Spirits slowly grew, and their Life Energy couldn't heal the cracks.

It was like their Life Energy had become useless.

Gravis immediately fell over, his body covered in sweat.

Creating coherent thoughts became more difficult as his Spirit broke down more and more.

Slight cuts slowly appeared all over his body, making Gravis leak even more Life Energy.

This was not a world of the living.

Life Energy didn't belong here.

Everything that used Life Energy didn't belong here.

Life Energy became completely useless, and it was consumed.

Everything that had anything to do with life wasn't allowed to stay here.

Gravis' mind immediately fell into a panic.

'This is way worse than I had anticipated.'

Gravis tried to look at his hand, but he couldn't see them.

There was no light.

Luckily, Gravis' Spirit Sense still worked, but it shrunk rapidly as his Spirit was being destroyed.

'I must comprehend this process of dying!' Gravis thought. 'I need to comprehend the Major Law of Death, or I won't escape!'

Gravis closed his eyes and focused on the process, and the more he watched the process, the more shocked he became.

'I have never felt this force before! It's different than everything I have ever seen!' Gravis thought with shock.

'All the Laws I know have one thing in common.'

'They all work with Energy or by using things created with Energy, like my Will-Aura.'

'Yet…'

'There is no Energy in this force!'

'The very fundamentals are different!'

This was the greatest difference between this force and all the others.

The highest Heaven's Cosmos was built with Energy.

Everything was built with Energy.

Matter was built with Energy.

Souls were built with Energy.

Gravity was built with Energy.

Time was built with Energy.

Space was built with Energy.

Even the very Laws themselves were built with Energy.

Even Gravis' Void Lightning was just a different form of Energy.

this force had nothing

Nothing!

fear

his Law Comprehension experience was built on

this had nothing to

his Law Comprehension

Law was just as experienced in

comprehensions, his

in the highest Heaven's Cosmos, he became just as

mindset, personality, and everything they were,

was the same

they had ever done

Gravis realized another

use

Gravis' Laws were based on Energy, and this world had

soon as Gravis tried to use any Law, it simply

like the process of using a Law had

like throwing a ball at the floor, but there was

The ball simply vanished.

lot about the Laws of Perceived Reality, he was able to

doesn't exist!' Gravis

reality allows me to manifest them. Yet, there

'There's just nothing!'

'There's only death!'

usage of Laws!? This must be the key to understanding it! I must understand how this

the force

time, his entire body now

Gravis had made no

he had ever

was like this force was

just couldn't connect with

filled with cracks, and his perception

a while,

thought

Gravis thought.

how it ends,

sure have overestimated

"You already gave up?"

to his left out of reflex, but he

It was Mortis.

Mortis, his mind nearly

apart, and his entire being

However, Mortis…

only an Avatar surrounded by his personality Law

had already completely fallen apart, and the force was

How!?

just as powerful as Gravis, and if Gravis could hold out

already

I have gained my emotional independence, the

was chasing power, and I fully knew that

I still ignored

left me, I realized how it

"Everything became meaningless."

the positive emotions you sent me

was nothing

situation was already filling me with pointlessness, and the realization

"I'm unable to love."

unable to

freedom when I will

point of power

point of life when everything

neutral, and collected, but exactly that tone filled Gravis with

that truly lost his

had already died inside

Gravis shouted with

just like

a way forward now doesn't mean that there isn't

I wasn't able to find a solution, but I always

order to get out of this, you need

can't do that

the Black Magnate feels better now, and he has actually achieved supreme

give up when others are able to climb out of the same

his teeth as he shouted with all his

tell me!? I would have done my best to

Silence.

More silence.

want to be a

This sentence destroyed Gravis.

Was this truly Mortis?

Gravis couldn't answer.

Mortis?

A burden?

were about as far away

reason why Gravis knew so many

was the reason why Gravis had been able to win against the Black Demon and

Mortis was calling himself

what you are thinking," Mortis said. "How

emotions aren't always