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.

nothing

Nothing!

fear took

was built on comprehending Laws

this had nothing to

all of his Law

even know a level four Law was just as experienced in this form

comprehensions, his

matter how outstanding Gravis was in the highest Heaven's Cosmos, he became just as useless and aimless as

mindset, personality, and everything they were, became

the same in

they had ever

Gravis realized

use any

based on Energy, and this world had

to use any Law, it simply

the process of using a

was like throwing a ball at the

The ball simply vanished.

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

Reality doesn't exist!' Gravis

able to use Laws because reality allows me to manifest them. Yet, there is no reality

'There's just nothing!'

'There's only death!'

usage of Laws!? This must be the key to

on comprehending the force around him as he

entire body now became

had made no

he had ever learned

was like this force

them just couldn't connect

body was now filled with cracks,

while, Gravis simply

can't,' he thought as he

Gravis thought. 'It's

is how it

have

"You already gave up?"

of reflex, but he could only see with his breaking Spirit

It was Mortis.

Mortis, his

his entire being was

However, Mortis…

was only an Avatar surrounded

completely fallen apart, and the force was slowly swallowing Mortis'

How!?

Gravis, and if Gravis

he already so close to

Mortis said calmly, "When I have gained my emotional independence, the reality of my choice

and I fully knew that chasing power would end in

I still

when all positive Emotions left me, I

"Everything became meaningless."

positive emotions you sent me vanished,

was nothing inside

already filling me with pointlessness, and the realization that my goal wouldn't change anything even

"I'm unable to love."

to

when I will feel just as empty as

of power when freedom has

point of life

and collected, but exactly

was someone that truly lost

died inside

serious!?" Gravis

was just like you

can't see a way forward now doesn't

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

in order to get out of this, you need

do that

that even the Black Magnate feels better now, and he

when others are able to climb out of

teeth as he shouted

I would have

Silence.

More silence.

want to be

This sentence destroyed Gravis.

Was this truly Mortis?

Gravis couldn't answer.

Mortis?

A burden?

two concepts were about as far

the reason why

had been able to win against the Black

Mortis was calling

imagine what you are thinking," Mortis said.

remember, emotions aren't always