Lightning Is the Only Way

After a long time, Gravis was finally finished with the Laws. That last part had taken way too much time, but it was necessary.

Then, Gravis focused on the embryo of his small world.

He willed for life to exist.

And life began to exist.

Gravis willed life to take on certain shapes in the beginning.

He had chosen his targets that would increase his power.

However, he would make the life in his Cosmos different from Orthar's Cosmos.

What was Gravis' chosen lifeform?

Black Demons.

Black Demons would become the lifeforms with Spirits, and they would be the lifeforms that would have the most impact on his power in the future.

Gravis made no humans.

Black Demons would become the only sentient beings inside Gravis' Cosmos.

Then, Gravis created the beasts.

However, in comparison to the beasts in Orthar's Cosmos, Gravis didn't allow these beasts to reach a conscious state.

These beasts would only receive a rudimentary ability of communication, and they wouldn't have the intelligence to even comprehend the easiest Laws.

In Gravis' mind, Orthar had gone soft with the beasts. By giving them sentience later, Orthar was wasting Energy while bridging the divide between human and beast.

Not in Gravis' Cosmos.

In this Cosmos, beasts and Black Demons would be separated by an unbridgeable gap of sentience and self-awareness.

However, in exchange, Gravis gave the beasts a far more powerful physical body and a bloodline-based Law comprehension system.

The beasts could consume other living things to further their own Law Comprehension.

Their Law Comprehension and their abilities would fully stem from their own blood. The more Laws their blood had and the more powerful it became, the more the beasts could control the Laws in their surroundings.

The beasts wouldn't know how the Laws worked, but they would gain the ability to use their powers regardless.

With all of that, beasts wouldn't need time to grow powerful.

They would only need battle.

They didn't need comprehension.

Only battle.

Additionally, Gravis gave the beasts an incredible ability to multiply. Powerful beasts would multiply like cockroaches and would quickly become adults.

Of course, the tradeoff for all of that was that Gravis couldn't use the Laws and Will-Auras of the beasts in his Cosmos.

What was their purpose?

They had three purposes.

would pull in a lot of Energy since they grew

serve as the primary tempering for the

defend the Black

Defend the Black Demons?

didn't make any

it, the beasts would be the primary danger to the Black Demons'

the beasts

to Orthar's worlds, the Energy density of Gravis' worlds would gather on the edges. The closer one was to the edge of

middle of the

his created Law

to

he wouldn't

his own

a world

It was incredibly dangerous.

It was insanely cruel.

and

Gravis had a choice, he wouldn't do

didn't want to create

Yet, he had to.

thing that decided the difference between survival and

Death inside his Cosmos. Sure,

was safe, he could create a

for now,

of Gravis' only

Revenants.

Ghosts.

Amalgamations of body parts.

Parasites.

made of

Wheels filled with eyes.

Eyes with wings.

growing

Floating maws.

forms for these lifeforms to create a feeling of

that these things were their

had to know that the Death-based lifeforms were the

to

to become powerful

willed them into

the Death-based lifeforms appeared, they turned

decay

that smell, but the normal lifeforms hated

War immediately broke out.

to fight and devour each other, becoming more and

They couldn't comprehend Laws.

only

were filled with absolute violence,

Their existence was pain.

Their behavior was violence.

perception of the

had ever happened to them was

the mental faculties to comprehend

were unable to imagine