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.

lot of Energy since they grew

serve as the primary tempering

would defend

Defend the Black Demons?

didn't make

be the primary danger to the Black Demons'

what would the beasts

density of Gravis' worlds

the middle

created Law of Death-based

had to

he didn't try his absolute best, he wouldn't be

to make his own version of his father's

would make a world filled with

It was incredibly dangerous.

It was insanely cruel.

Gravis mishandled his Cosmos, it would turn into pure Death, and it would essentially vanish since Death couldn't keep a permanent

Gravis had a choice, he wouldn't

to create a

Yet, he had to.

the thing that decided the difference between survival and death

he managed to get through this, he could always just eradicate the Death inside his Cosmos. Sure, that would also eradicate

as Gravis was safe, he could create a new

for now, he

the middle of Gravis' only

Revenants.

Ghosts.

Amalgamations of body parts.

Parasites.

of nothing

Wheels filled with eyes.

Eyes with wings.

with teeth growing out

Floating maws.

these lifeforms to create a feeling of wrongness and fear in both beasts

had to know that these things were

lifeforms

to

to become powerful

willed them

lifeforms

odor of decay

loved that smell, but the normal lifeforms hated and feared

War immediately broke out.

and devour each other, becoming more and more

They couldn't comprehend Laws.

could only become

were filled with

Their existence was pain.

Their behavior was violence.

perception of the

that had ever happened to them was

didn't have the mental faculties to

were unable