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.

of Energy

would serve as the primary tempering

would defend the Black

Defend the Black Demons?

didn't make

be the primary danger to the

would the beasts

outskirts of the world. In comparison to Orthar's worlds, the Energy density of Gravis' worlds would gather on the edges. The closer one

in the middle

focused on his created Law of

had to

didn't try his absolute best, he wouldn't be able to avoid his

make his own version of

would make a world filled

It was incredibly dangerous.

It was insanely cruel.

turn into pure Death, and it would essentially vanish since Death couldn't keep

Gravis had a choice, he wouldn't do

to create a

Yet, he had to.

the thing that decided the difference

Death inside his Cosmos. Sure, that would also eradicate all his progress, but

Gravis was safe, he could create a

for now, he needed

the middle of Gravis' only world,

Revenants.

Ghosts.

Amalgamations of body parts.

Parasites.

of

Wheels filled with eyes.

Eyes with wings.

with teeth growing out of

Floating maws.

for these lifeforms to create a feeling of wrongness and

that these things were

to know that the Death-based lifeforms

had to eradicate

to become

Gravis willed them

soon as the Death-based lifeforms appeared, they turned the

decay and stagnation filled

smell, but the

War immediately broke out.

devour each other, becoming more and more powerful

They couldn't comprehend Laws.

only become more

with absolute

Their existence was pain.

Their behavior was violence.

perception of the

worst thing that had ever

they didn't have the mental

unable to imagine