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.

a lot of Energy

the primary tempering for the Black

they would defend the Black

Defend the Black Demons?

didn't make any

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

would the beasts defend

density of Gravis' worlds would gather on the edges. The

middle of the

his created Law of Death-based

had to give his

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

Gravis decided to make his own version of his

would make a world filled with Energy and

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

a choice, he wouldn't

want to create a

Yet, he had to.

the difference between survival and

inside

was safe,

for now,

Gravis' only world,

Revenants.

Ghosts.

Amalgamations of body parts.

Parasites.

made of

Wheels filled with eyes.

Eyes with wings.

growing out

Floating maws.

forms for these lifeforms to create a feeling of wrongness and fear in

had to know that

know that the Death-based lifeforms were

had to eradicate

had to become powerful

Gravis willed them into

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

reviling odor of decay and stagnation filled their

loved that smell, but

War immediately broke out.

lifeforms began to fight and devour each other,

They couldn't comprehend Laws.

only become

minds were filled with absolute violence,

Their existence was pain.

Their behavior was violence.

perception of the world was

had ever happened to them

the mental faculties to comprehend

were unable to