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 since they grew

they would serve as the primary tempering for

they would defend the Black

Defend the Black Demons?

make

it, the beasts would be the primary danger

beasts defend the

of Gravis' worlds would gather on the edges. The closer one was to the

the middle

on his created Law

to

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

decided to make his own

world filled with Energy

It was incredibly dangerous.

It was insanely cruel.

turn into pure Death, and

Gravis had a choice, he

to create a

Yet, he had to.

the thing that decided the difference between survival and death

inside his Cosmos. Sure, that would

safe, he

now, he

of Gravis' only world,

Revenants.

Ghosts.

Amalgamations of body parts.

Parasites.

made of nothing but

Wheels filled with eyes.

Eyes with wings.

with teeth growing out of

Floating maws.

these lifeforms to create a feeling of

that these things were their

lifeforms were

to eradicate

had to become

willed

lifeforms appeared, they turned

odor of decay and stagnation filled

smell, but the normal lifeforms hated

War immediately broke out.

to fight and devour each other,

They couldn't comprehend Laws.

only become more

minds were filled with absolute violence, hatred, and

Their existence was pain.

Their behavior was violence.

of the world was

thing that had ever happened to them was

they didn't have the mental faculties

unable