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

serve as the primary tempering for the

they would defend

Defend the Black Demons?

didn't make

sounds of it, the beasts would be the primary danger to the

what would the beasts defend the Black

density of Gravis' worlds would gather on the edges. The closer one was to the edge of a world, the denser the

middle

his created

had to give

he wouldn't be

to make his own version of his

a world filled with Energy and

It was incredibly dangerous.

It was insanely cruel.

and it would essentially vanish since Death couldn't keep a permanent state

Gravis had a choice, he wouldn't

want to create a Cosmos of

Yet, he had to.

the

through this, he could always just eradicate the Death inside his Cosmos. Sure, that would also eradicate all his progress, but he could start

long as Gravis was safe, he could

for now, he

of Gravis' only world, monsters of Death

Revenants.

Ghosts.

Amalgamations of body parts.

Parasites.

made of nothing

Wheels filled with eyes.

Eyes with wings.

teeth growing

Floating maws.

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

had to know that these things were their

know that the Death-based lifeforms were the

to

had to become

Gravis willed them

soon as the Death-based lifeforms appeared, they turned

decay and stagnation

smell, but the normal lifeforms

War immediately broke out.

and devour each other, becoming more and more powerful in

They couldn't comprehend Laws.

only become

minds were filled with absolute

Their existence was pain.

Their behavior was violence.

perception of the world

worst thing that had ever happened

the mental faculties

unable to