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 since they grew very

would serve as the primary tempering for the Black

would defend

Defend the Black Demons?

make

be the primary danger to

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 was to the edge of a

middle

created Law of

had to give

his absolute best, he wouldn't be able

Gravis decided to make his own version

a world filled

It was incredibly dangerous.

It was insanely cruel.

it would turn into pure Death, and it would essentially vanish since

Gravis had a choice, he

want to create a Cosmos of

Yet, he had to.

could be the thing that decided the difference between survival and

could always just eradicate the Death inside his Cosmos. Sure, that would also eradicate

Gravis was safe, he could create a new

now, he needed

middle of Gravis' only world, monsters

Revenants.

Ghosts.

Amalgamations of body parts.

Parasites.

made of nothing

Wheels filled with eyes.

Eyes with wings.

with teeth growing

Floating maws.

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

had to know that these things

know that the Death-based lifeforms were the biggest threat

had to

had to become

Gravis willed them into

lifeforms appeared, they turned the

odor of decay

lifeforms loved that smell, but the

War immediately broke out.

lifeforms began to fight and devour each other, becoming more and more powerful

They couldn't comprehend Laws.

only become more

with

Their existence was pain.

Their behavior was violence.

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that had ever happened to

have the

were unable