Lightning Is the Only Way

"Like this?"

"No, not like this. I cut off part of my femur to make a blade. You should know what a blade looks like."

"Yes, but I haven't done that before."

"Just imagine it."

"So, like this?"

"Wrong cut. It's more of a diagonal one."

The Opposer frowned.

He was just recreating reality to include Gravis again.

Gravis had told his father his story, and the Opposer very quickly realized that Gravis was speaking the truth.

First of all, the Opposer knew about the ultimate price one had to pay to become the Will of Death.

Second, after Gravis highlighting weird parts in the Opposer's memory, the Opposer realized that his memories didn't make much sense in some parts.

Sure, to him, they felt natural.

However, the Opposer could see that Gravis' explanation made more sense.

The Opposer was still unused to having another son, but he tried his best to accept Gravis.

"Why is our last name Bauer anyway?" Gravis asked.

"What's with that question?" the Opposer asked.

"Well, I just thought of it," Gravis answered.

"Back in the old world, we spoke a different language. Bauer means farmer in that language. I think the old bastard changed the language so that no one would ever think about creating the word Bauer again."

"Wait, so I'm literally called Gravis Farmer? All this time without knowing my last name, and it's just straight-up farmer?" Gravis asked.

"What did you expect? You saw my past. I was born into a farmer's family, and mortals often have very straightforward last names," the Opposer answered matter-of-factly.

"The great Will of Death, Mr. Bauer," Gravis mocked.

"You can change it if you want. Who's going to stop you?" the Opposer asked.

"Nah, I don't wanna," Gravis answered. "It's my name, and I'll just have to deal with it. Also, the entire name thing doesn't really matter anymore. After all, I don't have a Cosmos."

Then, Gravis frowned. "That might actually be for the better. The only time I created a Cosmos, I made a land of suffering."

"You had good intentions," the Opposer said.

"So? You should've seen it. I think I went even crazier than you."

"I doubt that," the Opposer answered.

As Gravis and his father continued to bicker lightheartedly, the Opposer was focusing on adapting the reality of his Cosmos to include Gravis.

It was a lot of work since Gravis couldn't directly create images since he had no access to Energy, but eventually, they managed to somewhat make it fit.

A couple of minor details were different, but everything important was there.

And then, when they were finally done, the Opposer was just waiting for the go-ahead.

"Wait here. I wanna test something," Gravis said before vanishing.

The Opposer lifted an eyebrow, but he quickly saw what Gravis meant.

Inside a room, a grey shadow appeared.

Grey?

Hadn't Gravis been a black shadow?

Well, the Opposer had created a shell of Balance around Gravis. With that, Gravis could interact with Energy without using the filter of the Cosmos.

need to pull the shell of Balance along

Gravis had

was in

she saw a grey shadow

she became incredibly

what this was,

powerful Peak Divine God together with Arc, she was the most powerful existence in this Cosmos below

could even do something

that, Stella didn't

the shadow only

went to the

Creeaak.

slowly

BANG!

the door

it creaked

are you

a spooky ghost,"

ghost?"

scared?" Gravis asked. "How about I

could only look in shock at

stretched to the Opposer. In comparison to Orthar, the Opposer didn't keep his whereabouts

this your doing?" she

is a spooky ghost," the Opposer answered with a neutral

properly react to the Opposer's

you playing a joke on me?" she asked

the Opposer answered with

Stella's

He… was he?

Clank, clank!

she heard a

suit of armor,

swords for legs!" the

this assault of confusing situations, Stella

She could only laugh.

when he heard

how he missed

…

Time passed.

…

their love was reignited. Even though Stella had no memory of

told her about what had actually

the changed reality the Opposer had

wanted to remember her life with

went to all

also all wanted to

all of his friends had been Divine Gods, which meant

the absorption of the Heaven's

been the assault of the

been at the perfect level of power to survive both of

replaced the current reality with his

had been recreated and added to the reality

remembered him, and they were all so incredibly happy when they knew that he was still

not everyone

but Gravis knew that she would recover in

on their level only very rarely got stopped by the death of a loved one. They had all gone through enough

how to deal with

And survival?

That didn't matter anymore.

created separate

cultivate could live

Law Comprehension, the entire

if they decided to take a break or retire, they could go to

live for as long as they wanted, and fighting

nearly no Energy in that world, and

the Opposer had created the

course, it was still