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

Gravis had entered wasn't

was in here

as she saw

second, she became incredibly

didn't know what this was, but

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

who could even do something like

that, Stella didn't

only hovered in

slowly went to the

Creeaak.

door slowly creaked

BANG!

door slammed

it creaked

are you

spooky ghost,"

spooky ghost?" Stella

Gravis asked. "How about I make some

in

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

your

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

couldn't properly react to the

joke on me?"

I sound like I'm joking?" the Opposer answered

Stella's mind into

He… was he?

Clank, clank!

when she heard a sound,

was wearing a suit of armor, and it was using

for legs!" the armored ghost said with

confusing situations, Stella

She could only laugh.

he heard

how he missed

…

Time passed.

…

to know Stella, and their love was reignited. Even though Stella had no memory of Gravis, it was like

had actually happened and that

changed reality the

wanted to remember her life with

that, Gravis went to all his other friends

all wanted

Gods, which meant that they had

been the absorption of the Heaven's

the assault of the Opposer's

had all been at the perfect level of power

end, the Opposer replaced the current reality with his altered

and added to the

so incredibly happy

not everyone had

hard, but Gravis knew that she

rarely got stopped by the death of a loved one. They had all gone through enough

to deal with

And survival?

That didn't matter anymore.

Opposer created

that wanted to cultivate could live in the world with the

Law Comprehension, the

they decided to take a break or retire, they could

could live for as long as they wanted, and

was nearly no Energy in that world,

over a Cosmos of suffering for 50 billion years, the

it was