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.

the shell

had

in here

she saw a grey shadow appear in front of

second, she

was, but it also

she was the most powerful existence in this Cosmos

could even do something like

Stella

only hovered in front of

it slowly went to the

Creeaak.

door slowly

BANG!

door

creaked open

are you doing?" Stella

spooky

ghost?"

about I make

look in

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

this your doing?"

the Opposer

properly react to

joke on me?"

the Opposer answered with a

Stella's

He… was he?

Clank, clank!

when she heard a sound,

shadow was wearing a suit of armor, and it was

have swords for legs!" the armored ghost said with

this assault of confusing situations, Stella could only do one

She could only laugh.

he

he missed

…

Time passed.

…

was reignited. Even though Stella had no memory of

had actually happened and that her mind

came to the changed reality the Opposer

to remember

to all

also all wanted to remember

been Divine Gods, which meant that they had survived the first

had been the absorption

been the assault of the

perfect level of power to

Opposer replaced the

had been recreated and added to the

all so incredibly happy when they knew that he was still

not everyone had

Gravis knew

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

knew how to deal with

And survival?

That didn't matter anymore.

Opposer created

to cultivate could live in the

Comprehension, the

retire, they could go to a separate part of the

live for as long as they wanted, and fighting was

in that world, and the Laws couldn't be

for 50 billion years, the Opposer had created the

was still