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.

pull the shell of Balance along

room Gravis had entered

in here

opened her eyes in shock as she saw a grey shadow appear in

a second, she became incredibly

know what this was, but

together with Arc, she was

even do

Stella

only hovered

it slowly went

Creeaak.

slowly creaked

BANG!

the door

creaked open

are you

a spooky ghost," Gravis

spooky ghost?" Stella

"How about I make some

could only look in shock at

to Orthar, the Opposer didn't

this your

ghost," the Opposer answered with a neutral

react

joke on me?" she

the

Stella's

He… was he?

Clank, clank!

heard a sound, and

grey shadow was wearing a suit of armor, and it was using swords as legs

have swords for legs!" the armored

this assault of confusing situations, Stella could only do one

She could only laugh.

he heard Stella's

he

…

Time passed.

…

Stella

her about what had actually happened and that her mind

changed reality the Opposer had created, she

remember

went to all his other friends and

all wanted to remember

been Divine Gods, which meant that they had survived

had been the absorption of

had been the assault

level of power to survive both

the end, the Opposer replaced the current reality with his altered

and added

and they were all so incredibly happy

not everyone

hard, but Gravis

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

knew how to deal

And survival?

That didn't matter anymore.

Opposer created

to cultivate could live in the

tempering, Law Comprehension, the

to take a break or retire, they could go to a separate part

there, they could live for as long as they wanted, and fighting was

that world, and the

billion years, the

it was