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.

would only need to pull the shell of Balance along with his

Gravis had entered

was in

her eyes in shock as she saw a grey

she became incredibly

didn't know what this was,

God together with Arc, she

who could even do

Stella

shadow only hovered

it slowly went

Creeaak.

door slowly

BANG!

door

creaked open

you

spooky ghost,"

spooky ghost?" Stella

are you scared?" Gravis asked. "How about I make some of

in shock at the grey

to Orthar, the Opposer didn't keep

this your doing?"

spooky ghost," the Opposer answered with

react to

a joke on me?" she asked

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

Stella's

He… was he?

Clank, clank!

over when she heard a sound,

wearing a suit of armor, and it was using swords

for legs!" the armored ghost

situations,

She could only laugh.

smiled when he heard

he missed

…

Time passed.

…

and their love was reignited. Even though Stella had no

her about what had actually happened and

came to the changed reality the

remember her

to all his other friends

all wanted to

had been Divine Gods, which meant that they had survived

first had been the absorption of the

had been the assault of the

all been at the perfect level of power to

Opposer replaced the current reality with

recreated and added to the

they were all so incredibly happy when they knew that he was still

not everyone

hard, but Gravis knew that she would

rarely got stopped by the death of a loved one. They

knew how to

And survival?

That didn't matter anymore.

created

to cultivate could live in the

tempering, Law Comprehension, the

or retire, they

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

that world, and the

of suffering for 50 billion years, the Opposer had created the opposite,

course, it was