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

room Gravis had entered

in here

opened her eyes in shock as she saw a

second, she became

was, but it also didn't feel

as the most powerful Peak Divine God together with Arc, she was the most powerful

could even do something like

Stella

the shadow only

it slowly went

Creeaak.

slowly

BANG!

the door

it creaked

you doing?"

a spooky ghost,"

ghost?" Stella

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

look in shock at the

to the Opposer. In comparison to

this your

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

couldn't properly react

joke on me?" she

I'm joking?" the

Stella's mind

He… was he?

Clank, clank!

she heard a sound, and

armor, and it was using swords as legs

I have swords for legs!"

of confusing situations, Stella could

She could only laugh.

he

he missed

…

Time passed.

…

reignited. Even though Stella had no memory of Gravis, it was

her about what had actually

the Opposer had created,

wanted to remember her

Gravis went to all his other

all wanted

his friends had been Divine Gods, which meant that they had survived the first and second

had been the absorption of the Heaven's

been the assault of the Opposer's

at the perfect level of power to survive both of

replaced the current reality with

existence had been recreated and added to the

they were all so incredibly

not everyone

Azure hard, but Gravis knew that she

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

knew how to

And survival?

That didn't matter anymore.

Opposer created

to cultivate could live in the world with the old

Law Comprehension, the

retire, they could go to

long as they wanted, and

that world,

billion years, the Opposer had created the opposite, a Cosmos that people could

was still