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

Gravis had entered wasn't

was in here

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

a second, she became incredibly

didn't know what this was,

most powerful Peak Divine God together with Arc, she was

even do

Stella didn't

only hovered

went to

Creeaak.

slowly

BANG!

door slammed

it creaked open

you

a spooky ghost," Gravis

ghost?"

I make some of

in shock at

comparison to Orthar, the Opposer didn't keep his whereabouts

your

ghost," the Opposer answered with

properly react to

a joke on

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

Stella's mind into

He… was he?

Clank, clank!

looked over when she heard a

of armor,

I have swords for legs!" the

assault of confusing situations, Stella

She could only laugh.

he heard Stella's

he

…

Time passed.

…

was reignited. Even though Stella had no memory of

about what had actually

Gravis came to the changed reality the Opposer had created, she had immediately

wanted to remember her life

all his other friends

wanted to remember

friends had been Divine Gods, which meant that they had

been the

the assault of the

at the perfect level of power

the Opposer replaced the current

and added to the

they were all so incredibly

everyone had

Gravis knew that she would recover

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

knew how to deal with

And survival?

That didn't matter anymore.

Opposer created separate

cultivate could live in the world with the

Comprehension, the entire

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

live for as long as they wanted, and fighting was

there was nearly no Energy in that world, and the Laws couldn't

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

it was