Lightning Is the Only Way

Chapter 370

There was darkness as far as the eye could see. Everything was black around Gravis, and he felt an itchy sensation all over hisbody. It wasn't really bad, just annoying. Gravis lifted his hand and looked at it. Sure enough, it was slowly dissolving intonothingness.

Flakes of his skin left his body as they vanished into dust. Seeing your own body get dissolved into nothingness and vanishingwould be a traumatic experience for every mortal, but Gravis had already been prepared for that. His father had told him whatwould happen.

‘Sure enough, it doesn't hurt,’ he thought, ‘that’s, at least, something."

There was no air around or anything, but Gravis didn't need that to begin with. His body was also dissolving at a much slowerrate than he had expected. At this rate, it would probably take a couple of hours. Though, that was hard to determine without anyvisible indicator for the passage of time.

Gravis tried to sigh but failed since there was no air. ‘This will take a while,’ he thought. 'l wonder how long | will stay in thisspace. Father said that | have to wait until a compatible body dies. The middle world is huge, but it might take some time untilsomething with a fitting elemental affinity dies with a somewhat whole body. Most beasts eat the corpse, making it hard for thecorpse to stay whole.’

Gravis sat down onto whatever he stood on previously and began to wait. There was nothing to do.‘Oh, right!’ Gravis thought suddenly. 'l should retrieve my Life Ring and Obsidian Ring into my Spirit Space.’Whoop!

And like that, everything was gone but his clothing. He had enough spare clothing inside his Spirit Space, but he really doubted ifhe would need those. After all, he was about to inhabit a different body. Since his Spirit Space would follow him into the newbody, everything would remain safe inside it.

While waiting for the process to finish, Gravis looked at the CMO inside his Life Ring. The blob was just sitting on top of a stonymountain. Gravis had already ordered the mushroom to keep away from it, but he just wanted to be sure. So, he placed itoutside its reach.

Speaking of the mushroom, without anything else threatening it, it grew at a rapid pace. It didn't become stronger, but it becamebigger. By now, it covered a territory that was over 20 kilometers wide. That was quite impressive for a single mushroom.

The CMO just sat there, doing something. Gravis looked at it and concentrated his Spirit on it. His Spirit wasn’t powerful enoughto see the underlying Laws or Energy that created it, but he could see its effect.

It was changing color slowly. By now, it was completely red. Gravis expected that it probably had developed an affinity for fire. Ontop of that, it wasn't really a blob anymore. Some bone spurs broke out of its "skin" without any rhyme or reason. Other parts ofthe blob had weird appendages coming out of it.

‘| wonder how it creates all these things inside of it,' Gravis thought, ‘speaking of, doesn't my body do the same when it heals?Wonder how that works."novelbin

Gravis’ Spirit was powerful enough to see the microscopic level, but he didn't find anything. He had the theory that maybe somesmall living things made up living beings, but that wasn't true. It was just one cohesive blob.

Yet, even though he had only seen slime when he first saw it, he could now see many different parts. Sometimes, it was creatingsome random scales. Other times, it grew some weird hair or nails. It was actually bizarre to see the blob produce these beast-like or human-like features just for them to get reabsorbed or die later.

Yet, there was some kind of conscience or instinct living inside the blob. When some of its new appendages died off, they fellaway from the body. Curiously enough, the blob either created some kind of tentacle to grab the fallen appendage or slightlymoved over to it.

‘It is able to discern that it needs its own mass back to survive. If it doesn't reabsorb its own "meat", it would shrink. On top ofthat, | feel that it is absorbing a little bit of Energy. When it creates something harder, it absorbs more Energy than usual. Trulyinteresting,’ Gravis thought as his Self inside his Spirit Space scratched its chin.

Like this, Gravis just kept watching the CMO. Its continuous growth was rather interesting.After a while, Gravis looked away and checked on his body.‘Already gone?’ Gravis thought in shock. 'How long did | watch the CMO? How much time has passed?’

Gravis had no idea how much time had passed. His Life Ring didn’t have any day and night cycle, and he couldn't discern thetime by looking at the outside. There was just blackness.

His Self narrowed its eyes. ‘I should be careful in the future. The CMO has distracted me for quite a while. However, it shouldn'thave been too long. After all, | didn't get transported to my new body yet."

Right now, Gravis was nothing more than a minuscule flying orb. This was his tiny Spirit Space. It was huge on the inside, but onthe outside, it was smaller than an ant. A couple-of-centimeters-wide lightning ball was orbiting around his Spirit Space.

It didn't look imposing from the outside, but from inside Gravis' Spirit Space, it looked as massive and imposing as the sun.Gravis made it move around a bit and noticed that he still had full control. It was like the lightning was still inside his body.

Seeing that there was nothing else to do, Gravis went back to watching the CMO.Like this, time passed.Whooom!

‘Oh! Something's happening,’ Gravis thought as he felt a pull. He had been watching the CMO for who knew how long. Gravishad utterly lost his concept of time, but apparently, he was about to enter a body now.

‘I'm ready!’ he thought with motivation as he looked at his floating Spirit Space. He noticed that, as the force of the pull increased,his Spirit Space and lightning started to vanish. They became more and more transparent until Gravis could barely make themout anymore.

It felt bizarre to still be conscious and see your whole self vanish into nothingness. Did Gravis even exist anymore?Psh!

An immense stabbing pain suddenly assaulted Gravis at the right side of his... chest? Gravis wasn't sure where he felt that. Thepain made him open his eyes.

‘Eyes? | can see!’ Gravis thought as he realized that he was already inside his new body. He quickly used his eyes and Spirit tolook around. Sadly, his eyes only saw blackness.

His Spirit covered only 10 kilometers around him, surprising him quite a bit. "Blub bub blub-"

Gravis had tried to say that his father had told him about his suppression of his Spirit, but only bubbles came out of his mouth.Apparently, he was underwater.

His Spirit showed him that he was lying down on the ocean floor, on some sand. Some kelp and other kinds of flora were aroundhim. Yet, everything was completely dark. He could only see with his Spirit. On top of that, he felt an incredible pressuresuppressing his body.

‘This body isn't able to handle these depths. | need to swim upward,’ he thought, ‘But first, fuck that crab!"

The stabbing pain he had felt was a crab that tore a chunk off his new body. Gravis immediately used his Will-Aura and pressedthe crab into nothingness. It was probably a ferocious beast, the bottom of the food chain.

Gravis had also inspected his bodyby now. His Spirit Space was residingin his head, as usual, while his mLightnin was ipsthixcenterof theIdwét h St his body. Everythingaround the lightning had beendecimated. The body wasn't able tohandle the lightning. So, the lightningresided in a destroyed part of hisbody. The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Gravis quickly swam upward butnoticed that his lightning wasn'tmoving along wit Ring Ashiobddyresenthdlighthing urned more intohis body. Gravis reacted quicklyenough and used his Spirit to makethe lightning stay in its usual spot.The content is on NovelDrama.Org!

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The two injuries were already making Gravis feel weak. This body didn't have much Life Energy remaining. Luckily...BZZZ!

Beasts also had some small inherent Energy inside their body. Gravis quickly repaired the damage, but the lightning just createdsome new space for itself.

There was also something else thatassaulted him, a feeling of hungerand suffocation. Gravis yuickly ?ofrecketNhie Body and found what hewas looking for. By willing it, he madehis gills move. The feeling ofsuffocation quickly vanished. Thecontent is on NovelDrama.Org! Readthe latest chapter there!

After swimming for a bit, Gravis finally exited the depths of the ocean. The pressure around his body lessened, and it feltmanageable now. Some bubbles came out of his gills. That was supposed to be a sigh.

Gravis looked upwards and tried to narrow his eyes. Sadly, his body wasn't able to do that.

‘Is this funny to you, Heaven?’ Gravis thought in annoyance.

Why did he think that?

It was because of his new body. It was black and around six meters long. Some slimy skin coated his outside, and he had noarms or legs. He also only had a single fin at the back of his long, slithery body.

Gravis tried to groan, but only bubbles came out of his mouth.

He was a fucking electric eel.