Lightning Is the Only Way

Chapter 372

Sleeping felt weird to Gravis. It also took him quite some time to fall asleep since he wasn't used to it anymore. Luckily, he didn'tdream. The brain of his new eel-body probably wasn't developed enough to have dreams.

After who knew how long, Gravis woke up again. Apparently, a lot of time had passed while his consciousness was asleep.Gravis awkwardly stretched himself and thought about how weird it felt to sleep again. He also saw the flounder patrolling aroundhim, looking at everything. At least it was doing its job.

“Master,” it transmitted as it noticed that Gravis woke up."Continue patrolling," Gravis said.

"Yes," the flounder transmitted back.

Whoop! CRRR!

Gravis summoned several shrimp and tore them apart with his Spirit. Then, he separated edible from inedible and shoved theedible parts into his stomach. He didn't even taste any of it. It was about as much meat as previously, but Gravis didn't feel asbloated.

‘It seems like my body has gotten more powerful,’ he thought. 'It probably won't take too long to achieve my first evolution."

But now, Gravis had no idea what he should do. The digestion couldn't be accelerated, and he wasn't tired anymore. After someminutes, boredom set in, and Gravis decided to look at the CMO some more. Seeing it constantly change form felt enchanting.

Of course, only his Spirit Sense was inside the Life Ring. Everything else remained outside as his eel-body just laid on the sand.During his sleep, a lot of other beasts appeared in the vicinity, but nothing dared to come too close to that imposing flounder.

From time to time, some demonic beasts also appeared, but that was a relatively rare occasion. The demonic beasts mightbecome enticing enough to a Spirit Beast if it felt hungry. So, they kept themselves away. It wasn't that they were smart enoughto realize the danger, but that their long honed instinct made them fear the deep.

Whoom!

Gravis’ body started shaking suddenly. 'Oh, I'm becoming a demonic beast,’ he thought with some excitement. ‘Let's see how thiswhole evolution thing works."

As his body shook, Gravis felt the Energy inside his body move, but it wasn't the Energy that he used to heal himself. It was theEnergy that made up the whole body. This was something fundamental and completely different, Energy in the form of matter.Something Gravis had no real experience with.

Gravis felt himself become bigger and longer. He felt his instincts driving him forward as an image of a bigger eel appeared in hismind. 'No! Change!’ Gravis willed, and slowly, the image in his mind started changing.

Instead of growing bigger, Gravis did his best to imagine the form he wanted. His father had told him that he couldn't change toomuch at once. So, Gravis had to take it slow. As soon as he had seen his body previously, he thought about his future changes.

That wasn't very hard and didn't take up much time. The main reason for that was that he had already planned the evolution forevery possible body type when he had been taking a break in his homeworld. Of course, a long, snake-like body had also been aconsideration. He had even considered what he would do if he inhabited the body of a worm.

The evolution and changes that a worm would go through were similar to what he would do with an eel-body. Thus, Gravisalready had a pretty solid plan in mind.

Yet, after receiving the scale from his father, and hearing about the fact that he could morph into a human when he became anImmortal, changed his plan slightly. He wasn't planning on creating a perfect replica of a human anymore.

‘Why waste such an incredible opportunity to create a body perfect for battle?’ Gravis thought with a smirk as his body shook.‘The more weapons | have at my disposal, the better!"

As the image in his mind changed, Gravis started to feel a disconnect. It was like his body would no longer be himself if he wentthrough with the change. 'So, that's the threshold. As long as | don't overstep this boundary, it should be fine.’

Gravis did some more modifications to the image as his physical body started morphing into the image inside his mind. Aftersome seconds, Gravis finalized the image inside his head and willed his body to become the image.

His body morphed faster, and after a minute, the process ended.Gravis breathed through his gills with satisfaction as he looked at his new body.What did he change?

There were only two changes that he had made. One of them wasn't visible from the outside. It was a change of his bones andtheir structure. His spine now looked more like that of a mammal, something that was important for the future.

He had decided to modify his spine after he had seen that he could still change some other stuff after he was finished with hismain change.

What was his main change?His head.

His head had changed its shape completely. It became bigger and now looked very similar to the head of an alligator. His snoutpoked out of his head with visible teeth poking out of his closed mouth.

Gravis had envisioned the head of an alligator. They had a powerful bite, but the mouth wasn't as big or cumbersome as acrocodiles. Yet, to him, this was more than enough. He wouldn't use his mouth as his primary weapon, after all. It would onlyfunction as an auxiliary or backup weapon.

Gravis had also decided to add some additional muscles to his head so that he could actually show expressions. Not being ableto show expressions felt weird to him. Now, he could finally sigh, smile, sneer, and most importantly, narrow his eyes.

Yet, right now, Gravis' look could only be described as weird. He hadn't changed his slimy skin, after all. So, his alligator headdidn't have any scales. It was just a slimy, fleshy head in the shape of an alligator. On top of that, he still didn't have any arms orlegs.

A fleshy alligator head on a six-meter-long eel looked weird, but Gravis didn't mind that. ‘It doesn't matter how | look right now.This is only temporary, and | will achieve my true, envisioned form soon.’

“What happened, master?" the flounder asked. "Look different," it transmitted.“Following your instincts isn't always the best path to power," Gravis transmitted back.Sadly, the flounder didn't have the capability to understand such a concept. Even for a Spirit Beast, it was quite stupid.

Seeing that the flounder didn't understand him, Gravis didn't bother to continue his explanation. He might have had the patienceto teach Skye, but the flounder wasn't his friend. After all, it had tried to kill him previously. The fact that it was still alive was pityenough from him.

Gravis tried some expressions and noticed that he could perform nearly all of them. He had changed his bones and muscles sothat he could smile and frown with his big head. Instead of having eyebrows, he had made the muscles above his eyes movable.This should be good enough.

‘Let's see about that digestion speed. After all, I'm a low-grade Demonic Beast now,’ Gravis thought with a smirk.Whoop!

Another crab appeared, and Gravis repeated the usual process. His body hadn't increased in size, so he couldn't fit more of themeat into him, but that shouldn't be a problem.

Gravis watched his stomach go to work and, sure enough, the digestion was faster than before. ‘Great! Instead of taking multiplehours, | should be able to digest a meal in just a single hour,’ he thought with satisfaction.novelbin

After several more minutes passed,Gravis noticed something else.‘Interesting. My hu ex hagvanishedf a.couple of en tes, but now itreturned. | guess the bodies offerocious beasts aren't enoughanymore. | should get some DemonicBeasts.’ The content is onNovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Gravis looked into his Life Ring and took note of all the ferocious beasts inside it.Whoop!

All the ferocious beasts that had been kept inside his ring were released. Gravis also released them from the Life Ring'srestriction. They had regained their free will. ‘They haven't attacked me, and | won't eat them. Keeping them is useless.’

The beasts were confused for a second but then quickly fled when they noticed the gigantic flounder. Like this, they quicklyscattered into the distance.

"Where can | find Demonic Beasts?" Gravis asked the flounder.

"What that?" it asked back.

“Beasts that are stronger than these weaklings, but weaker than you," Gravis answered back."Weak beasts on surface," it transmitted to him.

Gravis nodded. "And down here?" Gravis asked.

“Only very weak and very powerful beasts here," it transmitted back.

Gravis tried to scratch his chinunsuccessfully. ‘Interesting,’ hethought, ‘Just as | had expected,However, | thir IcthastiGuhdfer ignistakon hink it's thinking ofEnergy Beasts. Energy Beasts mightnot be able to transmit theirthoughts, but they are smart enoughto keep as far away from SpiritBeasts as possible.’ The content ison NovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

Gravis looked upward but didn't seemuch. The bottom of the ocean wasutterly dark since no light could reachit. ‘If the pirit Beasts re oh tHeogeah flo the Energy Beasts areprobably at the surface since it's thefarthest place from the floor. TheDemonic Beasts can't go to thesurface or the floor, so they'reprobably stuck in limbo.’ The contentis on NovelDrama.Org! Read the latestchapter there!

‘They should inhabit the space between the surface and the floor. Also, | found that fish at that place earlier,’ Gravis thought.

"Speaking of, | should see if | can digest it now.’