Chapter 181: Nice Talk (1/2)
Gravis looked into the sky for some more seconds and then refocused again. He looked around some more with his Spirit and noticed that his saber and other belongings were strewn across the plain. ”Might as well try my Spirit Space,” Gravis muttered.
WHOP!
All his belongings vanished into thin air as they reappeared in Gravis' Spirit Space. The lightning inside his Spirit Space seemed to ignore those belongings as it violently stormed around them. Gravis looked into his Spirit Space and saw that he had about five cubic meters of storage space. 'That's a lot,' he thought.
With another thought, Gravis willed his saber to reappear in his hands, and it did. Retrieving his weapon like this would be faster than unsheathing it from his back. As Gravis experienced how the Spirit Space worked, he got several new ideas of how to utilize it.
Then, Gravis looked to Aion, who was standing unsurely around a kilometer away. Gravis had had the ability to feel others' Spirits before, but now it felt like he could interact with their Spirit. Was this how he could transmit his thoughts?
”Hey, Aion,” Gravis willed for his thoughts to enter Aion's Spirit. Aion's eyes widened slightly, and then he smiled bitterly.
”Hey, Gravis,” he sent back.
Gravis nodded as he got a grasp on how to use Thought Transmission. Yet, Gravis wanted to know something else.
”Say,” Gravis transmitted, ”what actually happened?”
Now Aion's eyes widened fully. ”What?” he sent back. ”That's what I want to ask!”
Gravis only smiled. He was happy about regaining his old life-priorities, and he was also incredibly happy about his newfound power. He didn't mind telling Aion what happened. Heaven already knew what happened, after all. Aion was not Gravis' enemy, but only a pawn of his enemy.
”I used lightning instead of Magic to form my Spirit,” Gravis transmitted.
Aion's mouth fell open in shock. ”How are you still alive?”
Gravis grinned sheepishly. This had been pretty reckless. ”Actually,” he transmitted back. ”I'm not so sure. I think I have died while doing this, yet I am still alive. Could you tell me what happened from your point of view?”
Aion scratched his head. ”Sure,” he transmitted back. ”You were screaming hysterically after that barrier appeared. At the time, I wasn't sure what would be able to shake someone with a Unity-Will this intensely. Though, the lightning thing would explain that.”
Aion continued. ”After a while, I didn't hear you anymore, and the barrier vanished. When I saw you, you seemed completely different than before. Lightning came out of your whole body, and I had a distinct feeling that that wasn't you anymore. Then, you summoned lightning from the Heavens and just absorbed it.”
Gravis had no memory of that. He only remembered being in pain and then vanishing into nothingness. The next memory had been his reawakening. ”Interesting,” Gravis sent back. ”So, what happened then?”
Aion shivered a little as he thought back to what happened. ”After you absorbed the lightning, the earlier… man… appeared.”
When Aion had first seen the Opposer, his whole body had been frozen. It was like he was looking at something that didn't exist. It was like the man didn't exist, yet he did. The man made Aion feel like he shouldn't exist. His whole thoughts and emotions had resonated with one simple concept.
No.
Everything had just screamed no in unison. It was the purest form of rejection. The man made Aion feel something higher than worship, but also something way worse than terror. His feelings and instincts rejected this person's existence because it was impossible that something like this existed.
Aion remained silent for some seconds as he thought back to the image of the Opposer. Gravis noticed that and smiled slightly. ”That was my father.”
Deep in Aion's mind, he had felt that this was probably Gravis' father due to their similar looks, but his being hadn't accepted that possibility. Yet, when Gravis confirmed it, it could only be true.