Chapter 638: Elements (1/2)

Around Gravis, eight balls appeared.

To his top right was a ball of fire.

To his top left was a ball of water.

To his high-middle right was a ball of earth.

To his high-middle left was a ball of air.

To his lower-middle right was a ball of metal.

To his lower-middle left was a warping ball of wood.

To his lower right was a ball of darkness.

To his lower left was a ball of light.

Eight elements appeared around Gravis, but all nine elements were present.

Gravis was the lightning.

Yet, that wasn't the end.

Even further outside was a gigantic ring with the ten mixed elements.

Eighteen elemental balls could be seen hovering around Gravis as he smiled.

CRRRRK!

At the same time, his evolution finished, and with it came two new arms.

Back then, Gravis saw no point in having more than two arms. After all, he could only put his entire muscles behind two of them. Yet, that had only been a fitting body for his old fighting style, which had pursued powerful and explosive strikes.

Now, Gravis' fighting style had changed to one filled with variety and complexity, and with this fighting style, a new body was required to perfectly utilize it.

If Gravis could only control one element, he wouldn't need more than one arm for a shield and one arm for his saber, but that was no longer the case.

Now, Gravis could control all the elements.

'An Elemental Seed is just that, an Elemental Seed,' Gravis thought. 'An Elemental Seed is something that humans use to convert Energy into the elements, and creating such an Elemental Seed is not difficult at all.'

”I know the elements,” Gravis said to himself. ”Only beasts need an affinity to control an element. We humans can control any element we want. We only have to understand it first.”

Gravis' humongous, 20-kilometer-tall body shrunk until it was only two meters tall.

'Sure enough, even with this size, I can feel the full power of my body,' he thought.

His evolution had finished, and he had changed. The Laws were clearer, his lightning had fused with his Spirit, and he had grown two additional arms.

But more than that, Gravis felt calmer.

Yet, that didn't come from his evolution. That change came from his understanding of time.

Time itself was unchanging, but it changed everything it came into contact with. At this moment, Gravis remembered something he had said casually once, which had been thrown back at him by his father.

”I am me, and that won't change, no matter how much I'll change,” Gravis said with a smile. ”It sounds cheesy, but it has some truth to it. Enemies come and go. Friends come and go. Family comes and goes. Even my home changes constantly.”

”Yet, my current relationships, home, and being are just temporary. As I change, everything else changes, and that's how the world works. Who cares about losing your home when you will automatically find a new one with time?” Gravis asked himself.

”How dare you destroy my southern region!?” a violent transmission suddenly came from a distance.

Shortly after that, a mighty rhinoceros appeared near Gravis.

This was the leader of the southern region, the only level four Emperor.

Gravis didn't look at the rhinoceros. Instead, he dispersed his elements and looked at the ground.

”Do you feel it?” Gravis asked.

For some reason, Gravis' words intrigued the rhinoceros. ”What?”