For forty seconds, the continent held its breath. I felt it through the lightning that connected me to the sky and the earth… the sudden pause in the slaughter, the moment when every living thing under that blazing sky looked up and understood that something fundamental had just changed.
[ Lightning Law Shard I — comprehension achieved ]
[ Shard evolving... ]
[ Law of Stillness — COMPLETE ]
[ The lightning does not travel. It arrives. ]
I hung in the air, suspended between heaven and earth, the blue light of my completed Law still crackling across my skin. My body was a statement made manifest. I was right about the Lightning Law Shards inside of me; every single one of them was a Completed Law in its own right, and yet each law was coming together to create something vast and unknown.
Heaven above… Earth below.
The words echoed in my soul, and I felt the weight of what I had just done settle onto my shoulders, and so I closed my eyes, and I felt the world.
