Lightning Is the Only Way

"It takes a lot of work to produce just one Nine-Eves Pill, and you only want to pay 50 gold for one?" said a grey-haired old man in red robes towards a younger one in annoyance. The old man was no longer talking politely since he had been arguing with the "customer" for many minutes.

"No one in the middle-continent would buy pills for the Body Tempering Stage," the young man answered. "Who else would buy Nine-Eves Pills around here? They would only go bad. So, might as well sell them to me!"

SLAM!

The old man slammed the table and pointed with his finger aggressively at the young man. "Are you insulting our Medicine Pavilion?!" he shouted aggressively. "Are you insinuating that we wouldn't be able to keep our pills fresh for some measly weeks?"

The young man just grinned while leaning back on his chair, keeping away from the old man's wildly flowing spittle. "No, but you need to sell your stock," he said casually. "Come on, you are a company, and you only want to make money. Just sell some of them to me for 50 gold. A customer for those won't just fall from the sky."

BOOM!

The roof exploded, and a body hit the floor of the room. The old man and the young man got thrown back by the impact, and a big cloud of dust and dirt whirled through the room.

CHING!

his feet. "This should be enough for the roof," Gravis said.

said that he wanted to buy something. Who would do such a thing? Why

why he visited Earth Town earlier was to exchange for Energy Stones. Absorbing those would expedite his cultivation tremendously, but sadly, he had been chased out of town before he could even ask

there were probably a lot of strong people in there and he would be surrounded. The guards had already seen him and had already rung the alarm. Buying something in that

Gravis got some ideas. One of them was charging through the gates and knocking every guard unconscious along the way. If no guard actually noticed him, no alarm would be rung. Also, the Fire Guild and Lightning Guild in Earth

was that bystanders would probably notice something, which could be problematic. With that plan,

bird passing over the

He had even given it a name: Skye. They could communicate somewhat, and Gravis was able to explain his idea to Skye. Skye accepted, and Gravis rode it

jumped off when they were directly above the Medicinal Pavilion. Gravis would survive a fall from this height, so he wasn't worried. He fell through the roof, and that was how he had arrived in

wrap his head around the situation, and he looked at the sack of gold before him and counted the gold inside it.

golds, because you can find gold everywhere, but not Magic-Stones," he explained with an interested look. The other young man was not sure what he should do. A new guy just crashed through the roof. Was he supposed to complain and say

the old man's eyes shone. That was more

want?"