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!

sack of gold was thrown to his feet. "This should be enough for the roof," Gravis said. "I want to exchange

that he wanted to buy something. Who would do such a thing? Why not

cultivation, and he needed Energy Stones for that. One of the reasons why he visited Earth Town earlier was to exchange for Energy Stones. Absorbing those would expedite

was because 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

along the way. If no guard actually noticed him, no alarm would be rung. Also, the

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

seen the bird and got an idea. No one would care about a bird passing over the city. People couldn't fly, and they knew that no Energy Beast would dare attack the town, at least no Energy Beast

a couple of days since the fight, and Gravis had communicated with the bird a lot. He had even given it a name: Skye. They could communicate somewhat, and Gravis was able to explain his idea to Skye. Skye accepted,

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

head around the situation, and he looked at the sack of gold before him and counted the gold inside it. There was ten gold inside it, and that would easily pay for the damages.

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 that he

alright?" Gravis asked, and the old man's eyes shone.

many do you want?" he asked with a