Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis smiled. "So, I can afford the scanner, huh?" he asked.

The seller nodded. "Yep. You can also afford something else that costs about as much. You have some pretty rare stuff there. Though, just because it's rare doesn't mean that it's useful. Rare resources from the lower world are the best materials for the Spirit Forming Realm, but nearly useless for the Unity Realm."

Gravis nodded. "I can understand that. Though, these premium resources for the Spirit Forming Realm are probably worth quite a bit for stronger people that want to get some equipment for their children, right?"

The seller laughed a bit. "Exactly, but I still need to travel quite a distance. I'm going to be honest here with you. I will sell these resources with a profit of ten times, but I have to travel to the relevant regions first."

Gravis lifted an eyebrow. "Ten times is quite a bit. It almost seems like you're trying to scam me."

The seller snorted. "The problem is that you can't find people interested in those items here. Everyone that's here either has powerful strength or a huge background. In order to sell this stuff, I need to travel to the outer fringes of the world. Do you have any idea how far away this is and how much it will cost me?"

Gravis sighed and shook his head.

"When I sell all your stuff, and I mean ALL your stuff, I would have only made a profit of two times. It's also a risk and time sink for me to travel to these regions and sell it. After all, supply is one thing, but we also need demand. That's how business works. What use are these resources if I can't find someone interested in it?"

Gravis sighed. Everything the seller said made sense. He had no way of finding out how much these resources were actually worth, so, even if the seller scammed him, Gravis had no other choice. He didn't have the luxury of time.

Also, he doubted that he would even have the resources to travel to the lands where such resources had a demand. He doubted that the teleportation department accepted every piece of rubble as long as it was worth something. They probably only accepted some kind of hard currency, and Gravis was pretty sure that he had none of that.

"Alright. I accept," Gravis said.

The seller smiled. "Good choice. Now, go choose something with similar value to the scanner, and then we can exchange."

Gravis quickly looked around, and he had found something else that was also quite interesting to him. "I'm taking that," he said as a ring floated over to him.

"Good choice!" the seller said with a smile. "As it says on the sign, this is a Life Ring. It can theoretically store any beast below the Immortal Realm, but it depends on if they willfully enter or are forced to. The deciding factor is your Will-Aura, which is incredibly powerful for your level, by the way."

"So, if a beast enters willingly, I can just keep them inside as long as they

"Yes, but they can also exit whenever they want if they enter that way. If you want to force a beast into the ring, you need to activate the Formation Array. It will use your Spirit as a resource and your Will-Aura as suppression. In

pointed at Gravis. "So, in your case, you should be

three Unity Will. Wouldn't that still be considered to be inside the

seller raised an eyebrow in confusion. "Level three Unity

knowledge about classifications for Will-Auras came from the lower world. His homeworld probably had a different classification system. "Sorry, that's the classification for Will-Auras

realized what Gravis meant. "Oh, no problem. The second condensation of a Will-Aura is called an

something to do with the Nascent

there to connect the centers of power and to shift the power around in them. It basically goes through two major Realms, the Unity Realm,

my Will-Aura is already compressed to about 0.1% of its initial size. Shouldn't I be near the end of the

a bit and shook his head. "Kid, you're underestimating the possible compression of your Will-Aura. Your Equalization Will will continue to compress until it is only big enough to suppress the Spirit Space of

compression of his Unity Will didn't take the compression of the volume into account, but the radius. The radius was decreasing with the compression. So, the

which would be 0.6 millimeters. When Gravis finished his math, he realized that

to a new Nascent Nourishing Realm cultivator then?"

that's only theoretically," he said, confusing Gravis

do you mean

Will-Aura to reach the Nascent Nourishing

widened. "I don't?"

that don't need a Will-Aura. Most people call the Nascent Nourishing

be honest with you, your Will-Aura is even stronger than mine, even though I am already at the middle Stage of Nascent Nourishing. I'm kind of

This powerful person that could slap him to death with ease

Then, the scanner and the Life Ring flew over to Gravis. "Bring

seller would offer the wares first. He was the stronger of the two, and if he demanded payment first, he could just leave. He was giving Gravis the wares first to

Whoop!

the seller nodded. "Alright. Now, just summon these things. You don't need to worry about them falling