Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis took a deep breath to calm down. "So, I've wasted about four months on this?"

His father narrowed his eyes at Gravis, and Gravis actually felt some genuine annoyance from his father. Gravis had known his father for his whole life. So, he was pretty good at noticing the small differences in his expression.

"Do you think it's that easy to create Jade Tokens that beam knowledge right into your Spirit?" his father asked. "Others don't even get all the information at once. They have to search for it by themselves. You're in a privileged position here. Yet, you're still complaining? Then what's the difference between you and your sister, Melody?"

Gravis took a deep breath. He had forgotten that he was in a privileged position. The best forger alive was teaching him personally, yet, Gravis had still complained about the time it took.

Gravis hated hypocrites the most, but now, he saw himself acting the same way. He was getting the best education regarding forging, but he had still not been satisfied with it. When Gravis realized that, he felt horrible. He had acted exactly like the people he despised.

"I'm sorry," Gravis said genuinely, even bowing a little. "My greed for power has blinded me to reality. Thank you for reminding me of my own principles, father," Gravis.

His father nodded. "Good, then go learn the alloys," his father said.

Gravis nodded and concentrated his Spirit onto the Jade Token. As soon as his Spirit touched the Jade token, it broke apart, and a sea of knowledge assaulted Gravis' Spirit. It was a very similar feeling to the time when he had absorbed Heaven's lightning, but still a bit different.

Back then, he had immediately comprehended the concept behind that specific kind of lightning. This time, he wasn't comprehending any concepts but just learned one thing after another without any connection between them.

Even though one could say that learning all these alloys was less knowledge than learning Punishment Lightning, it still took way longer for Gravis to deal with this knowledge. This was the difference between just learning and reciting raw data and actually knowing the concepts behind it.

Gravis remained unmoving with a stunned and shocked expression for hours. His whole being was entirely concentrating on the knowledge that was infused into him. There were so incredibly many combinations of materials that could create so many different alloys.

Only a select few of these alloys would be useful for weapons, but that didn't mean that the others were useless. Many different kinds of machinery or equipment needed different kinds of properties for their materials.

easier to store a kind of element, while others were better at storing Will-Spheres. Some other alloys or materials didn't allow certain Formation Arrays to be placed on them, while others only allowed

contact with over 99% of the materials and alloys he learned. There were simply too many, and different worlds had different materials. Yet, Gravis didn't know which world he would go to and what materials he would be able

him completely helpless, and if

course, no one would just barge into his father's room to kill him. Therefore, this place was the best place to go through these risky situations. He hadn't been able to deal with

his

and sighed. "Yes. It's a lot of knowledge," he said. "I even feel like I'm on the cusp of understanding something.

divided into many smaller laws. Understanding the concept of why different materials

in surprise. He had thought that laws felt different. He had thought that they would be more magical in understanding, but apparently not. "Also, what

than others. Understanding why water flows downward is easier than understanding how space bends. There is a system for categorizing different laws, but you don't need to bother with

his brows. "How come? What's speaking against me knowing

if you know the different levels of laws, you might start overreaching. Knowing about the levels would also make you fixate on a specific goal. Normally, fixing on a specific goal is a good thing, but not in the case of laws. If you only concentrate on achieving one thing, you're blind to recognize

makes some kind of sense, I guess,' Gravis thought unsurely. 'I might reach my goal sooner, but maybe I wouldn't be able to comprehend many other, smaller

his son wasn't entirely convinced. "You could say that the smallest and weakest laws are the

"How come?" Gravis asked.

you can't even begin to understand how an icicle works. Without understanding how an

powerful and fundamental the Law, the more small laws you have to know to grasp it. If you only focus on one goal, you might miss understanding something about other small laws. There is nearly no useless law in this world, and the more you know,

Gravis was very introspective, and he knew that there was a real chance that he

be. The more Gravis knew about himself, the better he could judge if an action would

understand the concept behind the different materials. The Law you would be able to grasp from that would be called the Middle-Tier

of times.

law. Generally, the longer the name, the lower the Law. Every word of the name specifies what you know further.

Gravis nodded.

everything is made in the