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.

different affinities. Some made it way easier to store a kind of element, while others were better at storing

different materials. Yet, Gravis didn't know which world he would go to and what materials he

state left him completely helpless, and if he weren't with

risky situations. He hadn't been able to deal with his emotions in the lower world because of the same reason.

done?" his father

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

Understanding the concept of

had thought that they would be more magical in

flows downward is easier than understanding how space bends. There is a system for categorizing

What's speaking against me knowing these

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

some kind of sense, I guess,' Gravis thought unsurely. 'I might reach my goal sooner, but maybe

say that the smallest and weakest laws are the most

"How come?" Gravis asked.

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

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, the better. Just try to learn about the things that

was very introspective, and he knew that there was a real chance that he would only focus on his explicit

about himself. Life was about growing and becoming the perfect person they wanted to be. The more Gravis knew about himself, the better he could judge if an

to understand the concept behind the different materials. The Law you

couple of times. "That's

name, the lower the Law. Every word of the name specifies what

Gravis nodded.

one of the highest Laws that exist. When you know that, you know how everything is made in the world. When you understand that, you can use it to create everything you want