Lightning Is the Only Way

With that said, Gravis immediately got to work. Surprisingly, even Ferris seemed to have become inspired by Gravis' words, and he also started looking at different stuff in the area.

Gravis' first stop was the mountain range. He already had quite the knowledge about metal, but this mountain range had more than simple metal. Especially these crystals on the mountain range looked different from everything Gravis had seen.

Gravis went to one of the crystals and took one into his hands. After that, he simply stared at it.

Gravis had a lot of experience regarding pure metal, and he had also learned a lot about different kinds of alloys. Sadly, Gravis wasn't able to manipulate alloys. He knew how he could create them, but his understanding regarding their Composition was lacking.

There were a lot of alloys that were harder than the pure kinds of metal, but without being able to compress them while forging, these alloys would be even weaker than his current equipment.

Out of interest, Gravis used some of his lightning on the crystal. He expected the crystal to melt, but, surprisingly, it simply broke apart and started smoking. After some minutes, instead of melting, nearly the whole crystal transformed into a kind of smoke.

'Interesting,' Gravis thought as he scratched his chin. 'These crystals feel like metal, but when I use my lightning on them, instead of melting, they act more like living matter and burn away.'

'Yet,' Gravis thought as he saw the black ash remaining in his arms, 'not all of the crystal burns away. Some parts of it remain in my hand. If the crystal were made of only one material, all of it would have vanished. This means that this crystal is not a pure material, but a complex material, like alloys.'

Gravis grabbed some more crystals and burned these too. After he was done with that, he took the ash he had created and tried to manipulate that with his lightning.

Gravis used more and more lightning until, finally, even the ash started to vanish into smoke.

Then, he grabbed more crystals and created another usable pile of ash. After that, he used some metal he found in the mountains and combined it with the ash.

It took several hours and a lot of crystals until Gravis managed to find the right temperature and correct manipulation to make the ash fuse with the metal.

Clank! Clank!

Gravis flicked the new sheet of alloy some times to test its hardness.

Crack!

strength. 'The hardness of the alloy is about the same as the pure metal I have used,

BZZZ!

again. 'Sure enough, it can withstand more heat now. So, if I'm correct, this ash should be Pure Fire Ash. Then, if this is Pure Fire Ash, and I have just used Mountain's Secret Metal, this alloy must

So, because of that, Gravis knew the names of the non-metal materials he needed but didn't know their properties. Due to that,

extrapolate the workings of this Medium Pure material by using the Energy make-up

Pure Fire Ash acted way differently from metals. Instead of

as he scratched his chin in thought. 'This crystal looked the

I know about. This means that it is not a Hard-Pure material. Yet, the crystal is most definitely hard. This makes

act like one single material when put under a lot of stress or heat. The whole thing liquified evenly and at the same time,

he also turned his head to look at the crystal-filled mountain

sighed. 'I might have bitten off

Soft Complex, Medium Complex, Hard Complex,' Gravis thought. 'These are already six different Laws. Yet, I can't

materials for one of the Laws and only look at them, or try

a sigh. 'Additionally, I don't know how the Laws combine. It could be that Soft Pure, Medium Pure, and

or three level two Laws in this Law Comprehension Area. Either we

about a way to find out which Laws he should try to comprehend first. 'Father has told me the full name of one of the Laws, which is the Hard Pure Law. The full name of it was

remove some words. I, obviously, can't even attempt to remove the Middle-Tier part. Material refers to dead things, and

is the last word and shows the major category of the Law. I don't even need to think about attempting to remove

be left with Middle-Tier Material Composition Law. This should be a level three Law. This encompasses the

surroundings. 'Metals count as Hard-Pure. Coal, sand, and different kinds of stone should be Medium, but I don't know which ones are Pure and which ones are Complex. Earth is probably

is dead by simply looking at everything and checking if it has a will,'

Whooom!

out his Spirit Sense and only used a minuscule amount of his Will-Aura to check everything. Then, he started looking at

more

What was dead?

ignored the small living beings. Mountains were dead. Sand

Water was dead.