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!

hardness of the alloy is about the same as the pure metal I have used, but if I'm right, something else should

BZZZ!

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

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

Pure materials, so I should be able to extrapolate the workings of this Medium Pure material

but this Pure Fire Ash acted way differently from metals. Instead of melting and

but this one just melted down, which surprised him quite a bit. 'Interesting,' Gravis thought as he scratched his chin in

that it is not a Hard-Pure material. Yet, the crystal is most definitely hard. This makes it impossible for this crystal to

material when put under a lot of

crystal, he also turned

bitten off more than

Complex, Hard Complex,' Gravis thought. 'These are already six different Laws. Yet, I can't know which materials correspond to which Law without

for one of the Laws and only look at them, or try to comprehend five additional Laws at once since I've already understood the Hard Pure

the Laws combine. It could be that Soft Pure, Medium Pure, and Hard Pure combine

level two Laws in this Law Comprehension Area. Either we have the Pure and Complex

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 the Middle-Tier Hard Pure Material

specifies the Law I know. So, I should try to remove some words. I, obviously, can't even attempt to remove the Middle-Tier part. Material refers to dead things, and to remove Material, I need to comprehend the Composition of living matter, which

the last word and shows the major category of the Law. I don't even need to think about attempting to remove that. So, this only leaves the Hard

Middle-Tier Material Composition Law. This should be a level three Law. This encompasses the knowledge of every dead material in all the middle

don't know which ones are Pure and which

is dead by simply looking at everything

Whooom!

Spirit Sense and only used a minuscule amount

he looked, the more

What was dead?

of dead, if one ignored the small living beings. Mountains were dead. Sand was dead. Crystals were dead. Yet,

Water was dead.