Lightning Is the Only Way

The Metal Ultimate was surprised when he noticed that Gravis paid attention to him first. Didn't Gravis have a lightning affinity? According to reason, he should first take a look at the Lightning Ultimate's display.

The Metal Ultimate didn't know much about Gravis since they were of different camps. Additionally, he hadn't seen Gravis fight anything. The Metal Ultimate had seen the competition between the land Kings, but Gravis hadn't fought in that. Instead, everyone had already accepted that he was the most powerful King.

Then, the Metal Ultimate saw Gravis going through his different kinds of ores and experimenting with them. That was when the Metal Ultimate finally saw the reason for Gravis' power. Gravis had already comprehended a level three Law, the Law of Punishment Lightning!

This situation felt unreal to the Metal Ultimate. A King shouldn't be able to understand such an advanced and powerful Law. Yet, even though the Metal Ultimate was very interested in Gravis now, he decided against contacting him. They were from two different camps, after all.

Gravis continued looking at the ores, and after some hours, the Metal Ultimate got used to Gravis' presence and started ignoring him. The Metal Ultimate needed to use all the available time to comprehend other Laws.

Gravis stayed at the Metal Ultimate's side for 14 years until…

BOOOOM!

'Finally!' Gravis thought with excitement. 'It took me so long, but I finally managed to comprehend the Hard Complex Material Law! Additionally, I didn't even need to temper myself. It just came naturally.'

This was a pleasant surprise for Gravis since he had expected that he needed to temper himself and comprehend this Law inside a battle. Yet, all his understanding just naturally flowed together and created the complete Hard Complex Material Composition Law.

'The list of alloys that father has given me has helped me immensely,' Gravis thought. 'All the diagrams about the makeup of the materials helped me to visualize the movement of the Energy inside the complex materials. Without the list of alloys, I probably would have needed another fifty years or so and might even have needed to go through tempering.'

had started his Realm-Stop over a hundred years ago. Back then,

will, and 14 years staying here, Gravis was already around 200 years old. He was now just as old as Old Man Lightning when

that he would need 140 years to understand this Law, he would have despaired back then. His entire life had only been 60 years long, and he would need

was quite fast. One level two Law per 140 years would come up to ten

Gravis' speed in comprehending Laws was insanely fast compared to this world. Of course, since Gravis had no idea how fast humans were in comprehending Laws, he couldn't judge his progress compared to them. Humans, logically, should be able to comprehend Laws much faster than beasts. Sadly, Gravis didn't know how much

can I have some of that ore?" Gravis suddenly asked the Metal

out of his comprehension as Gravis talked to him. He got a bit annoyed by a King interrupting him, but he couldn't be bothered right now. "Take what you want,"

"Thanks,"

words. The Metal Ultimate looked at Gravis with confusion. Obviously, Gravis didn't show any kind of subservience to him with his tone and gestures, but he had kind of showed his

the back of his neck in embarrassment. "Oh, sorry. I didn't mean

even more. Why was Gravis saying sorry now!? What was

know what? Forget it! Just take it like I haven't said anything at all!" he said. Speaking to

then went back to comprehending. He had no time to deal with such useless

more than an entire kilometer! In

of ore, the absence of the ore almost couldn't be noticed. The Metal Ultimate

materials together. There were far more Complex than Pure Materials in the world, which allowed Gravis to choose the properties of his equipment with

and Will-Aura, would counter nearly all elemental attacks. The only things that could truly hurt him would be

He never intended to block any attack with his saber, which allowed

a level two Emperor with only my comparably weak strength. I don't even need to use my Punishment Lightning anymore to kill a beast three

even be able to put any pressure on