Lightning Is the Only Way

Over the next two hours, Gravis and his mother went through a ton of contracts, all having been manipulated in some way. If Gravis hadn't learned all of these secrets and ways to screw people over, the chances would have been high for him to get scammed.

Some of the ways to screw someone over were insane. For example, there was a way to change the consistency of the paper so that the coloring of it would spell out an additional clause. As long as the contract went through the Contract Officiation Office, this would still be okay. After all, the office only made it so that the contract couldn't be altered. The contents and how they were displayed were of no concern to them.

After a while of looking at one of the contracts, Gravis signed it.

Pack!

"Well done," his mother said. "This was the correct contract. It is important to see if contracts include shady clauses, but it is also important to accept true sincerity. If you continually mistrust your business partner, they will also start to mistrust you. If I were a normal business partner, you should have cut contact with me long ago after offering you so many scummy contracts."

Gravis sighed. "Why can't things just be simple? I just wanted to make a forge and sell my weapons and armor."

"Because business is like power, Gravis," his mother said. "You need to kill and steal from others to become powerful. The same is true in business. You need to siphon the money out of other companies to become richer yourself. Even if you act very honestly, your wares will inevitably drive other people that offer similar wares out of business. The only selfless thing would be to not create a business at all."

Gravis looked at the mountain of discarded contracts. "If I look at it like that, it seems more reasonable," Gravis commented. "I have probably already ended billions of lives without me actually trying to. Driving other forgers out of business isn't such a bad thing in comparison."

"Good," his mother said with a smile. "Now, I will take Orthar and my cute granddaughter out on a tour of the highest world. They need to learn more about our city and how everything works."

"Is that alright with you?" she asked Yersi and Orthar.

"Optimal first action," Orthar commented.

Meanwhile, Yersi beamed with excitement. She was about to meet more people! "Sounds great, granny. Can I call you granny?" she asked.

Gravis' mother beamed when she heard Yersi's words. "Of course you can, sweetheart," she said.

"What am I supposed to do?" Gravis asked.

to exchange for some small base capital, Gravis," his mother said. "But first, I need to take a look at what you have. I would like to request access to your Spirit

"Sure thing," Gravis said.

mother didn't immediately enter

you can't give people access to your Spirit Space lightly. Usually, people only trade via Space Rings," she

unload all my stuff in the city, or it would get buried. Yet, giving other people access to my Spirit Space

compressed room inside them where you can store your wares. With these, you can trade

one of these?"

to what they actually accomplish," his mother said. "The cheapest ones cost about 10% of what an apartment would

them

reason why they are so expensive. If you only need to know the Law of Space, every Immortal could create them. Theoretically,

expensive to learn?" Gravis asked. "I know the Space, Time, and Gravity Laws. I even know the Law of the Dead World. Something like a Space

said. "You would be right, but the problem is that you can't create a reliable Space Ring with lightning. You need Energy, and you need to be very, very, very good at manipulating

he put his mind to it, he probably would be able to learn it, but it

to learn additional Laws by

his mother said with a shake of his head. "You

I should concentrate

gently at his Spirit

version of herself appeared in Gravis' massive Spirit Space, and she quickly checked out all the contents inside Gravis'

up a watermelon-sized sphere of something shiny. She inspected this ball for a while, nodded,

opened his actual eyes again and looked at his mother

of looking at Gravis, his mother looked at the Opposer with a disappointed expression. "You are behind on the prices," she

couple of times in a

get one, he would have no capital left to purchase actual resources to forge

blinked two more times. "But he has a Middle World Core," he said in an even

is a huge waste! It's way more economical to forge something with it! Did you honestly expect Gravis to exchange that massive chunk of a Middle