Lightning Is the Only Way

"Do you have a Space Ring?" Gravis asked.

Whoop!

A Space Ring appeared in front of him. "Please put the things you want to trade inside and give me an offer," the clerk said.

Gravis took ahold of the Space Ring and dumped all the ore he was supposed to trade inside. Then, he pushed it to the clerk. "50,000 Immortal Stones," he said.

The clerk looked with quite some surprise at Gravis. That was a lot of money, but some people always thought that the things they had were worth far more than they actually were.

The clerk looked into the Space Ring and was surprised by the amount of ore. After that, he frowned.

"The best I can do is 25,000," he said.

Gravis raised an eyebrow when he heard that. The goal his mother had set for him was 60,000, which would be about 80% of the retail value of his ore. Usually, shops bought resources at 70% of their retail value. After all, they had to store them, which cost money and sell them. 30% profit without the added cost was the usual.

Gravis had already made an offer of 66% of the retail value, which was very generous for the shop. Yet, this guy was lowballing him with 33% of the retail value.

"50," Gravis said. "That is 66% of the retail value."

The clerk frowned. "That is incorrect. The prices recently changed, and I'm offering you 65% of the retail value."

Gravis looked at the clerk, and surprisingly, Gravis felt no sense of falsehood from him. The clerk was something like two levels stronger than Gravis, but Gravis' Will-Aura was far more powerful. He should be able to see through any falsehoods. Yet, the clerk appeared completely truthful.

Gravis frowned. The clerk wasn't lying, but his mother had quoted a different price. Something was up.

"50," Gravis repeated.

The clerk sighed. "Okay, I can go up to 27, but that is my limit. We have to store all of this ore, and it will take us a long time to sell all of it. There are only so many heirs to a powerful person in this city that require equipment."

"50," Gravis repeated.

The clerk looked at the ring, sighed, and pushed it back to Gravis. "Sorry, I can't accept this trade. Please retrieve your items."

Gravis looked into the Space Ring, and his eyes shone.

Gravis had put mountains of ore into the Space Ring, and the ore was incredibly heavy.

Yet, several tons of ore were missing.

This would be hard to notice since that wasn't even 1% of the total amount of ore, but Gravis had checked very thoroughly. If he hadn't, he wouldn't have noticed that.

ore, huh,'

my lucky day!' Gravis thought

money problems had just

smirk

RIIIIINNNGGGG!

off his finger and flicked it, making

the Obsidian Ring previously, and that was precisely why he was confident of

the Immortal Realm, and the Obsidian Ring meant that he was the son of the Opposer.

Immortal Emperor Realm children of the Opposer were weak in power, but they were exceptionally versed in the way of business. Scamming them was

at the Immortal Realm. This meant that he had probably gone through a lower and middle world. This was usually the way the Opposer's cultivating children cultivated. This meant that Gravis had nearly no experience in the highest world. If

he accepted the contents of the Space

bothered with economy or business. They were even easier to scam than the

some scummy shops practiced. One of these things was the underhanded pocketing of some stuff from a

Gravis transmitted to his mother, who was walking around with Yersi and Orthar. "Someone just pocketed something from a

she asked back with shock. "Who would be so stupid? Did you already call for

"Sure did," Gravis transmitted.

lucky, Gravis," she transmitted with a

he came into contact with humans again, his lack of Karmic Luck became relevant again. Could it be considered luck that a thief stole something from him? One would consider that bad luck more

if one acted accordingly, bad luck

with devastation at the table and put his head in his hands. He had really screwed up this time. Why had he done that!? He had pulled that stunt only

of silence

Whooom!

white robes

happened?"

while we were negotiating," Gravis

voice appeared as someone with an indistinguishable Realm appeared inside the room. He looked around with panic and

this branch of the Average

Then, he used his Major Law of Time to create an image of what had happened inside the Space Ring in the last couple of minutes. He quickly noticed that a little

the clerk. "Do you have a contract?" he

at the table with devastation as the owner stepped forward. "We do such small trades without a contract due to the contracting

man in white robes

"But-"

say is true, then you shouldn't have done business without a contract. As per the

person did that himself to set us up!" the owner

the caller isn't an outstanding Immortal Emperor, it is impossible to fake his aura, and

became angry. "But my employee only stole a little bit! Why do we have to pay so much

decline, and we will get a full investigation going. Do you want that to

a full investigation were just too devastating. They often scammed ignorant people to make some money. When this investigator looked through their entire business, they wouldn't just have to pay money. The owner would probably even be banned from doing any kind of business in