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.

some ore, huh,' Gravis

Gravis smirked. 'Today is my lucky day!' Gravis

money problems had

Gravis' smirk

RIIIIINNNGGGG!

and

seen the Obsidian Ring previously, and that was precisely why he was confident of the fact that he would be

Ring meant that he was the son of the Opposer.

of the Opposer were weak in power, but

way the Opposer's cultivating children cultivated. This meant that Gravis had nearly no experience in the highest world. If he had just retrieved his stuff back

he retrieved his stuff, it would mean that he accepted the contents of the Space

cared about power and never bothered with economy or

One of these things was the underhanded pocketing of some stuff from a Space Ring. She also told him how to proceed if

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

would be so stupid?

"Sure did," Gravis transmitted.

she transmitted with a

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 than good

if one acted accordingly, bad luck could transform

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

of silence

Whooom!

white robes appeared

turned to Gravis. "What happened?" he asked in a serious

Gravis said as he gestured to the devastated

around with panic and then

of this branch of the Average Trading

from Gravis and looked at it. 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

turned to the clerk. "Do you have a contract?"

devastation as the owner stepped forward. "We do such small trades without a contract

official trade," the man in white robes interrupted the

"But-"

shouldn't have done business without a

to set us up!" the owner shouted as he pointed at

isn't an outstanding Immortal Emperor, it is impossible to fake his aura, and if he were an Immortal Emperor, he wouldn't do something like this for this small amount of

employee only stole a little bit! Why do we have to

something," the man said. "You can also decline,

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