Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis was quite happy about the incident. His mother had given him the target to get 80% of the retail value, but due to the Average Trading Firm trying to steal from him, he got 90%. Advantages and disadvantages, eh?

"What am I supposed to do now, mom?" Gravis asked.

"First, you need to comprehend a very important Law to take full advantage of your business," his mother transmitted to him. "It shouldn't be very difficult for you to comprehend this Law since you have a very high affinity towards it."

"Oh? What kind of Law?" Gravis asked.

"The Lower Law of Honesty," his mother transmitted.

Gravis remembered that the highest world categorized the power of Laws differently from the middle world. A Lower Law was a level two Law.

"Honesty, huh? What's its use?" he asked.

Gravis' senses were pulled to a peculiar shop. "Can you feel the different aura that this building has? Compare it to the shop you just left."

Gravis concentrated on the aura, and sure enough, it felt different. The building gave off an aura of trust and honesty. "It exhibits a kind of aura of trust," he answered.

"That's what you want to have," his mother transmitted. "The fact that this building is giving off this aura means that the owner of this shop has comprehended the Law of Honesty and got a certificate from the Company Trade Evaluation Department, CTED for short."

"The Law of Honesty has two other related Laws, the Law of Deceit and the Law of Lies. All three Laws have the same ability, which is to make other people trust you. The only difference is how they accomplish to gain that trust."

"Someone with the Law of Deceit can give you half-truths that sound like they are the complete truth. Someone with the Law of Lies can give you lies that sound like they are the truth. When you talked to that stealing employee, have you felt that he was telling the truth?"

employee gave a different market price to what his mother had said. Back then, Gravis felt like the employee was telling the truth. "I did,"

Law of Lies, which made you

with an affinity for one of these three things will find

Lies have a lot of affinity for the Law of Deceit and vice-versa. Yet, people that know

chin. "I also presume that every Law has its uses, right? If someone wants to scam people, the

you're a scam artist. Yet, if

"I get that it is important but imperative?"

it is imperative," she answered again. "You have comprehended the Law of the Dead World as a new Immortal. That is exceptionally rare. If people know that you can create a World Weapon but see that you are only a new Immortal, they will immediately

What's

weapons. The Middle World Core your father and I have talked about is one of these ores. When you use that as the core for your weapon, you will be able to create a powerful affinity with it. You should try creating a saber while you comprehend the Law of

the point of this higher affinity?" Gravis

mother answered. "Cultivators from Battle Worlds don't cultivate the elements, but Weapon Laws, which they use to create a ton of techniques in conjunction with

that weapons didn't have Laws since weapons didn't exist naturally. Only humans created these

and scratched his chin. 'Aren't humans part of nature too? So, wouldn't it be correct to say that

place. Saying that weapons occur naturally sounds very debatable, and I hate stuff that

and will concentrate

fun!" his

home and went back into his

he entered his room, emotions assaulted

hadn't been in his room since he had returned from the lower world. For the last month, he had always stayed with

a table with some chairs, and some shelves. The light of the outside reflected off the blue walls, giving the room