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?"

said. Back then, Gravis felt like the employee was telling the truth. "I

the Law of Lies, which made you believe that

Gravis commented. "I presume that people with an affinity for one of

for the Law of Deceit and vice-versa. Yet, people that know the Law of Honesty will find

has its uses, right? If someone wants to scam people, the Law of Deceit or Lies would probably be better than the Law of

a scam artist. Yet, if you have a certificate for the Law of Honesty, people are much faster to trust your claims. This

that it is important but

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

Weapons? What's that?" Gravis

weapons. The Middle World Core your father and I have talked about is one of these ores. When you use that as

this higher affinity?"

don't cultivate the elements, but Weapon Laws, which they use to create a ton of techniques in conjunction

that? Gravis had thought that weapons didn't have Laws since weapons

his chin. 'Aren't humans part of nature too? So, wouldn't

exasperation. 'Great, something else I can't properly place. Saying that weapons occur naturally sounds very debatable, and I hate stuff that isn't clearly defined. Just accept it and move on,'

going home and will concentrate on

fun!" his mother

went home and went back into

entered his room,

his room since he had returned from the lower world. For the last month, he had

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