Lightning Is the Only Way

"Let's first get to the Certificate of Middle World Equipment," Johnson said. "That would be 5,000 Immortal Stones, please."

Gravis nodded and handed over the Immortal Stones. "Alright, please wait for the summons," Johnson said. "This might take a bit longer than the last time."

Gravis nodded again and waited.

Whoop!

"Or not," Johnson said as he saw Gravis vanish nearly instantaneously.

Gravis reappeared in a gigantic hall full of smithing equipment. He saw huge barrels of different kinds of water, a ton of forges, and several other pieces of tools he had never seen before. The forge was over a kilometer wide.

"You came at just the right time," a young teenager said with a smile. "We are currently backed up with orders."

Gravis saw the young man, and just like the previous examiner, Gravis couldn't see through his power. "Hi, backed up with orders? What do you mean by that? Do you accept orders?"

"Sure, we do," the young man said. "There are a lot of cultivators that don't have the money to pay the creation fee for weapons. Because of that, we offer a service where they only have to bring us the materials for a piece of equipment they desire without them needing to pay anything."

"The disadvantages are the long waiting time and the possibility that some forgers might deliver a product which is not up to standard. This is where you come into play. You need to craft ten pieces of specified equipment with an, at least, average quality to get your certificate."

The young man gestured to the forge. "We have all the equipment you could possibly need and more. Feel free to use everything you see here."

Gravis nodded. "Thank you, but I don't need any forging tools," Gravis said.

"You don't need forging equipment?" the young man asked in surprise. "Then how do you intend to forge?"

Gravis scratched the back of his neck. "I just don't need them. I only need my lightning," he said.

"Lightning?" the young man asked with furrowed brows. "Does that mean that you can only forge lightning-specific equipment? You do know that you have registered for the general Middle World Equipment Certificate, right?"

"Oh, no," Gravis said to clear the confusion. "I can forge any kind of equipment with lightning. It doesn't need to be lightning specific."

The young man blinked a couple of times like he hadn't heard correctly. "How?" he asked. "You would need to use your lightning to only heat the material without contaminating it with the essence of lightning. You would need to have an absolutely insane amount of control over lightning to do that. That should be impossible for an Immortal."

really so special?" Gravis asked. "My father simply showed me

look at Gravis' Residency Ring. "Oh, your father," he repeated with a different tone. "Sure, he can probably do

said. "What's the first thing I

Who cared if Gravis would waste an order?

Whoop! BANG!

which hit the ground with a huge bang. "Tower shield. Early Law Comprehension Realm. Earth Cultivator," the young man said

to multiple reasons. "This is only pure ore. Additionally, if I were to harden the tower shield, it would become tiny. Even more, isn't this

customer ordered a standard tower shield," the young man said. "This is only your first order, and it is to test

be useful? Calling it a paper shield would be more accurate than calling it a tower

what the customer wants," he said as

BZZZ!

with practiced ease. The ore was finished heating up in less than a second, and Gravis quickly molded it into a fitting form. It hurt him that he had to make a shield

whole process took less than a

BANG!

shield hit the ground loudly as Gravis looked at the young

his eyes opened wide in shock. It

waited some seconds. "Excuse me?

out of his stupor. "What? How?" he sputtered. "How were you so fast!? Where was the hammering? Where was the tempering? Where was the forging? You basically only warmed it, molded it into shape, and that was

shrugged. "That was how my father taught me. As for cooling, I did cool it. I infused my Law of Cold into the shield to cool it

you know the Law of Cold already? That thing is about as far

only furrowed his brows. What was so unusual about

a while, to stop the guy from continually getting surprised, Gravis simply showed

WHOOOOM!

was demonstrating the Law of the Dead World. "Temperatures are part of the

in shock. "W-What? You know the Minor Law of the Dead World as a new

don't have it yet,"

he suddenly remembered Gravis' Obsidian Ring. "Of

Gravis nodded.

then why didn't you simply use fire!?" he asked as he ruffled his hair in stress. "You

control over

finely should put a massive drain on your concentration. Yet, you're still using it

feel any drain," Gravis said. "It just