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."

asked. "My father simply showed

Residency Ring. "Oh, your father," he repeated with a different tone. "Sure, he can probably

just show you?" Gravis said. "What's the first thing I

Who cared if Gravis would waste an order? Some of the fees that the participants paid would just

Whoop! BANG!

considerable piece of brown ore, which hit the ground with a huge bang. "Tower shield. Early Law Comprehension Realm. Earth Cultivator," the young

ore. Additionally, if I were to harden the tower shield, it would become tiny. Even more, isn't this too little ore anyway?" Gravis

"This is only your first order, and it is to test if you have the

thought that this was a huge waste. Would such a shield even be useful? Calling it a paper shield would be more accurate than calling it a tower

if that is what the customer wants," he said as he

BZZZ!

ore 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

process took less than a

BANG!

as Gravis looked at

had his eyes opened wide in shock. It was like he couldn't

waited some seconds. "Excuse

was the hammering? Where was the tempering? Where was the forging? You basically only warmed it, molded it into shape, and that was it! By reason,

father taught me. As for cooling, I did cool it. I infused my Law of Cold

Cold?" the young man repeated in surprise. "You're a lightning cultivator, right? How do you know the Law of Cold already? That thing is about as far

What was so unusual about

stop the guy from continually getting surprised,

WHOOOOM!

Gravis was demonstrating the Law of the Dead World. "Temperatures are part of the Law of the Dead World. Didn't you know that I

shock. "W-What? You know the Minor Law of the Dead World as a new Immortal? Then, why are you here

don't have it yet,"

he suddenly remembered Gravis' Obsidian Ring.

Gravis nodded.

he ruffled his hair in stress. "You clearly have

over

finely should put a massive drain on

Gravis said. "It