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."

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

took a look at Gravis' Residency Ring. "Oh, your father," he repeated with

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

if Gravis would waste an order? Some of the fees that the participants paid would just go to the customer as

Whoop! BANG!

with a huge bang. "Tower shield. Early Law Comprehension Realm. Earth

multiple reasons. "This is only pure ore. Additionally, if I were to harden

and it is to test if you have the basics down. Simply make it

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

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

BZZZ!

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 without a compressed surface. It was like he was throwing ore

process took less than

BANG!

as Gravis looked at the young

young man only had his eyes opened wide in shock. It was

seconds. "Excuse

the tempering? Where was the forging? You basically only warmed it, molded it into shape, and that was it! By reason, there should be a ton

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

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

brows. What was so

stop the guy from

WHOOOOM!

in the world. This was a tiny world Gravis created out of the basic elements. Obviously, Gravis was demonstrating the Law of the Dead World.

fell open in 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,"

remembered Gravis' Obsidian Ring. "Of course, you came from a middle world, right? That

Gravis nodded.

didn't you simply use fire!?" he asked as he ruffled his hair in stress. "You clearly have access to fire, so why didn't you use it?

over

the man nearly shouted. "Using your lightning this finely should put a massive drain on your concentration. Yet, you're still using it for

any drain," Gravis said. "It just