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

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

show you?" Gravis said.

after a bit. Who cared if Gravis would waste an order? Some of

Whoop! BANG!

summoned a considerable piece of brown ore, which hit the ground with a huge bang. "Tower shield. Early

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

man said. "This is only your first order, and it is to test if you

huge waste. Would such a shield even be useful? Calling it a paper shield

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

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 without a compressed surface. It was

whole process took less than a

BANG!

loudly as Gravis looked

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

seconds. "Excuse

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

"That was how my father taught me. As for cooling, I did cool it.

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

What was so unusual about

while, to stop the guy from continually getting

WHOOOOM!

floated 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. "Temperatures are part

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

have it yet,"

the young man said. "How come you don't- ooooohhhh," he said as he suddenly remembered Gravis' Obsidian Ring. "Of course, you came from a middle world, right? That would explain

Gravis nodded.

ruffled his hair in stress. "You clearly have access to fire, so why

control over

your lightning this finely

don't feel any drain," Gravis said. "It