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."

Gravis asked. "My father

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

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

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

Whoop! BANG!

ore, which hit the ground with a huge

reasons. "This is only pure ore. Additionally, if I were to harden the tower shield, it

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

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

is what the customer wants,"

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

whole process took less than a

BANG!

as Gravis looked at

shock. It was

waited some seconds. "Excuse me? I'm

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 it! By reason,

cool it. I infused

do you know the Law of Cold already? That thing is about as far away from your element as

furrowed his brows. What was so unusual

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

WHOOOOM!

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

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

don't have it yet," Gravis

as he suddenly remembered Gravis' Obsidian Ring. "Of

Gravis nodded.

he ruffled his hair in stress.

over lightning is better,"

believe you, but that's not the point!" the man nearly shouted. "Using your lightning this finely should put a

don't feel any drain," Gravis