Lightning Is the Only Way

A lot of people on the streets looked at the Gravitas with a glimmer in their eyes. Some of them saw the Certificates and realized how good that shop was. A perfect evaluation for World Weapon Forging? Lower prices than anywhere else? This was too good to be true!

This was a common mistake that a lot of new traders committed when they opened their shops for the first time. When someone highly talented in a profession opened a shop for the first time, claiming that they could do these incredible things for this cheap, everyone would think that this was a scam. Because of that, no one would visit these shops until the shop owner got one desperate customer, who would then advertise the shop.

Gravis had heard of the stories of some supremely talented forgers who had committed that mistake. For the first days, and maybe even weeks, they wouldn't even get one customer.

And that was where the Certificate of Honesty came into play.

The Certificate of Honesty was a symbol of trust. As long as a shop had this Certificate, a lot more customers would trust the claims. Not getting this Certificate when one was very talented was just plain stupid.

After some seconds, the first customers already appeared. However, most of them just looked around the shop. Gravis had created a ton of weapons, thousands, in fact. He had created these weapons as testing tools for their customers. Everyone had a different Battle-Style, which meant an uncountable number of slight variations of the traditional weapons.

Because of that, Gravis had created a ton of weapons for every major Realm and displayed them. If someone wanted to commission a weapon, they could try out some that the shop already had to make a better decision.

These weapons hung on the walls. In fact, the walls were absolutely packed with these kinds of weapons. Luckily, the ground floor of the Gravitas was equipped with a Formation Array that compressed space. This meant that the ground floor was actually an entire kilometer wide and long.

By now, over twenty customers had already walked around the shop, looking at all the different displays. Yersi remained politely at her table, just waiting for the customers to make their decision.

Suddenly, Yersi got a voice transmission, and she looked at a young, innocent-looking girl. After receiving the voice transmission, Yersi walked over to the young girl, who quickly retreated in fear. She was only a Nascent Nourishing Cultivator.

"Miss," Yersi said with politeness. "Please leave the premises," she said.

The customers saw that, and their eyes widened. The shop just opened, but the shop was already throwing a customer out? On top of that, this was definitely not a troublemaker. This was just an innocent girl!

"E-Excuse me?" the young girl asked with fear. "H-Have I d-done something wrong?"

"No," Yersi said politely, "but we don't serve your kind here."

"M-My kind!?" she asked in shock. "But I have never stolen or done anything wrong! Are you angry just because you are a beast, and I am a human!?" she shouted, her fear seemingly vanishing.

Some of them wanted to help the girl, but

a Harvest Technique," Yersi said. "This is something that our owner and us employees of the Gravitas don't appreciate. Please leave the premises.

the young miss. This innocent small girl was cultivating a Harvest Technique!? A lot of

that every person in this city was a Cultivator who had their fair share of battles. These were not mortals. Because of that, these people were disappointed that they had not been able to notice that this

customers saw the signs. Slightly redder hands, a nearly unnoticeable absence of compassion in her eyes,

a

Technique was a technique that increased one's Realm by reaping weaker lives. Cultivators that cultivated these techniques would never fight anyone on their level and would just remain on their "farm"

to create the lives they would harvest on their

that they brought into the world themselves. On top of that, they truly loved their children

punish someone if they accidentally killed someone. Heaven only punished beings that consciously decided to

not illegal. After all, a ton of humans couldn't even imagine killing their

every

to disdain. No one would help this girl

customers only snorted and turned away from her. Seeing that

BANG!

and backhanded the girl. The girl got shot away, directly at the door, which opened on its own. The girl crashed onto the street

these injuries were nothing serious for a Nascent Nourishing Realm

do anything!?" She shouted with absolute rage at her

was too fast," a dark and whispery voice said as her

with shock. "You are an entire level above

"I would advise you to hide your tracks more. You know how other Cultivators perceive us. You can take your revenge later when you are more powerful. For

the young girl said with rage as she stood up with pain. "Sometimes, I

I regret being summoned by

fuss. This was not the first time she had been treated this way. She was used to being spit on and being sneered at by everyone

as someone remembered that this had been her own decision and that she

cleaned her hands and went back

job," Orthar