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.

looked with interest at what was going on. Some of them wanted to help the girl, but they wouldn't get involved, at least

"This is something that our owner and us employees of the Gravitas

shock at the young miss. This innocent small girl was cultivating a Harvest Technique!? A lot of the customers shook their heads in disappointment, but they weren't disappointed with the girl. They were disappointed

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 cute, innocent girl

the young girl more closely, some of the customers saw the signs. Slightly redder hands, a nearly unnoticeable absence of

was a Harvest

lives. Cultivators that cultivated these techniques would never fight anyone on their level and would just remain

lives they

themselves. On top of that, they truly loved their

a workaround to evade Heaven's rules. Heaven wouldn't punish someone if they accidentally killed someone. Heaven only punished beings that consciously decided to

they were also not illegal. After all, a ton of

every human that decided to raise their children just to consume them was a

the customers' feelings transformed from pity to disdain. No one would help this girl

and turned away from her. Seeing that her play didn't work, her terrified face transformed into a sneer. "You

BANG!

door, which opened on its own. The girl crashed onto the street

serious for a Nascent Nourishing

She shouted

and whispery voice said as her shadow

girl asked with shock. "You

You know how other Cultivators perceive us. You

rage as she stood up with pain. "Sometimes, I

I regret being summoned by

a 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 around her. In her world, she

sympathy for the girl, but as soon as someone remembered that this had been her own

inside the shop, Yersi cleaned her hands and went back

job," Orthar transmitted