Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis visited his old place of employment alone. He wouldn't need Orthar or Yersi here. Instead, Orthar walked around the city, procuring more materials again. Usually, he always had to quickly run and get materials when there were fewer customers since the Gravitas was going through materials like crazy. Yet, with the Gravitas being closed for two days, Orthar decided that this was just the perfect opportunity for Orthar to get more.

Meanwhile, Yersi decided to spend the next two days with her grandparents and relax. Yersi and Gravis' mother hit it off rather well. Gravis' mother was very fond of Yersi's humble and approachable mindset. The fact that Yersi looked like a killing machine was no deterrent to her.

Gravis entered the building and looked at the familiar hall. Whenever he had come to class back then as a Research Assistant, he had gone through this hallway. He still remembered greeting the receptionist every time with his best friend.

What was his name again?

Gravis couldn't really remember the name of that friend back then. It just had been far too long, but he still remembered how he had felt when that friend died in the first practical exam.

Yet, that was to be expected. Some people would have thought that the death rate was only there to scare the new students. After all, which company would allow their recruits to die?

Of course, such thoughts were naïve. The cultivation world was cruel, and only very few managed to get back from the lower world. If they couldn't even get through these practical exams, they would have no hope of coming back to the highest world.

Luckily, their families received a generous one-time payment when the students had signed up. The payment was comprised of three Immortal Stones.

That was generous?

One had to remember that the teenagers that went into this company came from weak backgrounds. These backgrounds couldn't even afford proper cultivation techniques for their children, and even if they could, this powerful company obviously gave better training. After all, it was the company's business to get as many people to ascend as possible. They were pretty good at it.

With these three Immortal Stones, the families could give another heir a powerful start or use it for their own lives. Three Immortal Stones was a ton of wealth.

In the lower world, Gravis had used Spirit Stones to buy all of his stuff. He still remembered that he had needed a little less than 6,000 Spirit Stones to reach the Spirit Forming Realm.

Yet, three Immortal Stones would count as three million Spirit Stones, which was the equivalent of an entire Elemental Sect in the lower world. This showed how much three Immortal Stones were for these families.

asked as she saw

Gravis said with a polite smile as he

she saw the contents, her eyes widened in surprise.

up. "Please follow me," she said as

said as he

he was also checking out the different rooms he had access to with his Spirit. If the company didn't want him to snoop, they would just isolate these

being taught. When

very quickly

bored-looking, Mid Unity Realm Cultivator teaching a

Gravis' old

teacher that told him of his friend's demise. Additionally, Gravis also remembered how he had curbed Gravis' Will-Aura before the final practical exam. However, that was understandable. Gravis had had his Will-Aura constantly unleashed, and when someone unleashed their Will-Aura on Gravis today, he would also take that as an act

think it started with an m,' he thought as he

our classes, sir?" the receptionist asked from in front of Gravis. "I can

only smiled. "No need. I was in

"You were?" she asked. "But I don't recognize you. I have

Ring.

immediately remembered the small kid from back then. At first, that kid

kid survived? Additionally, he was already

she said, more approachable

as he fell back into memories. "I returned very quickly and got my Research Adept Emblem. Sadly, someone in the Sky Community stole it from me back then, making it impossible for me to return here.

one from some random trader, but there was no need. My father was the one that sent me to the next middle world,"

was a fan of this policy. Young people make mistakes. Disallowing them from continuing just because they lost something seems far too extreme to me, but

just shitty policies," Gravis said

when they arrived in front of a door. The receptionist opened the door and motioned for Gravis