Lightning Is the Only Way

Gravis lost himself to time. For once, he was able to forget everything about himself and dedicated his entire being to understanding the different kinds of stone directly in front of him. It was like the magic of understanding Laws had returned, and Gravis felt like it was even more beautiful than back then.

Back then, Gravis wasn't able to properly appreciate the feeling of wonder. Only when someone lost something and regained it much later would they truly be able to appreciate it.

It was simply a joy to look at all the different stones.

Whooom!

Suddenly, the Energy inside the ore stopped moving. The metallic essence vanished, leaving behind only dead stone. Gravis frowned as he inspected everything. Was something wrong with the Virtualization Array?

Gravis checked the Virtualization Array, but it didn't move at all. It had simply stopped working for some reason.

Gravis concentrated on the Virtualization Array and felt that there was no more Energy inside it. It was empty.

"Empty?" Gravis asked himself. Then, his eyes widened. "Are 500 years already over? But I didn't manage to comprehend the Law of Core!"

Gravis inspected his surroundings with his Law of Time and noticed that 500 years had passed. Sure enough, Gravis had stayed here for the entire duration.

"What!? That was never 500 years!" Gravis said.

"Father, has it been 500 years?" he asked.

"Yes," his father answered.

"What? How?" Gravis asked in shock. "I only just started!"

so entranced with the Laws that you lost track of time, Gravis. It happens. Just

wrap his head around it, but everything pointed at that

This feels similar to when Heaven told me that I had stayed 200 years in the

while, Gravis sighed. "I guess these occasions will happen more frequently in the future. Understanding the Laws

Array only controlled the metal

felt absolutely ancient to me. 3,000

3,650 years old. I'm even older than Ferris back then. It felt like I had been only 100 years old, only one year ago.

Gravis said,

and pocketed the ore mountain. This was a byproduct of

number, but one shouldn't forget that Gravis paid 50 million Immortal Stones. On top of that, Gravis had seen the clerk putting around 25 God Stones into the Virtualization Array. So, in total, this ore was not even nearly enough to make up for

inspected the city to find Yersi. He wanted

of them was Jake, while the other one was

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

them and looked with

hair actually reached the floor, and for some reason,

shouted in surprise as she jumped into Gravis' embrace.

Gravis said with a bit of shock and a smile. Then he put his hand on her head and ruffled her

seen mother. Back then, I was very deep in the philosophy of

surprise. "I thought you would have seen her at least once," he said as

looked towards the ground and shook

to see her?" Gravis

hesitated a little bit as Jake remained silent. He didn't want to interrupt the reunion. Then, Yersi

element of light to create an image of Azure. Then, he adapted his Will-Aura and Spirit to emulate Azure's aura. Lastly, he used the wind to emulate her

the time he first met Azure, in