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!"

Gravis.

around it, but

to himself as he grimaced. "So much time has passed, and I didn't even notice. This feels similar to when Heaven

sighed. "I guess these occasions will happen more frequently in the future.

Virtualization Array only controlled the metal essence, which created different kinds of ore on its

"Back then, Ferris had been around 3,000 years old. He felt absolutely ancient to me. 3,000 years was such an incredibly long time. I also thought

older than Ferris back then. It felt like I had been only 100 years old, only one year ago. I have become

unforgiving," Gravis said, "but I

the ore mountain. This was a byproduct of the Virtualization Array, and it belonged to Gravis. One could say it was a nice

This sounded like an enormous number, but one shouldn't forget that Gravis paid 50 million Immortal Stones. On top of that, Gravis had seen the

Virtualization Array and inspected the city to find Yersi. He wanted to

people in his "living room". One of them was Jake, while the other one was a cute

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

teleported over to them and

reached the floor, and for some reason, Gravis got reminded of a scorpion's tail when he looked at it. Her hair kind of looked…

into Gravis' embrace. "I'm a

he put his hand on her head and ruffled

have actually never seen mother. Back then, I was very deep in the philosophy of beasts and didn't care about meeting

thought you would have seen her at least once," he said as he broke the

towards the ground and shook her head. "No,

want to see

silent. He didn't want to interrupt the reunion.

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

met Azure, in the middle of the