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!"

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

but everything pointed at that 500 years

"So much time has passed, and I didn't even notice. This feels similar to when Heaven told me that I had

happen more frequently in

mountain was still there since the Virtualization Array only controlled the metal essence,

been around 3,000 years old. He felt absolutely ancient to me. 3,000 years was such an incredibly long time. I also thought about how

"Yet, look at me now. If I add everything together, I'm already around 3,650 years old. I'm even older than Ferris back then. It felt like I had been only 100 years old,

said, "but I already know

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

estimated the ore's worth and concluded that this was around three million Immortal Stones worth of ore. This sounded like an enormous number, but one shouldn't forget that Gravis paid 50 million Immortal Stones. On top of

the city to find Yersi. He wanted to talk to his daughter after

in his "living room". One of them was Jake, while the other one was a cute girl, seemingly 20 years old. The

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

them and looked with wonder

reached the floor, and for some reason, Gravis got reminded of a scorpion's

surprise as she jumped into Gravis' embrace. "I'm a human now!"

of shock and a smile. Then he put his hand on her head and ruffled her hair. "You look beautiful. Honestly, if you had a different hair color, you would look very similar to

the philosophy of beasts

never saw her?" Gravis asked in surprise. "I thought you would have seen her at least once," he said as he broke

towards the ground and shook her head.

you want to see her?"

He didn't

of Azure. Then, he adapted his Will-Aura and Spirit to emulate Azure's

first met Azure, in