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!"

you lost track of time, Gravis. It happens. Just rent it again," his father said in a bored

around it, but everything pointed at that 500 years had

and I didn't even notice. This feels similar to when Heaven told me that I had stayed 200 years

occasions will happen more frequently in

The mountain was still there since the Virtualization Array only controlled the metal essence, which created different

"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 about

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, only one year ago. I have

Gravis said, "but

Then, he sighed again and pocketed the ore mountain. This was

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 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

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

eyes widened in surprise when he found two people in his "living room". One of them was Jake, while the other one was a cute girl, seemingly 20 years old. The girl was also an Early Minor

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

over to them and looked with wonder at

reason, Gravis got reminded of

jumped into Gravis'

hand on her head and ruffled her hair. "You look beautiful. Honestly, if you had a different hair

"I have actually never seen mother. Back then, I was very deep in the philosophy of beasts and

thought you would have seen her at

looked towards the ground and shook her head. "No, I didn't,"

you want to see

as Jake remained silent. He

his Will-Aura and Spirit to emulate Azure's aura.

Yersi the time he first met Azure, in the middle of the competition