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!"

that you lost track of time, Gravis. It happens. Just rent it again," his

around it, but everything pointed at that

himself as he grimaced. "So much time has passed, and I didn't even notice. This feels similar to when Heaven told me that I had stayed 200

will happen more frequently in

looked at the mountain. The mountain was still there since the Virtualization Array only controlled the metal essence, which created different kinds of ore

to the time he met Ferris. "Back then, Ferris had been around 3,000 years old. He felt absolutely ancient

together, I'm already around 3,650 years old. I'm even older than Ferris back then.

said, "but I

silent for a couple more minutes, just thinking. Then, he sighed again and pocketed the ore mountain. This was a

number, but one shouldn't forget that Gravis paid 50 million Immortal Stones. On top of that, Gravis

to find

while the other one was a cute girl, seemingly 20 years old. The girl was

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

them and looked with wonder at his

skin with extremely long, black hair. Her hair actually reached the floor, and for some reason,

into Gravis' embrace. "I'm a human now!"

head and

the philosophy of beasts and didn't care about meeting

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

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

to see

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

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

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