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!"

the Laws that you lost track of time, Gravis. It happens. Just rent it

but everything pointed at that

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 years in the gap between worlds. It feels like time has been stolen

will happen more

mountain was still there since the Virtualization Array only controlled the

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

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

said, "but

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

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

the Virtualization Array and inspected the city to find Yersi. He wanted to talk to his daughter after such

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

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

and looked with wonder at

Her hair actually 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…

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

shock and a smile. Then he put his hand on her head and ruffled her

Back then, I was very deep in the philosophy of beasts and didn't care about meeting her. Now that I think about

surprise. "I thought you would have seen her at least once," he said as he broke the embrace to look

looked towards the ground and shook her head. "No,

want to see

little bit as Jake remained silent. He

used the element of light to create an image of Azure. Then, he adapted his Will-Aura

time he first met Azure, in the