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.

it, but everything pointed at that 500

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

these occasions will happen more

since the Virtualization Array only controlled the metal essence, which created different kinds of

felt absolutely ancient to me. 3,000 years was such an

"Yet, look at me now. If I add everything together, I'm already around 3,650 years old. I'm even older than

Gravis said, "but

the ore mountain. This was a byproduct of the Virtualization Array, and

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

inspected the city to find Yersi. He wanted to talk

in surprise when he found two people in his "living room". One of them was Jake, while the other one was a cute

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

them and looked with wonder at

hair actually reached the floor, and for some reason, Gravis got reminded of a scorpion's tail when he looked

Yersi shouted in surprise as she jumped into Gravis' embrace.

with a bit 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

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

have seen her at least once," he said as he broke the embrace

shook her

you want to see her?" Gravis

remained silent. He didn't want to interrupt the reunion. Then,

he adapted his Will-Aura and Spirit

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