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!"

time, Gravis. It happens. Just rent it again," his father said in a

couldn't wrap his head around it, but everything pointed at

years, over just like that," Gravis said to 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 years in the gap between worlds. It feels like

occasions will happen more frequently in the future. Understanding the Laws will

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

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 how much I could learn

If I add everything together, I'm already around 3,650 years old. I'm even older than Ferris back then. It felt

Gravis said, "but I already know

remained silent for a couple more minutes, just thinking. Then, he sighed again and pocketed the ore mountain. This was a byproduct of the Virtualization Array, and it belonged to Gravis. One could say it was a

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,

Gravis pocketed the Virtualization Array and inspected the city to find

was Jake, while the other one

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

over to them and looked with

hair. Her hair actually reached the floor, and for some reason,

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

smile. Then he put his hand on her head and

I was very deep in the philosophy of

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

ground and shook

you want to

remained silent. He didn't want to interrupt

image of Azure. Then, he adapted his Will-Aura and Spirit to emulate Azure's aura. Lastly, he used the wind to

Azure, in the middle of the competition for her future