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!"

lost track of time, Gravis. It happens.

it, but everything pointed at that

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

happen more frequently

Virtualization Array only controlled the metal essence,

felt absolutely ancient to me.

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

unforgiving," Gravis said, "but I

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

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

that, Gravis pocketed the Virtualization Array and inspected the city to find Yersi.

his "living room". One of them was Jake, while the other one was

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

them and looked

for some reason, Gravis got reminded of a scorpion's tail when he looked at it. Her hair kind of

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

that," Gravis said 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

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

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

shook her head.

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,

time he first met Azure,