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!"

entranced with the Laws that you lost track of time, Gravis. It happens. Just rent it again," his father said in

but everything pointed at that 500 years

This feels similar

more frequently in

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

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

3,650 years old. I'm even older than Ferris back then. It felt like I had been only 100 years old, only

unforgiving," Gravis said,

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

Gravis paid 50 million Immortal Stones. On top of that, Gravis had seen the clerk putting

to find Yersi.

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

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

them and looked with wonder

long, black hair. Her hair actually reached the floor, and for some reason, Gravis got reminded of

in surprise as she jumped into Gravis' embrace.

his hand on her head and ruffled her hair.

"I have actually never seen mother. Back then, I was very deep in the philosophy of beasts and didn't care

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

the ground and shook her

to see her?" Gravis

silent. He

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

to show Yersi the time he first met Azure, in the