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. Just rent it again," his

head around it, but everything pointed

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

happen more frequently in the

there since the Virtualization Array only controlled the metal essence, which created different kinds of ore on its

He felt absolutely ancient to me. 3,000 years

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

said, "but I already know

ore mountain. This was a byproduct of the Virtualization Array, and it belonged to Gravis. One could say

worth of 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 Array. So, in total, this ore was not even nearly enough to make up for the cost of producing

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

was Jake, while the other one was a

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

them and looked with wonder at

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

surprise as she jumped into Gravis' embrace. "I'm a

put his hand on her head and ruffled her hair. "You look beautiful. Honestly, if you had a different hair color, you would look

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

would have seen her at

ground and shook her head. "No, I didn't,"

to see

remained silent. He didn't want to interrupt the

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

he first met Azure, in the middle of the competition