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!"

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

head around it, but everything pointed

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

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

Array only controlled the metal essence, which created different kinds

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

old. I'm even older than Ferris back

said, "but I already

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

million Immortal Stones 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,

city to find Yersi. He wanted to talk to his daughter after such

widened in surprise when he found two people in his "living room". One of them was Jake, while the other one was a cute girl, seemingly 20 years old. The

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

and looked with wonder at

the floor, and for some reason, Gravis got reminded of a scorpion's tail

as she jumped into Gravis' embrace.

bit of shock and a smile. Then he put his hand on her head and ruffled her hair. "You look beautiful. Honestly,

mother. Back then, I was very deep in the philosophy of beasts and didn't care about

Gravis asked in surprise. "I thought you would have seen her at

ground and shook her head. "No, I

want to see

silent. He didn't want to interrupt

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

met Azure, in the middle of the