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!"

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

wrap his head around it, but everything

This feels similar to when Heaven told me that I had stayed 200 years in the

will happen more

the Virtualization Array only controlled

Ferris. "Back then, 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

"Yet, look at me now. If I add everything together, I'm already around 3,650 years old. I'm even older than Ferris back then. It felt like I had been only 100 years old, only one year

is unforgiving," Gravis said, "but I already know

just thinking. Then, he sighed again and pocketed the ore mountain. This was

and concluded that this was around three 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 pocketed the Virtualization Array and inspected the city to find Yersi.

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 girl was also an

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

teleported over to them and looked with wonder at

had pale skin with extremely long, black hair. Her hair actually reached the floor, and for some reason, Gravis got reminded of a scorpion's tail when he looked at it. Her hair kind

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

head and ruffled her hair. "You look beautiful. Honestly, if you

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

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

the ground and shook her head.

you want to see her?" Gravis

bit as Jake remained silent. He didn't want to

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

time he first met Azure, in the middle of the