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!"

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

wrap his head around it, but everything pointed at

I didn't even notice. This feels similar to when Heaven told me that I had stayed 200 years in

happen more frequently in the future. Understanding the Laws

The mountain was still there since the Virtualization Array only controlled the metal essence,

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

years old. I'm even older than Ferris back then. It

Gravis said, "but

for a couple more minutes, just thinking. Then, he sighed again and pocketed the ore mountain. This was a byproduct of the Virtualization Array, and it

million Immortal Stones. On top of that,

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

One of them was Jake, while the other one was a cute girl, seemingly 20 years old. The girl was

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

over to them and

hair actually reached the floor, and for some reason, Gravis got reminded of a scorpion's tail when he looked at

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

put his hand on her head and ruffled her hair. "You

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

thought you would have seen her at least once," he said

shook her head. "No, I

you want to see her?"

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

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

Yersi the time he first met Azure, in the middle