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!"

of time, Gravis. It happens. Just rent it again,"

couldn't wrap his head around it, but everything pointed at that 500 years

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

more frequently in the future. Understanding the Laws will take

since the Virtualization Array

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

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

said, "but

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

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 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

pocketed the Virtualization Array and inspected the city to find Yersi. He wanted to talk to his daughter after such

Jake, while the other one was a cute girl, seemingly 20 years old. The girl was also an Early Minor Circulation

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

over to them and looked with wonder

and for some reason,

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

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

actually never seen mother. Back then, I was very deep in the philosophy of beasts and didn't care about meeting her. Now that I think about it, I

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

the ground and shook

to see her?" Gravis

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

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

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