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!"

time, Gravis. It happens. Just rent it again," his father said

still couldn't wrap his head around it, but everything

to himself as he grimaced. "So much time has passed, and I didn't even notice. This feels similar to when Heaven told me that I had stayed 200 years in the gap between worlds. It feels like time has been stolen

guess these occasions will happen more

Array only controlled the metal essence, which created different kinds of ore

been around 3,000 years old. He felt absolutely ancient to 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

Gravis 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

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

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

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 girl

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

over to them and

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

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

and a smile. Then he put his hand on her head and ruffled her hair. "You

halted. "Mother?" 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. Now that

surprise. "I thought you would have seen her at least once," he said as he broke

towards the ground and shook her head.

want to see

remained silent. He didn't want to interrupt

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

first met Azure, in the middle of the competition for her future