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

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

he grimaced. "So much time has passed, and I didn't even notice. This feels similar to when Heaven told me that I

while, Gravis sighed. "I guess these occasions will happen more

still there since the Virtualization Array only controlled the metal essence, which created different kinds

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

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

unforgiving," Gravis said, "but I already

This was a byproduct of the Virtualization Array, and it

Stones. On top of that, Gravis had seen the clerk putting around 25 God Stones into the Virtualization Array. So, in total, this ore

the Virtualization Array and inspected the city to find Yersi. He wanted to talk to

his "living room". One of them was Jake, while the other one was a cute girl, seemingly

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

them and

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

Gravis' embrace. "I'm a

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

seen mother. Back then, I was very deep in the philosophy

asked in surprise. "I thought you would have seen her at least once," he said as he broke the embrace to look into

towards the ground and shook her head. "No,

to see

hesitated a little bit as Jake remained silent. He

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

met Azure, in the middle of the competition for her