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

couldn't wrap his head around it, but

time has passed, and I didn't even notice. This feels similar to when Heaven told me that I had stayed 200

guess these occasions will happen more frequently

mountain was still there since the Virtualization Array only controlled the

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 in

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

said, "but I already know

This was a byproduct of the Virtualization Array, and it belonged to Gravis. One could say it

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

city to find Yersi. He

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

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

to them and looked with wonder at

for some reason, Gravis got reminded of

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

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

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 think I regret not

would have seen her at least once," he said as he broke the

the ground and shook her head. "No, I didn't,"

to see her?"

hesitated a little bit as Jake remained silent. He didn't want to interrupt the reunion. Then,

Then, he adapted his Will-Aura and Spirit to

decided to show Yersi the time he first met Azure, in the