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!"

Laws that you lost track of time, Gravis. It happens. Just rent

head around it, but everything pointed at that 500

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

happen more frequently in the future. Understanding the Laws will

the mountain. The mountain was still there since the Virtualization Array only controlled the metal essence, which created different kinds of ore

back to the time he met Ferris. "Back then, Ferris had been around 3,000 years old. He felt absolutely ancient to me.

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

is unforgiving," Gravis said, "but I

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

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

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

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 was also an Early Minor

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

them and looked with wonder at

some reason, Gravis got reminded of a

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

hand on her head and ruffled her hair. "You look beautiful. Honestly, if

she asked uncertainly. "I have actually never seen mother. Back then, I was very deep in the philosophy of beasts and didn't care

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

shook her head. "No,

to

as Jake remained silent. He didn't want to

he adapted his Will-Aura and Spirit

Yersi the time he first met Azure, in