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 it again," his father said in

but everything

over just like that," Gravis said 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

sighed. "I guess these occasions will happen more frequently in the future. Understanding the

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

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

3,650 years old. I'm even older than Ferris

unforgiving," Gravis said, "but

more minutes, just thinking. Then, he sighed again and pocketed the ore mountain. This was a byproduct of

the ore's worth and concluded that 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 cost

inspected the city to find Yersi. He wanted to

Jake, while the other one was a cute girl, seemingly 20 years old. The girl

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

teleported over to them and looked with

and for some reason, Gravis got reminded

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

he put his hand on her head and ruffled her hair. "You look beautiful.

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

would have seen her at least once," he said

shook her head. "No,

you want to see

He didn't

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

he first met Azure, in the middle of the competition for