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!"

the Laws that you lost track of time, Gravis. It happens. Just rent it again," his father

couldn't wrap his head around it, but everything pointed at that 500 years

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 like time has been stolen from

these occasions will happen more frequently in the future.

Array only controlled the metal essence,

Ferris. "Back then, Ferris had been around 3,000 years old. He felt absolutely ancient to me.

bitterly. "Yet, look at me now. If I add everything together, I'm already around 3,650 years old. I'm even older than

is unforgiving," Gravis said, "but I already

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

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

to find Yersi. He wanted to talk to his

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

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

teleported over to them and looked

hair. Her hair actually reached the floor, and for some reason, Gravis got

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

hand on her head and ruffled her hair. "You look

deep in the philosophy of beasts and didn't care about meeting her.

seen her at least once," he said as he broke

towards the ground and shook her

want to see her?"

Jake remained silent. He

adapted his Will-Aura and Spirit to emulate Azure's aura.

to show Yersi the time he first met Azure,