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!"

Gravis. It happens. Just rent it again," his father said in

his head around it, but everything

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

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

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

3,000 years old. He felt absolutely ancient to me. 3,000 years was such an incredibly long time. I also thought about

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 been only 100 years old, only

Gravis said, "but I already know

the ore mountain. This was a byproduct of the Virtualization Array, and it belonged to Gravis.

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

that, Gravis pocketed the Virtualization Array and inspected the city to find Yersi. He wanted to talk to his

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

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

and looked with wonder

long, black hair. Her hair actually reached the floor, and for some reason,

jumped into Gravis' embrace. "I'm a human

and ruffled her hair. "You look beautiful. Honestly,

I was very deep in the philosophy of beasts and didn't care about meeting her. Now that I think about

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

looked towards the ground and shook her head. "No,

to

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

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

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