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

head around it, but everything pointed

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

while, Gravis sighed. "I guess these occasions will happen more frequently in the future.

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

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 Ferris back then. It felt like I had

said, "but I already

sighed again and pocketed the ore mountain. This was a byproduct of the Virtualization Array, and

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

find Yersi. He wanted to talk to his

of them was Jake, while the other one was a cute girl, seemingly

"Already?" Gravis asked himself.

them and looked with

floor, and for some reason, Gravis got reminded of a scorpion's tail when

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

and ruffled her hair. "You look beautiful. Honestly, if you had a different hair color, you would look

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

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

the ground and shook

to

He didn't want to

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

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