Lightning Is the Only Way

Stella and Liam inspected the building with curious eyes.

"It looks professional," Stella said.

Liam nodded. When Gravis was around, he didn't talk much.

Gravis smiled widely. "10% of every trade goes to you," he says.

Liam frowned. "Only 10%?" he asked.

"We will be dealing with big customers," Gravis said as he smiled at Liam. "Every trade will go into the tens of millions Immortal Stones. Just by talking a little bit, you can earn a couple million Immortal Stones, and that's it. You don't even need to do anything else. We don't even need multiple people on one side. You can simply decide amongst yourself who is going to deal with the customers while the other one does whatever they want."

Liam still wasn't happy. "But you will be earning much more," he said.

Gravis rolled his eyes. "You are only officially an employee. You are still basically my brother-in-law, so I will obviously give you money when you need it."

Liam looked at Stella and saw that she didn't even react when Gravis called Liam brother-in-law.

This meant that Stella was all-in on Gravis, and Liam had to sigh.

"Fine," he said.

"Oh, wait a sec," Gravis said.

SHING!

Gravis suddenly took out Arc's emblem and broke it, vanishing instantly.

Stella and Liam furrowed their brows.

SHING!

However, Gravis returned in just a couple of seconds.

"Mortis just arrived in Arc's clearing, and I had to give him my Life Ring so that he could get your last colleague, Siral," Gravis said.

Stella and Liam had heard about Mortis and Siral, but they hadn't met them yet.

They didn't really care about Siral since he was basically just Gravis' slave, but they wanted to meet Mortis.

However, it would take a while for Mortis to arrive with Siral, so Gravis decided to begin teaching Stella and Liam about how to conduct business.

Liam and Stella knew some of the concepts, but they had never truly traded with anyone. Why would they? The Nine Elements Sect had always given them everything they needed.

Gravis showed them around and quickly transmitted a ton of concepts about how to conduct business into their minds.

The Spirits of Immortal Kings were supremely powerful, and learning something like this was easy for them.

How could learning a bit about trade compare to high-level Laws?

Business was complex to mortals but easy to Immortals.

It only took two hours until Liam and Stella basically knew everything there was to know about running a business and dealing with customers.

"I will do the initial trade," Gravis said. "After all, we need to use my remaining hundred million Immortal Stones well to give the Gravitas a good start."

Liam huffed. Did Gravis think that Liam couldn't deal with customers?

mind. She wanted to see how Gravis dealt with

Then, they waited.

SHING!

day later, someone teleported into the underground cave from the beast

a black demon with white scales, making it pure white,

and Stella looked over and

This was Mortis.

looked at

lingered much

Stella. This had only become worse after Gravis was constantly sending these warm, lovey-dovey feelings to him. It was already hard enough

the past 2,000 years, Mortis had been fully focused on comprehending the Major Body Composition Laws. He knew the composition of his own body and the composition of Gravis' body, but not the composition of a normal

had captured many different Immortal beasts and

on weaker beings. Yes, Mortis was a very fairness-oriented individual, but one first had to

ants they

weren't these ants also living

but no one

far beneath one to be considered as

same was true for Mortis in regards to anything multiple levels

good person, but in comparison to Mortis, he was

Mortis looked at Stella, a feeling of rage appeared

envious of Gravis. That was not why

why he was constantly assaulted by these distracting feelings

didn't want to feel these feelings of love since he saw them as a weakness. Emotions were a weakness and had

Mortis saw Stella, these loving feelings

drowned out these loving feelings with

felt the anger and hate and didn't

kept himself emotionless while Gravis had his 3,500 years of fun, and Gravis wanted

years of being assaulted by Gravis' feelings, Gravis could at least deal with a couple of minutes

to, but

Gravis might say something wrong. So, he decided

felt when he saw Liam and

how did Stella and Liam feel when they saw

of them thought at the same

made them believe that he would be similar to Gravis, even when Gravis assured them that Mortis wasn't really similar to

they saw Mortis,

was looking at a furious beast

meeting

meeting between

immediately became wary of

How did Stella feel?

level

in

Empathy reached

the level five Law

of Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden

felt a complex mix of love, resentment, hatred,

was a slight feeling of pain in

even know about it, but Stella felt

seemed like an angry teenager that went through a ton of horrible situations, becoming bitter and hate-filled in

could empathize with Mortis, Mortis was still an angry, cold-blooded, and hate-filled

luxury

everything is drowned out by anger and hate. This core of good has been