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?

wanted to see how Gravis dealt

Then, they waited.

SHING!

teleported into the underground cave from the beast

with white scales, making it pure white,

over and

This was Mortis.

also looked at Liam

gaze lingered much

Gravis as a blueprint, which meant that he also held some attraction towards Stella. This had only become worse after Gravis was constantly sending these warm, lovey-dovey feelings to him. It was already hard enough to

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

Mortis had captured many different Immortal beasts and

have any reservations when it came to experimenting on weaker beings. Yes, Mortis was a very fairness-oriented individual, but one first had to be seen as an actual being in his

the ants they stepped on while walking through a

weren't these ants also

they were, but no one

one

for Mortis in regards to

in comparison

at Stella, a feeling of rage appeared in his

Gravis. That

reason why he

saw them as a weakness. Emotions were a weakness and

saw Stella, these loving feelings still appeared

that, Mortis drowned out these loving

and hate and didn't

Gravis had his 3,500 years of fun,

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

at the side. He didn't want to, but he felt

say something wrong. So, he decided to remain silent for

Mortis felt when he

Stella and Liam feel when they

of

about Mortis' origins, which made them believe that he would be similar

as soon as they saw Mortis, they

felt like he was looking at a furious beast on

a meeting between strangers, acquaintances, or

meeting between enemies

immediately became wary

How did Stella feel?

knew the level three Law of

least, in the

Law of Empathy reached the

level five

of Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden

of love,

feeling of pain in

himself didn't even know about it, but

like an angry teenager that went through a

Mortis, Mortis was still an angry, cold-blooded, and

didn't have the luxury

of good inside him, but everything is drowned out by anger and hate. This core of good has been completely lost, and I don't think it can ever be