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?

didn't mind. She wanted to see how Gravis dealt

Then, they waited.

SHING!

day later, someone teleported into the underground

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

Stella looked over and

This was Mortis.

looked at Liam and

lingered much

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.

the composition

Mortis had captured many different Immortal beasts and experimented on

didn't have any reservations when it came to experimenting on weaker beings. Yes, Mortis was a very fairness-oriented individual, but one first had

care about the ants they stepped

these ants

were, but no

far beneath one to be considered

in regards to anything multiple levels below

a good person, but in

at Stella, a feeling

of Gravis.

the reason why he was constantly assaulted by these distracting feelings

feel these feelings of love since he saw them as a weakness. Emotions were a weakness and had to

when Mortis saw Stella, these loving feelings still

Mortis drowned out these loving feelings

also felt the anger and hate and didn't

years of fun,

with 3,500 years of being assaulted by Gravis' feelings, Gravis could at least

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

say something wrong. So, he decided to remain

how Mortis felt when

Stella and Liam

both of them thought at

he would be similar to Gravis, even when Gravis assured them that Mortis

saw Mortis, they didn't feel anything

now, Liam felt like he was looking at

feel like a meeting between

meeting

immediately became wary of

How did Stella feel?

level three Law of

least, in the

her Law of Empathy reached the power of a

level five Law

Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden conflict

love, resentment, hatred, anger,

slight feeling

didn't even know about it, but Stella felt

went through a ton of horrible situations, becoming bitter and hate-filled

with Mortis, Mortis was still

have the luxury to

a core of good inside him, but everything is drowned out by anger and hate. This