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?

to see

Then, they waited.

SHING!

later, someone teleported into the

making it pure white, which was a

over and

This was Mortis.

at

lingered much

he also held some attraction towards Stella. This had only become worse after Gravis was constantly sending these warm, lovey-dovey feelings to him.

He knew the composition of his own body and

captured many different Immortal beasts and experimented

any reservations when it came to experimenting on weaker beings. Yes, Mortis was a very fairness-oriented individual, but one first had to be

ants they

weren't these ants

but

too far beneath one to be considered

same was true for Mortis in

a good person, but in comparison to Mortis, he was a

looked at Stella, a feeling of rage

envious of Gravis. That was not why he

was the reason why he was constantly assaulted by these distracting feelings from

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

these loving

Mortis drowned out these loving feelings

the anger and hate and

while Gravis had his 3,500 years of fun, and

by Gravis' feelings, Gravis could at

at the side. He didn't want to, but he felt incredible anger and hatred right

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

how Mortis felt when he saw Liam and

how did Stella and Liam feel when they

of them thought at the same

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

they saw Mortis, they didn't feel anything

now, Liam felt like he was looking at a

feel like a meeting between strangers,

meeting

immediately became wary of

How did Stella feel?

knew the level three

least, in the

uniting with Gravis, her Law of Empathy reached the power

the level five

Empathy allowed Stella to feel the

a complex mix of love, resentment, hatred, anger, pride, and

feeling

know about it, but Stella

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

empathize with Mortis, Mortis was still

the luxury to feel bad

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