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?

see how Gravis dealt

Then, they waited.

SHING!

the

white scales, making it pure white,

looked over and furrowed their

This was Mortis.

also looked at Liam

lingered much

made with 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,

the composition of his own body and the composition of Gravis' body, but not the composition of a normal

that, Mortis had captured many different Immortal beasts and

fairness-oriented individual, but one first had to be seen as an actual being in his eyes to

care about the ants they stepped on while walking

ants also

but no

far beneath one to be considered

Mortis in regards to

was not a good person, but in

Stella, a feeling of rage appeared

Gravis. That was not why he

why he was

to feel these feelings of love since he saw them as a

these loving feelings still

drowned out these loving

the anger and

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

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

He didn't want to, but he felt incredible

that state, Gravis might say something wrong. So, he decided

felt when he saw Liam

did Stella and Liam feel

of them thought

be similar to Gravis, even when Gravis assured them that Mortis wasn't really

soon as they saw Mortis, they didn't

like he was looking at a

feel like a meeting between strangers,

felt like a meeting between enemies on

became wary

How did Stella feel?

the level

least, in the

with Gravis, her Law of Empathy reached the power

the level

allowed Stella to feel the hidden conflict

of love,

slight feeling of pain in

about it, but Stella felt

Stella's mind, Mortis seemed like an angry teenager that went through a ton

Stella could empathize with Mortis, Mortis was

the luxury

but everything is drowned out by anger and hate.