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

Then, they waited.

SHING!

teleported into the underground cave from

with white scales, making it pure white, which was a bit contradictory

over and furrowed their

This was Mortis.

at Liam and

lingered much

that he also held some attraction towards Stella. This had only become worse after Gravis was constantly sending these

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

captured many different Immortal beasts and

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

about the ants they stepped on while walking through a

ants also living

were, but

one to be considered as

for Mortis in

person, but in

at Stella, a feeling

of Gravis. That was not why he

was the reason why he was constantly assaulted

saw them as a weakness. Emotions were a weakness and had

these loving feelings still

of that, Mortis drowned out these loving

also felt the anger and

kept himself emotionless while Gravis had his 3,500 years

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

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

So, he decided

how Mortis felt when he

and Liam feel when they saw

both of them thought at

origins, which 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, they didn't feel anything

Liam felt like he was looking at a furious beast

like a meeting between strangers, acquaintances,

meeting

became wary

How did Stella feel?

level three Law

least, in the

Empathy reached the

the level five

Stella to feel the hidden conflict

mix of love, resentment, hatred, anger, pride,

slight feeling of pain in

himself didn't even know about it,

through a ton

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

have the luxury to feel bad for

drowned out by anger and hate. This core of good