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

Then, they waited.

SHING!

someone teleported into the underground cave

it pure

over

This was Mortis.

looked at Liam and

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. It was

years, Mortis had been fully focused on comprehending the Major Body Composition Laws. He knew the composition of his own body and the composition

of that, Mortis had captured many different Immortal beasts and experimented on

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

care about the ants they stepped on while walking

ants

but

one to be

for Mortis in

not a good person, but in

looked at Stella, a feeling of

of Gravis. That was not

reason why he was constantly assaulted by these distracting feelings from

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

saw Stella, these loving feelings still

these loving

also felt the anger and hate and didn't

had kept himself emotionless while Gravis had his 3,500 years of fun, and Gravis wanted to repay Mortis

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

didn't want to, but

something wrong. So, he decided to remain

how Mortis felt when he saw Liam and

Liam feel when

both of

knew about Mortis' origins, which made them believe that he would be similar to Gravis, even when

as soon as they saw Mortis, they didn't feel anything

looking at a furious

a meeting between strangers,

felt like a meeting between

became wary

How did Stella feel?

knew the level three

in

with Gravis, her Law of Empathy reached the power of

the level five Law of

Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden conflict

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

there was a slight feeling

didn't even know about it, but

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

though Stella could empathize with Mortis, Mortis was still an angry, cold-blooded, and

have the luxury to feel

anger and hate. This core of good has been completely lost, and