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

Then, they waited.

SHING!

day later, someone teleported into the

black demon with white scales, making it pure

Stella looked over and furrowed their

This was Mortis.

looked at Liam and

much

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

been fully focused on comprehending the Major Body Composition Laws. He knew the composition of his own body and the composition of Gravis'

that, Mortis had captured many different

came to experimenting on weaker beings. Yes, Mortis was a very fairness-oriented individual, but one first had to be seen as an actual being in his eyes

the ants they stepped on while walking through a

these ants also

but no

one to be considered

in regards to anything multiple

a good person, but in comparison to

looked at Stella, a feeling of rage

Gravis. That was

Stella was the reason why he

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

these loving feelings still appeared in his

these loving feelings with anger

felt the anger and hate and

his 3,500 years of fun, and Gravis wanted to repay Mortis

3,500 years of being assaulted by Gravis' feelings, Gravis

want to, but

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

when he saw Liam

did Stella and Liam feel

both of them thought at

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

saw Mortis, they didn't feel anything

now, Liam felt like he was looking at a furious beast on

feel like a meeting between strangers,

a meeting between

immediately became wary

How did Stella feel?

level three Law of

in

uniting with Gravis, her Law of Empathy reached the power of a

level five Law of

Law of Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden conflict of emotions

felt a complex mix of love, resentment, hatred, anger,

slight feeling of pain in Mortis'

even know about

Mortis seemed like an angry teenager that went through a ton of horrible situations, becoming bitter

Mortis, Mortis was still an angry, cold-blooded,

didn't have the luxury to feel bad for

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