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?

wanted to see how Gravis dealt with

Then, they waited.

SHING!

into the underground

a black demon with white scales, making it pure white, which

over

This was Mortis.

at

lingered much

worse after Gravis was constantly sending these warm, lovey-dovey feelings

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

Mortis had captured many different Immortal beasts and experimented

weaker beings. Yes, Mortis was a very fairness-oriented

about the ants they stepped on

weren't these ants also

but

beneath one to

in regards to

not a good person, but in comparison to

at Stella, a feeling of rage appeared in his

envious of Gravis. That was

because Stella was the reason why

feel these feelings of love since he saw them as a

saw Stella, these loving feelings still appeared

of that, Mortis drowned out these loving feelings with anger and

the anger and hate and

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

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

didn't want to, but he felt

So, he decided to remain silent for a

how Mortis felt when he

did Stella and Liam feel when they saw

of them

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

as they saw Mortis, they didn't

he was looking at a

a meeting

like a meeting between enemies

became wary

How did Stella feel?

level three Law

in

Empathy

level five

to

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

a slight feeling of pain in Mortis'

even know about it, but Stella

Stella's mind, Mortis seemed like an angry teenager that went through a ton of horrible situations, becoming bitter and

could empathize with Mortis, Mortis was still an

didn't have the luxury to feel bad for

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