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

Then, they waited.

SHING!

the underground cave from the beast

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

and Stella looked over and furrowed

This was Mortis.

also looked at

lingered much

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

the

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 seen as an

care about the ants they stepped on while walking through a

weren't these ants also living

but

far beneath one

Mortis in regards to anything multiple levels

but in comparison to

at Stella, a feeling of rage appeared in his

envious of Gravis. That was not

became angry because Stella was the reason why he was constantly

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

loving feelings still appeared

out these loving

also felt the anger and hate and didn't resist

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

Gravis' feelings, Gravis could at least deal with

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

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

when

did Stella and Liam

both of them

he would be similar to Gravis, even when

they saw Mortis, they didn't feel anything

was looking at

feel like a meeting between strangers,

meeting between

became wary of

How did Stella feel?

knew the level three Law of

least, in

Empathy reached the power

now knew the level

of Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden

of love, resentment, hatred, anger, pride, and even

slight feeling of pain in Mortis'

know about it, but

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

though Stella could empathize with Mortis, Mortis was

the luxury to

drowned out by anger and hate. This core of good has been