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 how Gravis dealt with

Then, they waited.

SHING!

the underground cave from the

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

looked over and furrowed

This was Mortis.

also looked at

lingered much longer

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

He knew the composition of his own body and the composition of Gravis' body, but not the

many different Immortal beasts and experimented on

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

ants they stepped on

these ants also living

but

beneath one to be considered

for Mortis in

in comparison to Mortis,

feeling

envious of Gravis. That

reason why he was

these feelings of love since he saw them as a

Mortis saw Stella, these loving feelings still appeared

that, Mortis drowned out these

the anger and

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

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

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

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

Mortis felt when he saw Liam and

and Liam

of them

about Mortis' origins, which made them believe that he would be similar to Gravis, even when Gravis assured them that Mortis wasn't really similar to

as they saw Mortis,

he was looking at

a meeting between strangers,

meeting

became wary

How did Stella feel?

knew the level three

in

Law of Empathy reached

knew the level five

Law of Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden

felt a complex mix of love, resentment, hatred,

there was a slight feeling of

about it, but Stella felt

teenager that went through a ton of

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

didn't have the luxury to

by anger and hate. This core of