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 dealt with

Then, they waited.

SHING!

day later, someone teleported into the underground cave from the

was a black demon with white scales, making it pure white, which was a bit contradictory to its

and Stella looked over

This was Mortis.

also looked at Liam and

much longer

attraction towards Stella. This had only become worse after Gravis was constantly sending these warm, lovey-dovey feelings to him. It was already hard

on comprehending the Major Body Composition Laws. He knew the composition of his own body and the composition of Gravis' body, but not the composition of a normal

had captured many different Immortal

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

they stepped on while walking

weren't these ants also living

but no

were too far beneath one

same was true for Mortis in

but in comparison to Mortis,

a feeling of

or envious of Gravis. That was

because Stella was the reason why he was

feel these feelings of love since he saw them

Mortis saw Stella, these loving feelings still appeared in

Mortis drowned out these loving feelings with anger and

and hate and didn't resist

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

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

want to, but he felt incredible anger and hatred right

So, he decided to remain silent for

when he

Stella and Liam feel when they

is not Gravis,' both of them thought at the

be similar to Gravis, even when Gravis assured

soon as they saw Mortis, they

Liam felt like he was looking at a furious beast on

didn't feel like a meeting between

like a meeting between enemies on a

immediately became wary of

How did Stella feel?

knew the level three

in

Gravis, her Law of Empathy

now knew the level five Law

Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden conflict of emotions

love, resentment, hatred, anger,

slight feeling

about it, but Stella felt

through a ton of horrible situations, becoming bitter

empathize with Mortis, Mortis was

have the luxury to

good inside him, but everything is drowned out by anger and hate. This core of good has been completely lost,