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!

later, someone teleported into the underground cave from the

a black demon with white scales, making it pure

and Stella looked over and

This was Mortis.

also looked at Liam and

lingered much

with Gravis as a blueprint, which meant that he also held some attraction towards Stella. This had only become worse after Gravis was constantly sending these warm, lovey-dovey feelings to him. It was already hard

years, Mortis had been fully focused on comprehending the Major Body Composition Laws. He knew the

of that, Mortis had captured many different Immortal beasts and

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

these ants

were, but

were too far beneath one to be considered as living

same was true for Mortis in regards

not a good person, but in comparison

Mortis looked at Stella, a feeling of rage appeared in

wasn't jealous or envious of Gravis. That was not why he became

angry because Stella was the reason why he was constantly assaulted by these distracting

since he saw them as a

Mortis saw Stella, these loving feelings still appeared

drowned out these loving feelings with anger

the anger and hate

emotionless while Gravis had his 3,500 years of fun,

Gravis' feelings, Gravis

to, but he felt incredible

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

when he saw Liam and

and Liam feel

both of

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

as soon as they saw Mortis, they didn't feel anything

was looking at a furious beast on the

feel like a meeting between strangers,

like a meeting

became wary

How did Stella feel?

level

in the

her Law of Empathy reached the power of a level five

now knew the level five

Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden conflict of

felt a complex mix of love, resentment, hatred,

slight feeling of pain in

himself didn't even know about it,

mind, Mortis seemed like an angry teenager that went through a ton of horrible situations, becoming bitter and hate-filled in the

empathize with Mortis, Mortis was still an

have the luxury

out by anger and hate. This core of good has been completely lost, and I don't think it can