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 a

Then, they waited.

SHING!

day later, someone teleported into the underground cave

scales, making it pure white,

and Stella looked over and furrowed their

This was Mortis.

also looked at Liam

gaze lingered much longer

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.

been fully focused 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

had captured many different Immortal beasts and experimented on

a very fairness-oriented individual, but one first had to be seen as

about the ants they stepped on

weren't these ants

they were, but

were too far beneath one to be

true for Mortis in

a good person, but in comparison to Mortis, he was a

at Stella, a feeling

of Gravis. That was

angry because Stella was the reason why he

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

Stella, these loving feelings still appeared

of that, Mortis drowned out these loving

also felt the anger and hate and didn't

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

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

want to, but he felt incredible

state, Gravis might say something wrong. So,

Mortis felt when he saw

Liam feel when

not Gravis,' both of them thought at

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

saw Mortis, they didn't

looking at

feel like a meeting between strangers, acquaintances,

like a meeting between enemies on a

became wary

How did Stella feel?

knew the level three Law

in

Gravis, her Law of Empathy reached

the level five Law

to feel the hidden conflict of emotions in

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

a slight feeling of pain in Mortis'

himself didn't even know about it,

mind, Mortis seemed like an angry teenager that went through

empathize with Mortis, Mortis

luxury

out by anger and hate.