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

Then, they waited.

SHING!

the

scales, making it pure white, which

Stella looked over

This was Mortis.

looked at

much longer on

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

on comprehending the Major Body Composition Laws. He knew the composition of his own body and the

many different Immortal beasts and experimented

was a very fairness-oriented individual, but

didn't care about the ants they stepped on while

weren't these ants also

but no

beneath one to be considered as living

Mortis in regards

but in comparison to

Mortis looked at Stella, a feeling of rage

jealous or envious of Gravis. That was not why he

because Stella was the reason why he

since he saw them as a weakness. Emotions were a weakness and had to

saw Stella, these loving feelings still

out these loving

also felt the anger and hate and didn't resist

Gravis had his 3,500 years

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

to, but he

say something wrong. So, he decided to remain silent for a

Mortis felt when he saw Liam

Liam feel

not Gravis,' both of

Mortis' origins, which made them believe that he would be similar to Gravis, even when Gravis assured them

as they saw Mortis, they

like he was looking at

a meeting between strangers,

a meeting

immediately became wary of

How did Stella feel?

the level

in the

of Empathy

now knew the level five

to feel the hidden

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

there was a slight feeling of pain in

didn't even know about

through a ton of horrible situations, becoming bitter and hate-filled in the

even though Stella could empathize with Mortis, Mortis was still an angry, cold-blooded,

didn't have the luxury to feel bad

is a core of good inside him, but everything is drowned out by anger and hate. This core of good