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

Then, they waited.

SHING!

teleported into the

demon with white scales, making it pure white, which was a bit

and Stella looked over and furrowed

This was Mortis.

also looked at Liam and

lingered much longer on

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 enough to

past 2,000 years, Mortis had been fully focused on comprehending the Major Body Composition Laws. He knew the composition

captured many different Immortal beasts and experimented on

fairness-oriented individual, but one first had to be seen as an actual

ants they stepped on while walking through a

these ants

were, but no one

one to be considered

Mortis in regards to anything multiple levels

person, but in comparison to

feeling of

jealous or envious of Gravis. That was not

Stella was the reason why he was

he saw them

Mortis saw Stella, these loving feelings still appeared in

that, Mortis drowned out these loving feelings with

and hate and didn't resist

while Gravis had his 3,500 years

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

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

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

how Mortis felt when he saw Liam and

and Liam

Gravis,' both of them thought at the

he would be similar to Gravis, even when Gravis assured them that Mortis wasn't

they saw Mortis, they didn't feel

was looking at a furious

feel like a meeting between strangers, acquaintances, or

felt like a meeting between enemies

became

How did Stella feel?

knew the level three Law of

in

uniting with Gravis, her Law of Empathy reached the power of a level five

level five Law

the Law of Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden conflict of emotions

love, resentment,

slight feeling of pain in

about it, but Stella

that went through a

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

luxury to feel bad for

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