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?

She wanted to see how Gravis dealt

Then, they waited.

SHING!

day later, someone teleported into the underground cave from

it pure white, which was a bit contradictory to its

Stella looked over

This was Mortis.

looked at Liam

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

comprehending the Major Body Composition Laws. He knew the composition of

had captured many different Immortal

have any reservations when it came to experimenting on weaker beings. Yes, Mortis was a very fairness-oriented individual, but one first had to be seen as an actual being in his eyes to receive

ants they stepped on while walking

weren't these ants

they were, but no

one to be considered as living

in regards to

in comparison

at Stella, a feeling of rage appeared

jealous or envious of Gravis. That

Stella was the reason why he was constantly

he saw them as a weakness. Emotions were a weakness and

loving feelings still appeared

that, Mortis drowned out these loving feelings with

also felt the anger and hate and

his 3,500 years of fun, and

feelings, Gravis

to, but he

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

how Mortis felt when

and Liam feel when they

of them

be similar to Gravis, even

saw Mortis, they didn't

was looking at

didn't feel like a meeting between strangers, acquaintances,

like a meeting between enemies on

became

How did Stella feel?

level

least, in

Law of Empathy reached the power of

now knew the level

Empathy allowed Stella to feel

complex mix of love, resentment,

slight feeling of

know about

mind, Mortis seemed like an angry teenager that went through a

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

the luxury to feel bad for

inside him, but everything is drowned out by anger and hate. This core of good has been completely lost, and I don't think it can ever be