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?

didn't mind. She wanted to see how Gravis

Then, they waited.

SHING!

day later, someone teleported into the

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

Stella looked over

This was Mortis.

at Liam

lingered much

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 comprehend

Composition Laws. He knew the composition of his own body and the composition

that, Mortis had captured many different Immortal beasts and experimented

was a very fairness-oriented

care about the ants they stepped on

weren't these ants also

were, but

were too far beneath one to be considered as

for Mortis in regards to anything multiple levels

not a good person, but in comparison to Mortis, he was

at Stella, a feeling of rage appeared in

envious of Gravis. That was not why

the reason why he was

love since he saw them as

Mortis saw Stella, these loving

out these loving feelings with anger

felt the anger and hate

had his 3,500 years of fun, and Gravis

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

He didn't want to, but he

wrong. So, he decided to remain

when he

Stella and Liam feel

is not Gravis,' both of them thought at the

about Mortis' origins, which made them believe that he would be similar

saw Mortis, they

was looking

like a meeting between strangers, acquaintances,

felt like a meeting between enemies

immediately became

How did Stella feel?

level three

in the

of Empathy

knew the level

the Law of Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden conflict

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

slight feeling

even know about it,

Stella's mind, Mortis seemed like an angry teenager that went through a ton of horrible situations, becoming bitter and

even though Stella could empathize with Mortis, Mortis

didn't have the luxury to feel bad for

and hate. This core of good has