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

Then, they waited.

SHING!

into the underground cave from the beast

with white scales, making it pure white, which was

Stella looked over and furrowed

This was Mortis.

at Liam and

lingered much longer on

with 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

He knew the composition of his own body and the composition of

different Immortal beasts

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

about the ants they stepped on while walking through a

ants also

were, but no one

beneath one to

true for Mortis in

but in comparison to

Mortis looked at Stella, a feeling of rage

wasn't jealous or envious of Gravis.

Stella was the reason why he was

saw them as a weakness. Emotions were a weakness and had to be

Mortis saw Stella, these loving feelings still appeared in his

these loving feelings with anger

the anger and hate

himself emotionless while Gravis had his 3,500 years of

by Gravis' feelings, Gravis could at least deal with a

himself at the side. He didn't want to, but he felt incredible anger and

So, he decided to remain

felt when he saw Liam and

did Stella and Liam feel when they saw

Gravis,' both of them thought at the same

them believe that he would be similar to Gravis, even

as soon as they saw Mortis,

looking at

meeting

meeting between enemies on

immediately became wary

How did Stella feel?

the level three Law of

in

of Empathy reached the power

now knew the level five Law

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

love, resentment, hatred,

slight feeling of pain

didn't even know about it, but Stella

Stella's mind, Mortis seemed like an angry teenager that went through

Stella could empathize with Mortis, Mortis was

have the luxury

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