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 dealt with a

Then, they waited.

SHING!

day later, someone teleported into the underground cave

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

looked over and furrowed their

This was Mortis.

also looked at Liam and

lingered much longer

as a blueprint, which meant that he also held some attraction towards Stella. This had only become worse after Gravis was constantly sending these warm,

the Major Body Composition Laws. He knew the composition of his own

captured many different Immortal beasts and experimented on

didn't 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

they

ants

were, but no one

beneath one to be considered as

same was true for Mortis in regards to

a good person, but in comparison

looked at Stella, a feeling of

envious of Gravis. That was not

the reason why he was constantly assaulted

feelings of love since he saw them as a weakness. Emotions were a weakness and had

Stella, these loving feelings still appeared

of that, Mortis drowned out these loving feelings with anger

and hate and didn't

his 3,500 years of

being assaulted by Gravis' feelings, Gravis could at least deal with a couple

at the side. He didn't want to, but he

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

felt when he saw

Stella and Liam

not Gravis,' both of them thought

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

soon as they saw Mortis,

now, Liam felt like he was looking at a furious beast on the

didn't feel like a meeting between strangers,

felt like a meeting between enemies on a

immediately became wary of

How did Stella feel?

the level

least, in

uniting with Gravis, her Law of Empathy reached

now knew the level

Empathy allowed Stella to feel the

love, resentment, hatred, anger, pride, and even

feeling of pain in

didn't even know about it,

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

Stella could empathize with Mortis, Mortis was still an

luxury to feel

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