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 Gravis dealt with

Then, they waited.

SHING!

later, someone teleported into the underground cave from

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

looked over and furrowed their

This was Mortis.

looked at

gaze lingered much longer on

made 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 warm, lovey-dovey

knew the composition of his

Mortis had captured many different

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

ants they stepped

weren't these ants

were, but no one

beneath one to be

true for Mortis in

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

looked at Stella, a feeling of rage

of Gravis. That was not

the reason why he was constantly assaulted by these distracting feelings

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

when Mortis saw Stella, these loving feelings

out these

also felt the anger and hate and didn't

his 3,500 years of

being assaulted by Gravis' feelings, Gravis

didn't want to, but he felt

something wrong. So, he decided to remain silent

Mortis felt when he saw

how did Stella and Liam

not Gravis,' both of

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

saw

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

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

meeting between enemies on a

immediately became wary of

How did Stella feel?

knew the level three Law of

least, in the

Empathy reached the power of a level five

now knew the level five

Law of Empathy allowed Stella to feel the hidden conflict

mix of love,

was a slight feeling of pain in

about it,

Mortis seemed like an angry teenager that went through

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

luxury to feel bad for

a core of good inside him, but everything is drowned out by anger and hate. This core of good has been completely lost, and