Lightning Is the Only Way

After Gravis had his fill of looking at Stella, he turned back to the Gravitas with burning eyes.

"It's time to make some money!" Gravis said with a wide smile.

Stella giggled a bit as Liam only rolled his eyes. It was only money. Who cares?

"I will now commence with the first phase of my plan," Gravis said. "For the first phase, I don't need you, Siral. I will take care of the beasts personally."

"Yes, Master," Siral said.

"Just watch and learn," Gravis said.

"Yes, Master."

Gravis went to the beast side of the Gravitas and waited at the entrance.

WHOOP!

Gravis transformed into his beast body. Since he had to deal with beasts, using his beast body was better.

Liam was on the other side, and he didn't have the luxury of knowing the Law of Freedom. This meant that he sadly couldn't look at the other side.

"Narcissus," Gravis said.

"Yes?" Narcissus asked.

Sure enough, Narcissus was everywhere, even here.

"The Gravitas is now open," Gravis said. "For the first couple of customers, I'll have to trouble you. After all, the beasts don't know about the Gravitas yet."

"And why should I do that?" Narcissus asked.

"You want the beasts to become more powerful, right?" Gravis asked. "It's also in your own interest to send them here."

Some seconds of silence passed.

"What do you intend to sell them?" Narcissus asked.

"It's not really selling," Gravis said with a smirk. "I will forge equipment for the beasts with whichever ore they bring."

"Plate armor, metallic claws, metallic teeth, tail blade extensions, spikes, whatever is useful in a fight, I will forge for them. The payment will simply be the ore they bring. If they bring enough for two sets, I will give them one set and keep the remainder for myself," Gravis explained.

"I don't think the beasts will be interested," Narcissus answered. "Beasts are not really interested in external power."

"And that's why a human is on average more powerful than a beast, Narcissus," Gravis said. "Could you imagine fighting against a human if they don't have a weapon or armor?"

"You can't strip the enemy of their equipment, but you can create your own equipment. Won't this cancel out the advantage of humans?"

Narcissus thought about these words for a bit. "You are correct in your logic, but that doesn't change the mindset of the beasts."

Gravis only smirked. "That's because no one is cheating yet," Gravis said.

"What do you mean?"

"Imagine a tournament among beasts," Gravis said. "The prize is something valuable, like a couple thousand years in a level five Law Comprehension Area. There is a clear favorite amongst the participants, but suddenly, one unknown beast wins by relying on armor and weapons forged with ore."

"Everyone will become enraged since they believe that this beast has cheated. Yet, they can't change the results. The one that relied on external power has won, and that win allows them to increase their intrinsic power by comprehending an additional Law. In that sense, a momentary reliance on external power increased their intrinsic power."

"So, after this tournament, the winner doesn't even have to rely on armor or weapons anymore. They would win on their own, regardless."

"Then, the next tournament rolls around, and even though most beasts are against relying on external power, a couple of them have been swayed. So, now, there are three with armor and weapons."

"This continues, and, at some point, every beast has to rely on armor or weapons if they want to get these juicy rewards."

Gravis lifted his right index finger.

"And the most important thing is that the beasts have not become weaker but stronger."

"So, in the end, the beasts become more powerful, and I get more customers. Win-win- right?" Gravis finished.

Gravis'

an impressive ability to look far into

said. "I will send a couple of

nodded. "Thanks. If you want to see the greatest result, I would advise you to find beasts with a metal affinity. Beasts with a metal affinity like to fight in close

"Okay," Narcissus said.

a smile and then

A week passed.

CRRRRRRRRRRR!

the human side when she looked towards the beast side.

Liam didn't really care.

ten-meter-tall, silver tiger was pulling a long mountain of ore behind

to the beast territory is a bit too thin. This could make it troublesome to pull these

metal affinity, and he simply changed the shape of the ore mountain into a

BANG!

the tiger reached the actual cave, he pulled the ore out of the tunnel and let it hit the ground in front of

but only saw two

Siral, he snorted

that he should simply ignore the

tiger looked at

of your so-called armor and weapons," the

didn't talk respectfully but also

was a Peak Immortal

was talking to Gravis at all was that Gravis was a Black Demon, and Black Demons were always very powerful. So, even if Gravis was two levels

ore,

Minor Circulation Immortal Emperor ore, and so much of it,' Gravis thought. 'Beasts sure are

this long cylinder of

Too much!

of millions of

smirked. "Sure," he said neutrally. Being polite to beasts would only damage

do you want?" Gravis

would see such a comment as

liked talking without

Glug! Glug!

Then, a part of the ore mountain behind him began to liquify. In nearly an instant, the ore

ore hardened again, and now, the tiger was completely encased in powerful,

better than

it is," Gravis

"Show me!"

a two-by-two-meter wide, thin

was talking with the tiger via voice

created a metal plate according to Gravis'

going to create a plate with the same size by using

The tiger nodded.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

hit the mountain

he felt that this was Divine

How!?

levels below the power of the ore, which meant that he needed to use

a human customer, Gravis would have never used Divine

they wouldn't think about

already the limit of what Gravis could use. An additional

an identical plate

edge of

plate. Then, attack yours. Increase the power after each second attack. Then, you can feel the difference,"

interested and did as he

BANG!

plate with his claws, but that

didn't

tiger was surprised and did the same

CRK!

but it wasn't a crack that someone expected

they generally thought about

to remember that the tiger hadn't tempered and purified the ore. This meant that the ore was acting more like a stone than

of it fell