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' words for

have an impressive ability to look

Narcissus said. "I will send a couple of

greatest result, I would advise you to find beasts with a metal affinity. Beasts with a metal affinity like to

"Okay," Narcissus said.

with a smile and then simply

A week passed.

CRRRRRRRRRRR!

on the human side when she looked towards the beast side. "I think our first customer

Liam didn't really care.

of ore behind him with his tail. This was

thought. 'Yes, the entrance to the beast territory is a bit too thin. This

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

BANG!

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

tiger looked around but only saw two beings, Siral

saw Siral, he snorted with

had been told that he should simply ignore

the tiger looked

here to test the effectiveness of your

didn't talk respectfully but also not disrespectfully to

tiger was a Peak

Black Demons were always very

ore, and his

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

long cylinder of ore

Too much!

millions

he said neutrally. Being polite to beasts would

do you want?"

every human customer would see such a comment

talking without anything unnecessary

Glug! Glug!

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

and now, the tiger

than this?" the

it is,"

"Show me!"

two-by-two-meter wide, thin plate," Gravis

with the tiger via

the side and created a metal plate according

plate with the same size

The tiger nodded.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

of Divine Lightning hit the mountain

eyes widened when he

How!?

below the power of the ore, which meant that he needed to use a ton of Energy and Divine Lightning to manipulate and liquify the

have never used Divine Lightning in front

beasts saw someone with such a powerful Law, they wouldn't think about how they could obtain

use. An additional level higher,

identical plate and put it

at the edge of the cave, beside each

after each

tiger became interested and did as

BANG!

with his claws, but that casual attack was already very

plate didn't

surprised and did the same to

CRK!

but it wasn't a crack

thought about a crevice or

hadn't tempered and purified the ore. This meant that the ore was

a part of it fell off like someone had hammered a pickaxe