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

humans truly have an impressive ability to

"I will send a

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 combat the most, and equipment makes

"Okay," Narcissus said.

with a smile and then simply

A week passed.

CRRRRRRRRRRR!

the human side when she looked towards the

Liam didn't really care.

pulling a long mountain of ore behind him with

beast territory is a bit too thin. This could make

he simply changed the shape of the

BANG!

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

but only

saw Siral, he snorted

told that he should simply ignore the

tiger

here to test the effectiveness of your so-called armor and weapons," the tiger said

respectfully but also not disrespectfully to

tiger was a Peak

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

inspected the ore, and his eyes

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

was this long

Too much!

of millions

he said neutrally. Being polite

do you want?"

every human customer would see such

liked talking without anything

Glug! Glug!

the ore mountain behind him began to liquify. In nearly an instant,

and now, the tiger was completely encased in

your armor better than

it is," Gravis

"Show me!"

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

the tiger via voice

created a metal plate

going to create a plate with the same size by using the ore you

The tiger nodded.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

Divine Lightning hit the mountain to liquefy a part of

he felt that this was

How!?

was four levels below the power of the ore, which meant that he needed to use a ton of Energy and Divine

were a human customer, Gravis would have never used

about how they could obtain it but would respect the beast due

of what Gravis could use. An additional level higher, and Gravis wouldn't

some minutes, Gravis created an identical plate and put it

two plates leaned at the edge of the cave, beside each

Then, attack yours. Increase the power after each second attack. Then, you

interested and did as

BANG!

Gravis' plate with his claws, but that casual attack was already

didn't bend or

surprised and did the same to his

CRK!

cracked, but it wasn't a crack that someone expected to see out

said that metal cracked, they generally thought about a crevice or crack going across the

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

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