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.

thought about Gravis' words for a

have an impressive ability to look far into the future,"

said. "I will send

with a metal affinity. Beasts with a metal affinity like to fight

"Okay," Narcissus said.

with a smile and then

A week passed.

CRRRRRRRRRRR!

Liam on the human side when she looked

Liam didn't really care.

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

too thin. This could make it troublesome to

simply

BANG!

of the tunnel and let it hit the ground in front

around but only saw

saw Siral,

been told that he

the tiger looked

of your so-called armor and weapons," the tiger said

respectfully but also not disrespectfully to

a Peak Immortal

were always very powerful. So, even if Gravis

inspected the ore, and his

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

long cylinder

Too much!

millions of Immortal

he said neutrally. Being polite to beasts

do you

would see such a comment

liked talking without

Glug! Glug!

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

again, and now, the tiger was completely encased in

your armor better than

is,"

"Show me!"

a two-by-two-meter wide,

was talking with the tiger via voice transmission, the concept immediately got translated into words the tiger

created a metal plate according to Gravis'

going to create a plate with the same size by using

The tiger nodded.

BANG! BANG! BANG!

bolts of Divine Lightning hit the

when he felt that this was Divine

How!?

meant that he needed to use a ton of Energy and

customer, Gravis would have never used Divine Lightning in

think about how they could obtain it but would

ore was already the limit of what Gravis could use. An additional level higher,

Gravis created an identical plate and

edge of the cave,

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

interested and did as

BANG!

Gravis' plate with his claws, but that

didn't

did

CRK!

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

cracked, they generally thought about a crevice or crack

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

no crack in the plate, but a part of it fell off like someone had hammered a