Chapter 37: Chapter 37 - Lighting Sea
Kyle was now at least 10 kilometres far from the forest entrance, plus he didn't get what he came for into this forest either way.
After seeing what was left of the ogre, he looked around and understood why he didn't see any beasts. It was probably a requirement to have a tolerance to lighting to live in this forest. Beasts like that were rare. Also, all of the black scorched small trees that he saw on his way here were animals that had the same fate as an ogre. Fried by the lighting.
Kyle moved out to the deeper parts of the forest to find something that could survive. He needed to get lighting alignment no matter how he looked at it. He would have to take this gamble.
Kyle adjusted his thoughts and started circulating the qi in his meridians faster. He was certain that one normal lightning strike wouldn't be enough to stop him.
Kyle knew from the physics and maths classes that he had a higher chance of getting struck by the lighting than the tress that didn't have any static energy and any blood inside. That is why Kyle constantly moved to make sure that not enough tension builds up between him and the thunder clouds.
As Kyle ran, the lightning strikes were all around him, sometimes as close as being within the 20 metres radius from Kyle.
Kyle was determined to kill a lighting affined beast and get out from this forest before he is fried to a crisp.
After 10 minutes of running, sliding and rolling to make sure to survive, Kyle spotted a beast. It was a level 2 monkey swinging from one tree to another, also heading somewhere through the thunder.
Kyle knew that this monkey must be from this forest as it's wide back was black in colour with a huge lighting image imbedded into it in yellow colour. Every time the monkey moved, the image would release some current that would cause the monkey's speed to increase.
'This is it. I finally have a target.' Kyle stopped completely, got his new sword [Excalibur's Small Brother] into one hand and wolf fang into another and with qi ready to execute Wave of Conviction move out.
The monkey couldn't possibly hear Kyle's movements as the thunder was constantly resounding all around them. That is why when it saw something moving on the side, it was barely able to dodge the initial strike that Kyle threw out. It jumped very high up into the sky to get momentum for the strike back.
The first strike Kyle did without the Wave of Conviction. He couldn't land it on a moving target so far away anyways. That is why when the monkey jumped up into the air. It was the perfect opportunity to meet it with a wave of conviction.
Even though body strength made sure that all the power stored would be executed, the main issue with using strength as the main weapon was that it would cause one to expose their body with every single attack. The bow or other ranged weapons would protect one and would actually help you strike from a safe distance without any danger.
The beasts that Kyle has met so far never used a weapon and relied on what nature gave them.
The monkey was already coming down with screams and roars. His hands were locked together like a hammer, and it was aiming it hit directly at Kyle's head. If it hit, it could possibly pop Kyle's head like a watermelon.
Kyle was not as stupid as to allow that. With a swift execution of the Lightning Step, he dodged the strike and as he now was at least 4 metres away used Wave of Conviction with the wolf fang. The curved white and yellow light was much thicker than before and now resembled a big line annihilating everything.
The Wave of Conviction landed onto the monkey's body and easily penetrated through it to stop at around 6 metres away.
'Even though it's internals are hurt, it is not dead yet. I need to finish it before it can play a last resort trick on me.' Kyle looked at the monkey and started executing the lighting step to confuse and land another Wave of Conviction.
The monkey as it got hurt, dropped on to one knee and coughed out blood. After seeing Kyle executing the lighting step and seeing its situation, it lifted up its hands and started concentrating on creating something above it.
There, on top of his palms, some yellow plasma that was blindingly bright yellow started appearing. As the monkey kept on channelling the thunder clouds as if angry with what monkey was doing started striking every second in the area where they were fighting. Every time the lighting struck the tree, it would absorb the energy, flicker and grow a little in size, the same happened to all the surrounding.
Kyle was barely able to dodge this sea of lighting that was constantly around him. He could feel that even the remnant energy from the lightning strike could damage him.
Suddenly the lightning struck right at the monkey, and as it roared, it threw that yellow plasma that grew 10 fold in size at the Kyle.
Kyle didn't know what to do, that plasma was sure death for him. The only thing he could do was to try to stop the plasma and try to dodge the remnant energy.
The plasma was the size of the big book, and the Wave of Conviction with 5 points, even used raw from the hand wouldn't clear the plasma fully.
'Is this how I die? Overestimate my abilities to get killed by some stupid monkey?' Kyle didn't want to believe it, 'The only thing I see that I can do is to try executing the 10 point Wave of Conviction. Even though I have never succeeded, I have levelled up so I might be able to use it barely.'
Kyle stopped his movements as dodging was impossible and started executing the qi movement. The qi was already stationed in the 5 basic points that he needed to release the basic level, now what he needed to was to inside those 5 points go smaller and spilt all the energy into two. That would occupy the same 5 points but now would have 10 energies that would target even smaller and more profound areas on his hand.
Kyle tried executing it, but he qi was not listening to him. He had to do it one at a time which was slower than doing at once. The plasma was already nearing him when Kyle started slowly splitting the qi.
'6 points,' The plasma was 10 metres away. '7, 8, 9, 10 points!!!' Kyle roared and put out his hand and bent his finger. An incredible sonic boom resounded, and the air seemed to be split apart with plasma being 2 metres from Kyle and was already sizzling Kyle's skin.
The Wave of Conviction now was completely different. The size of it was at least 4 times as big, and the power was twice as strong.
The area of effect was so large that none of the plasma survived the blast. As monkey must have used up all of its strength when creating the plasma, it stood still and absorbed if Kyle would die from that hit.
The Wave of Conviction now didn't stop at the plasma and just as fast arrived where the monkey was. The Wave was travelling in the cone shape with Kyle hand being the smallest point and the area increasing with range. That is why now, instead of monkey's top half of the body there now was a huge hole that Kyle has created.
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Simvolick Sonic laser boom?
Chapter 38: Chapter 38 - Only forward
As the monkey has dropped fully dead and the plasma was destroyed, the lighting clouds above Kyle's head calmed a little bit down and were still showing might, but further away from Kyle.
First thing Kyle did was to look at his hand that was hurting. The forced use of a higher-level technique caused his hand to be drained of qi, and it felt numb. Kyle had to meditate to recover it in order to fill it with qi again.
Next was the monkey. Kyle was sure that this monkey had a lighting element affinity, and even though he really needed to get it, he didn't want to get killed by random lighting while meditating.
Kyle collected the monkey as well as a couple of the trees bark pieces that he got off with the wave of conviction. Kyle's qi reserves were right now at 70%, and he was not in the optimal condition. 'That wave of conviction really took a toll on me. I need to move back and finally absorb the lighting element.' But just as Kyle turned back, he was shocked. The blackness enveloped the part of the forest where he came from. The clouds above were now purple in colour, and there were so many lightning strikes that area was as if a spider web was created between heaven and that part of the forest.
Kyle didn't know what to do as it was his only way to leave the forest. Going forward just meant meeting stronger beasts and stronger lightning in the heart of the forest. Going to the side and trying to go around the area with lighting was not an option either.
The worst thing was that this cloud was moving exactly into the heart of the forest. Kyle's only solution was to go forward and pray that the cloud will be moving slower than him.
Kyle circulated his qi and set out to the heart of the forest. As Kyle moved, the trees were becoming bigger and bigger with more mighty branches. As Kyle observed, these trees were most likely made out of some special wood that could absorb the lighting's power. 'Maybe these trees also have some lighting element affinity, and I will be able to use them to ponder on the lighting? Didn't the ogre say that all trees have a spirit? There shouldn't be much difference with beasts considering how much lighting these trees have consumed over the years.' Kyle now had an idea to find the biggest tree he could and try to meditate near it.
He also looked back to see what was going on with the cloud and his biggest worries were confirmed, the lighting clouds were moving faster than him, and if this carried on, he would be overtaken in a matter of a couple of hours. 'The forest is large, and I have no idea how long will it take for me to cross it.' Kyle used the lighting step and accelerated even further while waiting for some of the qi.
The main goal was to escape the rolling thunder clouds. If that was a success, he would be able to absorb level 2 monkey's energy that should be able to restore his qi reserves fully.
Suddenly as Kyle was running lighting struck the tree that was close to Kyle, and the lightning travelled from the top of the tree to the roots with some of it seeping into the earth. Kyle couldn't possibly be faster than lighting as it was at the speed of light level. He could only use all of the energy that he had available to resist the electric shock. The lighting that he got hit with was simply a small remnant of much bigger and stronger lighting. It was at least reduced by 20 times to 5%.
Kyle could not believe what was happening. Instead of hitting and burning his skin and flesh, the lighting entered his meridians and started zipping through them. This caused huge scare and shock for Kyle as his meridians were the most precious and important thing in his body together with the dantian.
The meridians at first couldn't hold the energy and were about to burst, but the pearl suddenly rotated in his dantian and released the azure force that has enveloped the meridians and the lighting tightly.
This was incredibly painful. As if someone took a needle and was stabbing it continuously to the different parts of his body. He could barely standstill.
The lighting that was at first oppressive and dangerous was now very willing and obedient. It was guided by the azure light through the meridians to the dantian with no damage caused to Kyle's body. The lightning than was about to enter Kyle's dantian. This put an alarmed look on Kyle's face. 'It nearly ripped my meridians to pieces, and now the pearl want to put it into my dantian? What games is it playing?' Kyle was about to resist until a warm pulse was sent from the pearl to Kyle's brain signalling that it was okay.
The lighting easily entered the dantian, and as it was about to touch the qi and went straight at the pearl. As it went inside of it, Kyle lost any ability to sense it. The lighting was inside some space in pearl that Kyle didn't have access to just yet.
After around a minute of lighting disappearing, it now appeared at the other side of the pearl. Now it was still the same colour and looked the same, but the main difference was that it now had a clear soul imprint inside. Kyle could feel it being very similar to his soul. The lightning also seemed to now contain some primitive mind that would let it behave as if it actually understood what was going on.
The lighting looked at the space it was in, it checked whenever there was anything of interest. It circled around the pearl couple of times and then as it spotted the 8 circles that were rotating around the one huge cylinder, it rushed straight at one of the circles. It was one that was very black at the moment and had no colour or soul.
As lighting touched the sphere, it sent some of its energy inside. Suddenly the sphere started turning from black to orange-yellow colour, and just before it was fully able to form, the lighting exhausted all of its power and stopped. It looked around and quietly started rotating around the sphere while building more energy to use.
Even though this took a while to describe, in reality, this only took a minute after the lighting strike. The energy that this lighting gave ripped some of Kyle's clothes to pieces. Also, a small fire started close to him that was put out by the leaves from the lightning trees on the ground. For some reason, they were so tough that they couldn't burn.
Kyle again looked back at the clouds, sighed and continued forward.
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We are building up the first initial circle of elements. Kyle let's go!
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