1202 Ball Lightning Part 2 (1/2)

Saleen mimicked what he saw and cast a lightning attack, but the one that he cast was so weak that it could only numb his enemies. The power of lightning in nature was very powerful, but was unable to stay intact for long.

That was the first time Saleen saw a ball-shaped lightning, and it reversed everything Saleen knew about lightning.

Thunder resulted from the explosive release of lightning, which was imbued with stunning properties, so much so it was better at stunning than dragon's might.

”Master, let's go.” Nailisi had the Lightning Protection skill with her, but lightning in nature frightened her.

”Why do we need to? This place is nice for research.”

”Master, it's winter, and lightning appearing in winter is a bad omen.” Nailisi's words almost made Saleen laugh.

”Your master is an astrologer, alright.”

Saleen had just finished speaking when a black ball shaped lightning phased through the Magical Element Tower's walls and hit the tower's 19th floor.

The demonic spirits watched the lightning flash outside with terrified expressions. The ball-shaped lightning that entered seemed harmless.

A demonic spirit extended their hand to touch it out of curiosity. The lightning hovered in the tower, evading the one intending to touch it and hit another one instead. The unlucky demonic spirit did not even get to yell before they were reduced to a pile of charcoal.

”That thing can phase through the tower!” Saleen yelled. No professional below level 12 could do anything against his Magical Element Tower. Professionals between level 13 to 15 would need a lot of time to find a weakness they could exploit. The ball lightning snuck into his tower without Saleen even sensing how it got inside.

”Bad omen!” Nailisi saw the lightning phase inside the tower, but she didn't know that a demonic spirit had died.

Saleen grew increasingly reluctant to leave. He released another low level elemental creature and wrapped it in his own dark clouds, sending it outside the tower. The low level elemental creature was a fire spider. It was wrapped in a layer of Water Shield imbued with lightning patterns.

Another ball of white lightning appeared and headed straight for the fire spider. The dark clouds that the spider was wrapped in were infused were Six Element's Heavy Water. Saleen saw the ball enter the cloud and kick up energy ripples in the dark clouds.

The energy infused in the ball was so terrifying that not even the water element essence in the Six Element's Heavy Water was able to defend against it.

Saleen felt weird. The ball lightning did not seem to consume much energy in movement, so why did it exhibit offensive attributes as soon as it entered the dark clouds?

He was, after all, human, and it was impossible for him to cast a thick stream of lightning attack like the badge. However, if he unlocked the secrets of the lightning, it would be possible for him to use similar moves.

The lightning patterns on the Water Shield were practically useless. The white ball lightning punched through the Water Shield and hit the spider, disintegrating it in mere seconds.

Saleen, however, was put at ease. Lightning attacks had two parts. There was no need to mention about thunder as any living being without a soul would not be able to defend against it. The ones with souls would probably be injured at their souls instead.

The lightning bolt was capable of destroying any living being. Any matter would melt in the high temperatures, and Saleen even found that lightning over a million degrees could appear.

It was not the most powerful lightning attack. Despite the ball lightning's attack being so peculiar, Saleen did not find its energy exchange any different than conventional lightning attacks.

Why did lightning did not exchange energy when it passed through the clouds and phased through the walls of the Magical Element Tower? Why was there no dissipation and no loss?

It meant one thing—the ball lightning was stable to maintain a ball shape. Under the works of some rules, ball lightning was capable of maintaining such states.

Saleen took control of the Magical Element Tower and began to release puppets. Elemental creatures were more precious, while his puppets could simply be revived in the Puppet Constellation even if they were destroyed. Every single puppet functioned like they were weapon spirits.

So long as the main weapon spirit maintaining the Puppet Constellation remained alive, the other weapon spirits within could keep reviving.

It was just a matter of energy cost, and Saleen did not mind at all.

A mid-level puppet would not even cost a level three magic nucleus to be revived.

The puppets flew outside the tower clad in Water Shield, testing the power of the lightning for Saleen. The tower itself no longer hovered at one spot, opting to fly around instead.

Lightning powers continued to be unleashed within the clouds very high in the sky. Saleen was able to see through the clouds with his Elemental Eye and look at the ground, finding a majestic, tall church on the ground.

The Holy See is building a church here? Saleen took a piece of white rock and threw it out of the Magical Element Tower. The rock weighed thousands of pounds, and it was thrown from an altitude of over 10,000 meters, heading straight for the top of the church.

It was not magic of any kind; it was pure physical destruction.

The white rock passed through the clouds and landed squarely on the roof on the church. Seeing the top of the church crushed by the rock and the walls around crumbled by the resulting shockwave, Saleen felt a lot better.

There might have been some good, decent people in the Holy See, but it would not be the holy master who ran from the collapsing church.