Chapter 80: Black Lightning (1/2)
The room is already bloodied because of Rex,
Blood gushed out of his mouth every time he tries to activate his lightning element, it paints the ground crimson red.
'It's not that painful but every time I do it, the pain shocked my body', Rex thought while holding his head, he started to feel dizzy because of the loss of blood.
He forced himself to focus, there is a time limit for this and it is only 10 minutes.
Rex gritted his teeth, he musters all of his willpower and tries to activate his lightning element.
Blitz!!
The electric current started to envelop his body, it's blitzing around his body while making contact with the dark energy inside of him.
Rex can feel his insides are stirred by the three elements, blood wanted to gush out of his mouth be he forced it in fear that he will lose focus.
The dark energy, holy energy, and the lightning element dances around Rex's body, they are twirling around each other.
The dark energy is super strong, it started to engulf the lightning element like a black hole but this is where the holy element stepped in.
It intervenes against the two elements making the dark energy weaker,
The lightning mana becomes aggressive, it attacks the invading elements powerfully especially the tyrannical dark energy.
Not long after, they started to merge with each other but suddenly,
BOOM!!
Lightning current exploded from Rex's body sending shockwaves to the surrounding,
”AAHHH!!!”, Rex shouted in pain, the lightning is attacking Rex's body uncontrollably, it is starting to wreak havoc.
The lightning element inside Rex's body started to merge turning black in color, it is running rampant inside the meditation room attacking the surrounding and Rex.
In the midst of the chaos, Rex opened his eyes a little and grab the other elixir.
With much effort, he brings the elixir to his mouth and pours all of the content inside of it to his mouth.
The next process of the evolution is to enter the catalyst to the black lightning, it will act as a mediator to ease the rampaging black lightning and suppressing it.
After drinking the elixir, a blue string appears around the rampaging black lightning.
It started to catch the rampaging black lightning and tying it down.
The supposed rampaging black lightning becomes calmer after merging with the blue string, Rex can even start to take control of the black lightning little by little.
'Thank god I manage to pass the processes, now for the last part', Rex thought before he takes the last petals.
He held it between his two hands and start to meditate,
The last part of the evolution is to enhance the power of the element by absorbing the last petals, the black lightning is in the early process and it is still merging so this is the perfect time to add more mana into it.
Until it is fully formed and returns to normal, the black lightning will gain 2x the normal absorption amount.
Little by little, the last petals on Rex's hand started to fade.
Rex's scream of agony before is not heard by the others thanks to the room, it is equipped with a soundproof rune that will not let out any sound.
two hours have passed, the last petals are already halfway through.
Rex can feel he was about to break through to rank three but suddenly, 'Huh?', he frowns during meditation.
He can't absorb more of the dark energy for some reason, he then forced to open his eyes.
The evolution is over,
Rex has managed to successfully turn his lightning element into black lightning, it supposed to contain corruption properties but he still didn't know how it works exactly.
Rex opened his eyes and was surprised to see the room's condition,
The ground is no longer translucent rather it is crimson red, the surrounding glass wall is still displaying the night sky.
'Why didn't it got damaged? I swear the lightning zap them', Rex thought but suddenly he saw a glowing rune on top of the room.
It is a rank-five protection rune...
Rex smiles wryly, 'Of course there will be a protection rune'
Then suddenly, notifications popped out,
<congratulation on=”” completing=”” black=”” lightning=”” achievement=””></congratulation>
<obtained flash=”” spell=””></obtained>
<obtained black=”” field=”” orko=”” spell=””></obtained>
Reading the system's notification, Rex smile wryly to himself, 'Got more spells that I can't use, nice!'
After getting the notification, Rex glance at the spells briefly and his eyes suddenly widened seeing the flash spell.
<flash></flash>
A low-rank utility spell for Lightning Elementalist users, increased the user's speed by 1.5x instantly for a brief moment. It is typically used for closing the distance or escaping.
Requirement: Rank Two Elementalist with 20 Intelligence
Rex was surprised because he can learn this spell, without thinking much he instantly learn the spell at the cost of 200 gold.
After paying the system, the skill instantly turn into light and seeped into his brain.
He instantly learned the flash skill, he can't wait to try it out but he knows he can't do it in this cramped place.
Rex opened his palm and felt the black lightning coursing through his body, he tries and activates the black lightning, and swiftly a black electric current started to envelop his body.
Blitz!!
The lightning is ink-black in color, it is blitzing constantly as if it's happy it just transform and it is definitely more powerful than the normal lightning.
'What rank is this lightning?', Rex asked curiously.
<black lightning=”” is=”” a=”” peak=”” rank=”” two=”” lightning=”” element=””></black>
The system popped out suddenly,
Looking at this, Rex nodded his head in satisfaction, he's happy with the outcome of the Dark Mooncress.
Elements are divided into rankings, it is divided into three rankings.
The first rank is the elements for new Awakened ranging from rank one to rank three, this element is where all of the Awakened start with and it will only help them until they reach peak rank three.
The second rank is called the high-rank element, this element is a higher form of the first rank element and will help Awakened to reach rank four to six. This is why not many manage to reach rank four, they lack resources to evolve their elements.
The third rank, however, is called the ultimate element, it is an even higher form of elements and they can guide Awakened to rank seven or eight. They are the absolute pinnacle of elements and unrivaled against all other weaker elements.
The second and third ranks will be further divided into early, mid, and peak.
They will be the greatest measure to how far an Awakened reach,
For example, an Awakened with early second rank element can only reach rank four until they manage to evolve their early second rank element into higher rank elements.
Awakened with peak second rank element on the other hand can further reach rank six without having the need to evolve their element.
Having Black Lightning means that Rex can reach rank six without an obstacle in his path, he just cleared the most difficult obstacle that blocks an Awakened path to rank four.
'With this, I am now confident in fighting Kevin Luc', Rex thought.
He then turns off the meditation room, he then walks back to his seat feeling tired.
His shirt is black so the bloodstain on his shirt can't be seen, although that didn't help when suddenly,
”AAHH!!”, Rosie shouted in surprise.