329 Yales Combination Attack (1/2)

Yale started to pursue the matriarch, but his speed was far slower than a mermaid at the Sage Rank like her.

”Why is that kid is following me? It is a trap.”

The matriarch noticed that Yale was following her, but she didn't dare to lower her guard.

She didn't consider Yale as a threat, but she feared that he was just a bait to attract her and let Aiwai attack.

Yale guessed that the matriarch would think like that, but that was on Yale's benefit because even with the injuries of her body, the matriarch was still too strong for a frontal confrontation.

”Even if you run fast, you are slower than my attacks.”

The attack that Yale used was the spell Thunderbolt that was devastating in the water of the ocean, and the matriarch was unable to avoid.

However, the attack only stopped her a bit and didn't provoke any major injuries to her body.

”You are dreaming if you plan to kill me just with that!”

The matriarch was at the Sage Rank, so there was no way that just a bit of electricity would kill her even if that would be lethal for a mortal. However, what the matriarch didn't understand was how Yale managed to avoid getting harmed by his own thunderbolt since he was also in the water.

Moreover, both of them were separated by more than two hundred meters, and she didn't know how the thunderbolt managed to travel correctly towards her.

The reason was in how Yale was managing the water through Water Control. Yale had read a lot of books learning quite a few things from them, and he was applying something that he had read.

Usually, everyone thought that water was perfect for conducting electricity and using a thunder element spell inside the water was a suicide move as the caster would also get harmed once the electricity appeared.

However, in one of the books that Yale had read, the author said that not all the water conducted electricity, but that author was unable to identify the reasons for that as he only discovered it by coincidence.

In the end, it seemed that no one believed that author and he appeared in the recompilation of Stupid Affirmations of Weaklings that Yale read years ago in the Roanmad Clan's library; it was a book to mock about such people, but Yale didn't feel that those were stupid affirmations at all.

Yale was right in thinking like that because he had already confirmed that the theory about water and electricity was correct. If the water didn't have impurities it wouldn't conduct electricity, but that wasn't the normal state of the water on the environment, so it was usually mistaken as that water always conducted it; even the water created from water spells wasn't completely pure. Of course, anyone with enough understanding of the Water Law would also know about that.

However, with Water Control, Yale managed to remove all the impurities of the layer of water covering his body ensuring that he wouldn't be affected by his own attack because he wasn't sure if his attack method would work.

Yale wasn't trying to harm the matriarch with that attack because he was just trying to confirm if he could use that method for attacking.

The method Yale thought was about creating a path of pure water with normal water in the middle to use it to direct the attack towards the matriarch.

However, the matriarch was in constant movement, so the path of pure water would miss the target unless Yale predicted where the matriarch would be at the moment when he launched his attack.

Thus, Yale was trying to use the Time Law to look into some seconds in the future to aim correctly. At that start, he wasn't sure if he would be able to do it, but it turned out to be easier than he expected.

”Congratulations, the Time Law reached a new major threshold after enlightenment. Current understanding 1%.”

After attacking a few more times with that method until he got used to it, the system notified Yale that he had reached a threshold on the Time Law. However, Yale wasn't surprised at all by that because at that moment he was looking to some seconds into the future without any difficulty, and he had already guessed that since the Time Law was the first Law in which he obtained some insight, it was already near the threshold.

In fact, Yale wasn't looking at the present at all and moved just by looking the future.