Chapter 104 - A Sudden Increased In Speed (2/2)

In the blink of an eye, they have traveled for an entire day. At this moment, all Lightning Corps' members have already set up their tents and were resting inside while some of them were patrolling the area. As for the girls, they went to the imperial capital as usual with Monalisa.

Ever since they started their journey to the Dark Forest, the girls haven't once taken their break within the forest with them. Sometimes, Shad really wanted to fool around with Monalisa at night but because of his sister, he couldn't as she always took her along.

Currently, Shad stood on the summit of a mountain with a somewhat pensive expression on his face while he was looking at the darkening sky, as faint sounds of thunder rumbled forth. He had been standing there for half an hour looking at the sky like that.

Boom!

Suddenly, a thunderclap rang out in the sky as a silvery light flashed past Shad and hit a huge tree in the distance which instantly turned into ashes. He didn't even budge to look at the smoking remains of the destroyed trees caused by the lightning strikes as his eyes were glued on the lightning cloud in the sky.

After a minute or so, a huge smile appeared on his face as though he suddenly discovered something interesting.

Zzzttt!

Suddenly, countless long and short lightning bolts spread out from his body like branches in four directions before he instantly disappeared like a lightning strike and appeared a hundred meters away from his previous location in less than a second.

” Hahaha, I understand now, so that's how it is,” He said with a big smile on his face as he continued to spread out branches of lightning bolts from his body and disappeared again like lightning strikes. His speed was so fast that one might think he had teleported from his previous location to the next. It was almost as fast as a real lightning.

Within the forest, flashes of red lightning could be seen appearing and disappearing everywhere. This phenomenon kept on going for about an hour before it stopped.

Within his tent, Shad laid down on his bed as he raised his right hand in the air which was coiled around with red lightning bolts like snakes.

” I would have never thought about using the lightning energy in such a way if I haven't seen or pay attention to the lightning cloud in the sky. My speed had doubled now and the side effects are minimal.” He murmured to himself.

To understand the sudden increase in Shad's speed, first one must have a deeper understanding of lightning. Usually, before a lightning strikes, there's an electric field that formed by the electrons below the cloud and protons on the ground.

The more electrons, the stronger is the electric field. In this situation, the clouds will discharge a small amount of electron which one might refer to as a guide.

The guide will then advance to find the shortest route the ground and that's why it will form many branches as it descends. As soon as the guide reaches the ground, a strong electric current will then travel to the predetermined route made or found by the guide which will produce a blinding flash at the same time. This what we call a lightning strike which travels at one-third the speed of the light.

Shad's purple lightning seed enabled him to generate lightning or electrical energy from within his body. So, after looking at how the lightning cloud in the sky sent out many branches of lightning bolts before the lightning strikes hit the ground or a tree in an exceedingly fast speed, he then was suddenly enlightened and found another way to use the lightning energy within his infinite space.

By spreading the electrical energy or the lightning bolts within his infinite space into branches to many locations, he was able to run or fly off like a lightning strike to the specific location touched by the guide or one of the lightning branches.

Although his speed wasn't as fast as real lightning. In human's eyes, there's no difference at all.