170 Level 10 Tribulation (1/2)

Jun perspired since he was directly under the sun. He couldn't take off the camouflage cloak since he wasn't sure if Hunters could still smell him this high up. He wasn't willing to know nor wants to risk it.

The building next to this one only had two-stories. He could see the airvents that looked like it hasn't been cleaned for a long time.

As he get intrigued with the movements from the map, he remembered the notification from earlier. On his peripheral vision, he focused on the exclamation mark and the notification showed itself.

What does it mean my essence reached a bottleneck? Is it experience?

It took Jun several days, just to be able to reach his current place. He killed and slaughtered man or evil along the way, and he was finally about to level up.

So the gap from level 9 to level 10 was so huge that it took him more than four days to level up. Now that he finally reached the limit, he became excited and eagerly accepted the 'tribulation' prompt.

Jun's current stats was leagues above everyone else. The only people who could probably match up with him were people like him, the blessed ones.

The azure sky suddenly turned ominous. The clouds above him became as black as coal, followed by loud rumblings that echoed reaching far away distances.

Jun stared at the dark clouds above him and became aware of the weird situation. The inner parts of the dark clouds were lit up by several crackling thunders.

And all of a sudden, a lightning came down and struck him.

-10

Jun's body trembled as he received the full brunt of the attack. A few burned patches of skins produced hissing noises. He also felt slightly paralyzed and wasn't able to move for a second.

When he recovered, he stared at the clouds and noticed the inner clouds with crackling webs of lightning. The only thought lingering on his mind was that he was still alive!

Seconds later, another lightning was unleashed. He rolled to the side with the intention of dodging the lightning, but instead of striking his original position, the lightning shifted slightly and struck Jun.

-20

Jun felt a sudden epiphany after the second lightning struck him. ”Is this what it mean for the tribulation? Should I hide inside the building?”

Before Jun could decide on what to do, the dark clouds rumbled once again, charging up on lightning. Not a second later, another lightning hit him.

-30

The lightnings only dealt damage on its very first contact with him. Afterwards, the lightning energy would travel around inside his body, paralyzing him.

Since he couldn't move his body, he circulated his energy and followed the paths the lightning took. He felt the paralysis being lifted on the body parts that his body was able to circulate into and felt at ease. With this discovery, he fueled his whole body with energy, chasing and eliminating all the lightning element still left on his body.

Just then, the fourth lightning arrived as he was driving out the remnant lightning on his body.

-3

Jun became dumbfounded when he saw the damage done to him. Although he still felt the sting from being burnt, the paralysis was almost negligent compared to the previous attacks.

He stared at the charging dark clouds, feeling bewildered. He begun thinking of what possible reasons could have resulted to the damage reduction, and could only infer that it was because of his endurance stat.

According to logic, every lightning strike becomes stronger after the other. His current endurance was 37, and the fourth strike that should have dealt 40 damage, only dealt 3.

To solidify his theory, he stopped circulating the energy on his body and waited for the fifth lightning tribulation.

He could afford this experiment since he had 41 strength that translates to 820 Health.

If he was a regular person, to reach the boundary of level 10 would mean that you earned 18 stat points. The lightning tribulation damage pattern meant that someone who had 450 Health, which translates to 23 power could survive the tribulation and successfully reach level 10. Even if a weak woman who only had 6 or 7 initial power could easily reach the 23 power stat mark. Now that endurance even helps out negate some damage, the difficulty of surpassing a tribulation would become much easier.

The heavens above rumbled once more and brought forth another lightning.