While I was traveling and training my body, there was one thing I could make use of aside from my sealed magic core.
It was my class [Ruler of Lightning].
Although I don't have any announcement of magic in my body, that didn't mean my lightning magic was limited as well, as I have said before.
Therefore, developing the usage of my lightning magic was a must.
However, there was one problem right there.
The lack of reference.
Let me explain this in detail.
Now, when I was training with my sword, first I trained while remembering the teachings of Austin, and then later I got taught by Akira, and then I developed my own sword.
In the case of magic, there were books that showed how to use my magic or the things I saw in the game that I could use for reference.
But when it came to my lightning magic, it was a lot different than any other.
Because I neither chant nor generate any mana from my core to use that.
It is most likely an instinctual thing.
Something you would realize on your own but wouldn't know how you realized or how you did it.
Therefore, most of the time, it was me exploring my lightning magic by experimenting with things without not having any direction or something that would show me the way.
I was mindlessly wandering around, trying to create things like I did while torturing that bandit leader.
Until a certain point, I couldn't find anything new to use.
But at that moment, I came across a dungeon.
Well, to be honest, calling it coming across a dungeon is not that right.
I explored a dungeon I had visited in the game to get the item 'Muramana' for the sake of my future magic.
And at that time, inside the dungeon, I looted a book.
More precisely, a parchment that had the records of a type of martial art.
In the game, it was a simple footwork to use barehanded.
Monk Foot.
That was the name of the footwork.
However, there was one thing that gained my attention.
In the game, it was not detailly described how this footwork worked, but now being in the real world, there was one thing that differed from the other works.
This Monk Foot was not using any mana because it was clashing the person's magic veins making the mana circulation disturbed.
It was simply using the aura of one's own body.
But there was something weird when I tried.
It was like another force was being generated, but I couldn't pinpoint that exactly.
Seeing something unknown, a feeling of exploration aroused inside me, making me curious.
And that was the driving point of the move I was about to use, although I had yet to test it.
'Extreme Thunder Arts.'
A type of lighting mana usage that I started to derive on my own, which is still undeveloped for now.
*****
/CRACKLE/ /CRACKLE/ /CRACKLE/
'Extreme Thunder Arts. Godspeed.'
With his hands clasped, his eyes focused on the environment; Callius was standing with pure black lightning flowing through his body.
With his veins protruding, his eyes shining blue, with blood flowing through his nose, he was standing there waiting for that embodiment of destruction to come.
"Now, show me. Show this old magician how the world developed. Show me how you can achieve the thing I couldn't."
With his hands raised to the sky, the magician mumbled, expanding the vortex.
/BOOM/ /BOOM/
Everything was pure destruction, with even the huge throne he was sitting on slowly crashing.
/RUMBLE/
And the moment that huge vortex reached Callius' body, lightning flashed, making everything bright for a second.
/BOOM/
Making another sound of an explosion, this time, the reason not being magician but Callius' speed surpassing the sound's.
The only thing that could be seen was a pitch-black point moving, looking like the lightning itself.
"Ah…. How magnificent."
/RUMBLE/
Seeing the pitch-black lightning flowing, the magician mumbled in amazement.
And at that moment, the lightning bolt disappeared.
Revealing a white-haired young man with blue eyes.
With his hand holding a lance.
A pitch-black lance that was simply conjured of lightning.
"Extreme Thunder Arts. Nightbringer Lance."
Raising the lance, he mumbled.
"Earth and stone…. Waters of the Deep…. Whispers of Wind…. Flame of the Giants…."
"Heed my call, show me the power…."
Seeing the magician still chanting even after that magnificent display of destruction, Callius didn't show any signs of hesitation.
'It won't matter, anyway.'
"Grant my will….. Nature's shield, Ward of Air, Fire of Serpent, River of Kraken…."
With his hands wide open, the magician shouted, revealing a scene that just came from pure fantasy.
/HOWL/
A bright green shield covered the magician with a strong wind swirling around.
A bright flame rose into the sky, and below was a wave of water that was supplied by the magician itself.
In the air, one could see a pitch-black lightning lance facing the huge fireball, followed by the water itself.
/BOOOOOOOM/
And following was nothing but pure destruction that showed no signs of ending.
/TING/
Removing everything that came his way, a wave of explosion soared to the sky, even destroying the ceiling itself.
In the bright clash of powers, that would mean only one person would be able to leave it alive.
A clash of one young man who knew what he wanted and a clash of an old magician that was lost the feeling of wanting everything.
In the midst of the smoke, a person revealed.
With his clothes tattered.
With his mask broken.
With his arms, legs, a chest bleeding.
With his white hair slowly turning black from white.
With his eyes closed.
With his mouth released, a breath filled with coldness.
And in front of him was a man that was clinging to a staff.
A man once had nothing but desired everything.
In the end, he again became a man left with nothing in his hands, but still, he had a smile on his face.
"Oh' young magician…. The one from the lineage of gods…. It was a good final fight…."
/COUGH/
While coughing a mouthful of blood, the man said without losing his smile.
"Now, take the thing you came there for….."
"I will."
/STAB/
With his sword piercing the man's chest, Callius mumbled.
"See you in Hell, Xenon….."
"Cough….. We will see if it exists…."
"Believe me, it does. And you will be the one of those on deepest floors….."
