Chapter 39 - Lighting Forest Centre

As Kyle moved into the forest, he tried remembering and executing what the Dominion Technique said about the lighting element affinity, and it's uses.

Even though Kyle's speed has already improved drastically, the change was not too big to make a difference in regards to being faster than clouds.

Kyle also hoped that the lighting would give him some affinity, but the energy was too small to matter, and so he was forced to pray that he can reach the heart and hide there before being fried to a crisp.

'The system is so generous. It saved me from the lighting and did all the work, making it somehow linked to my soul. The lighting clearly has sentience and will be a huge benefit for me later. I can already draw some lighting energy from it directly, but due to it being too weak I don't want to overdo it just yet.' Kyle was rushing through the forest no-stop, and he used every trick he could think of, 'I seem to be running a lot in this world, what is up with that? I hated running on earth.'

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Kyle has been running for at least a good hour now and has reached a ravine that had a pitch-black bottom. The ravine was very deep, but occasionally some blue lighting would zap at the bottom as if something extremely charged was within. The ravine spanned for at least a couple of kilometre in length, and the width was too large for Kyle to jump.

That has slowed down Kyle considerably as he now had to cross the ravine completely.

The air was getting colder and colder, and the lighting was starting to become more and more savage.

Kyle was getting nervous as the clouds didn't seem to want to stop, and he wasn't sure if getting to the centre of the forest would protect him. Maybe he had to travel further to the end of the forest.

Kyle was left with 30 minutes before the clouds would catch up if he kept on moving like this. 'I have to think of a plan to survive somehow.'

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After 25 more minutes passed, Kyle was now nearly at the centre of the forest. He could feel that he was nearing as the lightning energy seemed to be building up in the air.

There was a reason for everything in this world. For there to be such huge lighting and it being so dangerous meant that something was causing it. Something that was most likely spreading from the centre. For Kyle, it could be either extremely dangerous and kill him straight away, or it can be a huge benefit that he wouldn't be able to get otherwise. This idea of this gamble really worried Kyle.

He could see that some of the earth now had some white and blue roots in and out of the earth in the area around him. They were nearly transparent with many colourful lights playing inside. They gave an uneasy feeling to Kyle.

One of the things that started to occur was a smaller sized version of the ravines that had pitch-black depth and some lighting sparkling from time to time. There were many of them, and all of them gave a bad feeling to Kyle as well.

After 3 minutes, Kyle nearly reached the centre of the forest. The lighting was already right behind Kyle, and he could feel the energy with his back. Just when he was about to cross the last meadow, that was a kilometre in length, separating him and some bright light in front of him, a roar resounded, and a lighting strike, the size of a skyscraper hit the place where Kyle was heading.

An incredibly powerful lightning strike that Kyle could see came from right behind him. Even though not right above Kyle's head, the clouds could wait any longer and started to rumble and send the most terrifying and crazy powerful lighting strikes Kyle has ever seen.

The lighting was not only yellow like before. Every light strike was of different colour and was the size of a giant mountain slamming from heaven. Kyle was really close to the lighting, and he didn't have time to realise what was happening. He observed the lighting that formed and where it struck when some of the lighting elements zipped straight at Kyle.

Again this lighting didn't want to burn Kyle's physical body. It was aiming directly at Kyle's dantian to strike and kill him. This was much more dangerous than what normal lighting would do.

Kyle felt that lighting entered his meridians. Multiple lightings enveloped his body and were trying to break in. The lighting itself was very dangerous, but it would break all the meridians straight away once it entered the body. The pearl knew for a fact and was starting to spin faster and faster. Sending the qi and azure energy from itself to every corner of Kyle's body.

As soon as the lighting entered the meridians, it would cover it and make it bend under its will. All of the lightings started travelling to Kyle's dantian obediently and very slowly started getting absorbed by the pearl.

Kyle was certain that this would benefit him, but there was no telling what would happen if he got struck by real lighting. Even though his body did get a lot stronger, it was still a body of flesh and blood, and such a huge voltage could potentially cause difficulties that would be too hard to resolve. That is why Kyle wanted to move to dodge somehow this huge lighting strikes that were aimed at the centre of the forest, the place where Kyle wanted to hide.

What Kyle realised after trying to move to the side is that his body was frozen in place. He actually couldn't do anything but blink his eyes. It seems that the lighting even though was calm and was slowly travelling. Its presence still had a huge effect on Kyle's body. It paralysed him fully, and as more and more lighting was entering into the meridians, it means that Kyle wasn't able to do anything about his situation but wait. He was even afraid to move his qi not to disturb the pearl's work.

The worst part was that Kyle could see how some of the lightings were initially aimed at the centre of the forest but sometimes would send second lighting that would follow it and hit an area close to it. If that random lighting hit Kyle, he would evaporate in a matter of seconds.