47 Chapter 47 - Lighting Forest Trials

Kyle was frozen to the ground. He was mid-swing to destroy the huge stone soldiers crystal, but his lighting somehow killed the soldier without even striking.

'Why did this happen? Am I not supposed to fight them directly, but rather use my lighting power to subdue them?' Kyle pondered on what just happened.

Again, just like before, a harp resounded that fully recovered Kyle's spiritual power and qi. With that, all the stone soldiers' bodies disappeared, and a tunnel appeared in the hall's middle.

'If I understand everything correctly, this should be the path to the second trial. Let me practice the lighting step and ponder on what just happened before I go.'

Kyle had to make sure that if the trial's difficulty increased exponentially, he had all the tools available to him. His qi reserves were full, but there were some scratches and slices on his body. He sat in the meditative position to close up the wounds.

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After 2 hours, Kyle stood up and carried on forward.

The trials were getting harder and harder, and each time the soldiers were getting tougher and tougher. The third level of trial had such strong stone soldiers that Kyle's normal strike did not damage to their body. The only way that he could kill them is to use Lighting Step.

That is why, due to the continuous practice of using Lighting Step for both movements and attacking, Kyle's understanding and knowledge of inner workings of the technique have improved.

Kyle also kept on using the Wave of Conviction when he was surrounded to quickly take out and slow down some of the soldiers so that he can have a more fair fight while they are repairing themselves.

That is why this trial not only had rewards that Kyle would get after completing some of the tiers, Kyle also benefited greatly from these trials simply because he could fight and experience life-death battles constantly.

Kyle moved faster and faster, and together with using Lighting Step, he became a flashing after image that everywhere passed, destroyed the stone soldiers.

At the end of the third trial, again, out of the pile of dead stone soldiers, a huge 10-metre tall person appeared.

This, 'general', as Kyle called them, was not wearing a normal heavy armour. This one was wearing Japanese style samurai armour together with holding a katana like a weapon.

The sword had a long handle that the general held with both hands and the sword edge was black in colour on one side and silver in colour on the other. As the samurai struck down on him, Kyle could feel the immense strength that was coming. Also, the unbelievable power of lighting started to come down from heaven together with the strike.

As Kyle was a little too slow, he nearly got hit. With the execution of lighting technique, Kyle appeared on the other side of the ravine. On the spot where Kyle stood, the lighting together with the huge katana made a deep crater. Considering that Kyle could barely damage the rock, this strength was unbelievable.

'So this is the power of the third level of trials. I have improved considerably, but if I want to challenge the 10th level, I will need to improve even crazier!' Kyle closed his eyes and started executing the Lighting Step. This general had 5 stones that had to be deactivated, with the biggest one stationed where its forehead was.

Kyle was easily able to dodge, and in a matter of 30 minutes of non-stop fighting managed to disable 4 stones.

The last 5 stone, no matter how Kyle tried, didn't bend.

Kyle dodged one more strike that it threw out and with the full pounce hit the last stone with full-powered leg charged with Lightning Step. The craziest part is that the stone didn't even flicker and stayed fully powered.

'Can it be that my lighting element energy is not enough?' The lighting soul was giving as much as it could to Kyle, and after absorbing lighting energy from all of the soldiers it has already upgraded to another level, but it seemed that it was not enough.

Kyle, after striking with full power and trying to execute a killing blow, was fully exposed. This was when the general slashed down with full power of his katana and lighting energy at Kyle.

As he had no power to dodge, he experienced the full power of the strike. All of his inner organs shook, and he spat out blood. He flew all the way to the wall, and his body shook once again after hitting it.

Kyle was about to lose his consciousness, but he couldn't afford to die just like that.

He barely was able to stand up and with the last power decided to strike.

He used a full-power strike of Wave of Conviction as well as charging up his lighting step to get as close as possible. Kyle rushed to the general's head with a lighting step, zipping from side to side.

Finally, he dodged the katana strike with lighting step and wanted to attack with a wave of conviction, but Kyle suddenly felt something very distinct and different. A simple and small feeling that he got from both his hands and legs.

Kyle tried to feel it, and after he was certain that he could try to get deeper feeling executed both the lighting step and the wave of conviction at the same time.

The Wave didn't start coming from both hands nor from the legs. The wave started to go from the left-hand area and specifically the meridians of that hand. The hand accumulated the qi to use the wave of conviction, and the lightning energy also fused with that qi. Kyle pushed out, and a terrifying boom rang out. The stone that was in the middle of the general's forehead now had a huge hole, the size of a large cannonball. The stone straight away went white and the general collapsed.

Kyle bounced off the falling general's body and fell to the ground.