Rex tries to channel the lightning mana to his fingers repeatedly,
Blitz!
“Come on work! I need to at least learn this one skill”, Rex shouted desperately, he’s training is not going well.
Every time he channels the lightning mana to his fingers, it failed because it is really as heavy.
It is akin to his body pulling an anchor from the bottom of the sea, it is really heavy that a new Awakened like him can’t handle.
The lightning mana inside his body always went back to their original path after they got into Rex’s arm, while the surrounding lightning mana is even harder.
During hours of training non-stop, he tries hundreds of times but fails.
He slammed himself to the ground with heavy breaths, it is mentally tiring to channel mana to conjure spells.
If someone knew how many times Rex tried, they might’ve fainted from shock to just how much stamina Rex has that even a master of Mana Control can’t do.
“No matter how much I try, it’s just not working”, he’s looking at the night sky tiredly, but the drive within him is still burning.
He sits back down and closes his eyes, ‘Okay let’s calm down, let’s try to feel the Flash spell first’
Rex stands up and activates the flash spell,
The lightning mana rush to his legs instantly as if there’s no obstruction, it didn’t stop and gather on his leg wrist.
It created a bubble before suddenly,
SWOOSH!!
His body flashes into a black current before appearing at the other end of the room, Rex was feeling the course of lightning mana.
He did that a couple of times before he finally gets a hint from it.
‘Every time I activate the Flash spell, the lightning mana in the surrounding only got sucked into my legs’, Rex thought.
He can clearly feel the surrounding mana only got sucked into his legs, unlike how he tries before.
During his tries, he absorbs the lightning mana to anywhere inside his body before he channels it to his arms, this causes the burden to become too heavy.
Snap!
“That’s it! I should focus the absorption of the surrounding lightning mana to my arm that way it will lessen the burden to channel it”, he then immediately tries it out.
He absorbs the surrounding mana straight to his arms, he also channels the lightning mana inside his body at the same time.
Rex frowns for a bit but it is not as hard as before, he can channel it to his arms.
Blitz!
His fingers are cracking with black lightning, he successfully gathers the mana to his fingers and he can see black lightning blitzing around his fingers.
“Shit!”, he stumbles as he can’t contain the mana in his fingers.
BLITZ!
The black lightning reaches a couple of meters in front of him before it disappears, it was also rather weak.
Rex is excited seeing this, he manages to conjure a spell without the system.
He tries this multiple times, the channeling inside his body started to smoothen up as his fingers cracked with black lightning.
“Hold it…Hold it….”, Rex tries to hold the mana in his fingers.
The lightning mana started to gather like crazy making a literal bubble in his fingers, the black lightning is coursing like a snake crazily.
Rex then aims it towards the training dummy before he let it out, “Lightning Salvo!”
BLITZ!!
This time, the black lightning reaches more than ten meters away striking the training dummy.
The training dummy got zapped by the black lightning, it only charred some of it but it is evident that this time it is almost a perfect Lightning Salvo spell.
Rex nodded his head, he’s feeling rather proud but he didn’t get it to his head.
He knows that the spell he used is rather normal than the other one he has, and also Lightning Salvo is not an offensive spell rather it is a Utility Spell.
The training dummy didn’t get much damage from it but Rex can see there’s a feeble piece of black lightning that is stuck on the training dummy.
It is small and almost unseen by the eye but it is there.
Looking at this, Rex takes the spellbook again and reads it some more.
It is stated in the Lightning Salvo spellbook that the spell’s purpose is to leave those marks on a target, it can be chained by the Mystic Shock spell.
The Lightning Salvo spell didn’t stop there, the true Lightning Salvo attack is versatile.
It is a spell to leave marks by striking them with a lightning strike that can bend, it is supposed to be an attack that can change trajectory to intercept the dodging enemy.
Rex tries to bend the spell but it is way harder than it said, it is so hard for him to control the Lightning Salvo the further it gets.
He tries it multiple times before he finally calls it a day.
The quarter moon shone down from the sky like an angel amidst the darkness, it brings a comfortable feeling for a Werewolf like Rex.
Just as he wanted to go out, Rex remembered the reward from the system.
He opened the inventory tab and tap the Invincible item description,
</invincible>
A rank ten one-time use defensive item that can block one attack from a rank ten or lower entity. You will be in a weakened state after using this item.
Reading this, Rex was surprised, ‘Another rank ten-item, it can block any attack from rank 10 or below? Wait a minute, is there even a rank ten?’
The system describes a rank ten as if there’s a rank higher than that, it makes Rex thinks the unthinkable, ‘There’s no way that there’s an even higher rank than 9 right?’
Any Human, Supernatural, or even Mutated Beast only got classified to rank 9, there are no such records of a rank higher than nine.
This makes Rex quite shocked, if this news was spread then it will be chaos.
After that, Rex decided to not think about it as he got out of the training room to get some food outside, he’s starving from all that training.
“I wonder if Edward already does my favor”, Rex thought as he walks slowly to a nearby food store.
~
Meanwhile,
Adhara and Rosie after they left the quiet room they went out to get food, they ate in the university cafeteria before they went outside of the university to find ice cream for Rosie.
After buying ice cream, they wanted to go straight back.
They’re currently on the back entrance of the university to avoid the crowd, Faraday University students like to mess with them and it is annoying.
“Are you nervous about tomorrow?”, Rosie asks while she’s licking the vanilla ice cream.
Adhara shrugs her shoulders and said, “It’s a lie if I say I don’t but I’m not that nervous for the fight tomorrow, maybe a little bit nervous during the third round”
“I know right, especially Rex will definitely mock us if we lose”, Rosie said while picturing Rex’s annoying face, she bites the ice cream cone angrily because of that.
While they’re walking up the stairs, Adhara suddenly frowns.
She tries to relax her body and walks normally, she then said, “Rosie, didn’t you say you wanted to go to the toilet? There’s a toilet there, I’ll wait here for you”
Rosie slapped her forehead, “Oh yeah, I forgot that I wanted to pee”, she then ran towards the toilet.
After Rosie went out of her sight, she then said slowly, “I know you’re there, there’s no point in hiding”
Adhara felt that someone is tailing them, although she didn’t look much she’s also a half-Werewolf and her senses are sharper than a normal human.
The back entrance is just beside the back cafeteria of the university, the students of Faraday University didn’t hang around here because the stores on this side closed earlier than the main cafeteria.
From the corner of the place, a white figure appeared.
The white figure is tall and robust, he’s wearing a white mask that covered his face and also he’s emitting a fiery aura that suppressed Adhara’s fire.
The only thing noticeable from the white figure is the reddish daggers on his waist.
“Who are you?”, Adhara asks calmly but her head is a mess.
The white figure walks around playfully and said, “Why don’t you try and find out?”
He then dashes like a phantom, he appears in front of Adhara and fiery punch her from the sides like a coiling snake.
His move is smooth and calculated, his movement screams expert.
BAM!
Adhara held up her arms and blocks the white figure’s punch, the collision spat fire to the surroundings and sent Adahra screeching on the ground.
She then rolled to the side and get back on her feet.
“Hmm, not bad but I expected more for someone around Rex Silverstar”, the white figure said jokingly, his voice is muffled so it is hard to hear his voice.
Hearing this, Adhara frowns in confusion.
‘He knows Rex? Is he from the white assassins from before? but that’s impossible, one of Faraday University’s students?’, she thought but she can’t pinpoint who exactly the white figure is.
“Stop thinking so hard, focus on me”, the white figure said.
Adhara readies her stance, the exchange from before instantly tells her that the white figure is at least a rank four Awakened and an expert in close-quarter combat.
Although her heart is beating like a drum, she felt no hostility from the white figure.
But just as she was studying the white figure, the white figure suddenly vanished like a phantom and appear on her back.
It was so fast that she can’t react fast enough,
BAM!
A punch landed solidly on Adhara’s waist, it was a heavy right hook that makes her gritted her teeth in pain.
The white figure didn’t stop, he rains blow after blow endlessly.
Adhara was overwhelmed, every time she counter-attacked somehow the white figure already predicts her movement and punch her blind spot.
She was utterly outclassed by the white figure in close-quarter combat.
BAM!
Adhara was pushed backward with bruises all over her body, she raises her gaze and said fearlessly, “You know that there’s CCTV everywhere here right? you will not be able to walk from this”
Hearing this, the white figure chuckles, “Don’t worry about that”
The white figure turns his body and waves to the CCTV on the corner, “Hello there, enjoying the show?”, he said playfully.
Seeing this, Adhara was stunned, ‘He’s definitely a part of the university, did they come to take revenge this fast?’, she thought.
She then gathers the fire mana around her body, she wanted to make a loud noise to attract people.
“Good decision”, the white figure said.
Then suddenly, fire mana around the white figure get contracted as it burst into a scorching flame that wanted to engulf Adhara.
SWOOSH!
Looking at this, Adhara makes a fire barrier around her as she tries to dodge it.
Her movement is not fast so she got engulfed by the white figure’s flame, her barrier didn’t last long as it got destroyed.
The fire burns her body making some of her clothes burned, it exposes her arms.
The white figure was quite shocking at the scene, he was not shocked by how Adhara survived his attack but rather the scene in front of him.
‘This girl, he will be quite surprised after I tell him this’, the white figure thought.
Then suddenly,
Creak!
Rosie came out of the toilet while humming a song, she was not aware of the fight that happened to Adhara.
Adhara glance at Rosie with a panicked look, she looked back to the white figure but he’s already gone.
“Adhara?! What happened to you?!”
~
Rex already ate kebabs to his stomach content, he was satisfied and his mood lightens up.
He ordered the kebab on a store outside of Faraday University, he’s currently on his way towards the entrance of the university.
While walking, a few students that still up glance at him.
They’re whispering to each other, Rex can hear that some of them are mocking him while some of them are curious about him.
His room can be accessed through the side entrance, he’s bored so he decided to go back through a different path rather than the main entrance.
The path to the side entrance is quite desolated, maybe because it’s already late that it is desolated.
On Rex’s side, there’s a big garden beside the Gem of Knowledge building. It is the place where the students study researches, hang out, and also the library.
Rex wanted to finish his usual daily quest so he decided to sit on the garden bench.
He glanced at the surroundings and saw that there’s literally nobody here, there’s even no CCTV.
His senses are so sharp that he’s never unaware of the CCTVs around the university but this time, he didn’t found any CCTVs so he felt relaxed.
The sound of insects singing together and also the shining moon makes him relaxed, “This is nice”
He closes his eyes trying to enjoy the night, the night breeze charges his mind from the event that happens in the last couple of days.
After 30 minutes, his eyes opened abruptly.
Rex stands up from the bench and looks around with an alert expression, his Supernatural Sense suddenly tingles just like before!
He looks around the place when suddenly a hand taps his shoulder.