2025-05-14 21:49:44Kirin lay flat on the ground, looked up at the sky seeing the clouds disperse, he felt the wind against his body and knew for a fact that he was entirely naked.
"Shit"
He had also found another eerie fact, he seemed to have total immunity to lightning. This was something he had never heard of nor had he expected it. Anyone could be attacked by any element, even the one that you were primarily trained up in as the base for your cultivation. He had never heard of a case where one had total and complete immunity to an element.
Yet here he was, completely unscathed by the attack that came from the heavens, he smiled at himself as he covered his eyes with his right arm, the tears swelled up but he pushed them down.
He had survived, he escaped death.
Kirin heard footsteps walking towards him and turned to see who it was. Tharros looked at Kirin, his jaw slack, eyes wide with surprise.
"By the gods, boy you actually survived that?" Tharros asked genuinely surprised.
He had never met a single human who had survived that attack of his unscathed, and yet here was an underaged pale-looking boy, lying naked at the core of his attack. The thought made him shiver.
"Why didn't you tell me you were going to attack like that, I would have done things differently," Kirin cursed while he did his best to hide his stark nakedness. He felt embarrassed, but more than that, he felt used. He felt abandoned and now he felt disdain towards Tharros.
Tharros sighed.
"I didn't know what to tell you boy. I doubt you would have understood, but I told you to protect me so I could cultivate and heal my leg injury," Tharros said, pointing at the place where a deep gash of flesh could be seen, it wasn't completely healed yet.
Kirin saw this and calmed down, he looked at Tharros, "Then how did you make that attack? It was... Powerful" he admitted, although he had near immunity, he could feel parts of his body being stiff from that attack.
Tharros smiled at himself proudly, "Of course it was, it's one of my ultimate techniques. Unfortunately, the thing that took Greg's body escaped, I've been looking around for that one" he said exhausted.
"Can you teach me?" Kirin asked, suddenly forgetting all of his frustrations.
Tharros smiled "Boy, everyone learns stuff like this at the academy, I'm sure you know why the lethality of attacks differs from person to person".
"Because of the soul energy and intent" Kirin answered.
' I can't believe I'm being lectured while I'm butt-baked', he sighed.
Tharros nodded, "Exactly, at the beginning of the fight I hadn't used much soul essence to begin with which was why I was able to put in just enough essence into that attack to kill them off," he said pointing at the ground where the melted rocks had begun to cool down slowly.
Tharros pulled off his coat and threw it at Kirin, "Come on kid, we've found what we were looking for, let's head out and go back to the clan " he said calmly.
"Wait, what about our fallen comrades, don't you think we should look for them?" Kirin asked hesitantly.
"Fallen?" Tharros asked, looking confused. Then he understood what Kirin had meant and began chuckling.
"No boy, it seems I forgot to tell you but on my missions, I prioritize the lives of my comrades over to mine so if the mission gets too dangerous, It's an order for them to pack up and run away, reporting back to the clan no matter what," he said before walking off.
Kirin quickly stood up and donned the cloak given to him, it was thick and furry and smelled of sweat, he began following Tharros, watching where he stepped, careful not to disturb any other sleeping creatures that may be around.
"So, they're headed back to the clan?" Kirin asked after he caught up with Tharros.
Tharros thought for a bit, "Well you see I'm not exactly sure, those men haven't ever been the type to run back when I said so" he said as he continued walking.
Unsure of what he should say and how he should say his best words, Kirin spoke, "I saw some of your men die today, I'm sorry I couldn't protect them, I was too scared to move or do anything back then... Until I had someone to protect," he said looking at Tharros.
Tharros scratched his head before looking at Kirin, "How do I say this Boy, when we go to missions, we do so knowing that one of us may never return, we have accepted that because we have seen death face to face too many times to doubt it, it's the code we live by" Tharros said.
"Before death, life reigns supreme," Tharros started.
"Beyond death, life is sought anew" Kirin finished.
"Now let's go find those brats that abandoned me while I bled to death," he said with a wide grin on his face, Kirin followed after him feeling somewhat comfortable around the burly man. The wind currents did wonders to him as he walked naked under the coat.
"Also, tell no one except The Grandmaster about your invulnerability to lightning, no one else must hear about this," Tharros said in a low tone, Kirin was about to ask why, when Seth and two other warriors jumped down from a tree in the distance.
Seth tackled Kirin into a tight hug, "I thought you were dead" Seth said holding Kirin as tightly as he could.
"I also did too, Captain saved me in the most disturbing way" Kirin replied, Seth pulled away and looked at Kirin, only then did he notice.
"Where are your clothes" Seth asked, Kirin wasn't sure how to respond, he remembered what Tharros had just told him and didn't know how else to tell Seth.
"I hugged a naked man... A naked man," Seth said shivering, Kirin smiled as he watched his friend fool about, he was still the same Seth, even after what they had just been through.
The rest of the warriors came out, Kirin did a silent head count and realized that there were three missing. Three brave warriors never to be seen again, yet the men seemed unfazed, they laughed as they reunited with their captain.
All except one, he squatted on the ground and kept mumbling words to himself, Tharros approached the man and asked "What's with him? Did he hit his head or something?"
"No Captain, he's been like that ever since we began to fight those things and he's been mumbling one single word over and over again" one of the warriors responded.
Kirin walked closer to the man, just close enough to hear what he had been saying over and over again.
"Fluxxara.”
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Chapter 99. The Lost Shrine.
Further in, the ruined shrine opened up into a circular chamber. Faint light filtered through the cracks in the ceiling above, casting narrow beams onto the dust covered floor. The air here didn’t move, it sat heavy, like the room hadn’t breathed in centuries.He stared at the wall murals.They stretched around the chamber in a single band of dark painted images, figures cloaked in black fire, holding lightning in their hands that wasn’t white or blue or gold… but black, like his.Kirin stepped forward slowly, scanning the figures. Their faces were hidden, or burned away by time. But the power they were using in the drawings was unmistakable. Black lightning, black flames, all were elements of Chaos.At the center of the back wall, a larger figure stood surrounded by others kneeling before it. It held a staff shaped like a spiral. Behind it, the mural showed a broken sky, and rising from its chest was the same lightning Kirin had used just hours ago.He didn’t understand the writing b
Chapter 98. Sparks and Stone.
The corpse of the creature lay twisted in the sand, smoke curling from the gaping holes Kirin’s lightning had burned through its chest and limbs. The air still hummed faintly with static. Kirin knelt beside the body, his hands shaking, not from fear, but from exhaustion, hunger, and the deep ache of something new taking root in his bones.He didn’t fully understand the black lightning yet. It wasn’t like the blue lightning he used to control. That had been an extension of his will. A tool, a weapon he could wield like a sword.But this? This was different.This lightning had a mind of its own.He clenched his fists and tried to summon it again, but nothing.No crackle, no spark, not even a warm tingle in his veins.He tried harder, focusing on the same flow of power he had felt earlier. His Dantian pulsed faintly, but the lightning didn’t come.“Come on,” he muttered. “Just a little... Anything is okay.”Still nothing.He stood up slowly and looked at the creature’s charred remains. I
Chapter 97: Bones in the Sand.
Kirin woke to pain. A low, gnawing ache that stretched from the base of his spine to the tips of his fingers. His throat was dry, his lips were cracked, and his body felt like it had been scraped against stone for days. He tried to move, but even blinking sent sharp flashes of pain through his body.The air was heavier here. Not just thick with heat or smoke, but heavy like it carried the weight of souls. Every breath felt stolen and the ground felt rough to the touch, jagged sand mixed with ash and bone. That much he could tell. His face was pressed against it.He groaned and sat up slowly. His body protested with every movement that he made, and dark dust clung to his clothes. Cuts lined his arms and shoulders, his blood had dried into dark lines down his skin. He felt weak, drained, like whatever energy had carried him through the fall had finally run out.He looked around.The sky above was a dull reddish grey. No sun, no moon. Just swirling clouds that cracked with silent flashes
Chapter 96. The Endless Pit
The air hit him like a wall.One second Kirin was floating in eerie silence, the next thing, he was falling.The fall ended with a brutal slam, his body hitting cracked stone with a loud thud. Dust and ash exploded outward. He rolled once, twice, before finally skidding to a stop against what felt like sharp rock and scorched earth.Everything ached.Every joint in his body, every nerve. His ears rang from the sudden impact as he lost balance, and he blinked rapidly to get rid of the dust and ash in his eyes. But no matter how many times he blinked, the view didn’t change.Dark.Not the darkness from the night, but an unnatural darkness.Above him, the sky churned with black clouds that looked like smoke trapped with nowhere to go. They moved in slow spirals, casting sickly shadows over everything. Lightning flashed behind them, but it wasn’t the kind he knew. These weren’t clouds made from rain or thunder. These were clouds made from something he didn't know.Ash rained down in thin,
Chapter 95. Black Lightning Reborn.
Kirin had been falling for three more days.Three days of no food, no water, no rest. Just a never ending drop through a world that had no bottom, no walls, and no answers. He didn’t know if his body was even human anymore. He didn’t feel hunger like he used to. Thirst was just a dull ache now, buried under a mountain of questions and hollow grief.But what surprised him the most, more than the lack of pain, more than the silence was that his essence was still there.That shouldn’t have been possible.Seth had taken everything.Kirin had felt his lightning ripped out of him. He had screamed as it was torn from his soul, felt himself die like a part of him was taken away forever, and yet... he could still feel something. It wasn’t lightning but it wasn’t entirely unfamiliar.He didn’t know if that made him lucky or cursed.He stared down at his own body while falling. There was no gravity, but it still felt like down. His arms floated near his sides, his robes torn and scorched from th
Chapter 94. Echoes While Falling.
Kirin was falling.There was no wind in this place, no gravity he could feel, yet his body kept tumbling downward into the black expanse endlessly.Time passed, though he had no way to measure it. Minutes? Hours? Days? Years? It all blurred together into the same numbing stretch of nothing.He tried to scream once, just to see if sound worked here. It didn’t. The moment the sound left his lips, it vanished into the void like a breath into cold water.So he stopped trying and he thought.That was the worst part, there was nothing else to do.No light, no end, no ground. Just himself, and his thoughts.The first ones were about Seth.His brother.Not by blood, but by bond. They had grown together. Trained together. Failed and laughed and bled side by side. Seth had saved his life once, back when they were both twelve and nearly killed by a misfired spell from a higher cultivator.Kirin remembered how Seth had stood in front of him, arms wide, to distract a mountain bare from attacking K
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