The Rise Of Calamity

Chapter 57 - Lightning Of Absolution

As we all lunged towards the shirtless wizard's neck, a different expression was etched into every single one of our faces. While Keaurin was stern and serious as he was traveling at high velocities towards the wizard, my grandma had a worried and maybe even scared expression etched into hers. Me on the other hand, had a huge grin on my face, as if this was the most exciting thing that had ever happened to me. Thankfully, I had put on my mask in time before the lunge, covering most my smile completely.

My eyes were now once again shut, therefore not showing a single speck of the emotions I felt to anyone, yet my aura intent was still there. A burst of bloodlust escaped my body with a small flare of my soul flame while my entire body had started to shake with excitement for what is about to come.

'This must be the beast's doing! They not only brainwashed her, but they made her into a monster too?! I'll kill every single one of them after this fight! HOW DARE TH-' Before my grandmother could finish her string of thought, a loud thunder sounded into he distance as multiple clouds submerged into each other while creating a hurricane like gigantic cloud, circulating around the eye of the storm, which just happened to be the wizard, just really high up.

Lighting bolts shot towards all of us yet everyone had enough time to dodge, me being the first of course. I had already felt the ionisation of the atoms in the air, ionising every atom with such a high voltage from bottom of the cloud to under my feet, and the fire elemental particles that I felt moving in a certain way. The moment my hairs started to stand, I created a huge earthen wall while moving away in case the wall was not enough.

'so that's how lightning works huh... precise, calm and calculated, yet what truly happens doesnt meet the eye until you either see it through mana vision or know a little science. If I could use my Mana vision right now, it would have been really helpful' I thought while watching the lightning bolt hit the wall I created and crumble it within the same second

My grandmother used her years of fighting experience and her trained instincts to move away at the right moment, whole Keaurin could hear the crackles of the lightning before they could even come, allowing his to create a conductor out of some of the conductive metals he found underground, sending the lightning straight to the ground due to being to big to dodge it properly.

We kept advancing, dodging attack after attack, getting closer and closer to the man until we all felt a sudden tinge of danger from all around us. Every single one of us bounced back out of the danger zone, completely avoiding the kind of danger that was about to befall us if we were to stay within that zone.

A huge wave of electricity erupted from the center of the wizard's body, not only enveloping him in bright cyan electricity, but everything around him in a 20 meter radius. The rocks around him had vaporized and were either turned into smoke or ashes. The air had started to sizzle within a 50 meter radius of the man, while in a 100 meter radius, every single living being within it felt like their bodies were boiled inside out.

The man snorted seeing that we had avoided his attack. His body had seemed to have become even more frail than it once was, making everything from his cheekbones to his ribcage even more visible than they once were.

Bolt of electricity suddenly started to shoot from within the huge cyan ball at impeccable speeds. Creating a vacuum like I would have done against fire magic wouldn't have worked while it would have also drained the little mana I had left.

The next few mins felt like I was playing dodge ball. The wizard kept attacking us with all his power, continuously throwing bolts of electricity towards the tree of us. At one point, the rest of the bystanders (Elaina, my brothers and the others) tried to join in and while healer started to support us, but they quickly realised how outclassed they were in this fight. Apparently there were names to the stages of the mana heart people can have which are named accordingly. The wizard, Advanced mage/ knight or even paladins were all titles given by the kingdoms which were accepted by most kingdoms and empires, no matter who they sided with and who they were.

Mana hearts had stages, and right now, from what I knew, Ethereal was the weakest. The mana heart went from being ethereal to gaseous, to liquidous, to solidus. the Basic to Advanced stages all represent the Ethereal states, becoming more of a gas over time. Once you advance passed the Advanced level, your mana heart would have become fully Gaseous. 2 ranks after and you should have hit the liquid stage while only Guardians, Paladins, Sages, Great sages and every other rank on the same level are able to create a molten half solid, half liquid, kind of mana heart. Creating a solid mana heart for humans was apparently impossible, while for beasts it was as close to impossible as it could be, since it can only be done by mythical creatures that had lived for thousands of years.

As one advances, so do their mana veins. Once a person or beast are able to reach the liquid stage, they are able to exude mana in the form of Aura from their body. Even though it is a good intimidation technique and all, the main use of it is to make your attacks stronger within the certain radius of where you aura lays. You can create a Spell from wherever you aura is, allowing you to have the closest thing to long invisible hands

Elaina was apparently barely an passed the intermediate stage and became an Advanced mage, while my brothers were at the peak of basic. My grandmother at the other hand, had clearly reached the Supreme (liquidous) Stage, where she can exude aura and had gotten the title of Supreme mage, moving towards becoming a Wizard, yet compared to the man in front of us, she was more like an insect.

3 hours quickly passed as everyone but me and Keaurin had started to become tired. Juilam hadn't shown up yet, while Elaina's group had decided to throw random spells towards the man within the blue electric ball, to distract him at the least. The extra (The goblin slaughterer) and the healer had both decided to help us out to the best of their ability. While the extra was about as competent in magic as me, unlike me, she had mana left to spare. The healer would heal any wounds or restore any of the vitality that we had lost during the fight.

Throid and Alan were just on the side, restless, as their hands were constantly on their weapons waiting for a chance to help any of us out. They were quite frustrated that someone like me, Barely six years of age and had just awoken, was being more helpful than them within this fight. To give them credit where credit is due though, they would sometimes join in and become good distractions while our trio would rain attacks on the wizard.

Since they were warriors, it would have been extremely hard to do anything against the wizard, since mages are long range attackers and the wizard in particular was keeping everyone behind arms reach.

Another hour had passed and i had become slightly hungry, while everyone else's movements had slugged a little. All of them were trying to conserve energy for a while, but the fact they had to fight me before, had to fight a whole army of humans are had to just fight before this battle in general, made them exhaust their energies much quicker than they would usually.

Even though we had been waiting for the wizard to run out of mana, with the stock of mana potions he probably kept, there was almost no chance he would tire out before us. The strain of using so much mana and electricity would have a chance of overheating your body, a bit like the overuse of fire magic. Even through all these problems we had wished he would encounter in the last 4 hours, we had encountered ours and it was about to become much worse.

The wizard took down the Electric sphere around him, allowing us to see his once malnourished frail body had become muscular and broad, almost like a completely different person.

'how the f*ck!' we all shouted within our own minds.

"ROUND 2 BEGINS NOW!" The wizard shouted while colliding both his fists together, causing them to create an electric shockwave

'F*ck me in every dimension! We are f*cked!' I inwardly cried