Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 876: Vanished Clouds (Ko-Fi Bonus)

After she was done telling everything she knew about Isolde, Kayla tentatively said, ”Rima, I think it’s not advisable to make her an enemy.”

Rima’s expression stayed the same, but the look in her eyes became a little indifferent as she asked, ”So, are you suggesting I go and apologize to her?”

Kayla noticed the change and inwardly sighed, ”Since you don’t want to, let’s forget it. Just make sure you don’t get into her line of sight until you become strong enough to defend yourself.”

”Oh? You are implying she wouldn’t come find me or make things difficult for me if she doesn’t see me?” Rima asked, for the first time feeling Kayla wasn’t as good judge of character as she had thought because she had seen the look in Isolde’s eyes and she could say for a fact that it wasn’t a look of someone who would forget things so easily.

Besides...

Her eyes blazed.

She wasn’t going to let her forget either. This humiliation and disrespect for Max... she would surely avenge them.

Kayla raised her brows, ”Yeah. I mean until now, I haven’t heard of anyone she had deliberately targeted and made things difficult for.”

Rima didn’t argue and just nodded.

Soon, their ordered food arrived and Rima took down the sound barrier.

...

After having their meal, Rima bid Kayla farewell and went to the resource hall with Nia where she bought some things that could help in stabilizing the foundation before returning to her residence.

”You don’t wait outside for me. Go to your place. I’ll call you when I need you.” Saying this, Rima entered her residence and activated the formations.

”Milady...”

Nia lingered outside for a while before reluctantly leaving.

Arriving in her cultivation chamber, Rima sat down cross-legged and took out the things she bought.

A moment later, she put a grape-sized pill in her mouth and closed her eyes, beginning to cultivate.

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”Argh~! Ha~! Damn, how painful!”

In the minor realm, on the thunder mountain, a completely charred figure was rolling around on the ground, crying out in pain.

This figure was none other than Max, who had been diligently being struck by the lighting in his bid to grow the Thunder Energy traces for the past five days.

Yes, he had thought he would only need two more days, but he had underestimated the amount of energy the Traces would need to grow after strengthening.

However, this wasn’t the only reason the time required to grow them was stretched.

The other reason was—the lightning strikes he attracted after the Traces grew stronger were increasingly stronger and dealt him quite some damage, not to mention the excruciating pain, especially during the fifth day when he just wanted to give up on growing the Traces to stop the torture.

However, he did not, knowing it would only serve to weaken his will, which he couldn’t afford to happen.

As a result, the lightning strikes thoroughly cooked him and broke his bones in uncountable places.

They also, however, provided the required nourishment for the Thunder Energy Traces to grow to equal in size to the Fire Energy Traces.

...

Huu~

After a while, Max stopped rolling around when the pain became tolerable. Lying on his back, he peeled his eyelids open, stared at the beautiful sky and breathed through his nose.

While the experience may have been tortuous, the sense of accomplishment he felt on achieving what he aimed for was even more sweeter.

After a short while, he tapped on the Thunder Traces and began sensing the world around him.

Crackle~! Boom~!

Immediately, a world of lightning enfolded in front of him where the thunder element was abundant and it rushed toward him like it was a long lost part of him.

The lightning in the sky crackled more violently, but no thunder bolt fell on the mountain peak. As for why...

If someone very familiar with the Thunder Element was here, they would have realized that the Thunder Energy, Thunder Mana, responsible for charging the lightning bolts for so much energy that they would strike down, was dissipating from the clouds and rushing towards Max.

Within a few moments, the concentration of Thunder Element on the mountain peak had increased by several folds and it was continuously increasing.

Surprisingly though, not even a tiny bit of all this Thunder Mana was entering Max’s body. It just moved around him, as if waiting for something.

Of course, this wasn’t really the case since the Mana wasn’t sentient.

This was happening simply because, unconsciously, Max was refraining from absorbing any of it.

Seconds turned into minutes and soon half an hour had passed.

The concentration of Thunder Element had become so dense on the mountain peak that the mana was now visible to the naked eyes and some had begun to turn into liquid, the droplets of which fell on Max before sliding to the ground, creating a puddle around him.

...

Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh!

Three figures, dressed in white robes with neat golden stripes on the edges, streaked through the skies at a speed so fast that ordinary people and even some weaker mages wouldn’t be able to see them even if they were looking up the sky.

”Hall should just establish the teleportation nodes on all the cultivation sites. Being randomly teleported and then wasting so much time finding them is just too wasteful and frustrating.” A handsome young man, who looked to be the same age as Max, and was flying on the left side, grumbled.

Right then, a gorilla-type beast shot toward them from the dense jungle below.

Bang!

The other man, flying on the right, threw a punch and the gorilla burst into pieces of gory flesh, blood and bone matter.

The man then swung his hand, caught the beast core and chuckled at his companion, ”If they do that, how will these maddened beasts encounter us and meet their end?”

”I can’t understand just what the higher ups are thinking. If they want these beasts to die, can’t they just issue missions? I’m sure all those guys would jump at the chance to earn some Merits.”

The other man looked at him strangely. ”How do you know there aren’t missions already put up?”

”Huh? There are?”

”Of course.”

”Then why are these beasts not being killed?” The young man looked confused.

”They are. You just feel they aren’t because their rate of multiplying is strangely fast.” The person in lead, a slender, black haired woman, answered.

She then continued, ”Also, the Hall can’t afford to keep the teleportation formations active all the time for disciples to enter whenever they want and complete the mis—Hmm?”

Mid-speech, she stopped and furrowed her brows while looking into the distance.

”What is it, Lady Isabelle?” The young man asked and the other also looked at her.

But the next moment, Isabelle didn’t need to tell them what was wrong because they felt the anomaly at their cultivation site too.

Swoosh!

Isabelle suddenly increased her flying speed and zoomed into the distance.

Swoosh! Swoosh!

The duo did the same and soon a barren but tall mountain came into their view.

”What’s going on? Where are the thunder clouds?” The young man asked, taken completely off guard by the surprising absence of the dense thunder clouds.

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