Chapter 1867 – 1867. Eternal Eden
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流), Flying Thunder God (飛雷神).
There’s no need to accelerate the entire body. What’s needed is a speed slightly faster than the monster and the free movement unique to the Flying Thunder God.
I put strength into my ankles and jumped upwards. *Crack*. Sparks of electricity, like fireflies, pushed me from behind and pulled me from the front. I narrowly avoided the monster’s charge. Or rather, it only looked like a narrow escape. I was relaxed. There was no reason to be on edge when my body moved as I willed.
As I dodged, I lowered my blade. As the monster passed, the blade naturally sliced through its body. The blue flames that had been on the blade transferred to the monster’s body.
“Aaaaaaaargh!”
The monster let out a scream filled with pain. It hadn’t even screamed when I cut it with the blade. The monster rubbed its back against the ground to put out the fire. It looked like a wriggling caterpillar. It was effective. The fire was extinguished.
“I, I, I won’t forgive you.”
“Did it eat brains? It speaks more fluently than before.”
Suddenly, I thought of the long-armed monkeys whose arms stretched up to 5 meters. I wondered if they were test subjects and also food for the monsters. If eating brains develops intelligence, they wouldn’t be able to give it human brains. But it didn’t seem like it ate other meat either.
‘Whatever.’
If it put out the fire, I just had to reignite it.
“I, I’ll kiiiill youuu!”
The monster contracted its body and then flew at me. Its preparation was too obvious. I could see what it was going to do.
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流), Flying Thunder God (飛雷神).
I jumped using the Flying Thunder God as before. I lowered my blade. The accelerated monster couldn’t avoid the blade.
The tentacles protruding from the monster’s body moved. The tentacles, which had grown from 30cm to 50cm, forcibly grabbed and pulled my blade. The tentacles then wrapped around my arms and legs. I was caught by the monster and pulled forward. The monster’s speed rapidly decreased.
‘It’s not going to fall for the same trick twice?’
The monster, for a monster, was using its head. But it didn’t matter. Rather, the distance between us had narrowed, so it was fortunate for me.
“I’ll, eat, you…!”
“Not a chance. Discharge.”
Lightning burst from my body. The lightning flowed into the monster, causing blue flames to erupt. The monster’s body instantly began to burn. The tentacles that had been holding my blade and limbs crumbled and disappeared. I swung my blade at the monster, which was thrashing around trying to put out the fire.
The blade was about to pierce the monster’s body but stopped.
Something grabbed the blade. Muscle. The muscles inside the monster’s body contracted rapidly, grabbing my blade.
‘A dying monster is capable of that? The tentacles disappeared as soon as they touched the fire.’
I tried to pull the blade out quickly, but the monster didn’t miss the opportunity and rammed its body into me. I flew backward and crashed into the lab wall. And to make matters worse, my head hit, and it felt like my neck was broken. My body wouldn’t move.
‘Shit.’
My neck, the cervical vertebrae, was damaged. My body wouldn’t move. I couldn’t even twitch a finger. It was a kind of full-body paralysis.
‘Of all times.’
I had regeneration. Given time, I could recover my cervical vertebrae and nerves. Given time.
“He, head, head!”
The monster looked at me and grinned. It was convinced it had won, seeing me unable to move. It rolled on the ground a few times to put out the blue flames on its body and then approached me.
‘Even after burning its entire body, was the firepower not enough? Damn it. My recovery is slow.’
My left index finger moved. Starting with that, my thumb and middle finger also moved. I was definitely recovering, but it was slow. The monster was approaching. At this rate, the monster would savor my brain.
‘…Just because my body is paralyzed doesn’t mean I can’t use lightning.’
Should I drop lightning? No, that’s not very efficient. I’d be exhausted after using it once. There was no guarantee that one lightning strike would kill the monster. The strategy of the best defense being offense was discarded.
‘Ah. There was that method.’
*Crackle*.
I heard the sound of electricity crackling. But there was no flash of electricity. The electricity was running inside me.
‘The Flying Thunder God is ultimately about accelerating, pulling, and pushing the body with lightning. So there’s no reason why I can’t move my body with lightning.’
Come to think of it, I remember hearing in a documentary that the human body is moved by electricity. Bioelectricity, was it called?
*Crackling, crackling, crackling!*
Lightning ran through my entire body. I commanded the lightning with my will, not my brain.
‘Become the nerves that move my body.’
The lightning faithfully followed my command.
My body moved. It was a strange sensation, like moving my body remotely, but there was no time to dwell on that sensation now. I immediately threw my body to the side.
*Thud!*
The monster crashed into the spot where I had been. The concrete wall and part of the ceiling collapsed, burying the monster.
“Kieeeeeeek!”
I was lucky. The fallen walls would hold the monster for a while.
-Wait! What’s going on?!
Na Chaeyoung’s voice came through the radio. Unfortunately, I couldn’t speak right now. I lacked the skill to delicately control my mouth, tongue, and vocal cords with lightning. Instead of answering, I went down the stairs. An idea had suddenly come to mind.
‘I can’t kill that monster with my current strength.’
The monster was much stronger than I thought. Or rather, it was more accurate to say it had become stronger. The boss monster was a boss monster.
‘If my strength is lacking, I can use other strength.’
This lab was divided into underground and above-ground levels. The above-ground was for living quarters, and the underground was for research and labs.
The 5th basement floor was the monster’s lair, the 4th basement floor was for combat AI research, the 3rd basement floor was for the monster long-armed monkeys, and the 2nd basement floor was the control room. Then what was the 1st basement floor for?
‘Obviously, it’s for research equipment. The existence of this lab is top secret. It would be cut off from the outside… and they would have installed a separate generator.’
Running through the 1st-floor hallway, checking the rooms, I soon found the generator room and went inside. I grabbed the generator’s casing and tore it off.
‘A factory-level generator.’
*Thud!*
The monster followed me into the generator room. The monster’s body was burned, but I could see it gradually regenerating.
“He…head…!”
The monster grinned at me. It seemed to be saying that I couldn’t run away anymore. I had no intention of running away.
I reached out to the generator. I felt the hard texture of metal.
“I’ll, I’ll eat, eat your brain!”
The monster wriggled its tentacles and approached.
“Eat it if you can. Electrocution is on the house.”
I forcibly drew electricity from the generator.
*Crackling, crackling, crackling!*
The overloaded generator emitted electricity with a tremendous noise. I controlled all of that current and sent it flowing to the floor. The direction of the current was towards the monster.
“Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!”
The monster, scorched by the massive current, screamed. Yet, it was still slowly approaching me. It knew that if it killed me, the current would stop.
‘I can give properties to lightning. It’s hard to give complex properties, but it’s a different story if it’s something I’m good at.’
I gave the current the property of a blade. Sharpness. The lightning cut and sliced through the monster’s skin. But it couldn’t cut deep. At best, it was only cutting the skin. Still, it was enough to make the surroundings bloody.
“Kuuuuuuuuh!”
The monster was slowly approaching.
This property was similar to the Thunder Sky Style. In other words, I could use the techniques of the Thunder Sky Style more fundamentally.
‘Rotate.’
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流), Swirling Thunder (卍雷).
Lightning rotated around the monster. It was like a blade rotating. In other words, a blender. The monster’s body was being ground in real-time. Because it was unnecessarily tough, its skin was being ground away little by little, and the ground-away parts were regenerating and being ground away again. It worked to my advantage. The monster’s movement stopped. The monster just let out screams of pain.
“Kuaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak!!”
Lightning piercing into its body, lightning becoming a blade and cutting its flesh, lightning rotating and grinding.
“Heh heh. Serves you right. But the output is still lacking.”
I laughed. The current was also affecting me. My blood vessels were rupturing, and my brain felt like it was burning. But I could endure it because I could see the monster suffering.
‘Resonate.’
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流), Thunder Roar (雷鳴).
The rotating lightning was given the property of resonance. The lightning resonated with each other, increasing in size. Normally, it should have spread in all directions, but because of the centrifugal force of the Swirling Thunder (卍雷), it was rotating and gathering towards the center. And at that center was the monster.
The monster’s screams were no longer audible.
The only thing I could hear was the sound of electricity crackling.
The monster’s form was also no longer visible.
All that was visible was the lightning.
Thousands, tens of thousands. Perhaps even more lightning was raging inside and outside the monster’s body.
‘This is pretty good? I can make this a new technique of the Thunder Sky Style. The name should be something like…’
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流), Thunderous Blade Thousand Cuts (雷聲千刀).
I chuckled and watched the rotating lightning.
But that was only for a moment. I soon hardened my face.
‘Shit. How do I get out of here?’
The Thunderous Blade Thousand Cuts was already beyond my control. It was impossible for even me to pass through that. The problem was the rotating property of the Swirling Thunder. It was gathering the generator’s lightning. If I forcibly cut off the generator’s current, the generator could explode.
‘The method is…’
That was a mass of energy. So I had to consume that mass of energy.
After pondering, I picked up my sword and walked forward.
‘The Demonic Tribulation of the Heavenly Demon Divine Art is a technique that concentrates everything, including demonic energy, into the sword. Demonic energy is energy. There’s no reason why I can’t do it with lightning.’
As I walked forward, I extended my sword into the rotating lightning. *Clang, clang, clang!* Every time it touched the rotating lightning, I heard the sound of metal clashing. I focused my mind. The lightning began to gather into the sword little by little.
‘A little faster.’
Once I caught the flow, the lightning began to gather into the sword at an incredible speed. It looked like the sword was sucking in the lightning from all directions.
Before long, I had drawn in all the lightning. The blade was glowing with blue lightning.
And where the monster should have been. There, a single heart was twitching, trying to regenerate as it spurted blood.
‘Is it still alive? What a persistent bastard. Well, I guess I should say it’s a good thing.’
Thunder Sky Style (雷天流), Thunder Calamity (雷劫).
I swung my sword towards the monster’s heart.
The massive slash cut not only the heart but also the entire lab.
