Chapter 405: Black Lightning
LIFTING THE MONK WITH THE Sharingan by the throat, Arthur performed the Eye Mind Reading technique. His consciousness quickly entered the monk’s psyche as he began drifting in a dark mindscape. Then a film-like scene unfolded before him.
In one of the scenes, he saw the monk training with a dark-skinned man. Why this caught Arthur’s attention was because the man most resembled the shinobi from the Cloud Village. That’s when Arthur understood something: this was likely an ancestor of the Cloud’s ninjas.
He watched as the memory played out. The days started off as regular training sessions at first before they soon turned to intense sparring matches. Once the sparring commenced, the monk began performing Black Lightning.
’I see...’ Arthur thought to himself.
Black Lightning was an element that, in the modern era, was extremely rare outside the Land of Lightning. The technique was so uncommon that only one user in that timeline possessed it: Darui. Yet here it was being wielded by an unknown monk.
Arthur knew that he needed to learn another nature element, hence why he ventured to the Cloud Village in the first place. His adventure there proved only a little rewarding. But now he had the opportunity to learn a more potent lightning technique, the infamous Black Lightning.
While most elemental techniques were learned through rigorous training, Black Lightning had no apparent origin. Not a single person on earth truly knew how it could be reproduced.
Arthur dove deeper into the monk’s memories to explore what training took place. As he navigated the mental landscape, roughly an hour had passed. It might have only been ten minutes outside, ten minutes worth spending to finally understand what made Black Lightning tick.
This is what Arthur understood: Black Lightning was not a bloodline trait. Neither did it have anything to do with that famed tattoo both the third Raikage and Darui possessed.
To acquire Black Lightning, a shinobi would first have to focus on both nature and shape transformation in the lightning element. As simple as that sounded, they also needed high levels of chakra control, something Arthur then possessed.
Next, they needed to refine the electrical currents before it formed. Upon the user expelling their chakra, they have to make sure the voltage is amplified to over six hundred million while cooling its temperature to the negatives.
If the user does all the steps correctly in a fraction of a second, the results will turn the lightning chakra into a dark, intense energy known as Black Lightning.