Chapter 713: Lightning Essence
Reading through the inheritance, Max couldn’t help but be fascinated by the possibilities. But alongside the allure came the warning—just like Heaven’s Wraith, Extreme Speed placed a brutal toll on the user’s body.
Bones could crack, muscles could tear, and even internal organs could rupture from the strain if the body wasn’t reinforced to withstand the sudden spikes in motion and acceleration.
Max let out a long breath. "It also requires a very strong body..." he whispered. But even so, as he stared at the swirling image of the Storm King’s techniques etched within his mind, he knew—this was the power he had longed for. A perfect match for the thunder inside his blood. A storm waiting to be unleashed.
"Storm King’s Inheritance is a simple inheritance created to bring out the strongest power of lightning," Max muttered to himself in quiet understanding, his gaze lost in thought. It all made sense now.
The simplicity wasn’t a lack of depth, but a focused intensity. The Storm King had clearly crafted this inheritance with the very fundamentals of lightning carved into its bones—destructiveness, speed, and sharp force. It wasn’t flashy. It wasn’t layered in abstract mysticism. It was raw. Brutal. Purposeful.
A pure path to unleash the three great natures of lightning in their most primal, devastating forms.
And while that clarity made it easier to grasp the intent behind the techniques, it also exposed something else—a cold, hard truth Max could no longer ignore. "It’s all good and well," he exhaled with a sigh, "but the requirement to learn and use the Storm King’s Inheritance is the real problem."
He knew it now. The Storm King hadn’t made it easy for others to follow his footsteps. In fact, the prerequisites for simply accessing the stages were nothing short of monstrous.
The very first stage—Brilliant Thunder—demanded the presence of not one, but three lightning essences within the user’s body. Without that, one could forget ever trying to coat their weapon or fists in that deadly edge of thunder.
