Chapter 729: Order to capture
Not only had he utterly failed to crush the group from the Great Ruler Empire—the very people he’d planned to humiliate, rob and kill—but he’d also lost his chance to claim the lightning essence stones for himself, stones that could have earned him immense resources and prestige.
Worse still, he and his men were now forced to endure the wrath of heaven itself, as the vengeful lightning continued to rain down upon the lake, striking the ground with punishing force and sending violent shockwaves rippling through the air.
Time crawled by as the relentless storm gradually began to weaken, the bolts of lightning striking less often until, at last, the sky above the lake grew a touch calmer.
When the lightning finally stopped, the dome-shaped shield that Ben had conjured earlier still hovered over Omar’s group, though its once-smooth surface was now marred with deep fractures, spiderweb-like cracks radiating in every direction, glowing faintly as residual sparks danced along them.
Despite the shield having barely survived both Max’s golden sword assault and the savage lightning storm, Omar’s fury showed no signs of cooling.
His eyes glinted darkly as he swept his gaze across his men, his chest heaving with heavy breaths. Then he barked out his next orders in a voice sharp as a blade. "Blake, Astor, and Nick... Go and find that bastard! Capture him and bring him back here—I want to kill him with my own hands!"
His voice trembled slightly, not with fear but with a murderous thirst for vengeance.
The three experts he called upon—Blake, Astor, and Nick, each of them powerful 6th level Champion Rank experts—immediately clasped their bowed. "Yes, Young Master," they chorused in unison, their expressions grave.
Without wasting another second, the trio turned and vanished into the distance, streaking away like bolts of lightning themselves, intent on hunting down the man who had so thoroughly humiliated their Young Master and robbed them all of their prize.