Chapter 230: Even the Strongest Heroes Stop at Ninth Lightning

But earlier, when he told her to go, she hesitated.

Because she knew his realm and defense were still not on par with the upcoming attack.

As she was thinking this, he suddenly grew again and became a 40-foot tall giant, filled with a rocky surface and his face now seemed like a mountain face, while his full body was surrounded by golden armor, which had some stone-like texture.

"COME!"

There, he shouted towards the sky, before a huge shield formed in his hand, followed by his armor, which also rapidly grew.

And covered the whole surface of the newly generated shield. But it didn’t stop there.

As huge conical metal-like structures erupted from the upper surface of the shield, and its edges also extended downward from the four sides of the shield, and embedded themselves in the ground.

’Is he trying to transfer the lightning into the ground?’ She thought confusedly, because it would not work.

As those were not ordinary thunder, but were essence thunder. Even though it contained only peak Golden Knight power,

but still...

Before she could think further, the earth-shaking roar of thunder came, followed by its lightning strike.

KRAAAK!!! BOOOOOOM!!!

A dark bluish, thick thunder collided with Luke’s shield, resulting in a huge explosion.

Then came the shockwave, which blasted apart every tree in the 100m area into splinters.

And everything in its path. Though when it came to Theia, who was 1km away, she dispersed it easily.

Still she looked worriedly toward Luke.

’Should I have intervened earlier?’ And this thought came into her mind, which she shook the next moment.

Because for a few attacks she could manage for both of them, but after that, things would become ugly.

So she hoped that Luke would be alright.

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"Cough!" Luke coughed out, which resulted in blood escaping his mouth.

As the location where he was now had formed a 20-foot wide and 5-foot deep crater from the earlier attack.

While Nullex’s elongated part on the shield had been destroyed completely, and even his shield bore a few cracks.

"Heh." However, Luke provocatively smiled toward the sky with a bloodied mouth.

Because now he had survived a peak Golden Knight attack using his peak Bronze Knight realm.

’Though, Aurielle would definitely be mad if she finds out about this.’ Luke sighed and removed his smile before looking at Theia.

Who was stunned, not because he had survived, but stunned because he had survived with little bit of wounds.

"Go now and also stop my wife, Aurielle, if she tries to come here." Luke said to her again.

Upon this, Theia came out of her stunned state and looked toward the sky again, because the next attack would be equal to two peak Golden Knight attacks.

And she was worried that if something happened to him, she could at least step up at the last moment, even at the rage of Valtharion.

But if she moved away, then saving him from a far distance would be very difficult.

As she was thinking this, Luke’s words came again, but this time it was not asking or saying.

"GO! this is an order." His authoritative shout came, followed by the surrounding air, of 100m diameter suddenly trembling.

As visible cracks appeared among the space, which were filled with void.

Upon this, Theia flinched and backed away before looking toward Luke.

There the black and white lines covering his body increased.

And in this giant state, it was looking even more wrong, because those black lines were connecting like threads to the nearby void.

"Yes, My liege." So she bowed respectfully and disappeared the next moment.

"Hah..." Luke inhaled the air, because earlier due to his anger he lost control and the void power suddenly increased in his body, which resulted in this spectacle.

Fortunately, the sky was taking time in brewing new thunder, which resulted in getting a few breaths of time to relax.

"System, how many more of these lightning attacks will come?" He asked, while looking toward the sky with curiosity.

[There are total 10 lightning strikes in the essence clouds.]

"The fuck!" Luke freaked out upon hearing this. Because even though it seemed he had survived easily, it had consumed a huge amount of Aether.

Which was surprisingly his Cosmic Heart was generating, even though it had not fully manifested.

And currently, it was filling both his Void lines and his consumption of the attack.

So hearing about facing ten of these more, would naturally freak out anyone.

Also the new attacks seemed to be stronger than the earlier one.

[Ahem!] The system coughed, to reduce Luke’s panicking expression and told.

[Even though there are 10, even geniuses have only survived 8 attacks of those. As for 9...]

Upon hearing this he became shocked, but waited for the last part.

[As for 9, even only a few heroes dare to face.]

"Really?" Luke’s mouth fully opened, because heroes were supposed to be the best of the best, at least on lower levels. And now the system was telling him that even only a few dared to face the 9th lightning attack.

So he asked why.

[Well, because the 9th lightning contains the attack power of 1,000 peak Golden Knight essence attacks.]

’-_-’ He became completely silent upon this, ’1,000?’

’Seriously?’ He was not freaked out this time, because that was totally absurd.

Of course, if he were a Golden Knight, he would dare to say that even 1 million peak attacks couldn’t do anything.

But surviving using his peak Bronze realm, he knew it would be difficult as ascending to the heavens, unless he found some more methods to counter this.

As he was thinking this, another thought came into his mind.

"If the 9th attack is so overwhelming, what about the 10th lightning?" Hearing Luke’s curious voice, the system glitched for a moment and explained something else to him first.

[Luke, since you are already facing essence, then I will tell you a few things about its property.]