Before the girl could finish her statement, she paused halfway.
The reason for that was because, just like before, Reynolds was standing up once more.
“Why won’t you stay down?!”
Frustration was starting to eat her up.
She is the one beating him up, yet she was the one getting frustrated. Reynolds was just like a cockroach, he just won’t die. His tenacity was insane.
“Just kill him already”
The boy said from the side.
He was already getting tired of watching the same thing happening over and over again. Reynolds clearly can’t fight back, yet, she still didn’t want to kill him. What was the reason? Was it to satisfy her sadistic nature? Or was there another reason for it?
“Shut up!”
She shrieked angrily.
“I’ll make sure you never stand again, how will you stand with a broken body?”
The girl laughed maniacally before aiming an attack towards Reynolds’s leg.
This time, she was ruthless and didn’t hold back. She wanted to break his leg. The fact that he had been standing up had already ruined the fun for her. Now all she wanted was to see him lying on the floor.
CRACK!
RUMBLE!
BOOM!
Just as her attack was about to hit Reynolds, lightning fell from the sky, its target, Reynolds.
The girl quickly retreated when she saw the lightning heading towards him.
“Hahaha, you see, even the heavens are angry with you. How will you rise from this?”
The girl laughed continuously.
Looking at the girl, the boy felt she wasn’t stable mentally. At first, she was enjoying it whenever Reynolds stood up, but then, she started getting frustrated whenever he does.
‘Is this coincidental?’
He felt suspicious about the whole event.
He remembered it was only after Reynolds roared did the clouds start gathering. But after the rain started, he thought it was just normal. But now, lightning suddenly fell and hit Reynolds. His thought process was still trying to comprehend what was going on.
‘What’s this? How come I don’t feel hurt?’
Reynolds who was covered in lightning felt a strange sensation.
His consciousness had almost faded when he suddenly saw the lightning heading towards himself. Although he was already very weak and was probably at death’s door, he still nearly shit his pants from fright.
Although he is attuned with the lightning element, he still hasn’t reached the level where he can come in contact with real lightning and not get hurt from it. So, he was pretty scared.
Being completely covered by the lightning, none of the duos could see what was happening. They just felt the lightning will fry him, well, that was what was supposed to happen.
“Why is this taking longer than expected?”
The uneasiness the boy felt grew as time slowly ticked on.
When lightning strikes someone or a place, it doesn’t usually take more than two seconds, but Reynolds has been covered in lightning for over thirty seconds now.
‘I feel energized. Hmm, my body is absorbing the essence of the lightning’
Reynolds whose strength had already dwindled completely felt a surge of power flowing through his body.
His cultivation slowly started increasing. Within ten seconds, he had already reached the peak of the Arcane Plane. Just one more step and he’ll cross over to the Origin Plane.
Unfortunately, after getting to the very peak, it stopped increasing, and the lightning slowly started fading.
Seeing that the lightning was beginning to fade, the duo looked closer with squinted eyes.
“Why do I see two figures?”
The boy rubbed his eyes again feeling the light was the cause of it.
Staring at it again, it was still the same thing, and the lightning was fading at a faster rate now as if it was being absorbed by something.
He remembered Reynolds was the only one who was covered by the lightning, but he could swear he was seeing another figure in there currently.
“Do you see it also?”
He asked the girl just to confirm he wasn’t seeing double.
The girl didn’t reply to his question as her full attention was on the light, she too, could also see a second figure in the light.
When the light finally died down, they saw the cause of the other figure. Reynolds was standing calmly with a smug smile on his face, by his side, was a man, made entirely of lightning.
“A summoner”
The boy exclaimed.
“How could this be? If you were a summoner, you wouldn’t have waited this long before summoning…”
The girl froze mid-sentence and looked at the man made of lightning again.
Unlike the usual summons which is bigger, Reynolds’s summon was the size of a man. And what was surprising was the fact that it had a bow, a quiver, and a sword.