Chapter 129: The 88 Constellation

Red Lightning Academy

In house 520, a blonde-haired girl was sitting on the sofa, thinking. The aura of curiosity in her orange eyes radiated throughout the house. It was also very noticeable that her aura was half-step Orange Lightning.

After the transition to green lightning, it was much more difficult to move up the ranks. People on Sky Island made it look like a simple task, but that was because of the useful things on the island.

Lily stood up and continued walking back and forth. She was considered an extraordinary genius at the Academy, but she didn't consider herself a genius. In 3 months she had gone from Blue Lightning to Green Lightning. And now? Now he couldn't even switch to Orange Lightning.

At that moment, a spirit that Lily couldn't see entered the room. Her golden blonde hair reached her waist. She was about 1.60 meters tall. She was incredibly beautiful. She was worthy of being the most beautiful woman in the series.

After Diana died, she could not be resurrected. Yama was in the levels, and he would not put any of the people who had passed through the levels back into the reincarnation cycle. He saw them as a threat to himself.

Diana was dead and there was no going back. But somehow she had made it back to house 520 before going to the spirit world. You could call it a favor from the universe for her beauty. Or maybe there was another reason? You could tell by the smile on her face that she had a good purpose.

Diana moved through the air and came in front of Lily. Lily continued to think without realizing anything.

Diana stroked Lily's cheek with her hand. Then a light from her arm entered Lily's body through her cheek. The light from Diana was so bright that even Lily knew something was happening.

Lily felt a pain in her stomach and immediately threw herself back. You could see the fear in her eyes. At the same time she felt another pain in her stomach, she opened her dress and saw the spiral in her stomach.

"W-What the hell is that?!?"

Diana didn't listen to Lily anymore and let herself be pulled by gravity into the spirit world. How could she have known that one day she would go to the land of the dead before Uranus...

Lily ran to a mirror and looked at the mark. It looked like a spiral black hole spinning around itself.

Lily could feel the energy rising in her body. She was about to pass into the Orange Lightning without doing anything.

Lily rushed out of the house and started to run to Michael, but he was already beside her.

Lily jumped back in fright when she saw Michael suddenly appear beside her. But the energy in her body continued to grow. Lily thought she was going to explode from the strange feeling inside her.

"W-What's happening to me?!?"

Lily opened her stomach and showed the scar. Michael frowned at first but soon laughed. Lily almost hit Michael on the head in anger.

"Diana has marked you, Lily. This mark is a trace that passes through the guardians of Curiosity. Since you have this mark, you will definitely become a Guardian of Curiosity."

"But what I don't understand is when and why did Diana mark you?"

"The moment this mark was made, you were supposed to feel it and come to me, just as you do now."

Michael thought for a while. Soon his eyes widened. He remembered the beautiful woman and a momentary shiver ran through his body. He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. When he opened his eyes again, he was much calmer. Then he sighed and looked up at the sky.

"So she's dead-"

CRAAATTTT!!!!

Before Michael could say more, Lily switched to Orange Lightning. Her eyes turned green, but it didn't end there.

Lily's blood was awakened. She was a Turk. As her body was filled with the Energy of Life and Death, Lily once again jumped degrees.

CRACK!!!

CRATTTT!!!

CRATTTTTT!!!

Lily stopped jumping degrees after she reached the Center of the Orange Lightning. After Kai entered Orange Lightning, with pure Turkish blood, the Essence of the Immortal Dragon, and 6 million souls, he had only reached the Mid-Orange Lightning. This was because Kai's energy needs were much higher than normal cultivators. If Kai needed as much energy as a normal cultivator, then he could break through to the Middle of Red Lightning. But Lily had made 3 breakthroughs with 40% purity and had entered the Middle of Orange Lightning.

Michael opened his eyes in surprise when he saw that Lily had Turkish blood. Then he turned around and started walking. He frowned and a very uncomfortable and familiar feeling rose from the bottom of his heart. some horrible people, acquaintances he shouldn't have thought of.

'So Kai is not adopted...

'Then what are Kai's parents hiding?

 ***

Meanwhile, far away from the academy, in the woods, a young man was constantly striking a huge sword with a hammer.

BREAK!!!

When the hammer in the blond-haired boy's hand broke, he threw it with the others. He didn't know how many hammers he had broken, but they were not few. He was also so tired that even his clothes were shredded. He was only wearing a long tracksuit.

After all this time, there was a flash of excitement in the eyes of this young man who looked about 15 years old. The sword swung as he lifted the huge sword he had forged. Sam drew it back as he was about to swing it, but the weight of the sword knocked it out of Sam's hand.

Sam had planned to make the heavy sword before he turned 15 this year and he had succeeded. His birthday was still six months away. But now he couldn't lift the sword. Half a foot of Orange Lightning was not enough.

"No! I'll do exactly what I want to do, and I won't be behind my brother!"

Sam raised the sword and started to move through the forest. It was already very dangerous where he was. This was forbidden territory. Red Lightning Academy was a very mysterious Academy and it had been a long time since anyone had entered the forbidden area deep in the Academy Forest. But Sam was crazy! It was in his blood. That's why he entered this forest on the first day of the World Tournament.

Luckily, he encountered no danger. At first, he met a tiger and got a deep wound on his arm, but no one came after that.

After a while, Sam found a waterfall in the forest, but unlike a normal waterfall, it was glowing. Sam didn't know what to do, so he went and asked Michael.

Michael was not angry with Sam at all. He just looked at his arm and told him about the star waterfall and its wonders.

Sam had already drunk a lot of the water from the river and this had made his physical strength peak without doing anything, but then Sam had a change of heart. Now he wanted to make a Mana Weapon.

Sam moved forward with his giant sword and stopped in front of the waterfall. His body was tiny next to the 2.5-meter sword.

Sam first looked at the sword in his hand. Then he dropped the sword down the waterfall.

Sam had worked hard for this heavy sword and he didn't want it to go to waste. He was very hesitant to drop it over the waterfall, but he thought it was the best way to do it.

The heavy sword fell into the water and disappeared into the depths because of its weight.

Sam waited for the sword for a while, but nothing came. The sword seemed lost in the water.

"Come on!"

Sam had worked hard to create this sword. Even now, after creating the sword, he couldn't stop his clothes from tearing. While creating this sword, even more clothes were torn and Sam was covered in blood. After all, it was Sam's first time forging a sword.

But just as Sam was about to turn around and walk away, metallic sounds came from the waterfall. The sky closed in and it started to rain. Suddenly the weather had changed and the Academy noticed.

"What's going on?"

"Why did the sky suddenly close?"

"It started raining too!"

"Guys, I have a bad feeling!"

Sam understood everything. He knew what was going to happen from the very beginning. So he couldn't help the smile on his face.

"It's test time."

After Sam's words, a thick, violent bolt of lightning fell from the sky. But the color of the lightning was particularly striking. It was white! The Trouble Lightning of Heaven. While the Black Thunderbolts punished those in Heaven, the Trouble Thunderbolts punished those on Earth.

The Trouble Lightning had come today to test the new Mana weapon. If the weapon withstood nine lightning bolts, it would pass the test.

The white bolt of lightning struck the waterfall. At the same moment, Sam turned around and looked at the sword. It was bent, as though nothing had happened to it. Sam was not a blacksmith, after all. And what he had learned about blacksmithing he had learned by trial and error. It was not even likely to withstand 9 lightning bolts.

Sam's face soured as he saw the heavy sword bent. He was in a very risky situation now and he wanted his sword to turn into a Mana weapon.

2. Lightning struck. A piece breaks off the right side of the heavy sword.

3. Lightning struck. The tip of the sword broke off.

4th Lightning... The hilt of the sword broke.

5th Lightning... The waterfall protected the sword from this lightning.

6. 7. Lightning..... Both times the waterfall protected the sword.

8. Lightning struck the sword again and broke several pieces of it.

Sam did not want to see his sword shattered anymore. He turned around and started to walk away.

"I guess I failed this time, too...."

Just then a light shot out of the waterfall and caught Sam's hand. The shattered sword was in Sam's hand.

Sam was shocked by the sword sticking to his hand, but when he saw the 9th Lightning staring at him, he began to tremble with fear. He was just a little boy of fifteen, and he was supposed to stand up to the Thunderbolt, the Scourge of Heaven?

"Let me be the lucky one for once!"

As the 9th bolt struck Sam, Sam put the sword horizontally above his head and met the bolt.

The 9th bolt shattered the heavy sword into pieces and this time it went out. This time the sword would be destroyed and Sam would die with it.

'This sword will take me to the grave with it!'

Just as the sword was about to shatter, 88 voids opened in the sky. 88 lights from 88 directions hit Sam and the heavy sword.

"Damn it! What the hell is this?!"

In that brief moment, the heavy sword in Sam's hand shattered into pieces and was replaced by a completely different glittering sword.

At the same time, 88 Voids opened in Sam's eyes and one of them glowed.

"The Power of 88 Voids!! 1st Void!! Chained Princess!!!"

Two lights came out of the sky, from the Star Sword and from Sam's two eyes, and a woman appeared in the center. She had no body and was a black void. She only had a pair of eyes that shone like stars and chains that dangled like her body. She gave Sam a contemptuous look and turned to the lightning.

"You're trying to control me with that little power you have, but since you're doing it, you're ready for the consequences. So I'm going to help you."

The chains in the Chained Princess' hands moved and wrapped around the Heaven's Trouble lightning bolt.

CRACK!!!

Perhaps the most ridiculous thing in the world had happened right in front of Sam's eyes. The cavity of the white bolt of trouble lightning broke and returned as it had been. The chained princess disappeared without saying anything more.

Sam first looked at the sword in his hand. Then he jumped for joy.

"Hahahaha I did it! The power of the Chain Princess-"

FROSSSSSSS!!

Before Sam could finish, he started vomiting blood and fell to the ground. Of course, there was a price for blocking Heaven's Lightning. And it was time to pay the price.