5 The difficult the trials, the greater the reward.

Or maybe, something was happening right now at the top?

He thought as he shifted his vision to the top of the mountain, yet it was too dark and hidden in the cloud for him to see through. He can only shake his head yet not pity because he knew it was just a normal thing to see nothing in this kind of atmosphere.

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To see is to believe and to see is to look, after all.

Having regained his wits and confidence, Arnulfo once again continued his way towards the top of the mountain, because of the event that had occurred, he once again started his hike from the middle of the mountain...

As tall as the mountain, the top of the mountain was hidden at the first layer of cloud. You can just imagine how tall the mountain was and how much effort he poured just turned into waste because of his carelessness a while ago. Even he felt a bit piss to himself when remembering that.

Forget it! He can only shake his head in dismay.

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After more than half an hour, he was finally once again standing at his former position before the quake.

Boom*

Ziiii*

Boom*

As he was expected, there were sounds of a lightning strike and sounds of explosion accompanied with earthquakes from time to time (But not as strong as before. He can only feel a bit shaky but not enough to make him fall again). Tho, he doesn't know if maybe this was happening due to the number of lightning strikes or there was another reason. As he stated back then, to know was to take a look himself.

After another hour of hiking, he finally reached the almost top of the mountain, however, the more he goes higher the more the quake turning aggressive and making his way up to complicated. The thunder and lightning weren't the real problems but the earthquake, however, even how much difficult it would take, he swore that he would never give up so he chose to continue.

Not long after, he suddenly felt like there were two parts of eyes looking at him, watching his way towards the top. The hot gaze was only his imaginations or illusions from the other side yet it felt so real that he even can feel like he was being watched naked in public. He cannot help but knit his eyebrow, even with how many time of him trying to locate the source of it, he can't pinpoint anything. So he can only grit his teeth and let it slipped.

Other than the turning aggressive earthquakes, not long after there was also the new sensation of something watching him and a sense of oppression, the difficulty as he was trying to reach the top was turning heavier and heavier as time goes by and as the distance turning nearer and nearer.

"It seems there really is something out of the ordinary waiting for me up there! "

Though these things making things difficult for him, at the same time it was also making him pleased. Not because he was a masochist or what, but because it was only indicating that there was a treasure up there and not an ordinary treasure waiting for him to be claimed.

Based on the rules of the world, the more difficult or trials before getting was the more the quality of the reward you would get when you succeed.

"Haha! " Arnulfo laughed hollowly as he continued his pace. Hopefully, although the gravity was forcing him down or giving him a suppression to slow down, the lightning trees were there to have him something to grip, and to support him from climbing.

Holding to the branches and trunk from time to time, he finally reached the top of the mountain -after another two hours-. After he arrived at the top, only then did he found out that the top wasn't pointed or curve like normal mountains, but flat land.

Now that he was in the top and the surface finally returned into flat, the suppression from the gravity a while ago now completely disappeared, yet the new problem currently was the cloud; it was affecting his vision, making things hidden within the cover of the fog.

"What a headache! It seems living in this world not only needed courage and strength, but also patience. If I'm not patient enough, there is a big chance I already gave up down there and go home left-handed! "

Thinking about this, a sense of pride gave birth in his heart. Having reached this high, it seemed a big achievement for him. The only problem was if he ever tried to brag about this achievement of him, was there anyone who would believe in him, even one person? I think even an idiot would never believe him. There was even a bigger chance for him to be dubbed as a dillusionist.

He can only scratch his head and sigh, if an event cannot be brag, then that would never be an achievement, at least for him.

Boom*

Boom*

As he was planning to come forth and search around what was hidden in the dense amount of clouds, he suddenly heard another two explosions, although he didn't hear any lighting or thunder warning.

"Maybe they really are someone other than me here? " That was the only possibility he came up with. Tho he wasn't sure, it was better to be cautious, especially towards the unknown. He cleared the thought of something was here other than him not long after because it sounds bizarre.

Right~

"Maybe I could use that skill! " Watching the speed of the lighting this near, sudden enlightenment popped out in his mind. Not actually new knowledge, he just remembered something from the past.

About the heroes or protagonists in some novels that can also use lighting elements. If he can copy them the way they using their power, where they were transferring an amount of lightning every in their own body affects their speed, that would be a great way for him to do things faster. However, this skill cannot be learned just because he remembered or, not just because he wanted to, he can use it the next second. This ability to use the lightning element to manipulate the speed was something that needed a year or century of continual practice to be mastered by anyone.

For newbies, like him, he can also use it like that way, however, it would never be as easy as those professionals.

Nevertheless, he still decided that he wanted to try. If ever he accidentally entered a pit of danger then let it be, what comes around comes around. As the old saying stated, if your time comes, then it's your time, you can't avoid the fate of the heaven that was put in you.

Other than this saying giving him a sense of comfort, it was also giving him the courage to do more, and always try to reach something within the line. Always carve for more. If you know that you weren't doing something illegal, just move forward.

"My body felt a bit stiff after losing my former cultivation level! "