Humanity Return

Ch. 90 – Embodiment of Strength

Five identical lightning bolts did the same thing and shook the protective dome again.

Along with that blinding bright light, Roland could feel his entire body becoming lighter. It turned out that the pressure he felt earlier had suddenly disappeared.

Roland instantly turned the sword grip on his left hand into an upside down, with one sword pointing at the sky and the other pointing at the ground.

Lightning began to flow from the ground and moved like a vortex between the two swords.

[Thunder Incarnated.].

Two points of light appeared in front of Roland, which turned out to be two purple eyeballs staring at him.

[Twillight Ghost Reaping]

[...Twin Dance!]

Roland's two swords swung up and down, launching two glances that leapt about without a clear tempo towards his target.

From the thick dust came out a horizontal purple sword wave that moved slowly towards the two lightning bolts.

There was nothing strange to be seen from that wave and its shape was the same as the technique he had used before, but...

Hihah...

Almost all of the spectators in the stadium could feel their fur sitting standing up as the sudden sound of laughter filled the place.

The strangest thing was that the sound of this laughter was only as loud as a small whisper.

A small whisper that sounded like the girl was laughing right beside their ears.

Booms

The sound of an explosion occurred when the two attacks clashed, and were instantly cut short.

Whooong...

A purple egg appeared there and looked like it was sucking the two lightning bolts into it.

This egg survives for a few seconds before cracks begin to appear on its surface and...

Cracks!

A purple silhouette shot out from within the egg and floated towards the black-haired young man who started walking slowly with the sword in his right hand.

“It looks like you're being pushed..?”

A small smile appeared on Leinn's face that had just sheathed back his sword.

Roland began to look around and realized that some of the energy in his eleven swords had disappeared due to the purple egg earlier. He closed his eyes, concentrating.

“Baik”

He opened his eyes again and stood up in a relaxed position, two swords on either side of him.

A smile disappeared from Leinn's face and he immediately stopped his steps. He could clearly see the surrounding lightning started flowing into the body of the young man before him.

[Gear One]

Flowing and continuing to flow, Mana lightning began to concentrate in the blond young man's body.

The protective lightning in the eleven swords stuck in the ground even dimmed slightly as it lost most of its Lightning Mana, being sucked into Roland's body.

Roland's entire body was finally covered by the Golden Lightning, which looked like it could explode at any moment. And all the lightning began to move simultaneously towards his hands and feet, precisely to the hand and foot protector.

That not-so-little Mana Lightning finally enveloped that arm and leg protector and began to form something...

Crackle...!

Four long golden hooves formed on each of his hands and feet, with lightning jumping from him.

Four golden dragon claws.

[Thunder Dragon Possession]

The stadium cheered excitedly when it saw Roland's form.

The lightning that had formed dragon claws protected both his wrists and his feet as well. His entire body was also surrounded by lightning that released these four claws, making him even more gallant.

Roland began to raise his right hand to look at his sword which was already enveloped in lightning and looked back at the black-haired young man in front of him.

“Prepared-“

Crackles...

And he's missing.

‘-lah!”

Leinn instantly pulled out and swung his sword at the sound source behind him.

There Roland was swinging his sword from above.

Just before their swords touched...

Crackles...

The bham!

Leinn bounced and rolled on the ground eight meters away and immediately jumped to his feet.

All of the spectators at the stadium instantly showed shocked expressions, as they had just seen clearly Roland switching places without needing to gather any more lightning Mana, as they were just now, saw him move twice in a row for less than a second.

He switched places once more and directly swung the sword in his left hand towards Leinn who was swinging his sword to an empty spot.

At the very last moment, the black-haired young man used the sword sheath on his left hand to withstand the attack and finally bounced back quite a distance.

“Looks like you were... pressed?” said Roland quietly in the same tone as Leinn before.

One of Leinn's eyebrows began to tremble and he forced out a smile to hide his regret after seeing the blond-haired young man in front of him showing a mocking smile.

The lightning claws on both of his legs gave him the ability to perform those lightning motions in succession, while the lightning claws on both of his arms flowed the lightning Mana continuously into the two swords in his hands, while the lightning claws on both of his arms were flowing, adding attack power in each of his slashes.

“Come!”

Before he could catch his breath, Roland started his attack again.

Attack after attack came from multiple directions and Leinn could only concentrate on defending.

“This is.. their abilities”.

The sentence came out from Isaac's mouth who was smiling widely while clasping his chair tightly, seeing the younger generation show such incredible potential it made him feel extremely excited.

Not only did he think that way, most of the audience also felt the same way.

This was the first time they had seen the Prince of Lightning fighting seriously.

Although they knew the rumors about his fight with the Ice God that spread was true after seeing Adeline who had always been beside him, seeing firsthand his strength caused a different feeling.

Not only Roland alone, Leinn also made most people feel amazed.

Although he looked overwhelmed, he was still able to withstand all the attacks coming from those various directions perfectly.

The new disciples who were now sitting in the audience seats and looking at it began to wonder, whether the two young men above the arena were really from the same generation as them., seeing the difference in their abilities was like the difference between heaven and earth.

The bham!

A loud clashing sound rang out from above the arena and the audience could see Leinn bouncing into the air after fending off an attack from Roland.

The sword sheath in his left hand suddenly took out a magic circle and turned into a bracelet on his wrist. He then extended his free left hand towards Roland.

“Giliranku”

The purple silhouette hovering nearby looked excited and instantly moved towards that outstretched hand and entered into it.

Purple mana started seeping out, forming what looked like a purple colored flame.

The flaming hand began to move and hid part of its own face.

[First Step]

He managed to land smoothly along with the purple flames that started to burn even more, covering half of his face.

It all happened in less than two seconds, then Leinn finally lowered his left hand and showed something that shocked the audience and the young man in front of him.

The skull mask appeared above his left eye, which looked like he was laughing with purple flames appearing in the empty hole where his eyes should be.

[Death Recollector]

The purple mist began to spread to the five-meter area around Leinn, emitting a much greater pressure than before.

Incredibly, the people outside the transparent dome could also feel a small part of that pressure despite being separated by magic that was supposed to protect them from the effects inside.

The one currently receiving this pressure in full was Roland who was standing ten meters in front of the young man.

It was fortunate that the lightning in his body had managed to dissipate most of that pressure, but he could still feel the other effects of that purple mist.

The lightning mana in his eleven swords that had already gathered again began to decrease in speed visible to ordinary eyes.

It can't be allowed to run any longer.

“Ronde two?”

A slightly different sounding voice came out from Leinn's mouth, along with a new thin purple mist.

“Ronde two”

Simultaneously, Roland disappeared and appeared within that purple mist.

Clangs!