NOVEL WEB Chapter 84: 081. Thunder Strike.
Once again, Johan accelerated his body's biolectrics and forced his brain to think and react faster than usual.
His body produced a little spark of electricity that spread into the air and the man ran towards Rama, whose form was still in the real world.
However, before Johan could move, Rama had already read his movements and instantly turned his own body into darkness.
Johan ran with all his might towards Rama but the man only crashed into the body of darkness which eventually spread and merged with the environment.
Rama's head was still floating in the air when the electric man crashed into his darkness body. Johan continued to run straight without changing direction and made Rama a little astonished before finally his entire head also turned into darkness and merged with the environment.
"What are you trying to do?" Asked Rama whose voice seemed to come from all directions.
But Johan ignored him and continued to run through the drizzling rain.
"Are you trying to run away from my dimension overlap technique?" another question was thrown by Rama and once again Johan ignored it.
After a while, Johan suddenly stopped running. His breathing was a little labored but he now realized something.
He had been running straight without turning at all, but why?
Why did he go back to where he was? To the place where he faced the pebbles from Rama.
"Did you think you could just run out like that? Unfortunately, the technicalities of this magic are not that simple. You won't be able to get out even if rain and other things can enter this area," said Rama whose physical form did not exist in the real world.
But after hearing that, instead of giving up, Johan continued his actions. He ran once more and even faster than before. His running speed became mach 3 and continued to become faster and faster.
Once again he arrived at the starting place, but he did not stop running, instead he shifted slightly a few degree and continued to run as if looking for a direction.
Was Johan looking for a possible different direction? Did he think that if he ran in a different direction, he would make it out?
The questions swirled in Rama's mind but the young man understood, Johan was not that simple...
Or was he?
After a few dozen laps, the direction Johan was running was now 90 degrees different from the direction he had started running.
And the longer the man ran, the more his body glowed because of the many electrons around his body.
Because of his high speed and the electrons floating around him, Johan now looked like a fast-moving ball of lightning.
Rama became a little worried. He knew Johan was not stupid, the man must be planning something. But what?
After a while, Johan finally stopped and the collection of electrons around him made him look like a glowing light bulb.
Johan knelt down and panted and looked around as if looking for something.
Rama finally realized Johan's actions and chuckled softly. The young man brought his body into the real world at a distance of about 50 meters away from Johan.
"Do you want to attack me with all the electricity you gathered by running?" asked Rama haughtily while chuckling occasionally.
"Attack me!" challenged Rama who did not move from where he stood.
The young man knew that Johan must be exhausted from all the electron gathering. Even if Johan could attack, the blond man must not have the energy to focus or get close. Even if that happened, there was a 50: 50 was the chance that he could be hit by Johan's attack.
50 meters away...
From 50 meters away, Rama challenged Johan to launch his best attack.
"What's the name of that mind-reading girl? After this, I'll make sure to kill her!" Rama shouted which made Johan tremble slightly.
Johan raised his right hand and created a large ball of electricity. He took a step with his left foot, but his left foot suddenly lost its power and made Johan fall forward. The huge ball of electricity hit the ground and all the electrons spread out into the ground.
Rama was stunned for a moment and then laughed loudly as he looked at Johan lying on the ground.
"Hahahaha! Wait a minute, don't tell me you're exhausted? After all that preparation and you're exhausted? Right now?" Rama laughed so hard that he fell down and lay on the ground.
The young man laughed so hard that he forgot he had lost both arms.
Rama stood up and ran over to Johan. "It's a pity, I wanted to -"
Johan suddenly raised his right hand up and pointed at the sky. The man lay exhausted but still had time to raise his hand.
Rama stopped running and now stood still while watching Johan intently.
"Wait a minute, what are you doing?" asked Rama who became worried.
Johan just smiled.
By the time Rama saw Johan's fingertips emitting electric sparks, it was too late.
Johan wasn't just running to collect energy within the 500 meter area, rather he was absorbing negative charge of every particle in the area.
His action had just turned all the particles into particles with positive charge.
In other words, the entire 500-meter area was now a dome completely filled with positively charged particles.
Rama didn't know the basic laws of electromagnetics but Johan understood what would happen when a large area of positive charge was under a storm cloud.
When storm clouds release lightning, they can sometimes drop several lightning bolts, but because of the large concentration of positive-charge particle in the area where Johan and Rama were, all the stepped-leaders ended up taking the same route and instead created one giant lightning that moved into the 500 meters area like a magnet pulling an iron.
For a moment, a bright light was created, a light that was brighter than the sun itself and engulfed everything in a blinding white horizon.
*DHUAR!!!
The huge explosion pushed the air away and created a huge shockwave that spread out in all directions and blew pieces of earth in all directions.
The 50 meter area around Johan was vaporized instantly, vanished, atomized...
Dozens of streams of electricity spread out in all directions and struck everything they passed.
Pieces of earth fell and some of the electricity was still traveling above ground.
After the devastating lightning strike, the area 50 meters around Johan is now just a large hole with the ground fused into glass.
The area above 50 meters to 150 meters around Johan is now burned with the ground cracking and falling apart. There are still some flames burning the trees and grass in the area.
In the midst of all the chaos, Johan tried to stand on the ground, which was the only ground that had not become glass within the 50-meter area.
Blood poured out of Johan's nose and his vision swayed. His breathing was ragged and his heart was beating fast.
The miasma that filled the air disappeared and all the dead and withered plants within the 500-meter area turned back into healthy greenery.
The withered trees that were on fire were now sturdy trees that were on fire.
Even the curse of darkness that had been spreading over the surface of Johan's body now disappeared completely.
Rama's dimension overlap effect began to disappear even though the effects of Johan's attack were still clearly visible.
Johan breathed a sigh of relief and tried to catch his breath. This was the first time he had fought all-out like this and used all his abilities.
Even when he fought Aril, he didn't go all out like this. It was not because of inability, but rather the motivation to keep pushing himself beyond his limits...
This time, he had a strong motivation, which was to make sure Jessica survived.
The man smiled as he just realized that Aril was also like this when fighting him. When one wanted to protect the people they cared about, then that person would be able to throw everything away in order to succeed.
Johan finally realized, he was no different from Aril in that aspect.
Johan chuckled. "At least this way, Jessica can -"
*JRASH!!!
Something pierced Johan's stomach and sprayed blood in all directions.
Johan fell to the ground with blood flowing profusely from the large hole created in his stomach.
Despite his initial confusion, the blond-haired man realized that the fight was not over and a kalomba had just flew through his stomach.
With what strength he had left, Johan raised his head and looked behind him.
Someone came out of the shadow of one of the burning trees.
That person was none other than Rama whose left side of his body was only bone covered with muscle and blood flowing out of the muscle fibers.
Rama, whose face was half burnt, laughed out loud. "You're really good, Johan! You are the man!"