Vincent used his Fire Affixed Ether to jumpstart his inactive core.

BOOM!

A small shockwave of fire was released from Vincent, Surprisingly the Fire didn't burn the grass.

It instead drifted around it

Vincent cleared his eyes and stared at his surroundings in awe.

He found out the stage of cultivating he rather the [Planar Giant] was in.

'[Mid-Stage Fire Core Gathering]'

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'[Mid-Stage Fire Core Gathering]'

'According to the [Fire Planar Giant] memories.'

'At this stage, A full-power Fire Technique attack is enough to take out a gathering which should be the human equivalent of an Average City'

'With my core now turned on, My Fire affinity and attack strength should have increased tremendously, Right system?'

[Indeed, Your Fire Affinity is now at SSS-Rank High]

[Inheritance of Fire: From the Flames, I was Born (S-Rank) has now been improved too (SS-Rank)]

[The same should apply to your Lightning Attacks and Affinity when you trigger the Lightning Core]

'Ok, I should trigger the lighting core now'

Vincent closed his eyes again. Then from his Ether Pool, He drew and converted strands of Ether into Lightning Affined Ether and directed it to his Inactive [Lightning Core] that was next to his [Active Fire Core].

Minutes later an eruption of strong cackling lightning arcs branches from Vincent before it eases to just snaking around his body, forming a Lightning Armor.

The Lightning relieved, and the Armor faded away as Vincent loosened up.

He let out a long breath of relief and laid down on the grass as he spoke to the system.

'What stage is my Affinity with Lightning now?' He asked the system

[Your Affinity to Lightning is at SSS-High]

[Inheritance of Lightning: Through Lightning Shall I Transverse the Infinite Planes (S-Rank) has increased to (SS-Rank)]

[Thundra Possession Technique is now as strong as it was at its peak.]

[Host is now capable of using

Thunder Possession 7th Strike]

'Yes! I can use [The 7th strike] now.

'So this is the Lightning Core from the Lightning Planar Giants memories'

Flash-Back, a Few Weeks Ago

After Vincent had killed his first [Nightmare Beast] that went Berserk and settled in Aemplefort for the night.

It was morning as Vincent had just spent a refreshing night in the hotel.

He wondered what he was going to do today and the system gave him a great idea.

[Why don't you train]

''Train? I already have the experience of the lightning planar giant. I see no need to train now''

[True, But you could feel it when you used [Thundra Possession] It didn't feel the same now, did it?]

"..... No, It felt familiar"

[I have a theory that while indeed you have the experience of a Planar Giant.]

[The planar giant is a titan 100's meters high on average, The way he moved is not how you should move.]

[But at the First 3 strikes you feel no difference but you should be careful when trying the 4th]

"Your theory is feasible, I may have the blood of a Planar Giant. But I don't have the same body frame." Vincent mumbled in realization.

[Indeed]

"But the experience should still help me adapt and master the technique"

[Yes it should]

"Ok, I'll test this now" Vincent agreed

He left the city and strolled an adequate distance away before he began a dash into the forest and lunged onto the trees.

After a few minutes of wandering upon trees, he chanced upon a large Grass field.

He saw the field plains ahead and moved towards it.

At the Grass Plain. He could see that the plain spread for miles, which was a good thing, No [Dark Beast] nor [Nightmare] would be able to sneak up on him.

So he began to train, First following some warm-up exercises he knew before attempting the actual exercise.

After minutes of Warm-Up, He began

He first made an effort on the trademark Attack Technique that the Lightning Planar Giant used a lot.

[Thundra Possession]

Vincent knew the details of this technique

This technique grants the practitioner a Lightning Armor created from a strike of lightning the technique summons.

The Lightning Armor defends the body and at the same time augments the practitioner's speed, strength, and penetrative power to High degrees.

This Technique goes up to 7 Strikes and lightning and beyond.

At 7 Strikes, The Practitioner would be capable of the second form of the technique.

The more the strikes, the stronger the armor and augment.

This was the first technique Vincent had used that was from the Planar Giants, he knew singlehandedly the power of the technique.

So he had to see the threshold of strikes he could take and his familiarity with the technique.

So he stood upon the Grassy Plains and called upon the clouds to gather in the sky.

Soon Dark Clouds began to form and lightning came to be, cackling in the sky.

Getting ready, Vincent called upon the first lightning strike.

[Thundra Possession: 1st Strike]

Then lightning struck him with a short burst of light, As the light settled Vincent stood upon burnt and burning grass.

But he didn't care, He was more focused on the power he currently possessed. The lightning crackled around him.

He felt alive, Nothing different from the first time

Not yet at his limit, he called for more strikes.

The Second

The Third

On the Fourth, When he moved he had an uncomfortable feeling

On the Fifth, The Feeling increased but it still felt phantom-like

On the Sixth. He could sense it vividly. The uncomfortable feeling.

He knew that if he moved he might cross the entire plains at once but it wasn't as fast as the Lightning planar giant could. Hence sprouting the unfamiliar feeling.

"So this is what the system means"

"An average Planar Giant is hundreds of meters high. It crosses 100 meters in a step and 1000 meters in 10 at a walking pace."

"While I can cross 100 meters in 50 steps and 1000 in 500 at a walking pace."

"Using the 6th strike, The Lightning Planar Giant could cross the distance of 1000 meters in a quarter of a second."

"While I would be able to cross that distance in half a second"

"No wonder it feels irritating, The lightning Planar Giant could cross such distance under a short period because of his reach"

"But I don't have that privilege"

"[Thundra Possession] doesn't reduce the number of steps, it only increases my speed."

"So I should focus on my base speed and adapting to my current speed "

At this point, Vincent was bloated with strength and speed and burning pain.

His muscles were tensed to the extreme and he could feel the strain on him.

The experiences weren't able to help him instantly learn it, but they did help him learn and adapt faster.

Vincent then called upon the seventh strike, but to his surprise, there was no strike.

He tried to summon lightning again, but it didn't come, instead, the dark clouds began to move away from him carried by the wind.

Vincent made an effort to call it back, but it didn't respond, He had lost power over the dark clouds.

So he decided to let it go. He was sure that the clouds wouldn't kill anyone, It was more or less a natural rain cloud.

Turning away from the clouds, Vincent went on to train the strikes he could use until he lost sense of time, and it was Midnight

Too tired to return, he spent the night in the plains using [My Illusions Are the World’s Reality] to cast a notice me not and a camouflage illusion, then went into the [Eidetic Library of Knowing] when he slept.

Today's Incident was strange, and he wanted to know the cause of such strangeness.

After a while, he figured out the reason.

He lacked a stable lightning core of some sort before he could unlock the seventh strike.

Before he could read more he sensed bloodlust coming towards his position, so he awoke to take a look.

And Indeed, A [Dark Beast] was coming towards the plain, one that had just finished a feast.

Blood dripped down its claws and mouth as it ate the human hand in his mouth and held a female head.

At first, Vincent chose to ignore it but when he saw the ashen and anguished expression on the woman's face the [Dark Beast] held.

He knew that the [Dark Beast] had torn the woman limb for limb and the hand it was eating was probably hers.

A trait of [Dark Beast] that he despised.

They love to play with their prey.

"*Sigh*, I was looking for someone to test my power on," He said as dark clouds began to gather, "So I might as well get revenge for you at the same time"

"[Thundra Possession: Second Strike]"

Boom

Two Lightning bolts struck from the sky instantly drawing the [Dark Beast] attention.

Sensing a great source of danger to itself, it dropped the head it was holding and the hand it was eating.

Vincent looked at the [Dark Beast] in distaste.

"From its breath, it's at most an [A-Rank Danger Threat]. This would be quick."

Flashing from his position, Vincent appeared above the [Dark Beast] in half a breath and punched it.

The [Dark Beast] could not react before it found itself digging into the ground.

While it didn't die instantly, it was gravely injured as its head caved in upon the punch.

It tried to struggle to escape, But Vincent, who kept a foot on it, didn't budge.

"Tch, The resilience of these things is annoying," He said as he brought up his lightning-encased hand.

Feeling the power within the punch was enough to kill it, It fought crazed and began to go Berserk.

But it was too late, Death had come in the form of divine punishment.

[Lightning Burst]

BOOM

A blast of lightning spread out for miles, destroying everything in its path.

The [Dark Beast] was destroyed with the only evidence being the great crater the blast resulted in.

Vincent saw the damage he caused and knew that someone was perhaps already moving toward him.

He was about to dash away when he had a spark of an idea.

Instead of running away, He used [My Illusions Are The World's Reality] and made a trail into the forest while he camouflages himself

Moments later, Five robed people arrived on the scene, they halted shortly before following the fake trail Vincent had left.

Minutes later, Vincent dropped the illusions and instantly dashed to his hotel room.

He sensed that the Five robed people that had passed by him were strong.

Each felt like a [S-Rank Danger Threat] to him.

In his room, Vincent laid on the bed and shortly went to sleep

Flash-Back End

"*Sigh*, It was a good idea to use an Illusion instead of running way"

"If not, It would have been troublesome to ditch them"

"I should end my training here, using [Thundra Possession] here is not safe."

So Vincent left [Yggdrasil Proto[A] and headed to his dorm for a good rest.

A Week Later

Vincent entered his room after a tiresome day of learning about [Dark Beasts] and the first thing he saw was the package on his bed.

"Is this-"

He guessed what it was and when he opened the package it proved his guess right.

He laughed eerily as he held the content of the package.

"So we meet……"

"[Firestorm]"

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Sorry for the late chapter.

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