Strongest Mage with the Lust system

Chapter 867: Rima Breakthroughs

“Arrgghhh, fuck!” He roared in pain before looking at his left shoulder.

What he saw surprised him. While his skin and flesh was thoroughly charged and even bones had suffered some damage, this injury was nothing serious. Just relying on his recently strengthened natural healing, it would heal completely in a week at most.

Immediately, his lips curled up, “How sweet! I have yet to get familiar with the Thunder Bloodline, but it’s already showing its effects.”

He was happy. How could he not be when the lightning strike capable of killing anyone below the Four Star and seriously injuring even a High Stage Four Star and maybe even a peak Four Star only managed to superficially injure him and it was when he was completely off guard.

While his already strong physique strengthened once again by the bloodline awakenings also played a significant role in it, his Thunder Bloodline had negated the most impact by absorbing the Thunder Energy in the lightning strike.

Thinking this, he looked inwardly and noticed extremely small pale blue dots in his blood, floating alongside the Fire Energy traces.

This discovery thrilled him. Even though he had awakened his maternal bloodline which should be quite strong seeing this bloodline had produced multiple Emperors and Monarchs, he wasn’t sure if his Thunder Affinity would be as strong as his Fire one.

With Thunder traces appearing in his blood, however, he no longer needed to worry about a lower affinity.

’I should first let it absorb more Thunder Energy and solidify the Thunder traces. It would be much easier to absorb the Thunder Mana, increase Thunder Mana control and sense the Thunder Law.’ He thought and without wasting any time, he began rousing the Thunder Bloodline to attract more lightning strikes.

His Thunder Bloodline didn’t disappoint. As soon as he stirred it, the clouds crackled and two lightning bolts that were going to strike somewhere else headed toward him.

Max clenched his back muscles and shifted slightly to let the bolts strike there.

Boom! Boom!

Because he was ready this time, only a minor wound appeared where the bolts struck.

Looking at his blood with his bloodline sense, he noticed as the Thunder Energy was absorbed by his blood, the previously almost invisible pale blue dots became brighter.

Two minutes later, all the thunder energy was absorbed and he once again stirred his bloodline.

Boom! Boom!

Another two lightning bolts struck him.

Since he only needed to stir his bloodline to attract the bolts, he began to review the Magic Spell the Skeleton gave him to accommodate multiple elements in his mana core.

It took him over an hour to go through it. Once he was done, he smiled because the most important aspect of this spell was to introduce something that could negate the friction between the different elemental mana and he already possessed it—Nascent Energy.

’Arr, mistake. I don’t have it right now.’ He realized, his expression stiffening.

He fell into deep thought.

After a while, he took a deep breath, “If I can’t find a way to leave this realm before I increase my Thunder mana control and comprehend the Law, I’ll have to try and use the Lust Overlord bloodline energy. If It works, then alright otherwise… I’ll have no choice but to postpone the breakthrough.”

Crackle!

Boom!

Right then, two thunder bolts struck again and unlike other times when Max only felt a sting, this time pain was more pronounced and he was even propelled forward.

’Hmm, they are already strong enough to instantly kill an early stage Four Star mage.’ He thought, feeling the power of the thunderbolts.

Since the second time, he had already realized the thunderbolts were gradually becoming stronger. As for why, he was clear about the reason.

It was due to the pale blue dots representing the Thunder Energy in his blood becoming more pronounced—they were already one-tenth the size of the Fire Energy traces—so his bloodline’s attraction power was becoming stronger.

In fact, for the last few times, when he stirred his bloodline, he had noticed a third thunderbolt forming but it would disperse before it could land.

He looked down the mountain he was on and seeing there was no beast nearby, he sighed in relief.

Fortunately, there were no beasts in the vicinity, otherwise he wouldn’t have dared to continue because he knew if he did, given the speed the thunder traces were strengthening, in just two or three days, he would get injured to the point where his combat power would be significantly impacted.

Thankfully, most of the beasts were inherently afraid of fire and lightning and this was more true for the mutated beasts of this minor realm—they seemed very afraid of the thunder, most likely because the thunder had quite a powerful deterrent and cleansing effect of the Devil Energy.

…

Time passed.

Two days later…

Huff! Huff! Huff!

Max was lying on the cliff, all the skin on his body was gone and his flesh was charred. In some places, bones were even visible.

However, there was a big, satisfied grin on his still intact face.

“Just two more and the Thunder Traces will catch up to the Fire ones.” He muttered, raising his hand toward the sky and clenching his fist.

A short while later, he sat up and began circulating his bloodline energy to heal faster.

’I wonder how she is doing?’ Max thought, sighing in his heart. Then he shook his head, cleared all the distracting thoughts and focused on healing.

He did not want to think about Rima because every time he thought about her, his longing to leave this realm would become stronger. Not only it frustrated him because he wasn’t able to leave but also because it decreased his cultivation efficiency.

…

Half a month had gone by since the recruitment.

Whizz!

The isolation formation covering one of the Inner Hall courtyards suddenly flickered and was deactivated, revealing the previously hidden courtyard.

Shua!

Then the door swung open and Rima with an expressionless look on her face walked out.

On the first day after she took her identity badge and inner hall disciple robes, she threw herself into cultivation.

In the Beast Emperor Hall, only the strongest 1000 disciples in the Four Star realm could be listed on the Bronze list while only the strongest 500 disciples in the Five Star realm could be listed on the Silver list.

As for the Golden List, only the strongest 100 disciples in the Six Star realm—King Mages—could be ranked on it.

Furthermore, only if the disciples were younger than 30 years old could they be listed on any of the three lists, otherwise even if they were strongest in their realm, they wouldn’t be able to hold the prestigious title of the ranked disciple.

Since Meredith had told Rima that she needed to be on the Golden Listed to be able to enter the minor realm, she had been trying to break through to the Five Star realm so she could step on the Silver Arena and begin the ranked battles.

In the Silver Area, not only would she be able to enter the silver list by defeating opponents which would give her more resources, each battle would give her some Merit Points, something she needed a lot of.

Today, after exhausting all the resources she had with her to begin with and the monthly resources she got from the Beast Emperor Hall, she finally managed to step into the Five Star realm.

Her gaze determined, she headed toward the Silver Area.

However, right then…

Step! Step! Step!

“Milady, please wait for a moment!”