After reaching the maximum level, my "soft rice system" finally arrived.

Beneath those thick thunderclouds...

Whether it's the mermaids and naga fighting bloody battles within the steel fortress...

Or perhaps it's those ferocious "servants of God" surging towards the Third Energy Fortress, as if they want to swallow this steel tower whole...

At this moment, everything stopped moving before that overwhelming divine might...

next moment--

The electric arc accumulating in the thunderclouds...

It all converged into a powerful bolt of lightning.

.......

Plasma collapse.

The world fell silent...

All that remained were those lines of thunder that pierced the boundary between heaven and earth, thunder that shook the heavens and the earth.

A brilliant flash of lightning ripped through the sky, and a deafening thunderstorm crashed down upon the near-legendary beasts that had previously attempted to attack Danis.

These wild beasts are only one step away from becoming legendary... and they are blessed by the God of War, making their bodies incredibly strong and resilient, even able to regrow severed limbs.

However, at this very moment...

These beast bodies, harder than gold and iron, were reduced to ashes in the immense lightning tribulation, with no possibility of resurrection.

The sixth colossus, Leviathan, which had just recovered, was also struck by the lightning... and was now letting out a painful roar...

Its newly restored body was once again scorched by electricity, turning its flesh and torso black and a gruesome sight.

Leviathan's injuries were far more horrific than when Danis unleashed the Black Sun; his life force was rapidly ebbing away...

However, the towering thunderstorm showed no signs of abating...

It's foreseeable that... it won't be long...

This almost invincible giant will completely exhaust all its life force... and perish, only to wait to be resurrected by the God of War.

.......

As Danis gazed at the catastrophe unfolding before her, a scene resembling the end of the world, she couldn't help but let out a soft sigh.

Truly a testament to the might of nature...

The "darkest day" that erupts from burning everything is utterly insignificant in comparison to it.

Unfortunately... even the most resilient wild beasts could only turn to ashes in the face of a thunderstorm of this magnitude.

The third energy fortress... will likely not escape its fate either.

However, regardless of the circumstances...

Even at the cost of the Third Energy Fortress being destroyed by a thunderstorm...

However, the fact that this sacrifice resulted in the fall of a colossus, which would require a long time to resurrect, is already quite good news...

however--

Just as Danis turned her gaze toward the Third Energy Fortress.

Her gaze suddenly froze.

Above the Third Energy Fortress... a gleaming silver metal needle, formed from condensed magical energy, stood silently upright.

And centered on that metal needle—

An almost invisible magical barrier is silently covering the Third Energy Fortress.

The earth-shattering thunderstorm crashed down... then was drawn by the invisible magical barrier of the metal needle and guided to the surface of the sea... without harming anything within the fortress in the slightest.

.......

"This is... a forbidden spell used to ward off lightning?"

Danis's expression suddenly changed to one of surprise.

"So, this thunderstorm wasn't formed naturally either..."

"Or rather, it was created by a wizard?"

This completely contradicts Danis's understanding as a legendary mage...

Forbidden spells do indeed contain techniques to alter the weather...

But that was merely an auxiliary forbidden spell that altered the amount of rainfall... and it was on a completely different level from the forbidden spell that so easily annihilated the Titan.

"If my intelligence is correct... then this should be a combination of the forbidden spell 'Lightning Storm' and the forbidden spell 'Shar. Lightning Rod'..."

The words of Augudia, the Dragon of the Night, remained calm in Danis's ears...

To unleash the power of a mythical forbidden spell on a seemingly ordinary "Lightning Storm"...

This is indeed extremely unbelievable to outsiders...

But Xia Er had done this many times... and the legends of the Western Continent had long since gone from initial shock to admiration.

From then on, it has become commonplace and no longer surprising.

After seeing it many times, you naturally get used to it and don't need to be as startled as the inhabitants of other worlds.

Isn't it just about unleashing the power of an extraordinary chain of forbidden spells from an ordinary forbidden spell?

This is no big deal...

"and--"

"If I'm not mistaken..."

"Everything at this moment... is merely a prelude..."

Augudia gazed at the roaring thunderstorm above the fortress, her crimson-gold dragon eyes flashing with an unusual light.

"After all, that greedy guy..."

"We will never be satisfied with... merely sending a giant warrior back to the fountain..."

.......

The roaring thunderstorm gradually subsided.

Leviathan, weakened by the lightning storm and on the verge of destruction, was just one step away from its demise...

At this moment, it finally seized the opportunity to catch its breath, and its life force began to recover little by little.

As a colossus, Leviathan possesses intelligence that is in no way inferior to that of ordinary humans.

Even after its fall, it can be resurrected from the astral plane by its master—the God of War...

However, it will take a considerable amount of time to recuperate and recover before one can regain peak combat strength.

If one can avoid perishing, then of course it would be best to avoid perishing...

Now that I think about it...

The decision to attack the Third Energy Fortress... seems rather hasty, acting without reporting to the Supreme Lord.

First, he was nearly killed by a forbidden spell cast by a legendary female mage...

Then two more unfamiliar legends, who had never fought before, stepped in.

Then... a sudden thunderstorm turned all the marine-type wild beasts they had brought into ashes... a truly devastating loss.

A belated fear flickered in the enormous eyes of the Leviathan, a creature with the body of a sea dragon.

The final thunderstorm... was even a bit too much for it.

If the thunderstorm hadn't inexplicably stopped at the end... it probably would have been sent back to the fountain to await rebirth.

Regardless... this time they escaped death by a hair's breadth, and even managed to gather information on those two mysterious legends...

.......

If only we could bring this vital information back and convey it to the Supreme Lord...

Leviathan's thoughts came to an abrupt halt with the deafening sound of thunder.

Above it, the thousands of vanished lightning bolts recombined in the form of macro-electrons, converging into a small spherical electric light.

The ball lightning wasn't very big; compared to the previous lightning storms, it was nothing.

however--

Do not know why.

The moment I saw that dazzling, crackling ball of lightning—

Suddenly, an immense fear rose in Leviathan's heart.

At first, it was just a faint premonition...

However, in just a few breaths...

That premonition grew stronger and stronger, becoming increasingly uncontrollable.

An immense fear gripped the Colossus's mind...