The lightning mana in Varian's body rumbled as it flowed outward and covered him.

It quivered and began to concentrate on his back.

From the outside, it looked like little shiny golden threads were moving around his body as they raced towards his back.

"Screech!" The Fury Monkeys sensed his advancement. They weren't happy.

Boom!

A Fury monkey kicked the ground, causing gravel to spill out and a small golden orb rose from that gravel.

"Ka!" The Fury Monkey grabbed the orb and hurled it at Varian.

The remaining monkeys followed.

Varian was still in the process of adjusting to level 5, so his lightning powers were chaotic.

However, his body senses were on alert and the moment he saw the first orb dashing towards him, he teleported out.

The twenty odd orbs reached his location and flashed brightly.

Zap!

It was like sound itself was forcibly cut off, compressed and burst.

The orbs exploded into a brilliant lightning blast destroying everything in its 100 meter vicinity.

"Fuck!" Varian muttered as he floated in the air. The lightning mana coalesced into two light, but sturdy wings.

The advancement was complete.

Level 5 Lightning Awakeners received a comprehensive boost on all their capabilities and from here, they were capable of flight.

And

Varian flapped his wings and they dissolved into lightning mana which covered his body in golden light.

Whish!

His figure blurred into a streak of lightning and he instantly appeared before the Fury Monkeys.

"Garh!" The monkeys were taken aback and lightning covered their bodies.

The next moment, a flash of light passed and they appeared hundreds of meters away.

It was the same technique Varian used.

Lightning Dashcover your body with lightning and moving like lightning.

Even though its speed was far from the original lightning, a level 5 using lightning dash was faster than any other path, excluding Space Awakener's teleportation.

But poor monkeys, Varian could teleport.

And teleport he did.

Pa!

Right when the fury monkeys thought they had escaped, he teleported behind them.

"Ke!" Their lightning sense captured his arrival and they were about to use their lightning mana to throw the Thunder dynamites at him.

But they were suddenly hit by an invisible force.

Their brains turned sluggish and their bodies didn't obey their command for a split second.

"Gar!" The Fury Monkeys regained their control in an instant, and were about to the throw the bombs.

But it was too late.

A bright light flashed and the wind whistled as a sword cut through it.

-Thud!

-Thud!

Half of the fury monkeys were instantly killed. They never got to use the thunder dynamites in their hands.

"Well, telepath power always helps." Varian smacked his lips and grinned.

If his Telepath was also at level 5, he'd have probably killed all the Fury Monkeys.

Of course, it was mainly because his Body Path was already at peak level 5.

The Fury monkeys responded to his smile with fifty thunder dynamites.

And all of the dynamites were twice the previous size.

"Damn it." Varian cursed and quickly teleported. He glanced at his previous position and his jaw dropped.

The dynamites actually joined together and merged into a red orb. The shiny little orb shone like molten iron and a blinding white light flashed.

Then

A huge golden sphere expanded destroying everything in its contact. It seared the air, melted the soil and swallowed everything in its path.

Thankfully, the golden sphere only expanded for about fifty meters and died down.

"If I was hit by it" Varian wiped the sweat off his forehead and muttered. "Wait"

He turned around and saw the twelve-odd monkeys preparing to throw another set of dynamites at him.

This time, the orbs were larger than the previous.

Varian gripped his sword and said. "I'm not playing with you anymore."

"Scree?" The fury monkeys created small hands with their lightning mana to throw the orbs at him.

But

The space around the fury monkeys' solidified all off a sudden.

"Screech!"

Zap!

Kacha!

The solid space couldn't hold on even for a moment as the level 5 fury monkeys' broke it apart with their lightning.

"Garh!"

But then came the headache. A literal headache as they felt like a needle was pricking their monkey brains.

However, they channeled their mana and quickly suppressed the pain. The fury monkeys' eyes turned bloodshot as they glared at Varian.

Despite his two attacks, they were fine in almost no time. But as a peak level 5, Varian saw a lot of time in that no time.

Zap!

Dozens and dozens of Lightning arrows rained down on the monkeys.

"Gu!" The fury monkeys had no time to throw the dynamites and had to defend themselves with a lightning barrier.

Then came the final strike.

Varian's sword moved faster than their lightning dash as it severed every monkey into two.

Of course, the two or three monkeys at the peak of level 5 tried to resist and almost succeeded.

But too bad for them, Varian kept a special eye on them and bombarded them majority of lightning attacks.

Since his lightning path was level 5 anyway, they couldn't ignore it.

It sealed away their final chance of escape as Varian's sword ended their life.

"Phew!" Sheathing his sword, Varian sighed in relief.

Rumble!

The lighting struck him from the sky, but Varian didn't hear any prompt.

"Tsk." He shook his head in annoyance and focused back on the crater.

His lightning sense spread out and connected to the ground.

Slowly, it seeped under the ground filled with craters and sensed a familiar aura.

Thunder dynamite.

"There!" He waved his hand, and his mental force dug the ground, retrieving a small orb.

It was only he beginning.

"There, there and there"

One by one, thunder dynamites surfaced onto the ground.

Varian checked the Fury mines once again and after confirming the site was cleaned up, he left.

First step: Acquire explosives. Complete.

Second step: Psychedelic Gardens.

Varian glanced at the map one last time and sighed.

Treasuresthere were many treasures, but the more precious the treasure, the more time consuming the process to obtain it.

He had little time.

But on the plus side, these treasures that helped others didn't help him as much.

Sure, a treasure might give him a hundred or two hundred Xp, but to advance, he'd need to take at least five of them.

'That'd take up too much of my time.'

Again, the issue was time.

Of course, he could gain Xp just by what he's doing.

'If I'm free by the end, I'll go hunt for treasuresor rob a few.' He thought and kicked the ground.

His body flashed forward as he sprinted towards the exit.

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