Chapter 129: Viscount Finally Unleashed His Origin Skill!
As no one had enough money to summon so many Golden Knights, or else they could come at him openly to kill.
But if it was an artifact, then it was even more absurd, because he never heard of a low-tier artifact which could throw Early Golden Knight attacks like water.
While he was thinking this, he remains in a lying position and his face was facing the sky, but the next moment a bad premonition rose in his heart and the sky again became bright , but with a freaking 32 lightning bolts and 37 lightning bolts.
In the start, the magic tower was getting ready, which was why Luke couldn’t throw down all attacks together. Plus this was the first time mages were using Spell Store, so they were also not much familiar with its mechanics, which resulted in this long to understand it partially.
"But now it’s done." Luke nodded at all mages, because now they could release attacks in the batch of 30+, which was still crazy.
"I hope you like my gift, Viscount Aldaric." Luke muttered with a playful smile and looked at the magical array screen, which was showing Aldaric’s pale face.
Aldaric, for the first time, felt that he couldn’t take all those attacks head-on with his Ascension Series.
Even if he used a defensive series, then he could max only block around 20, but 32 + 37.
"Hell no!"
The surrounding people also felt something was wrong, because the sky was shining so bright, which seemed like it was going to come down itself the next moment.
So when all of them heard Aldaric shout, they immediately understood something bad was about to happen.
Aldaric rose from the crater and shouted at the sky with an angry face, "If you think this would be enough to bring me down, then you are totally wrong."
With that, the next moment, everyone again heard Aldaric’s loud voice but this filled with confidence, which finally brought hope to them.
’C-rank Origin Skill’
"Volcano Bear Transformation!"
The next instant Aldaric’s body began to tremble. And cracks spread across his skin, which were fissures of molten orange light, as if lava was flowing just beneath his flesh.
His bones shifted. His muscles swelled. His spine elongated.
His height also changed, becoming double. Then triple. Five feet. Ten feet. Fifteen. Twenty. Twenty-five. And finally thirty feet tall.
His clothes tore apart as his body expanded beyond human proportions. His skin darkened, hardening into thick obsidian-like plates. Fur erupted across his body—dark brown and gray, streaked with veins of glowing orange.
"ROARRRR!"
The first roar tore from his throat, it came out as a mixture of human and bear. The sound shook the ground and echoed across the cities.
Which shoved every normal person to the ground with fear and even many soldiers and knights became afraid.
Luke also became surprised, even though he had heard about Viscount’s transformation Origin Skill from Aurielle’s mouth, but seeing it with his own eyes was a really different experience.
While Luke was praising the transformation, down below Aldaric’s body transformation stopped, but not the next part, as it name says Volcano Bear, so it happened.
A small volcano slowly rose from his back. When rock and magma pushed through his skin, forming a craggy peak. Smoke curled from its summit. Orange cracks spread across its surface like veins of molten fire. The volcano was alive—pulsing, breathing, connected to his heartbeat.
His eyes also shifted to a burning gold-red. Following that, his teeth lengthened into fangs the length of shortswords. His hands became massive paws with claws of volcanic stone.
Then everyone present saw a 30-foot-tall Bear, with the volcano on his back, which added another 10 feet to its height.
A living mountain. A walking volcano. A bear that had become the earth itself. And this thought came into their minds.
"Golden-rank Origin Skill is sure different." One adventurer muttered with an envious tone, while others nodded at his words.
Because a person who had an S-rank Origin Skill, but was a Bronze Knight, would not have much transformation, when it came to a Golden Knight who had a C-rank transformation.
As each stage, Origin skill also showed the changes it carried, which was also one of the reasons Origin Skill was feared and respected at the same time.
Aldaric, felt strength rush through his body, enough to lift the small mountains and then looked above, where all the lightning was also prepared and was now coming straight to him.
Though... this time he was not feeling much threat compared to earlier, because his bear transformation also increased his strength by 10 times of his normal body and the same was with his defense, which became 10 times, resulted in him reaching the peak of Middle Golden Knight.
On this he always felt proud of his transformation, but if he knew that Luke’s Titan form, even with a 1x stats multiplier, allowed him to reach the peak of Normal Knight, how much jealous he would be.
As Luke’s strength increased according to the Titan, but if he compared it to other Titans, then his stats would only be at the 2nd stage of that Titan, as Normal species bodies were weak, so each realm brought little change compared to other higher-level species, like dragons and others.
Aldaric after a moment calmed down and used his defensive move, as he was not arrogant enough to think he could tank 67 Early Golden Knight attacks without a scratch.
"Magma Hide!"
The next moment his body tensed and the orange fissures around his body grew brighter, with that the obsidian plates hardened and became denser.
His fur also changed, which now became crystallized, even though magma veins could still be seen running across his skin, which brought steam continuously from his body.
"COME!"
He shouted toward the sky and it also replied.
KRRRRAAAAAK!!!
KRRRRAAAAAK!!!
KRRRRAAAAAK!!!
Everyone present felt dread, the moment so many lightning bolts tore through the sky and aimed straight at Aldaric. Even though they were almost half a kilometer far from Aldaric, they still felt the lightning’s heat, so they made even more distance, while the previous people who moved back already felt relieved.
Then it began.
One bolt.
Then another.
Then another.
Lightning after lightning descended from the heavens, each strike following the last without pause.
Before anyone could catch their breath, all sixty-seven bolts had torn across the sky, turning the sky into a raging sea of thunder and blinding light.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!..... BOOM!!!
Aldaric’s bear-transformed body didn’t move, even after getting struck by tens of lightning bolts, but the ground around him was not safe, as it was cracked apart more and more with each second and was also melting because of the high temperatures.
Though he didn’t care about all that, instead raised his stone bear hand to shield his eyes, while getting struck by continuous lightning.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!..... BOOM!!!
For a moment, the whole city only heard the wrath of the heavens, even some nearby territories felt this aftermath.
So when they looked toward Windmarch Reach territory, each of them also felt the dread and one thought came into everyone’s mind. ’Who has angered the heavens!!!’