*Rumble!*

“It’s getting a bit out of control…” I looked at the sky and saw many fierce thick bolts of lightning hitting the ground, causing considerable damage even to the already finished city and towns.

I couldn’t allow this to continue! Four hours had passed since he started showing that pillar.

The more time passed, the more I felt the energy in that pillar getting richer and denser.

He showed no sign of slowing down or stopping anytime soon. I looked at this situation and had nothing else to do but to sit down, close my eyes, and welcome this challenge.

My general was creating such ruckus, and I had the responsibility to deal with it. I could feel the stirred up energy all over the place. His energy was adding more violence to the already violent energy.

Then let me start cultivating, diverting all this energy towards my shadow world. Come, come and show me how fierce you were, damn energy!

The moment I closed my eyes, I felt a fierce tempest of energy forming all over my body. It was much more aggressive than it was ever before..

Yet that didn’t stop me! I didn’t start this to cultivate but to control the situation.

So the fiercer that tempest was, the better. Come, come and try to cut my body to shreds.

Once that energy entered my body, I didn’t even think about circulating it or try to control its flow. I let it come as dense and rich as it could.

All I did was to connect it directly with my feet, letting pass through that portal there, going into my shadow world.

And then I left everything else for my dark energy cluster.

This world’s energy was fierce? Was acting so rampant? Humph! I dare to bet everything over my dark energy cluster. This was the real beast here!

Come, come with everything you got. The more, the better. I didn’t know what was happening inside my shadow world, but I was confident in my dark energy cluster to take control over this situation.

All I did was to just guide that energy towards my shadow world, then I kept watching. I didn’t risk trying to get any piece of this energy.

Being greedy sometimes would bring more harm than gain.

I lost count of time, kept channelling this berserk energy until I started to feel it was growing calm. The old energy returned slowly, and at this moment I decided to stop cultivating.

The moment I opened my eyes, I saw the same dark clouds up there. But the racing up clouds in torrents that were present before vanished. Only those steady and motionless clouds existed.

The lightning was still there, but it wasn’t acting berserk like it did before. However, just with a single glance around, I could tell how massive the destruction here was.

Almost one third of my towns and cities got hit by these fierce lightning, driving all the people living there out. The peaceful world from before changed and I could sniff fear easily in the air.

My people were terrified!

“Dammit Hye! Why are you so damn focused on ruining this world and letting our efforts go to waste?!!”

The first voice I heard was that of Angelica. She stood just a few metres behind me, with a frustrated look over her face.

“Sorry about that,” I said with zero sincerity, turned to watch my general but found nothing next to me.

He was just ten metres away from me when I started cultivating. “Where… Where is he?” I turned to Angelica and when I said this, a look of terror flashed over her face.

“That… That calamity was yours?!!” I got such a weird answer from her, making me not know what was going on exactly.

“He was a giant, shrouded in black fog,” I tried to describe my souler general, but ended up stopping midway as this was all about him.

I have nothing else to say about him. He was big, covered totally in black fog. There was nothing more to say about him.

“Black? No, he was damn orange in colour!” she bellowed out before adding in such fear, “Hye! That monster… It can’t be yours, right?”

“Monster?” I asked in doubt and the look of fear got more intensified over her darkened face.

“He is, he indeed is! Just a single breath of him and one million races fell! He just roared, and then another million fell! Damn Hye! He is a damn monster! A scary one, the scariest I’ve ever met!”

A single breath and one million died? A roar and another died? Damn! What the heck was that? Was that… Really my general? The true power of that general?

Damn fierce! If that was true then… Damn! Just thinking about this made my blood boil!

“Where is he?” I hurriedly asked, and Angelica retreated a couple of steps while her body started shaking.

“He… He is coming… He is coming…”

The last part she said came with such a terrifying scream as she turned around and started running. She ran like her life depended on it!

I turned around, and from the direction of the sky she was looking at I saw a small orange dot flying fast towards here.

It looked like it was flashing, teleporting from a point to another. It was bright orange, looking exactly like what she told me about.

And in the span of a minute or so, that orange dot appeared in front of me.

It was him! He was covered in bright orange colour, looking like fire engulfing his big body. The old black fog vanished and was replaced with such a fierce and blazing orange thick coat of raging fire.

Just seeing him standing on the deck of my chariot, this close up, made me feel awe.

He changed! Got damn changed and became such a cool dude! Dammit!

“Lucias?” I asked just to make sure it was him, and he simply knelt on my chariot, making it all tremble in such a fierce way.

“Lord… Thanks for your generosity!”