Second World



There was one other reason why Jack waited until he reached level 80 before he reattempted the Ancient Battleground Legacy Dungeon. This was the level where his Lightning God Blessing could be upgraded.

He already had all the materials required to upgrade the divine skill. These materials were one Divine Crystal, three Divine Gems, and twenty Magic Crystals. These materials were now floating around him as he opened his status window and activated the upgrading process.

The materials turned into rays of light and stabbed into his body. He felt a sharp pain where the light stabbed, but it lasted only an instant. When he thought the process had been completed and was just about to open his status window to check the change, lightning exploded from his body.

He felt as if he had burst apart. The lightning struck everything in his vicinity. It was lucky he was on the roof of Heavenly Citadel where no one was around. Otherwise, someone would have been struck by all the lightning streaming out of his body.

He didn't know how long the process lasted. His mind wasn't able to think straight as he was being fried alive. When it ended, he fell limply with sweat all over his body.

"The f*ck? It wasn't this intense when it was upgraded the last time," Jack complained.

Peniel hid inside her hidden dimension when Jack began the upgrading process. This showed that the fairy knew this was going to happen. She came out after all was over. Jack gave her a sharp stare, to which she responded with a giggle.

Jack didn't dwell on the matter. His body still felt numb all over, but he could operate his status window. He pulled up the page that showed his divine skill.

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Lightning God Blessing, Level 3/3

-  Lightning resistance +200 (passive skill)

-  Every attack +30% lightning damage and 3% chance to cause Paralyze for 3 seconds (passive skill)

-  Lightning God Barrage (Active skill 1), Shoot 30 balls of lightning that explode dealing 500% lightning damage each in a 5-meter diameter area, 30% causing Paralyze for 10 seconds. Range: 50 meters. Cooldown: 5 hours

-  Lightning God Suit (Active skill 2), Don a suit made of lightning. Immunity to lightning. Immune to all movement restrictions. Reduce all received damage by 70%. All hostiles within a radius of 5 meters received 30% lightning damage each second. Duration: 10 minutes. Cooldown: 6 hours

-  Lightning God Incarnation (Active skill 3), Transforms into a lightning being. Immunity to lightning. Immune to all movement restrictions. Reduce all received damage by 90%. Standard attacks turned into ranged attacks that dealt 200% lightning damage from a distance of up to 100 meters. All skills or spells dealt an additional 50% lightning damage. Speed increased by 100%. Has instantaneous movement to travel up to 50 meters every 2 seconds. (Can't be used together with Lightning God Suit) Duration: 3 minutes. Cooldown: 12 hours

Upgrade to the next level requires: Fully upgraded

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All aspects of the divine skill were improved. The lightning resistance was doubled. The passive damage boost increased from 20% to 30% and the paralyzation chance also increased from 2% to 3%.

The damage dealt by Lightning God Blessing was still the same but it now produced thirty lightning balls instead of twenty. That was a fifty percent improvement.

The lightning God Suit's effect also stayed the same but its duration had increased dramatically. Previously it was only three minutes. Now, the lightning suit could stay on for ten long minutes.

An additional skill was added with this final upgrade, the Lightning God Incarnation. He was very itchy to give the skill a try but this skill had a long cooldown. He would have to experience it for the first time inside the Ancient Battleground Legacy Dungeon.

He went to the room with the entrance to the legacy dungeons. Nine others were waiting for him there. They were Jeanny, John, Paytowin, Grace, Leavemealone, Domon, Jet, Fierce Flame, and Giant Steve.

Most guild members had returned a day before when the Liguritudum army finally vacated Palgrost's territory. John left the one million Themisphere troops in Palgrost just in case the enemy returned. The army would also have a shorter journey from there if they decided to invade Liguritudum.

When the Liguritudum army left Palgrost, the war officially ended and everyone involved received war contribution points, except Jack. The downside of being a sovereign was that he no longer awarded war contribution points. He was instead given merit points for winning the war. He received 500,000 merit points.

Jack thought about the last Hyrdurond war. He didn't get any merit points then. That was because he was considered to have lost the war. This was the first war he won after becoming a king.

Yesterday, when Jeanny and the others returned, Jack called her, Grace, Paytowin, and John to gather. He wanted to test Hope's Light with all five players who possessed Hope's Sanctification.

Paytowin argued at first that John didn't have any active skill from the sanctification, so he shouldn't be able to join. Jack said it won't hurt to try. He then asked Jeanny and Paytowin to activate their sanctifications.

They already knew that they needed at least three people with the sanctification to ignite Hope's Light. When they were fighting the demon lord, Jack and Jeanny had activated theirs for quite a while and they were close to one another but nothing happened. Only after Paytowin activated his that the light appear.

As expected, no glows were seen when Jeanny and Paytowin activated their sanctifications. Jack then used his Strength of Hope. The glows appeared on the three's chests then.

Jack then asked Grace to activate hers.

When she did, not only did her chest glow but John's who was nearby also glowed. When they asked John what he did. He answered that he did nothing. The glow just appeared by itself. They concluded then that John's glow would only appear when all four other sanctifications were active nearby.

They also found that they sensed a strong draw toward John. It was as if the power within them urged them to go to John.

They understood then. Just as last time they combined their lights on Jack, this time they should be combining those lights into John.

"Hahaha! This shows I am the leader of this team!" John laughed.

The others ignored him and put their hands on his back. Their lights merged into John's body. The fused light was so bright it was like a beacon that could be seen from miles away.

John mentally aimed at a small hill nearby. Previously, the ball of light that engulfed the demon lord had a diameter of around twenty meters when it grew to its largest size. This time, the diameter grew until almost one hundred meters before it imploded.

The small hill that was the target was gone when the ball of light disappeared.