BXBX NOVEL Chapter 99: Chapter 99 First Step.
He saw Devi run past the road and enter the narrow alley, the dark place every city had between its towering buildings. Soma followed inside, and Devi noticed a fork way ahead. She chose to turn right, but it was a bad move for her because it was a dead end.
Devi grits her teeth, then puts some strength in her feet, kicks the ground, and launches herself toward the building wall, using it as a foothold to jump to the other wall and escape the dead end.
Soma, who saw that, clicked his tongue, and he could only pray that he could do the same thing as her. Because this was the first time he tried to jump between walls. Soma focused his strength on his feet and waited for him to near the wall. Then he kicked the ground to jump to the right, the middle, and the left wall, performing three steps on the wall before landing on the roof.
[7]
However, upon arriving on the roof, Devi\'s figure was already far away, about a hundred meters. Soma knitted his brows, continuing to run, then, with quick thinking, summoned his weapon.
"Come, Raijin gauntlets".
With a low roar that escaped his mouth, a gleaming purple began to swim on his four limbs before it condensed itself, forming intricate purple gauntlets and boots with white lining that fit his limbs. Even though he still didn\'t know what effect the gauntlets had. He couldn\'t think of another method to close the distance between them.
[6]
Soma grits his teeth and accelerates, and feels the resistance from the wind more faint compared to earlier. He tensed his legs before jumping toward the other building and landed while rolling forward to kill his momentum before dashing again.
However, the distance was still uncovered even after he used the equipment, and the chasing felt stagnant, for the two parties\' distance didn\'t shrink. He gritted his teeth, and then a method appeared in his mind. However, he still didn\'t have a quiet gasp as to how to master it.
[5]
The translucent window in front of him informed him of the skill\'s duration. He shook his head to the side and thought the method that could help him.
[Martial Saint First Techniques Three Steps of Heavenly Lightning Tribulations]
"...First step - Lightning Scatter".
For the first time since the Martial Saint displayed its might and how to use the technique to conquer the Raiju, Soma, with his own will, activates it. His legs, which keep spinning around in chasing the girl, let out a crackling of lightning that emerged from his body. Different from the Martial Saint, who used the power of nature when activating the technique.
Soma used the lightning magic in his possession to compensate for the natural lightning that acts as its source of power or might.
A small faint of white bolts began to dance on his boots, and Soma\'s sight, which seemed full of color change, into gray stretched far away. The bolts in his feet intensified as he took one step forward. He managed to cover a ten-meter distance.
[4]
Soma, in the slow world he saw, thought to himself to distribute the Extra points he had to his physique stats.
[Physique +45]
His ten-meter steps turned into twenty. Soma recalled that this technique allowed him to use any means as a foothold. So without hesitation, he kicked on empty air and shot forward at a sonic speed.
The impossible distance they had gradually begun to shorten as Devi, who noticed it, turned into a frown. She poured a lot of mana into her strengthening magic, and her enhanced body became stronger, but she was already too late.
"What?!".
A bright color of red erected on her way. It manifests into a rectangle wall in a half-oval shape, standing still towering, blocking her route. Stunned, she halted in her tracks, which gave her a slight time for Soma to catch up. She clicked her tongue as she planned to turn her appearance into a demon, relying on her wings that boosts her agility, but Soma got the better of her.
"Got you!".
A low, threatening voice emerged from behind her like a devil\'s whisper. It sent chills to her heart. Devi felt the world turn blurred as her body accelerated while receiving a huge impact that came from her abdomen. The impact shocks her entire nerves, screaming in agony, and the tiny little bolts that coil around the boots help deliver it easily through her body, paralyzing her body for a moment.
"Kuh".
She felt that her body was set free from the restraint and flew in a straight line and collided with the flame wall that blocked her route. Shockingly, the boy was still clinging to her while planting his right kick at her abdomen. She grits her teeth, and a hoarse voice escapes her lips.
"You basta, kahak...".
However, she couldn\'t finish her sentence because her body received another impact as she was slammed to the ground. The commotion caused by the impact managed to attract the other people who were enjoying their walk in the park and turned in their direction.
Many people elderly, family and even young people wondered what happened and started to approach the place, as it was still covered by the raised cloud of dust
Soma, with his gauntlets on, raised his right fist and struck Devi, who he was riding on. The dull sound of a hard object colliding with flesh resonated within the perimeter, rousing the onlookers\' curiosity.
"You dare! ack".
"I dare!".
[3]
Another dull sound reverberated, and each resonated, the sound of it getting harder and harder until it blew away the rising dust. As the dust was blown away, the people in the surroundings saw a young boy with an ominous aura straddling an ordinary woman in her mid-twenties while raising his fists, trying to punch her.
"Soma?".
Hisako, who was being princess carried by her husband, approached the scene. Apparently, Hisako, even though she reinforced her body using mana, is still lacking compared to her husband, who excels in physical abilities. Their steps halted as they saw Soma, with his violent expression, keep striking the girls they recognized well.
One of the onlookers, a male, tried to approach the scene, worried about the woman who was being beaten up by a boy.
"Hey you, cut it out..".
"Get lost!!!".
Devi, who couldn\'t take the relentless beating anymore, rose her battle aura that blasted away everyone who was ignorant about her identity. Soma manages to cling to her body by coiling his feet to her back, but the violent mana she exudes manages to push him back, albeit a little. However, it didn\'t last long; her heart started to throb, and it clenched so hard that it disturbed her breath.
[2]
He was realizing that Devi was halted. Soma struck another blow, only this time he used his magic.
"Kuuh, Shut up!".
[Lightning Magic 1 activated]
[Shock]
[SP: 0/810]
[Oni Wrath deactivated]
*****
[Martial Saint First Techniques]
[First Step - Lightning Scatter give 100% boosts user agility. Will get additional boost agility depending on the lightning magic the user had 1 level of magic gives extra 50% boosts. Each level will give 50% extra boosts, and the effect can be stacked depending on the lightning magic level]