Looking up, he saw a woman dressed in a green robe, she had an air of mystery around her, her brows shot up like sword and her hair was black as the night.

Bryan instantly went before the woman and bowed while saying "Greetings instructor, I am here to learn from you." Bryan looked up and the woman nodded.

"At least you have some manners. Say your doubts for once so that I can help you." Said the woman with a straight face.

Bryan looked at her and said. "I have two skills, one is named spear mastery, and the other one is the electrical body. The spear mastery has stopped at the expert tier, and the electrical body is at the novice tier, I can not breakthrough with both of them."

"Simple. First of all, the one named spear mastery must involve the use of energy. You have consolidated the use of the weapon until the expert tier, but from the master tier on, you must realize the use of energy in the weapon."

After the woman said this, realization struck him. it was so obvious all the time, but he didn't try it.

"The other skill is a little bit more complicated, the skills that involve a force or a concept require the enlightenment of the respective element from the user. In other words, you must understand the force of lightning."

"Understand how? I have to look through the scientific side?" Asked Bryan puzzled.

"No, not through science, but feeling. It's complicated to explain the concept of enlightenment, but it's almost as if you were meditating over nature, how it works, not through science, but feelings. Only by trying it you will understand."

Bryan nodded and asked. "Which one I begin to do? The lightning or the spear?"

"Let's begin by training the enlightenment over the nature of lightning. You have trained the spear mastery until the expert level already, the electrical body skill will be harder to break through." After finishing, the woman waved her hand and the scenery changed to a storm. The lightning was ravaging the earth, engulfing everything and burning the forest even amidst the rain. "Look at it, see where it comes from and its destiny. Everything in nature is related, nothing comes alone."

looking at the amazing scene occurring before him, Bryan was flabbergasted, the force that nature could exert was immense. its power was boundless and almost infinity. Everything was connected, it was almost as if the lightning was the force that the nature used to punish the earth and all creatures.

Bryan's mind became illuminated by the scene and the woman worlds. Everything made sense now, it was not a matter of understanding the science of the things, it was how it worked, how the world dictated it happen.

Bryan seated amidst the storm and began to meditate over the images that happened before him while hearing the sound of thunder.

He didn't know how much time passed, but he could feel as if he was the nature himself, and the cycle of the lightning happened through him. He was the cloud where the lightning was born, the earth where the lightning struck, the air where the sound echoed, the trees that burnt with the aftermath. He was nature itself.

Bryan opened his eyes and saw that he was back in the training hall, looking at his body, he saw serpents of lightning coursing even strongly them before, the sound it made was might and majestic, he felt as if the force of lightning was at his disposal.

He briefly looked at his status and was astounded.

Name:

Bryan Fulgur

Race:

Human

Strength:

53 → 73

Agility:

53 → 73

Intelligence:

42 → 50

Wisdom:

36 → 44

Endurance:

52 → 67

Vitality:

53 → 68

Skills

Name

Level/Tier

Spear mastery

100/Expert

Lightning body

1/Novice

Perks

Name

Description

Bright mind

You have the ability to recall and process information quickly. The informations that you see may be remembered easily.

Points

315.634

City Points

0

Although the skill was only at level 1 of the novice tier, he truly felt the difference between them. So this is what the system meant by not using the real power of the skill until the novice tier. Even the name of the skill changed, it was like the enlightenment that he had affected it. Bryan looked at the skill's description.

Lightning body

A skill that helps the user manipulate lightning through his body.

He felt that the changes were not so great, what was important was that he could feel more free in the use of the skill. His attributes were augmented as well, but this time the focus was on strength and agility, the others received fewer points.

He looked beside him and saw that both Jess and Samuel were standing in place. Jess had an icy air coming out of her, and there was a faint light that looked like an armor around Samuel.

"Hey, was it worth to spend that many points?" Asked Bryan taking them out of their stupor.

They looked at him while grinning and said: "It was worth it."

Looking at the points that were discounted, it seemed like they stayed in there for four hours.

"Now that I had a breakthrough in one of the old skills, I will buy the new one and begin to practice with all of them together," Bryan said with a happy smile on his face, the fact that he could finally understand how to progress now made him very happy.

He bought the skill and there were 300.000 points less on his status page, only left him with 15.634 points.

he innately felt how to use the skill, to apply it on combat was still another whole thing, but time would help him.

picking up Jess's hand, he asked her. “How did it went? have you broken through?”

“Yeah, my ice arrow skill has broken through and evolved. I can apply it in different ways now to help us in our missions.” She said with a smile on her face.

“Hey, love birds. You didn’t ask but I have advanced as well.” Said Samuel while punching Bryan on the shoulder.

“HAHA, I saw it, bro, we have all advanced. Now we can strive for harder missions and acquire more points.” Said Bryan with a big grin on his mouth, he put his hands on both jess and Samuel’s shoulders and left the training center.

“Hey, You trio.”

Bryan looked to his side and saw a man wearing a brown cloak, he had tanned skin and blue eyes.

“I have something to tell you, come closer.” Said the man.

While the man looked a bit suspect, there were many people on the streets, manly where they were, in the center of the city. Taking things into consideration, Bryan led the two of them and stood in front of the man.

“You can speak, let’s hear what you have to say.” Said Bryan.

“All of us know that a change is bound to happen in the system according to the elders. We are a faction of people that intend to take care of the town if you understand me, all of the people who side with us are bound to receive great care. We are allowing you to join us. What do you think?” Said the man with a smile on his face during the whole speech.

Bryan was surprised by what the man said. But he quickly answered.

"Thank you for the offer, but I am not interested." Bryan had other priorities for now, and training was one of them, entering a political struggle would not get him more power.

"What about your friends?" The man turned to Jess and Samuel.

"Not interested" Me either." Said both of them.

"I see… the doors will still be open for some time. Thank you for your attention." After finishing his piece, the man turned away and left.

"We are in an important moment right now, we have to train and get stronger. The time that the survivors fight for supremacy is arriving I think, and we have to get more powerful." Said Bryan with surety in his voice.

They went to their houses to prepare.

Bryan was walking holding hands with Jess, their relationship had advanced well, but they still hadn't taken that step. Both of them were afraid of the circumstances and there was not any prevention means in the city, the system provided a lot of things, but the condom was not one of them.

Arriving at their apartment, Bryan gave a deep kiss into Jess's lips and went into his room without looking back. The fire inside him was growing stronger by the day. In this new world there was only killing and training, there was no other thing to do most, so sex was a thing that many people turned to, and waiting was killing him.

Arriving at his room, Bryan meditated to gather more energy from the atmosphere into his body and to get used to the flow of the now stronger lightning through his body.

The feeling of power was much greater, and his body seemed to be transformed by the skill to get used by it, and there was a proven fact that although your energy could hurt yourself because you are its origin, the resistance was much, much greater.

After getting used to the energy, Bryan went into the terrace to train his spear moves combined with the energy and with the lightning, he wanted to breakthrough with the Spear mastery skill as soon as possible as well.

going through the stairs, Bryan saw the light coming from the terrace, it was still noon and the sky was dyed in orange color. Getting up, he saw a figure training with a spear in hand, although the spear was longer than his, the figure was moving it quickly like a comet through the sky, orange flames were dancing around the person, hiding its figure.

The fire spin around like a tornado with the person spear and suddenly the fire vanished, leaving in its midst a ginger girl, with orange eyes and tender white skin.

the woman figure was stunning and mesmerizing, she had a hot figure and a fiery hot air around her.

The woman turned into Bryan's direction and readied her spear, tongues of fire danced around her as if she was a fairy.

"Stop right there if you don't wanna die." Said the girl with furrowed brows.