CRACKLE~!

Blood spurted all over the ground as a man is elbow deep inside the chest of an ugly looking green creature. The green creature’s chest is charred black from the lightning properties of Nathan’s body.

Using lightning to heat up his arm, Nathan easily pierced the Goblin looking creature’s body. Nathan pulls out his arm and the creature falls to the ground.

A familiar monotone voice fills Nathan’s ears, causing him to say ‘Huh’ in surprise.

“Congratulations. You have a new level record for the monster named ‘Goblin: Rank 1’. Your new level record for this monster is now Level 7. No Exp is gained.”

“Not only did I get some crazy powers today, I got some monsters to test it on… This is fairly intriguing.”

A black and blue vortex distorts space and time, causing more Goblins to come out of it and with them, a huge one comes out that looks abnormal compared to the others.

“OORRAAAAAAAAA!” it yells while flailing a large cleaver in its hand. With eyes full of blood thirst and hatred, the mutated looking creature begins to rush at Nathan with the intent to kill.

Following it are 4 other Goblins that seem to revere the big one as their leader. Nathan looks at the creatures with disdain and shakes his head side to side.

“Hehe. I like this new world of ours.”

B-B-B-B-BOOOOOM!

The area is filled with flashes of light as lightning bolts rain down the sky likes Zeus’s judgement. All the bodies of the Goblins and their leader are instantly destroyed and the only thing left is the giant cleaver.

“Congratulations. You have a new level record for the monster named ‘Goblin Warrior: Rank 2’. Your new level record for this monster is now Level 4. No Exp is gained.”

‘Wait, that was a Goblin Warrior, so are the other ones like the villagers or is he a highly trained specimen? Also why is his level lower than the others? Well, whatever it is I do know one thing.’

Nathan looks at the cleaver on the ground and picks it up. It is extremely light considering Nathan’s new strength and he gives it a few swings.

‘At least I got a new weapon.’

“You have acquired a new weapon. ‘Old Goblin Cleaver: Rare’.”

The Old Goblin Cleaver is nicked and not well taken care of but it is better than no weapon. Though Nathan has his new found powers, he does not wish to rely on them and would like to train in the way of weapons like swords, spears, and so on.

As Nathan was admiring his new weapon, a new set of portals opened but completely silently and away from Nathan’s vision. Nathan had made his way towards his home after he acquired his new powers and stumbled upon the Goblin who he impaled in the chest with his fist.

He of course didn’t just kill the Goblin for no reason as it had ran at him while snarling its teeth and seemed to insult him in a different language.

With Nathan being about 3 miles from his home still, he begins his journey back there to maybe get a change of clothes and look on the internet for any clues as to what is going.

Nathan begins jogging but is stopped by a blood curdling scream that makes the hairs on the back of his neck stand up.

“Help! No… Don’t touch my child!”

Though the yell can be heard by Nathan, it is about a mile to the east and his house is to the west. Sensing this is urgent and some people might be fortunate to have acquired powers that is nearly equivalent to that of a God, Nathan decides to investigate and wants to be a little flashy while doing so.

Literally…

Testing out the parameters of his powers, Nathan’s body begins to emit a bright flash and his skin turns into the likeliness of electricity.

Being the actual Embodiment of Storms, Nathan can change the properties of his body and he is testing out the lightning side to the altercation of his existence.

Nathan’s body begins to burn brightly and a layer of plasma covers his skin, making him look like a bright source of light in human form. Nathan can feel his insides begin to melt and mold into lightning. His bones become like metal as it serves as conductors for the raw power of nature.

Coming near to the end of the transformation, 2 dark blue eyes form on Nathan’s head and blink a few times. Nathan can see much further with these eyes and things move a lot slower than when Nathan was a human.

The sweaty and slightly bloodied clothes on Nathan’s body begin to burn violently and turn into ashes as Nathan finishes his transformation.

The sound of static emerges from within the lightning shaped like a human and this is the sound of Nathan laughing joyously in his new form. Not wanting to keep the woman in need any longer, Nathan flexes the non existent muscles in his legs and dashes towards where the sound came from.

Within a literal flash of light, Nathan instantly covered the distance of mile between him in the woman and even he is surprised by the athletic prowess of his powers. Having the body that came move as fast as an electrostatic discharge is no joke but there has always been one downside to how quickly lightning moves.

KKKAAAACCCHHHHHAAAAAAA!

The crackle of lightning is nearly unbearable to the ears of anyone within a 20 mile radius after Nathan moves. Being such a domineering, large, and especially everlasting source of lightning Nathan expected to let of some sort of sound but compared to a regular flash of lightning and the thunder coming after, this exponentially louder. Even his ears are ringing after moving and causing such a loud thunderclap. To Nathan, this will most likely be a problem in future.

While rubbing his head, Nathan finally gets a good look at the situation he has stumbled upon. A woman holds her baby while a bubble surrounds them, protecting the woman and child from the dangers on from the outside world.

As for those dangers, 24 figures stand around the bubble, some throwing punches at the bubble and some are hitting it with weapons such as swords or war hammers. Half of the 24 has turned towards Nathan and seem to be startled. Upon closer inspection, every figure is the exact same as the other and looks very similar to humans. The only differences is their skin is extremely pale and they have a severe lack of eyes, which gives Nathan the absolute creeps.

‘Though they could be humans with how fucked up today has been, I highly doubt they are. Well I guess I have a way to find out.’

The woman stares at Nathan with a stare of horror. To the woman, it is like a God has descended from the skies and has the power to smite her if he even lifted a finger. The 12 figures that turned towards the power of storms in human form has nearly the same reaction as the human. The only difference is that they have enough willpower to try and retreat.

Static leaks from the ball of lightning as he chuckles at the pale figures running away with their tail between their legs when in the presence of someone higher power than them. Their running is all futile as there aren’t many who can out run lightning.

KA-BOOOOM!

Nathan palm striked the air and from his palm emerged a lightning bolt that came to life like a snake. Slithering throughout the air faster than most people can see, the lightning bolt strikes through the hearts of all of the 24 figures, making them all vanish into ash.

Nathan is surprised on how natural it is to control lightning through the air. Though it takes a lot of concentration, he was able to bend the lightning to attack how he wanted like it was an extension of his body.

Nathan expected a message to appear into his head about the type of monster he had just killed and what level it is but the message never came. He begins to rub his chin confusion as he expected this omnipotent message deliverer to help him out here but it seems he was wrong.

Maybe it was the monster itself. Maybe those were all apart of the same creature, or you truly can’t kill them. What startles Nathan is when they turned to ash, because it wasn’t due to his lightning attack. His lightning would certainly kill them but turning them to pure ash was taking it a little too far. With his brain going overdrive, Nathan kept thinking of all the possibilities and then it hit him.

It was a knife, right in the back of his plasma covered head. The knife sizzled and melts as it comes in contact with Nathan’s plasma skin but it still gives him a shock to feel a sudden force hit the back of his skull.

Turning around, Nathan can see copious amounts of the same figure standing behind him, all with dead serious expressions and a lust for the non existent blood of the ball of lightning. Nathan smirks even though you can’t tell and his heart begins to race in anticipation.

Ready to fight, Nathan begins to hear more screaming across the whole town he lives in and he inwardly lets out a sigh.

‘Though I don’t like to play hero, looks like I’ll be doing it today. Maybe one of these monsters will actually give me Exp.’