Thunderstorm Forest, Portal World

After New Year's dinner and talking with Adam Miles had a new vigour to get stronger. As his uncle said, if he wanted to get stronger, he had to find a way.

Miles left for his destination and arrived in a short time. The public still didn’t know that Marooner didn’t have any superpowers and thought he had lightning elemental powers. To continue this misunderstanding, he decided to find different kinds of lightning elemental orbs to better his acting. He decided to find more lightning elemental orbs to increase his firepower and sell cores of the same element.

There were many lightning elemental monsters that could be found around the stronghold he was at. But the place with the most lightning elemental monsters was Thunderstorm Forest. He chose this spot because the orbs dropping rate in this forest was highly favorable.

Miles stood outside of the forest and looked forward. Purplish-blue trees were cracking with lightning all the time, and storms in the sky never faded away were clear signs of trouble, but there were still many people coming and trying their luck here. After all, Lightning was one of the most destructive elements, and orbs with the said element were also self-chargeable. So, Lightning elemental orbs were much sought after.

Miles stepped into the forest, and static current danced on his skin. Miles wasn’t wearing his armor, because he didn’t want people to notice him and try to do something to him. Now that Marooner was kinda famous, Miles didn’t want to don that identity, as well as the armor casually.

Just after entering the forest, Miles heard a strong roar that made him change his path. He already had in-depth information about the fauna and flora of the forest. The roar belonged to the overlord of the forest, Thunder Lion.

Thunder Lion was one of the most troublesome monsters one could face in G-Circle. Not only were they strong beyond belief, but they would also hunt in prides. A lion family would never leave their mates and children and in time, their number could reach a few dozen. So, facing one meant facing all.

Thunder Lions also had peculiar powers. With their thunder-infested roars, they could attack to wide ranges, and destroy anything staying in front of them. The way they used their powers was mind-opening. The sound waves mixed with lightning were inescapable. Also, made the roar travel faster than sound. The most efficient way to kill them was assassinating them before they could target you. Of course, that was easier said than done.

After changing his path a little, Miles encountered the first monster. Lightning Dove. Elegant birds with no vicious intentions. Just like on earth, doves still represented pureness, and most dove-like monsters were biennial. Miles looked at the mother dove flinch over her nest filled with eggs and decided to leave them be. Monster eggs were precious but weren't worth it, at least for Miles. He would kill the mother and eat the eggs if it was another monster, but since mother dove let him be, Miles wouldn't attack either.

After walking half an hour in a creepy forest, Miles heard a shout from the direction he was walking. “Stop healing, you bastard!” The voice was rich and Miles could feel hatred and devastation in the voice. With curiosity taking over him, Miles walked towards the direction where the voice was coming from, which was his initial direction, and saw the person make the voice.

The person was a lean man with purple hair. He wasn’t that tall nor short, could be called moderate. He had leather armor with many dents on it, clearly human-made, and a short-axe with flames at the sharp edge. The weapon was only a mid-tier, but the monster was high-tier. The weapon could injure the monster but wasn’t that deadly.

What was peculiar though, the monster was stationary. Its eyes looked at the man with hatred, and it was purring, but it wasn’t moving at all. The monster was a quadrupedal monster with hooves that looked like a horse or zebra. The stripes on its body were purple, and the rest of the body was yellow.

‘Why does the monster take the beat, and not move?’ Miles looked at the monster with a curious gaze, and his eyes turned red. He saw elemental color in monsters with many shades of purple. One light shade of purple was binding the monster’s muscles like a chain. ‘Stun?’

To prove Miles's guesses, as chains started to disappear and the monster started to move again, the man was still attacking with the axe in his hand. The edge of the weapon was injuring the monster over and over again, but couldn’t finish it off no matter what. When the monster was almost free of shackles, the man raised his free hand with reluctance in his eyes, and purple lightning danced on his hand. When landed, the monster got stunned once again but to Miles's surprise, the injuries on the monster's body were also healed.

‘What the heck?’ Miles couldn’t help but exclaim in his heart.

The man started to attack once again with the axe and the cycle started over and over again. Every time the monster was about to be released from its shackles, the lightning the man used would stun it once again and heal its wounds.

“Why don’t you die!!!” The man shouted and was about to cry. Miles could see that he was running out of fuel and soon he would not be able to use his ability anymore. As he decided to save the man, the monster freed itself and raised its front hooves to stamp the man. Miles dashed to the monster and Coin charged the wind sword. He arrived in front of the unexpecting monster and slashed the sword to its side.

“Who?” The man turned back to face Miles. Miles canceled elemental vision just before the man turned around and looked at the pitiful man.

“Stun it once more,” Miles ordered the shocked man. The man got out of his stupor and nodded with determination and juiced every bit of power in his body. Lightning smaller than before landed on the monster’s body and locked its movements once more. Its injuries also healed once again, but Miles left the sword inside the monster’s body on purpose.

“Attack!” Miles said and removed the sword. Just as it entered, when it left the body, it still hurt the monster. With the help of a pitiful man, Miles killed the monster and sat on the ground with a sigh.