Chapter 130: Whimsical Lightning
Roka stood before one of the closed doors for a moment, before unleashing a front kick that forced it open.
‘Geh…’ The Paru scratched his head. ‘Making that much noise can’t be a good idea… Well, I guess she’s doing that to keep her weapon in her hands. Still…’
Roka only let out a sigh of relief once all the doors had been pushed open and each room had been inspected.
‘Let’s quickly get what I need-‘
She stopped for a moment, her gaze lingering on the vault’s door.
It was closed, which was worrying, but at the time… Not.
‘Did we keep it closed back then? I doubt a Visero would enter and close it up… Should I check just in case?’
Roka debated for a moment, before shaking her head. ‘I don’t have time for this. Quickly, I need to find the…’
The Paru pressed his lips together, waiting, rather impatiently, for Roka to find what she came looking for.
Using Thermal Vision, he could keep track of her movement from within the vault.
It took about ten minutes for the Commander to find everything.
“Yes…!” She whispered, before turning towards the exit. “That’s everything.”
The Paru only walked up the stairway once Roka was standing on the spaceship’s retractable ramp.
He peeked from within the spaceship, and could see a bag in her hands.
From it, peculiar rods could be seen going over the edges.
‘I guess those are the lightning rods they used… Wonder how useful they are.’
Roka had gained something else as well.
‘Hm… Some kind of screen? Looks like a GPS device. Must be what they called EMPs, right? Or something that delivers EMPs…? Whatever those are.’
Just as the Paru was about to exit the spaceship, the facial expression on Roka’s face changed.
“Shit…!!” She cursed through clenched teeth.
The Paru moved forward faster and,
ROAAAAR!
Wasting no time, Roka took hold of her shotgun.
The Paru had circled around the Giganto Zi, staying away from Roka.
The Visero, able to detect him but unable to see him, was forced to turn in the Paru’s direction out of sheer confusion.
‘That’s it… Keep looking at me…’
The next second, all parties involved felt a shiver.
‘Fuck!’ Roka cursed internally.
She immediately reached for one of the lightning rods, and started running away.
Out of the eight she had taken, she ced four of them on the ground, piercing the earth.
‘Good.’ The Paru thought to himself. ‘She’s cing them a good distance apart from one another.’
The Giganto Zi growled and turned towards the lightning rods.
Through its ability to detect charges, it could tell that those rods werepetitors.
It roared and moved towards them, unwilling topete for lightning.
But before it could knock them over, an invisible de shed its eye.
‘I’m not letting you get in the way.’ The invisible Paru thought to himself with a smile.
By this time, Roka had already disappeared, widening the distance while hiding behind the crystalline structures around the area.
The tingles grew more frequent.
The electrifying feeling in the air intensified.
The Giganto Zi, despite its slight confusion, stepped back and raised its tail high.
‘Alright. The lightning rods are more numerous. Even if its tail reaches higher, it’s a fifty-fifty! A fifty percent chance of it not getting powered up by lightning is good enough!’
The invisible Paru positioned himself just right so that, if lightning did end up striking the rods, he would be able to attack the Giganto Zi right away. The distance was also appropriate to move back if it struck the Giganto Zi.
‘The rods… Or the Giganto Zi…’ The Paru’s eyes narrowed, his skin tingling. ‘Which will it be?’
The next second, from beyond the crystalline structure hiding her, Roka pointed at the Giganto Zi.
In her hand was the item described by the Paru as simr in appearance to a GPS device.
“Take this…” She whispered. “Fucker!”
The next second, the Giganto Zi’s eyes widened.
The sparks and faint light that was exuded by the crystals on its back faded.
‘Perfect!’ The Paru thought to himself with arge smile.
In front of him was the Giganto Zi. Behind him, the lightning rods.
While unsure what Roka had done, he was convinced that lightning wouldn’t strike the Giganto Zi now.
After all, thetter had even lowered its tail.
The Giganto Zi, enraged, turned in Roka’s direction,
Bang!
The Visero roared as her bullet found its way to the Giganto Zi’s eye!
The tingling feeling assaulted both the Visero and the Paru, but it was clear to both that lightning would strike the rods.
The Giganto Zi, ignoring the de that cut its leg, made one of the lightning rods copse.
‘Tsk… Not giving up despite it, huh?’
From the corner of his eye, the Paru noticed Roka running away.
This made it clear.
There was no reason to fight the Giganto Zi.
The best thing he could do was grab the lightning rods and run for it. The optimal move, perhaps.
But that quickly changed, as lightning struck.
The deafening and piercing roar of thunder resonated secondster, and Roka turned around as she ran.
“Yes…!”
Just as she had hoped, the Giganto Zi’s crystals remained without light. Without electricity.
This meant that the Visero was incapable ofunching long-range attacks.
‘Now… Should I go back to the ship, or go directly to the Tsero?’ Roka asked herself, a wide and excited smile on her face. ‘Running away sessfully from a Giganto Zi… Obtaining the rods and this beauty! Perfect! It’s going perfectly!’
Indeed, it was going perfectly.
For more than herself.
The Giganto Zi roared and growled.
It hadn’t been blessed by lightning.
But neither had the lightning rods.
Instead, the one that lightning whimsically decided to strike was…
“GRRARGHHHH!!!” The Paru shouted.
Shouts muffled by the Visero’s growls and roars.
[Your Skill “Electric Surge” is going into overdrive!]
[Your Skill “Lightning Resistance” is going into overdrive!]
[Your Skill “Electric Storage” is going into overdrive!]