When Iver's Lightning Spear struck the ground, a bolt of lightning as thick as a barrel crashed down from the sky at the same time!
The raging lightning writhed like a swarm of snakes, dancing across the bear-like giant hound's powerful body.
As it let out a pained roar like a bear's, lumps of squirming flesh bulged beneath its skin before exploding with a thunderous boom! Countless fragments of dark-red flesh shot and splattered everywhere, while Iver, riding the Ghost Pegasus, landed gracefully without a speck of dirty red blood touching him.
Far denser lightning crackled around him than before—the Deep Blue lightning visible to the naked eye had already formed a second layer of armor outside his dim-yellow armor.
That was because Iver had activated the Thunder Strike Halberd's echo effect for the first time!
Equipment Card: Thunder Strike Halberd (Wheel of Fortune) Requirements: Wind 3 or Shadow 3 Action, Summon, Echo Effect: Summons "Thunder Strike Halberd" (Extraordinary Weapon—halberd, heavy, Punishment, armor-piercing, holds the module "Demon Killer," lightning-attribute attack) Effect: Use again to increase the holder's "Lightning Affinity" level by 3 for one minute
A full three levels of Lightning Affinity! That was equivalent to three blue-grade Path Traits, or one blue-grade trait plus one purple-grade trait... In other words, it was an improvement that could only be obtained through a full two-level advancement!
Applied to Shadow Affinity, this could turn an ordinary person directly into a superpowered individual completely merged with the shadows.
And for the Wild Hunt King Hellerchein, it could also grant his strength an extremely obvious boost at once!
His charge, which had originally merely carried thunder along with it, transformed into that of a thunder god, with every attack summoning a bolt from the sky! After knocking Caligula into the air earlier,