With no connection and no reason at all, Momonga had linked this matter to Ron purely based on his intuition.
The terrifying part was that he had actually guessed right!
Talk about coincidence, huh?
Back on Hell Island, a pillar of lightning descended from the heavens, carrying terrifying pressure. Its searing heat instantly melted hard steel, while the highly toxic liquids that even Ron dared not touch were vaporized in an instant, vanishing without a trace. At the same time, the lightning pillar continued unabated, destroying everything in its path. Even reinforced concrete could not offer it the slightest resistance as it drove Ron deeper toward the earth's core.
Ron had already figured out some properties of the spoils-of-war longsword. Besides releasing lightning, the gem embedded in it possessed a powerful lightning-attracting effect. Ron could sense that the lightning pillar's primary target was not him, a Lightning Person, but the weapon in his hand... Faced with the longsword, the lightning was like an honest man chasing down the neighbor who had cuckolded him—absolutely murderous!
Damn it!
I thought being a giant walking lightning rod was miserable enough. Turns out you're the real lightning rod!!
Thinking back to the white snake that had been blasted off the cliff by a translucent white lightning pillar on the day he landed on the island, Ron could not help breaking out in sympathetic cold sweat for it... To grow that large before getting struck dead by lightning, its luck had truly been heaven-defying.
Besides, the hardness of the weapon alone was not enough to keep the longsword intact before such terrifying lightning. The only reason it had not been melted was the gem, which formed a unique protective film over the blade and withstood the electrical assault.
Of course... those things could wait for