After some more time had passed.
The density and intensity of the lightning ahead seemed to increase.
Double and triple lightning strikes were now occurring almost every few seconds.
With no other choice, Reilo swung the Particle Realm Eye Wand again and cast Frost Shielding around his body, combining it with his 1024 Nights Guardian Shield to strengthen his defenses.
Once he had done all that, Reilo continued charging forward.
At the same time, he could now make out the unnatural ruins deep within the sea of thunder.
"Could that be the ancient ruins Chuback mentioned? What a shame. Here, a mountain can look close and still take forever to reach. It seems near, but there's still a long way to go."
Muttering to himself, Reilo didn't stop. He continued flying deeper into the Cloudburst Thunder Sea.
Rumble, rumble, rumble.
A fivefold lightning strike formed and suddenly exploded in the air several hundred meters away.
A vast blaze of ionized particles spread through the sea of clouds. Even from several hundred meters away, the terrible shock wave made Reilo's eyelid twitch. Even he had to be careful around a lightning strike of this magnitude.
And so,
after enduring several triple and quadruple lightning strikes along the way, Reilo found the journey growing more and more dangerous as he ventured deeper into the Cloudburst Thunder Sea.
With no other choice, he could only continue forward in his shadow form, a supernatural phenomenon of a level-five creature.
About an hourglass later.
The danger here came not only from the merging of multiple lightning strikes. Every so often, a black bolt also descended from the sky: the famed Annihilation Thunder. Its strength was roughly on par with a fivefold or sixfold strike. Reilo could feel that he was drawing ever closer to the