Some time passed.
The density and intensity of the thunder ahead seemed to increase.
Double and triple thunder strikes were occurring so frequently that one fell every few seconds.
With no other choice, Reilo once again swung the Particle Realm Eye Wand and cast Ice Sculptures over his body, combining them with his 1024 Nights Guardian Shield to reinforce his defenses.
After finishing, Reilo continued charging forward.
By now, he could just barely make out the ruins of the unnatural landscape deep within the Cloudburst Thunder Sea.
"Are those the ancient ruins Chuback mentioned? It's a shame that this place is like that old saying about a mountain seeming close but taking forever to reach. It looks nearby, 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 thunder 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 terrifying shock wave made Reilo's eyelids twitch. Even he had to be wary of a lightning strike this powerful.
And so,
after enduring several triple and quadruple thunder strikes along the way, the journey grew increasingly dangerous as Reilo pressed deeper into the Cloudburst Thunder Sea.
With no other choice, he continued onward in the form of the supernatural phenomenon of a level-five creature: shadow.
About an hourglass later,
there were not only dangers from multiple fused lightning strikes, but black lightning also occasionally descended from the sky. It was the infamous Annihilation Thunder, with a strength somewhere between a fivefold and sixfold thunder strike. Reilo could feel that he was drawing closer and closer to the core of the Cloudburst Thunder