Zong Shen's tone was calm and gentle.
Yet the more so it was, the more it displayed his immense confidence.
The [Frenzied Thundercloud] above his head began to tremble violently, like an extremely enraged human shaking with rage.
Within the cloud mass, wild arcs of lightning flashed and danced.
Zong Shen said no more. Instead, he watched it with interest through the [Eye of Magical Perception].
Since this thundercloud bore the suffix "Frenzied," it was proof that it would not be so easily subdued.
Yes, subdued—not acknowledged.
Zong Shen changed his approach, deliberately refusing to play by convention.
He wanted to subdue the thundercloud, not earn its acknowledgment.
Through the [Eye of Magical Perception], countless threads representing elemental magic intertwined and Entangled with one another.
All their intersections lay within the thundercloud.
Zong Shen was trying to find an opportunity to unravel them thread by thread.
After all, the [Fool's Black Gloves] gave him a great deal of room to work with.
As long as he could find the pattern and the right method, he could theoretically use this to target most elemental items and creatures.
It was simply very difficult.
The elemental threads were constantly moving and never remained unchanged.
Just as the thundercloud was about to launch another lightning strike, he acted decisively.
With nothing more than a light curl of his finger, the lightning brewing within the cloud dissipated with a boom.
This time, the thundercloud was completely stunned.
It stopped trembling and simply floated there in silence.
Yet Zong Shen did not stop, because he had captured the most crucial elemental thread within the thundercloud.
He immediately tugged that thread.
Elemental light flashed and pulsed.
When Zong Shen pulled the thread away, the entire thundercloud suddenly shuddered. More than half of the lightning elemental magic within