Mastering Lightning

As he spoke, he ruined another longsword. Drawing them out one at a time was too troublesome, so he simply lifted the other crate and tipped it over.

The carriage floor was instantly covered in longswords, every one forged from refined steel. In the age of knights, they would have counted as treasured blades, but now they were merely consumables.

The [Buriers] did not waste words. They grabbed the longswords and used them to cut a long opening into the carriage.

The ritual rune templates that would not fit were then stuffed through the opening, finally allowing the setup to be properly laid out.

"Mm, this should be right. Some details weren't written in the manual, so I connected them based on the principles of the ritual," Yami said confidently after flipping through the instructions.

Ignati nodded and stepped onto one of the modules.

The entire carriage had now been transformed into a rudimentary Storm Generator. These ritual rune iron plates had originally been intended for experiments near the white mist in the Northern Territory, but unexpectedly, they had come in handy here.

It was only that, being a temporary setup, it might not be very stable.

Ignati stood where he was without moving.

The ritual had been successfully arranged, but the pollution was not yet in place.

The Storm Generator's effects were astonishing—it could even control storms with ease—but the price was an enormous consumption of pollution.

This thing could only be tested in Castel. With the Stellar Furnace at its back, Castel had no shortage of pollution and could afford to run it.

Performing the ritual on the train, however, could very well drain all their pollution reserves. It would be a joke if the steam engine ran out of fuel and the train stopped.

Logically speaking, an