#206 - Wild Thunder

But when the magic in his body truly touched that rune, Anduin felt a faint electric current travel straight from his wand, through his arm, and into his brain, where it erupted in a dazzling display of sparks, like neurons firing.

It was a tingling, cool, goosebump-inducing sensation, and after the current flashed, it left him with a refreshing feeling, like after a cool shower in the summer, very comfortable.

When he concentrated again, he could clearly feel his magic intermingling with the lightning rune within his wand, which even deepened his connection with 'Dark Drawing'.

Under this influence, his wand also underwent a marvelous transformation. The Thunderbird heartstring in Dark Drawing, influenced by the lightning rune, gave him the feeling that it had regained its vitality.

"Incredible, this feeling is as if Dark Drawing has a life force. Could this rune also be derived from a Thunderbird?" Anduin sensed the rune's uniqueness, as if it had a fundamental connection with him and his wand.

Since this rune posed no danger, he might as well finish analyzing it in one go.

With the previous sensation, Anduin grew bolder, gradually extending his magic along Dark Drawing towards the rune.

Boom!

As his perception poured into the rune along with his magic, the rune emitted a dazzling silver light, flashing continuously within the room. If anyone could see inside from outside, they might think someone was raving inside.

In contrast to the intense light show, Anduin felt the complete opposite from the rune.

An exotic scene appeared in his mind, as if it were the memories of the rune's owner before its death.

He saw a desolate savanna, the view looking down from the sky, clearly revealing sparse yellow grass and withered trees on the ground, as well as rattlesnakes coiled beside the weeds, and occasionally antelopes and hares running across the ground.

The owner of this perspective was very fast, ascending from low altitude almost in the blink of an eye, the ground shrinking slowly, replaced by constantly appearing clouds.

The target of this perspective was ahead, a mottled and thick cloud, like a black curtain, like iron blocks connected by gorges, pressing down on the ground with immense force.

Within it, the gale howled like a demon, and crisscrossing lightning bolts tore the sky like demonic claws.

It was chasing a storm!

Anduin followed the perspective and plunged into the storm's center, the gale and rain lashing against it, but it rushed resolutely towards the high altitude, towards the raging heart of the thunderstorm.

As the perspective zoomed in, lightning bolts streaked past, bursting with crackling sounds, the air smelling faintly of burning.

But this seemed to make the owner of the perspective even more excited and delighted. Then, it twisted powerfully, embracing the thickest, strongest silver lightning bolt that struck from above.

Anduin could even feel joy and sorrow in this memory, joy from the instinctual pursuit of evolution, the love of lightning, and sorrow from its impending demise.

As it encountered the lightning, a powerful magic suddenly surged from the owner of the perspective.

What followed was a scene that Anduin would never forget.

This magic seemed to turn it into a lightning rod, constantly attracting the surrounding charges. All the lightning in the thunderstorm seemed to find its target, rushing towards it frantically.

The magic within its body grew even stronger, gradually climbing towards a peak, as if crossing this peak would bring it new life!

But this peak seemed to be right in front of him, yet also far away.

It had almost drained all the charges within a few miles, but it still seemed to be lacking a little.

In the end, the owner of this perspective exhausted all its strength and failed to achieve self-breakthrough, and could only fall from the sky with regret, carrying solidified lightning.

The scene in the memory ended here.

"This is?" Anduin finally recovered from the memory, "The dying memory of a Thunderbird?"

"An elderly Thunderbird chasing thunderstorms, trying to find a breakthrough? In the end, it seemed to be lacking a little, so it had to pass away with regret, and this lightning rune condensed on its corpse?"

"I didn't expect that this rune would still retain the final memory of this Thunderbird, allowing me to experience the magnificent scene of fighting against nature and oneself."

Anduin sighed, as if he had just recovered from the memory, but he gradually analyzed the origin and truth of this rune.

"No wonder this rune resonates with Dark Drawing, it turns out they are related. And this original rune seems to condense a life force belonging to that Thunderbird, it's incredible."

"But if that Thunderbird had absorbed enough lightning in the end, could it really have been reborn? I haven't found any corresponding records in any books about magical creatures?"

"This may be a new discovery about Thunderbirds, the feeling of chasing new life is a bit like eagles plucking feathers and breaking beaks, a legend of resurrection."

Anduin shook his head. He was not a magical zoologist and didn't want to delve into it. The top priority was to quickly analyze this rune.

In fact, after Anduin entered that memory, he had already formed a connection with this rune, and it could even be said that he had almost re-experienced the formation process of this original rune.

So when he poured magic into the rune again and tried to analyze it, it couldn't be said to be very easy, it was simply effortless.

In just a few minutes, Anduin had clearly grasped the structure and texture of this rune, and it could even be said that even if this rune were given to someone else to analyze now, they would not be able to achieve his level of understanding.

After taking off his plastic suit, Anduin held his left hand in the air, and a lightning rune constructed with his magic clearly appeared in his palm.

"Although I haven't done any follow-up tests, I can clearly feel your power just by manifesting you," Anduin said with a smile while looking at the rune.

"Since you were born in the wilderness, this lightning rune will be called 'Wild Lightning'. The derivative rune of the fire element rune is 'Fiendfyre', and the derivative rune of the lightning element rune is 'Wild Lightning'. It's quite appropriate," Anduin said with satisfaction as he looked at the shining lightning rune in his hand.