#423 - Darkness! (Seeking monthly ticket recommendation ticket)

Anduin swung his longsword to his left hand, holding it upside down, then reached into his chest and drew his wand, 'Darkdraw'.

“I was wondering what seemed to be missing, turns out it was you.” Anduin said to himself, then brought Darkdraw in his right hand towards the end of the hilt of the longsword in his left.

Just as he brought the wand close to the end of the hilt, a tiny round opening suddenly appeared on the smooth metal surface, its size and thickness exactly matching Darkdraw's dimensions.

Without hesitation, Anduin inserted Darkdraw straight into the hilt, as if it weren't a sword at all, but a wand sheath.

Once he had fully inserted Darkdraw, the round opening at the end of the hilt closed again, the overall size remaining unchanged. It turned out that the longsword's hilt had been designed to be hollow from the very beginning, with the original function of holding a wand.

“Good, that's more like it. With Darkdraw's blessing, you can become complete. In that case, your name will be 'Darkbane'. 'Darkdraw' and 'Darkbane', quite the rhyme.” Anduin grasped Darkbane, which contained the wand, feeling increasingly solid in his hand.

However, after the wand and longsword became one, Darkbane in Anduin's hand underwent a new change.

The previously calm blade suddenly shone with a more brilliant spiritual light than before.

In the eyes of the surrounding people, what Anduin held in his hand was not a longsword at all, but a long, silver-blue pillar of light. Upon closer inspection, it could be seen that it was actually solidified, liquid-like plasma flowing across the surface of the blade, and a circle of colorful halo could be clearly seen around the light pillar.

Anduin was also startled by Darkbane's mutation. How could the sword go berserk after inserting the wand?

However, the sense of intimacy the longsword gave him did not disappear, and he could even sense that the connection between the two had become more intense.

“Anduin! Be careful!”

Just as Anduin was sensing the changes happening to Darkbane, Brand Warden's anxious voice suddenly rang out beside him.

Anduin was about to turn his head to observe after hearing the voice, when he was suddenly struck by lightning!

Oh no, to be precise, he was really struck by lightning.

It turned out that just as Darkbane underwent a mutation, the thunderous vortex in the sky also seemed to have taken stimulants, spinning faster and faster. The surging current in the core of the storm continued to gather, and then suddenly launched without even a sound, striking down a bucket-thick bolt of lightning, which could be described as powerful and extremely insidious.

If this situation had occurred when Anduin had just forged the longsword, he would have had time to react, but after posing for a long time and finding that the thunderclouds were ignoring him, he had not paid attention to the movements in the sky. Moreover, the sudden change in Darkbane in his hand had also drawn his attention away.

“Damn it! You're playing dirty with me!”

Anduin was suddenly struck by the thick lightning bolt, and it hit him directly on the forehead. Although the current was immediately absorbed by Darkbane in his hand upon contact with his body, it still staggered him.

Anyone who was suddenly attacked like this would probably be quite angry, and Anduin was no exception. He raised his head with veins popping on his face, glaring fiercely at the clouds above, as if he wanted to stare the thunderclouds away.

The thunderclouds above his head, however, did not care about anything. The thick plasma gathered in the core of the storm seemed to have received an order to attack with all its might, and then began to bombard him with lightning bolts one after another.

Although Anduin was very angry at being ambushed, he did not dare to neglect the situation when he saw this, and quickly raised Darkbane high in his hand, just like raising a lightning rod, attracting the current from the sky.

At this time, Darkbane in his hand seemed to come alive, the blade vibrating and buzzing non-stop, as if enjoying the baptism of these lightning bolts.

At the same time, Anduin also noticed that after receiving the lightning strikes, Darkbane continuously overflowed with layers of silver-blue plasma, and these overflowing plasma, upon contact with him, directly drilled into his body along his arm.

Then Anduin felt that the magic power in his body, which had been completely exhausted due to forging, gradually filled up, and even its activity was stronger than before.

“This is? Tempering and purifying the magic power in my body, and there's such a good thing?” After carefully sensing his body, Anduin found that the magic power storage in his body had not changed, but its quality was more solid and flexible than before, and it also gave him a better understanding of 'Wild Lightning'.

“Could this be the secret of why thunderbirds chase storms? This feeling of being able to transform and enhance magic power is simply wonderful!”

This discovery made him overjoyed, and the look in his eyes towards the thunderclouds in the sky changed from the previous annoyance to desire.

This is really a good thing, just like a perfect tonic pill. If he tempered it more, his spellcasting strength would be significantly improved.

Thinking of this, Anduin raised his hand even higher, wishing he could attract more lightning.

However, the frequency of lightning strikes from the sky was very stable, basically one every few seconds, and even the power and frequency showed a downward trend.

“That won't do, I can't let you run away.” Anduin felt anxious when he noticed the change. Darkbane's rampage might only happen this time, and who knows if there will be such a good thing in the future.

Moreover, after he calmed down, he could also feel that the lightning strikes in the sky were subtly different from the usual household electricity. These lightning bolts clearly contained faint magical power, and were obviously attracted either by Darkbane or by the 'Wild Lightning' magic runes.

Seeing that the power of the lightning was decreasing, Anduin didn't care about anything. If you don't come down, then I'll go up. He raised his longsword and flew straight into the air, rushing towards the core of the storm where the lightning gathered.

And as he drilled into the eye of the core, the entire thundercloud surged violently, the extremely low cloud layer gradually rose, and the dark, ink-like clouds visibly expanded in all directions, soon spreading to the end of the field of vision.

The group of centaurs and Hoggs who were watching nearby stared dumbfounded as Anduin rushed towards the thick and vast thundercloud. This feeling was like watching a comet hitting the earth, full of shock.

“Damn, the boss ascended to heaven with lightning!” Hogg, with his dog mouth, couldn't help but complain, “This boss won't be back, will he? No way, no way, no way?”

“It's really amazing. Being able to witness such a shocking scene is really worth it in this life, and the halo of the seventh star of the Big Dipper can even penetrate the clouds. Could it be Anduin?” Brand Warden also muttered to himself at this time.