The Hourglass 66 Breakthrough 2

Michael didn't pay any real attention to this change until the dark blue lightning pierced trough his thinly spread layers and gravity field before it struck his arm.

Although the lightning bolt's size is reduced to the finger width again the energy contained in it is incomparable to the five poles sized purple lightning bolt.

Although it didn't even hurt him, he even only felt like when he accidentally touched the bug racket where it emits electric to kill the mosquito flying around, it felt a little numb but nothing else.

Michael then repaired the layers before waiting for the next lightning bolt, this time the lightning bolt even directly pierced trough everything and struck Michael in the head.

Although he could dodge it he didn't because of tow reason, First because he remembered the earlier lightning that acted as if he was a magnet and it was a piece of iron stubbornly trying to struck him; Secondly, because he want to test the power of lightning if he truly want to s.h.i.+eld himself he could use the wing to s.h.i.+eld his head.

The moment the lightning struck, the feather covering the top of his head got charred black but that's not an important matter, the important one was that lightning pierced into his Spiritual Sea and it pierced deeper into something.

When the traces of it's energy vanished completely Michael felt something was wrong and when he checked again he saw that the gla.s.s's surface on The Hourgla.s.s was blacked, Although there's no crack or even bend on it Michael felt nervous and he took this more seriously because the source of his confidence, his power, his immortality, and the most importantly the place where his connection with Aria and Melinda lays is there.

With his face changes from a playful into a serious one, with 20 seconds left until the 11th lightning bolt struck. Michael thrusted both of his hand toward his arm with his palm opened before slowly clenching into a fist.

As Michael clenched his fist toward the sky, Mario and the light headed Jessica watched in shock with their mouth open, Jessica didn't even realize that her transformation has ended and she have gone back to her human form and Aria just stood there with a smug expression on her face. Slowly as the palm is becoming a fist the layers in the sky got compressed to from the size that covered the entire street into just the size with 20 meters as diameter with Michael as the centre.

Even after using all of his power over the Four Elemental Release, he can't improve it anymore since it's original awakener is already dead and can't improve it's power anymore, even pouring more Qi is useless. The fire in the fire layer changed from blue to bluish white, the wind whirlpool that is white in colour before changed into green, the ice on the water layer changed from the rigid ice into a fluid which weirdly didn't emit any coldness just like the fire in fire layer didn't emit any hotness but they are without doubt became hotter and colder while the earth on earth layer didn't changed but even if a meteorite struck it, it wouldn't get scratched.

After all of this finally all of the Qi nodes on his spines, totalling into 4 nodes have been exhausted and if the previous one counted 5 nodes, Michael pushed the Gravity Manipulation power to the limit too making the size of the gravity field stay the same but the pus.h.i.+ng power inside of it could even toss a stone weighed around 10 ton easily like it was a small stone that people toss onto river, Consuming another nodes in his navel, totalling into 6 nodes .

The moment the preparation finished the 11th Lightning bolt struck and this time it didn't even pierced the fire layer. Michael didn't take a notice earlier but the Lightning in the cloud changed ever slowly from the dark purple into the blue colour right now, it seem the lightning bolt became stronger when its colour became into a lighter one.

Michael continued to repair any damage caused by the lightning bolt, it was at the 17th lightning bolt when it changes it's colour to yellow while it's size became of finger again, it even managed to pierce through the first three layers. At this time Michael have consumed his 7th nodes just to maintain this overpowered s.h.i.+eld for 3 minutes and 30 seconds.

After the 20th Lightning struck deep into the ground besides Michael, even causing an explosion when it met a something underground, Michael have consumed his 8th nodes because his four s.h.i.+eld layer have been pierced trough in the last three lightning. Michael waited for the next Lightning but weirdly even after he waited for 30 seconds already but the lightning bolt haven't struck down yet.

After 30 seconds pa.s.sed without anything Michael looked at the dark cloud that's expanding gradually while the colour of lightning flas.h.i.+ng in and out from it the cloud changed into red but the majority is still yellow, as if the cloud that contain the Tribulation Lightning got tired of Michael's s.h.i.+elding and decided to gather all of it's power to strike down with all of its remaining power.

Looking at this Michael decided to made more layers, then he repeated his action when he made the layer firstly. Gradually layer after layer is made until 12 layers have been made with 3 layers from the four elements in Four Elemental Release superpower. At the end of this creation Michael consumed another numbers of nodes, totaling into 10 nodes, leaving him 6 more nodes including his main Qi nodes, in his heart and 1 minute and 50 seconds have pa.s.sed since the last lightning strike.

In these 1 minute and 50 seconds, Mario and Aria understood something drastic have changed forcing Michael to create more layers of protection so they ran with speed surpa.s.sing many cars as fast as they can after looking at Michael's ferocious face that is full of sweat maintaining the 12 layers which is very difficult, in just 10 seconds I Qi node have been consumed. As the solution of the Four Elemental Release can't upgraded in quality he can only do with quant.i.ty but it was still hard even in his full power Michael can only maintain it for 1 minute and 30 seconds but Michael can say with confidence even if the world strongest nuclear weapon is thrown at him, he will be unscathed.