Divine Luck: SSS-Rank Battle Maid Harem-Chapter 547: Lightning Magic

Lightning magic was usually magic energy transformed into electricity that was then fired straight at the enemy like it was a projectile.

That was not how lightning worked in nature. That was why lightning magic was not as powerful as its natural equivalent unless the mage casting it used an exorbitant amount of magical energy.

However, recreating the lightning found in naturally occurring thunderstorms was difficult to do, even if one understood how it worked. If one didn't understand it, recreation became impossible.

But Mandra was a mage who made the impossible possible. What others found difficult to the point of giving up, she found worth doing.

Her eyes, which gave her no choice but to see the truth of the world, unveiled the mysteries of lightning a long time ago, but it was only recently, after creating a rainstorm with Oria Villesand, that she started devising a spell to make use of that knowledge.

She hadn't seen the need to do so earlier since it would take time to prepare such a spell. But there were things she could do with such spells that she couldn't do with spells that only took a few seconds to cast.

There was no need to ignore her inspiration when it would make her stronger and more versatile. More importantly, it was magic. Of course, she had to learn how to do it.

Mandra had tinkered with and thought a lot about how to bring natural lightning into her magic and make it even more powerful than what can be found in nature. She'd had the idea on how to do it from the beginning.

Lightning in nature wasn't an attack. Like every other natural phenomenon, lightning was simply a result of everything else.

Rain poured down because the sun pulled vapor up from the ground. When the gathered vapor was condensed and heavy enough, gravity pulled it down again.

Lightning was similar but different.

Lightning occurred when there was a difference in the air on the ground and the air in the sky. When the components of lightning were higher in the sky than on the ground, lightning would descend, restoring balance, equalizing the scales.

It took a while for Mandra to figure out how to create that difference. At first, she thought that the best way to do it would be to increase the components of lightning in the sky and call down lightning.

But increasing something intangible like that was difficult even for her. And casting spells in the sky cost a lot of magical energy. It was inefficient on several fronts.

So, she flipped it.

Instead of increasing the amount of lightning components in the sky, she decreased the amount on the ground. She was going to force nature into restoring balance for her.

Lexi's magic had added the final touch to Mandra's spell. She wasn't going to just call down lightning to where she wanted, she was going to lead it straight into her target and prevent it from restoring balance.

If the lightning didn't restore balance, more would have to come down until balance was restored.

If things went according to plan, the lightning would only restore balance once the target was dead and could no longer block the lightning.

It was a spell that would always kill its target before finishing, assuming things went according to plan. That was a rare property for spells to have. But that wasn't the only reason Mandra was so excited that she couldn't stand still.

Mages were beings who liked to pretend they had nature under their control, that they used magic energy to tame nature.

That was not the case at all.

Magic was rarely more than a poor imitation of nature. Even if it was similar or more beautiful in appearance, it almost always lacked structure, foundation, and reasoning.

But right now, Mandra wasn't just imitating nature. She was controlling it.

She desperately wanted it to work, but even if it didn't, she wouldn't be satisfied. It just meant she had to try again.

Zach glanced to the side as Mandra squealed and chittered in excitement like a squirrel stumbling upon a mountain of nuts and cheese.

He had never seen her this excited before. It was something to celebrate.

But when he looked at the head of Usurpation, he couldn't find it within him to do so.

If even he could feel the building electric tension in the air, the Hydra could undoubtedly feel it. But it wasn't doing anything. It was just watching its other heads fight Yanael.

Was it not worried? Did it not fear lightning?

It made sense that it didn't fear ordinary lightning. Zach didn't either. Ordinary lightning couldn't touch even a hair on his head, much less ruffle the Hydra's scales.

But this wasn't ordinary lightning.

The head of Usurpation's eyes narrowed, and it glanced toward the sky.

Mandra was going all out on this first experiment of hers.

In theory, the greater the difference between the lightning components in the air and on the ground, the greater the lightning.

So, why not empty the area of the lightning components that existed everywhere like air? It couldn't be much greater of a difference than that unless she increased the lightning components in the sky.

Mandra narrowed her eyes and looked toward the sky.

That was an idea.

But it would have to wait until next time.

For now, she grabbed Zach and retreated.

She might have underestimated the wrath of nature when being toyed with and controlled by someone else.

Great.

Excellent.

Amazing.

Zach couldn't help but be a little worried when Mandra pulled him back with an almost crazed expression. But he understood when sparks started appearing in the sky.

The precursors to what was to come were enough to make the air all over his body stand on end. The flies of blue light zipping across the rapidly darkening sky…

Zach wasn't sure if it could be called lightning before it struck, but those strings of light in the sky felt more overwhelming than any lightning strikes he had seen personally.

The head of Usurpation curled into a ball on its back. It called its other heads to protect it with their necks.

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