The violet lightning arc erupted from the Thunder Behemoth’s horns with the bone-shaking crack of a split thunderbolt. Over one million volts of high-hum spark energy tore across the sand. That turned the air into an ozone-choked inferno that melted the top layer of arena grit into glowing melted rock waste. The crowd in the lower tiers gasped, several spectators covering their eyes in excitement of seeing the commoner tamer burned up where he stood.
Titus stepped forward half a pace, his massive four-ton shell intercepting the leading edge of the lightning bolt.
CRACK-BOOOOOOM.
The blinding spark discharge struck the fiery dark rock plates of Titus’s forward armor scales. Veins of underground iron flared crimson, channeling forty thousand current units of raw spark current straight down through his columnar legs into the arena’s grounded bedrock. A shower of violet sparks cascaded off his shell, but the giant tortoise didn’t budge an inch. His heavy eyelids took a slow, heavy, slow blink as the current washed harmlessly into the earth.
At the exact same instant, Vesper reappeared five meters ahead of Titus.
She didn’t touch the electrified sand. Through her awakening Baihu White Tiger lineage, she carried out an easy, five-meter spatial empty pocket slip—stepping out of physical reality and re-emerging directly atop the Thunder Behemoth’s massive skull, right between its two towering, sparking horns.
