GUARDIAN OF THE END

< Thunder Mage: A person with the power of wielding raw lightning and having lightning traveling through their veins.

- Can consume natural lightning to convert into progression points. >

Skill tree:

< Lightning Bolt (Maxed Skill) >

200 mana

- Summon a bolt of lightning.

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< Lightning Reflexes: 1 / 5>

Passive skill (Can be turned on or off)

- Decreases the time taken to react by an entire second while increasing normal speed by 3%

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Alongside the job class, Jason also got two new skills. He then looked at the wolf curiously as he raised his right hand.

"Lightning bolt!"

A crackling sound went through the air as a purple lightning bolt appeared in Jason's hand.

Staring at the raw lightning, he threw it toward the wolf wondering whether his puny attack could do anything to someone who had hit him with a lightning bolt the size of three telephone poles combined.

The result was even more disappointing than what he had expected as the lightning bolt moved towards the horn and was absorbed by it.

However, he could let it go considering that he had gained a new job class and two new moves.

Though it wasn't going to give him the power to beat a beast as dangerous as the wolf.

'I wonder when the wolf will start taking me seriously and go all out.' Jason knew that the wolf had only been playing with him and if provoked, could deal some serious damage.

Furthermore, Jason would run out of mana just after a few moves.

'If I can't win, I should look for someplace to hide and try to escape.

As soon as the thought entered his mind, the wolf suddenly froze in its place. Jason's body started fading before he vanished.

The wolf raised its head towards the sky, only to see Aiden grinning down at it.

"He has potential to…"

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At the Syrward family residence…

Jason appeared inside the same room again as he patted his body to make sure everything was still the same.

He then looked around to see Issac sitting on the bed anxiously.

The moment Jason appeared, he immediately stood up from the bed and approached Jason while hugging him and ruffled his hair.

"I knew that you would survive!" Issac's smile was bright enough blind a person. He then gestured for Jason to sit on the bed before doing the same thing himself.

The grandpa-grandson pair then stared at each other before Issac asked an important question.

"What happened?"

"I-" Jason started to talk about what happened but no sound came out of his mouth. He tried it once again, however, the results didn't change.

[ You- ] The system began explaining but was cut short by Issac.

"Don't try again," Issac sighed as he realized what was wrong. "Most likely, you can't tell the details of whatever you went through to another person.

Jason nodded before he tried something else and surprisingly it worked. He then told his grandpa about the fight with the wolves and how he had been struck by lightning.

"Jason, are you a ghost now?" Issac asked while touching his grandson's hand to find that he was very much alive.

Jason rolled his eyes at Issac's behavior before he continued on.

"So… this means that you can now control lightning as well," Issac muttered as he fell into deep thinking.

Jason had obviously omitted the part of having a system for the time being. Though he might tell his family about it in the future, he had no plans of doing it anytime soon.

"However, what you experienced means that you are a Thunder Mage," Jason suddenly froze when he heard Issac's words. "Only then could you have survived that blow. Seeing that you also have the dark element too, you are pretty strong already.

"Shouldn't I be a Lightning Mage?" Jason curiously asked as he recognized the proud tone his grandpa replied in.

"A Lightning Mage is someone who can only use mana to generate lightning." Issac then lifted his right hand as sparks of purple lightning appeared around his fingers. "Thunder mages are much stronger as they have a purer version of lightning inside them. And…"

"And?"

"I will tell you the rest after judging your skills."

Jason then sighed at his grandfather's words before he remembered that it was time for him to learn everything about mana and such things.

"Grandpa, it's time for you to uphold your promise."

"For now, sleep or else your grandmother will scold both of us. Though I promise that I will tell you in the morning." Issac replied as Jason nodded and laid down on the bed.

"Goodnight, grandpa."

"Goodnight, Jason."

Moments later, Jason was sleeping soundly on the bed while Issac looked over him.

He then stood up from the bed and exited the room. Issac then started making his way towards the door and exited the house.

Duphia was a place that was situated very close to a beast forest. The founders of the city had carved a path between the forest to travel between Duphia and other places.

'Now that I think about that, I am actually a Baron and Duphia is a Barony. Well, a Barony is still better than a Fief in name.'

Even though Duphia was a barony, its status was similar to the level of a Fief. Issac was called a baron on paper but his status was that of a mere lord too.

'Well, not like I wanted to meddle with nobility either way.' After going outside the gate of Duphia, Issac ventured into the forest before stopping randomly.

He then lifted his right hand towards the sky and closed his eyes. His expression turned completely serious as a crackling sound resounded throughout the forest.

"If only he knew the true power of thunder," Pure white lightning appeared around Issac's body as he opened his eyes and raised his hand towards the sky. "Thunder God's Wrath!"

A five-meter-tall thunderbolt emerged from his hand as it shot towards the sky. Suddenly, the thunderbolt stopped mid-air before bursting into hundreds of thunderbolts of the same size.

Lightning in itself was something to fear however, Thunder was on an entirely different level. It was just not a mere sound but it was something more dangerous than that.

Issac had this power with him since the moment he was born. He had even been hailed as a prodigy, a prodigy who had thrown away everything he had.

'I wonder what your future will hold Jason.' Issac thought as the thunderbolts in the sky vanished.

Issac wanted to test a few more things but decided against it. He didn't want the residents of Duphia to wake up to a thunderstorm.

The old man then walked back to his house and saw the time. Morning would soon arrive and he didn't have a wink of sleep.

'But I guess a few hours of sleep is better than none.' Issac sighed before he walked up to his room to see Risa peacefully sleeping on the bed.

He looked at her sleeping face for a few seconds before lying beside her and closing his eyes. A few minutes later, he too was sound asleep.

That night, no one had realized that Issac had created an entire thunderstorm worth of thunderbolts before making them vanish.

As for Jason, he was peacefully sleeping, completely unaware of the dangers that were brewing in another corner of the world… Obviously.