Kai took a deep breath as he lay next to the pool of blood. His face was pale. Six different energies had mixed in his body and he was now in a bad state. To be wounded like that without fighting could only happen when you were developing, but to inflict such a wound, you needed a superior development base. Kai was half at Step 2, and that was not enough. But there was another possibility. Kai couldn't be trying to reach Step 2, could he?

  "What just happened?"

  Emma asked with a confused look on her face. She looked at Kai's sudden vomiting of blood and the strangely colored layer of snow. What was really going on?

  But at that moment, Emma had a different idea. Kai's blood and the chaos in his energy seemed to confirm it, and Kai's face did not look good. It was as if he had gone into king mode again. He was white and looked as if he had narrowly escaped death.

  "Are you dying?"

  This might have been strange, but Kai was not normal. Vomiting blood like that was not a good sign. If he had vomited the impurities in his body, it should have been black, but even though it was black, it was also white!

  "Too much power... can dehumanize you..."

  Kai's choked voice barely reached Emma's ear. Emma's eyes widened and her hands trembled as she reached out and touched the black one of the 5 different colors of blood on the ground, but as soon as she touched it, a small spark came out of the blood and hit Emma's hand. Emma looked at her hand and then at Kai in surprise.

  "Black Lightning!"

  Emma touched the others. She felt different sensations than the others and they were very familiar.

  "There is so much power in my body. The red represents my emotions and the Immortal Dragon. The red in my eyes when the lightning bolts form in my pupils."

  Kai spoke and scales formed on his body and 6 lightning bolts appeared in his pupil. The pupil was red. Just like the red blood on the ground. This represented his bloodline and his emotions.

  "Black is the energy of Black Lightning. After I became the Black Lightning King, my body became one with the Black Lightning. It represents the black in my pupil."

  Even though Kai's body was weak, he strengthened for a moment and black lightning appeared around his body. Emma recognized the lightning in Kai's eyes and the black in his pupil.

  "White is the divine art I possess. Every time I advance in this art, my eyes are covered with the white light of divine energy. It is more powerful than other energies, even though it seems to be rarer.

  "Purple is the characteristic of my 6 Million Souls and the King Mode, and what has kept me alive so far is the Ultimate Heart Form that my master taught me.

  "Blue is my own blood. It is not normally blue, but with the effect of the Turkish blood in my body, it has turned into the sea blue that my eyes normally are. These are my only true eyes."

  Kai's eyes returned to their original color and pale teal eyes appeared. In the past, these eyes would have captivated countless girls at a glance. Now, they were like flowers wilting from exhaustion. They had the dominance and dignity of a falling star, but in the end, they had fallen. Kai's deep blue eyes no longer shone as they once did.

  3 Months Later

  The city of Atlantia was like a ghost city. There was no sound, no energy flow. It was as if no one lived there anymore. But unlike the streets, terrifying auras emanated from every house. These auras created a pressure inside the city, and even on the walls, there was an intense wave of auras. No one in Green Lightning could set foot in that city.

  For 3 months, both Emma and Kai immersed themselves in closed training. Emma and the others had developed at an incredible rate. It was unclear how much stronger they had become, but there was bad news.

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  Jack still hadn't woken up. There was no need for him to increase his growth capacity with his current strength. He wouldn't be weak next to the others, but his wounds had mostly healed. Lena was also at Half Step 2, so she didn't have to do much training behind closed doors.

  The other bad news was that Kai was still not healed. Emma promised Kai that she wouldn't tell anyone, but Emma herself was the one who could be most worried about Kai. If Kai didn't have the power of the Heart Path, he would be in his grave.

  Even if Kai's power was superior, he was in a very bad situation now. His powers were killing him. Many different powers wanted to put pressure on his body. Kai's human body couldn't stand it.

  To fix this, Kai had to merge the energies and create a single form out of them. He had to fuse the Dragon Force, the Path of the Heart, the Path of the Body, and the Black Thunderbolts. Even if he couldn't fuse the Black Thunderbolts because he was the king, those other 3 energies were too difficult for him to fuse.

  In order to do that, Kai needed to apply a lot of pressure. That pressure would push his 3 abilities that didn't want to fuse together and force them together, but obviously that pressure had to be more intense than the pressure Kai had.

  As a result, Kai was still on his deathbed and could control the Black Lightning because he was the king. Divine Energy was already very rare. That's why Kai was currently only focusing on combining those 3 abilities.

  In one of the buildings in Atlantia City, there was a young man with hair down to his shoulders, small scars around his right eye, and bite marks covering most of his body. This young man's upper body was naked. Underneath, he was wearing baggy, comfortable pants. To his right was a table and on the table was a folded white cloak. On the cloak was a badge and next to it was a sword and its scabbard.

  This young man was Jack. He was not awake yet, but he was out of danger. Lena had a lot of work to do and Jack was left alone in the room while she did other things.

  "Wake up...."

  PAAAATTTTT!!!!

  "AAAAAAAHHHHHARGH....!!!"

  Jack let out a sudden scream as he woke up, lifting his upper body with incredible speed and accidentally swinging his hand, knocking over the table next to him.

  "Whoa! Huh! Whoa..."

  Jack began to take a deep breath. His right eye glowed with a lush green light as he involuntarily put his hand to his right eye. His right pupil and the whites of his eyes were completely merged with the green light. Even the few small scars around Jack's right eye were green. A gentle energy emanated from this eye, and Jack felt that everything was much slower when he looked through it. When he closed his left eye, he realized that it was even more effective than freezing time. Because it also increased his own speed, but with his memories he understood what had happened to Alan and what was happening to him now.

  Jack's Jade Eye had awakened.

  ***

  One by one, all the Developers who were in Atlantia at that time came out of their homes and their extraordinary auras enveloped the city. All the Developers were so empowered by the extraordinary energy of Atlantia City that they now believed they could survive.

  When everyone came out of the closed door training, a white-haired youth and a brown-haired youth looked over the walls into the outer forests. Both of them had much higher auras than the people on the walls. But unlike the people on the walls, they still doubted their chances of survival.

  "Are you sure you want to go, Isaac? It will be very dangerous there. What made you make this decision all of a sudden?"

  Alain's question was clearly telling Isaac not to go. Alain and Isaac were close friends. Alain was warning Isaac because he had seen the danger himself.

  But at that moment, the boy looking over the walls gritted his teeth. Alain couldn't understand why he looked like that. No one could. They hadn't seen him.

  "I was there, Alain."

  Isaac said a single sentence. It was as if the rest was hard for him to say and so he couldn't, but Alain didn't understand his words.

  "I was there when the 13th leader attacked the city of Red Lightning, right where it happened. I am ..... I'm a coward.... I hid in one of the houses and used some techniques on him to protect myself. I saw Jack and the others.... I saw their bloody bodies. But I was afraid. I was shaking. You can't imagine how much I was shaking. I twisted my body all the way around and I saw the bloody body in the rubble of the building next door. "I.... I really earned my nickname."

  Alain could imagine why Isaac felt that way. He had hidden like a coward while his friends fought for their lives. Now he wanted to get rid of that bad feeling, even if it was too late. Alain understood that he had to leave.

  Isaac was not alone. There were others who traveled with him.

  Kai was with him. Even though Kai was still sick, his power in Atlantia was still at its peak. Kai couldn't send his friends to their deaths when they were making such progress. As a human, wouldn't he be less than an animal if he let his friends die?

  Besides, Kai was not so weak this time. Even though he was still sick, he had been at the 2nd step for 6 months. And he had very strong abilities. What kind of abilities he had in those 6 months was a mystery. Even Emma didn't know exactly what Kai was doing behind closed doors.

  Isaac stepped down from the ramparts and looked at the few people who were getting ready to go out with him. They were getting ready underneath the walls. Ivan, Monari, Jace, Kai, Milah, Sarah, Isaac, Clara, Reina and Alvar. These 10 people were going on a hunt this time. In the past, the Agonizing Hunters had followed them to hunt them, but today was different.

  Today, they were going to hunt the hunters!