As he shot from the Storage Space he cursed the system for its inability to place him directly on the ground instead of shooting him out at high speeds. As crawled from the crater he formed from impact he slowly shook his body as a set of two wings unfolded themselves. A gust shot out into the surroundings and blew away the debris leaving him shocked.
'I really have this power? Amazing!'
He looked at the clouds above him. 'Thought whats up with the sky?'
[Those are tribulation clouds.]
His Compound eyes seemed to have widened. He knew what they were from the knowledge the system had given him. In a lot of stories about becoming an immortal one would be struck by the heavens as the path to an immortal was seen as going against the heavens. But how did he manage to incur heavens wrath? And more importantly it was true?
'How did I manage to make the heavens want to smite me?'
[Using the system. Although we are merely a supplementary device for Host to use the System itself-*&****#@$#@$??@#$... The system defies the laws that define this evolutionary period.]
'Are you okay?'
[The system cannot be injured.]
'God you take everything literally. what was up with the static that happened?'
When the system was going to explain itself a sudden blaring static occured before it said that it defied the laws which startled him.
[The system cannot answer.]
'Ok, we'll go past that then. That lightning is just swirling isn't it supposed to strike me?'
As he looked up he could see that the sky looked like a world of lightning. It truly confused him, if it was supposed to hit him why was it just swirling in sky.
[Those who invoke tribulations have offended the Heavens but although it is offended it is still fair. It will allow the offender a chance to protect itself as best as it can before striking.]
'So I have to protect myself as best as I can?'
[Yes.]
'Do I have anything to do that with? All I have is my body?'
[Host has unlocked a new tree in the system called 'Abilities' there it lists Hosts current Active and Passive abilities.]
'Show them to me.'
A screen flickered in his vision. It had 7 skills, three of them being active while four were passive.
[Active]
[Venom Breath LVL 1]
{Damage is influenced by current Intelligence.}
[Poison Coating LVL 1]
{Doubles Constitution for one minute}
{Increases poison resistance for 10 minutes}
{Cooldown: 1 hour}
[Poison Spit LVL 1]
{Corrosiveness and Poison duration are influenced by Vigor.}
[Passive]
[Armored Skin LVL 1]
{Resistance is influenced by current Constitution}
{Weaknesses will be influenced by Vigor}
[Negative Afflictions Resistance LVL 1]
{Resistance is influenced by Vigor.}
[Flight LVL 1]
{Flight speed is influenced by Agility and Strength.}
[One Who Defies The Heavens LVL MAX]
{Strength of Tribulation will be factored from all current stats and abilities.}
'Everything is okay except for the last passive. Seriously, I wasn't even trying to incur the wrath of the heavens anyway.'
He grumbled to himself as he looked at its description. He was stifled because of that description, did it really have to be at every major level boundary? Besides wasn't he only level 2?
[Host is currently level 5.]
'When did I become level 5?'
[In order to contain the energy within Hosts body the system devoted energy to you from its own energy store in order to level Host up to five.]
'So basically in order to stop me from dying from the energy that the dragon contained you had to increase my level from your own "Experience" storage?'
[Host is correct.]
'Do I need to pay that back in anyway?'
[Host will need to give an adequate amount of experience to the system in order for it to be considered repaid.]
He clicked his tongue and stared silently at the sky. He activated [Poison Coating] before he let out a roar that shook the surroundings. The lightning intensified and the swirling became more intense as it slowly condensed above him. A light lit up the sky as a thunderous crashing sound was heard, he was immediately covered in a violet light that covered his entire body.
Blood pooled in his mouth and slowly leaked outward as he felt the lightning hit his body. It was like an unchained beast was released in his body as the lightning wreaked havoc in his body. It flowed along his veins causing ruptures, once it reached his heart a sharp pain flooded his body as it spread towards the rest of his body.
As the thunder recklessly traveled through his body he could hear blaring alarms within his mind. The sound was the only thing keeping his conscious as of now. They were coming from the system to warn him of his injuries. He brushed the alarms to the side as he focused on his body.
The lightning was slowly getting weaker and weaker as it traveled through his organs causing as much damage as possible. He then noticed where the lightning was flowing towards and screamed inwardly.
'Fuck! If that reaches my brain I'm screwed!'
His brain was the easiest thing to injure in his body as he didnt know a good way to protect it. All he could do was hope that his skull would grow thicker so that it would protect against outside impacts but the inside was different.
'Thought, how can I protect my brain from this?'
[Form a barrier around the brain.]
As the lightning got closer he got quicker with his words and cut the sentence he was going to say down to a word. 'How!?'
[The system cannot help Host with affairs such as these.]
'FUCK!'
He quickly looked over his abilities and noticed the description of the [Poison Coating] skill. It used a mucus membrane that had a poison injected into it. It was that same with hid breath, he could make a gas that allowed him to breath a poison so why not do it to from a barrier?
He quickly used all the energy his body could muster in its near ruined state and used it to try and form a membrane around his brain. As if to answer his call a deep purple sphere appeared around his brain that formed just in time to catch the tyrannical lighting.
'Yes!'
He observed the sphere around his brain with glee but it quickly faded to horror as a crack appeared on the sphere. He forced all the energy he could into the sphere while a furious roar escaped his body. The sphere quickly healed itself but then cracked once more and the crack only got larger. He could only watch in abstract horror as the lightning shattered his barrier and went straight for his brain.
While he closed his eyes and waited for his death he felt a small tingle throughout his body as it struck his brain. He then glanced at his brain once more, the lightning he had feared would kill him had become nothing more than a small spark.
Laughing to himself the clouds above dispersed and a ray of light hit his body. He felt as if all the energy in his body was replenished and his injuries healed. He nearly jumped in his joy before realising the repercussion that could cause with his current size.
'I'm finally safe! Thought, what was that ray of light I was hit by?'
[After one survives a Tribulation the Heavens will the survivor so they won't die instantly. Although this could be seen unfair in some ways it is to keep them alive at least for another second so that they may have another chance to survive until the next Tribulation.]
'So what you're saying is that the Heavens are a sadist?'
A chill ran through his pine as he thought of that. He shook his head to get rid of the thought of it and looked around. He was in a giant crater that was around 30 meters wide and at least 60 meters deep. On the very edge to the west of him was a group of four that had very shocked expression on their faces.