But now, it was Elric's turn to give the favor.

Though Elric's body has suffered a tremendous amount of damage from the last attack, fortunately, the overwhelming regenerative abilities were fast enough to keep Elric alive. Not to mention, his overflowing vitality gave him enough reserve to shock his enemy what a real Dragon with Ancestral essence can do.

"No! I must finish him!" Seeing the messy state that Elric is in, the bluish wisp knew that time is not on his side. 

Elric is currently unable to move properly because of his hole-riddled body. Nevertheless, the latter still managed to smile despite receiving the full brunt of his strongest attack. 

Without hesitation, the bluish wisp started to gather energy furiously, sucking fast every clouds and electrical energy nearby. Slowly his body started to crackle with powerful lightning while expanding at a tremendous state.

Sensing the changes in the environment and the pulsating energy from his enemy, Elric and Dash instinctively turned to look at the slowly-growing sparking orb at the sky.

BZZT~BZZZT~BZZZT!~

And true enough, the wisp is preparing for the second round of his strongest lightning attack. Dash swiftly moved to the front and was about to stop the wisp when he remember how futile his attacks are against the Lord of the Lightning elemental. 

"Elric! He is coming!" Dash hurriedly said beside Elric who'se body is regenerating quickly from the outrageous damage.

Elric, with the wounds in his faces now fixed, unhurriedly replied, "Calm down. It's all good friend!" 

"But his lightning attacks! It is coming! I don't know if I will be able to cover for you this time!"

"Relax. Just let me finish healing up a bit."

"But-"

Then suddenly, the echoing voice of the crackling bluish wisp came.

"ULTIMATE LIGHTNING! WANING FL"

"SOUL SHOCK!"

KRAKCKBOOOOOM!~

And like a blown tire, the bluish wisp exploded upon himself. The powerful channeling attack was easily countered by a powerful psychic and spiritual attack from Elric.

"AAAGHK! N-no! T-this can-n-not be!!!~"

Unfortunately, with the lightning energy backlash on itself, the bluish wisp immediately lost is overwhelming lightning reserve together with its ma.s.sive sparking size.

Judging from it's suffering voice, it was clearly not expecting a soul attack to suddenly a.s.sault him in the middle of channeling his spell.

Apparently, a simple soul shock is enough to interrupt and damage the proud Lord of the Lightning Elemental Realm. Dash on the other side have his beak open in dumbstruck on the second time.

"To be able to deal with the Lightning Lord that easy. I did not even see his attack in the first place! Just what did the Hugon kid do!?"

Dash remained awestruck as he glanced at Elric beside him who has now completely recovered and back in his human form - stretching peacefully.

"Your physical and elemental attacks are not effective on him because of his energy-based body. The only way to deal with that wisp is by another form of energy that has an affinity to physic powers."

Elric calmly explained as he continued stretching his arms, trying to pull on the newly recovered muscles and warming them up. Dash could only nod in response as Eric's explanation does makes sense after all.

"But how did you obtain that power? The last time I saw you, you are only half as awesome and legendary as I am!" Dash asked with a little complaining in his tone.

"It's a long family story. Bottom line is that I happen to have the blood of a powerful Spiritualist and manage to awaken it by the stroke of luck." Elric replied as they started walking towards the now faintly glowing wisp.

"Stroke of luck huh. I have some doubts about that." Dash mumbled in reply.

"I do not really know if its just a stroke of luck though. Lately, I realized that everything that has been happening has been because of me. The powers that I gain, they always have sacrificed in return. I lost my family, my old ident.i.ty, and even some new friends." Elric replied with a doubtful glare in his eyes that are currently locked on to the bluish wisp.

Elric is not dumb. Knew that everything that has been going on has always something to do to him. With every battle, he would grow stronger than the last time and reaching new heights in his evolution. 

What makes him scared of is his doubts about his himself. Everything is too good to be just coincidence.

It all started with lightning in the middle of the night. That time, Elric was facing the window and happens to see the Eastern Dragon dropping from the sky- glowing intensely caused by the Tribulation of light.

Then everything else that followed seems to have been carefully laid down for him. Every enemy and challenge that comes would force him to unlock new potentials and discover more about himself.

But it all leads to nothing but destruction. Blood and corpse of his friends and enemy would always be tailing him. And he is sick of it.

Just moments ago, he made the whole Dragon race knock to the door of extinction. A little bit more and he would have completely wiped all the Dragons out.

But if you think on a different perspective, what they were doing was just defending themselves. Perhaps they have gone a little bit too far but they were just basically beings trying to survive.

The world was at peace if you really think of it. The Dragons are, in a way, maintaining the balance of powers between the worlds, keeping it safe from the unauthorized and destructive dark spirituals and elementals. 

The Elementals on the other side lived peacefully on their own realm, and so goes for the other races. The Arkhans causing trouble for Guardians while the Ancient humans just minding their own business.

Some conflicts would arise from time to time, but not to the point of complete racial extermination.

But ever since Elric got hold of the Dragon's blood and power, the world was like a wheel finally picked up and shaken to the core. There was a bigger hand that was controlling everything.

"I never asked for this." Elric's eyes glared with coldness. He hated to be used. Like a puppet for someone else's ambition. He will make sure to end this.

All he wanted was just to live a simple life. There was nothing wrong with living as a simp for him.

After all, peace of mind is a priceless treasure that not many people will be able to appreciate until they lost it.

To live peacefully with his grandma, maybe find a wife later, make a family, and die old with a simple life. Of course, playing his favorite Dota from time to time would also spice his life a little.

All he wanted is peace. A peace that is long gone because of his stupid curiosity that night.

But the world seems to have a different path for him.

Surely, the world is not going to make an overwhelming powerful Dragon out of him if there is no reason to do so. It is just too much for a coincidence. No matter whoever or whatever is behind those curtains, Elric will make sure to go to the bottom of these.

He will find the true hands behind everything - the real enemy he needs to put down.

"Today, I will be finding out the truth from you."

Tuk~tuk~tuk~

THUD~THUD~THUD~

The now fainted bluish wisp was finally aware of the two tall creatures standing before it. From its ma.s.sive size, it is now only as small as a cute little marble.

"S-so the d-dog has finally come." Seeing Elric, the wisp forced an arrogant voice to mock him. 

Remembering something, Dash quickly said, "Hugon kid, I remember him saying something about the Great Seer Mhata... He claims that she is-"

Elric interrupted Dash as his hands suddenly blurred to grab the weakened wisp.

"I know. But there is only one thing to really find out." Elric said as he channeled a powerful spiritual energy to bound the-wisp in his palms. 

"L-let me g-go! Do you k-know w-who I am!? I am t-the Lord of the-"

"Shut up."

AAAGHGGK!~

With coldness in his eyes, Elric sent a weak spiritual shock towards the wisp and the latter was simply too weak to defend itself.

The wisp Lord of the Lightning Elemental Realm is truly an indestructible foe to those who could only use physical and elemental attacks. 

But against a powerful spiritualist, the bluish wisp is like a tiny fish in the strong hands of the fisherman. 

"My friend, I might need your protection again. I am going for a deeper soul scan this time. Can you protect me while I am in the middle of channeling?" Elric asked with serious eyes.

"No problem Hugon kid," Dash unhesitantly replied as it swiftly created an energy barrier to protect the both of them.

Seeing this, Elric smiled calmly before focusing on the weakened wisp trapped in his hands. 

"What are you doing? Are you going to do that Soul Memory scan on me!? Hahaha! Fool!" The wisp's voice laughed in mockery as Elric paid him no attention.

ZOOOOOM!~

Elric knew better now. The memories can be modified using a spiritual spell. And he just happens to know now what to do.

Inside the soul's memory of this wisp, Elric could feel the truth just waiving to him.