After Dario and Gladiia walked up to the lighthouse, only Kanna and Dahlia were left below.
Of course, they didn't abandon Kanna; they simply believed that given the current strength displayed by the Seaborn, they posed no threat to Kanna whatsoever.
"Let's go clean up the area. The seaborn trace spreads too quickly in the sea."
If the spread of the seaborn trace on land was acceptable, then beneath this lighthouse, the path that had just been cleared by the Grand Inquisitor was now covered in seaborn trace again. Connected to the sea, they were endless, and any minor damage could be easily replenished.
Standing on the seaborn trace, Kanna twirled her fingers, and lightning gathered into electric orbs. After detaching from Kanna's fingertips, the electric orbs floated to the surrounding open spaces and then exploded in a ring shape. Each exploding electric orb could turn all seaborn trace within a five-meter radius into charcoal.
"Kanna, amazing. I, must, work harder!" Just as Kanna was rapidly throwing electric orbs to clear the surrounding seaborn trace, a somewhat ethereal voice of a young girl came from beside her.
Turning her head, she saw only Dahlia, transformed into a water slime, rolling like a water ball on the ground beside her. Wherever she passed, the seaborn trace instantly dried up, turning into a pile of dust. This was, of course, due to her having drained the water from the seaborn trace.
"Oh, you've learned to speak!" Since there was no one else here, Kanna naturally knew it was Dahlia speaking. Hearing her speak again, although the voice was different from the girl she had heard before, it was already a very significant improvement.
"Hmm! But, speaking, very slow… Kal'tsit… Doctor… said… need… more practice."
It was evident that Dahlia had only just learned this method of "speaking" by utilizing water resonance within her body, and her speech was somewhat slow.
"It's already very good. Practice a bit more, and when you get used to it, your speech will be fluent. By the way, does Ifrit know?" For Dahlia being able to speak again, Ifrit would undoubtedly be the happiest to know.
"Not yet, tell her, later, surprise."
It turned out that after Sal Viento, Dahlia had already been able to communicate intermittently under Kal'tsit's guidance, but she wanted to give Ifrit a surprise after she could "speak" fluently. However, her own surprise wasn't ready yet, and Ifrit's arrival had given her a big surprise instead.
"Hmm, I see. Then you'll have to prepare well." Hearing Dahlia's words, Kanna nodded.
Suddenly, she saw some new Seaborn rising from the seabed not far away. These Seaborn looked like conch shells.
Kanna was prepared for the Seaborn's reappearance, so as soon as they stepped onto the reef, several bolts of lightning struck them directly.
In just one second, they were again reduced to charcoal.
However, although the damage caused hadn't changed, Kanna felt a hint of obscurity from it. She frowned at the Seaborn. "Dahlia, help me catch a live one."
Hearing Kanna's words, the water slime beside her transformed into a seabird and swooped towards the Seaborn. Before the Seaborn could react, the "seabird's" claws gripped its shell, lifting a conch Seaborn into the air and flying back.
Kanna just lifted her foot, and the conch was firmly pinned beneath it. She carefully observed the shell on its back, then suddenly extended a finger and flicked the very tip of the apex.
The top part of the shell was easily flicked off with that single motion. Looking inside, she found the shell filled with a gelatinous substance.
"Is something wrong?" Skadi, who had just come down, asked when she saw the Seaborn under Kanna's foot.
"Nothing, it's just that these Seaborn are indeed evolving, but unfortunately, the quantity isn't enough, or rather, their evolution is useless," Kanna shook her head.
"Can you tell us about it?" At this point, everyone had come down, and it seemed the matter upstairs was concluded. Dario continued to ask after hearing Kanna's words. He had also heard about the evolution of the Seaborn from the surrounding Abyssal Hunters, but he had never witnessed it firsthand.
"In terms of strength, these Seaborn are similar to those previous trash, but they just have an extra shell.
Look, this shell is divided into two layers, inner and outer. The outer layer is composed of a very thin shell, and between the inner and outer layers is a thick layer of biological gel.
I just tried it; this biological gel has relatively good resistance to ordinary lightning.
That is to say, these shelled Seaborn are specialized creatures specifically designed to counter me and other lightning Originium Arts users."
As Kanna spoke, she calmly dissected the Seaborn's shell in front of everyone, then with a flash of electricity in her hand, the Seaborn was once again reduced to charcoal.
"But it seems you haven't been affected," Gladiia looked up at the sea. Lightning continued to fall from the void, and the Seaborn struck by it still turned into piles of dark black things.
"That's for sure. To be honest, if their targeted evolution were against ordinary Originium Arts users with ordinary lightning, they might have succeeded. Unfortunately, I am neither an ordinary Originium Arts user, nor is my lightning ordinary lightning."
During her previous conversation with Nian, Kanna had learned from her that her lightning, when combined with the effect of the Evil Star Eye, was no longer merely pure lightning.
Nian said that Kanna's Evil Star Eye was a very miraculous Originium Arts. In this Originium Arts, lightning would be imbued with the power of judgment. Good and evil should originally be determined by rules, but Kanna was different. In this Originium Arts, she replaced the rules. At Kanna's whim, whether the opponent was good or evil was decided by Kanna.
For those Kanna deemed "good," this power of judgment would not manifest. But if Kanna identified someone as an enemy, the lightning, upon contact with the opponent, would first inflict an evil "punishment." This "punishment" would allow the lightning to ignore all of the opponent's defenses.
The Seaborn could only resist Kanna's lightning in one way: by not being deemed an enemy by Kanna. Otherwise, whether they tried to shield themselves with external armor or activate their body's resistance to reduce the lightning's power, it would all be in vain.
The hint of obscurity Kanna felt was because the lightning was not directly introduced into the Seaborn's body, but rather, it was transformed into "true damage" through the power of "judgment."
It was also Nian's reminder that Kanna discovered this effect.
The reason she hadn't noticed it before was because her firepower was too intense. After learning this move, none of the enemies she faced could withstand her attacks, so Kanna hadn't realized that the Thunder Punishment Evil Star Eye Originium Arts had such a powerful passive effect.
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