60 Aryabhatta

The Clouds in the sky grew larger and darker, causing the surface of the sky to roll with massive waves. It was as if the entire sky were letting out a cry that rose beyond the Heavens.

A tempest grew in the sky, Sounds like explosions could be heard in all directions of the sky. Boundless lightning crackled and boomed, the wind roared as massive waves of dark black clouds rolled out in all directions.

Yui, Hakuun, Bearded old man along with the other attackers who were kowtowing and begging for mercy, Stopped and looked vacantly at the sky with their eyes wide open. Seeing the boundless lightning in the sky their mind was numb.

The Bearded Old Man stared at the Sky in amazement, then he became hysterical and began screaming " the legends were true!, the legends were true!!. "

Seeing the Hysterical old man, Yui and the rest were puzzled. They understood that the old man knew what was going on. They waited for the old man to calm down and explain to them.

After a few breaths feeling the gaze of his compatriots, the Old man controlled his feelings and returned to his calm and composed self.

Seeing the Curiosity in their eyes, the bearded old man knew what they wanted to know and not waiting for them to question him, he began to explain to them.

" Did you know that In the south east of the Continent there is a powerful scholar Aryabhatta who is well known for his weird theories and speculations. Few years back he became the joke of the continent when he put forward a theory that the world is not flat instead it is round.

years even before this he was ridiculed by the entire continent for another theory he came up with, in which he claimed that the current Super powers of the world are unable to break through into the next higher realm because they are being limited by the limitation placed by the world's will. According to him the strength of the world's will is divided into many tiers and the tier grade of world's will would decide the maximum realm the creature's in it can achieve.

The whole Continent laughed at him at that time but soon the superpower of the world came to him one by one asking him to elaborate on this theory of his.

Then the superpowers announced that Aryabhatta's theory was indeed true, it's not that they cannot breakthrough the next higher realm but something or the world world will itself is preventing them from preserving the next level."

" What does that have to do with this?"Yui asked impatiently.

The Bearded old man was annoyed by Yui's ignorance and explained " If my guess is not wrong, right now Sukehime should be trying to break the limitations of the world's will to break through to higher realm, angering the world will and attracting heavenly tribulation."

" What?! Why now? Did she not get weak due to old age?" Yui was startled, after all if you are going to break through then one would prepare to do it if they are at their peak.

" You cannot judge Sukehime sensei with the same standards as others, she is just that strong even if she is not at her peak she has enough confidence to face the heavenly tribulation."said Hakuun as he admired the beauty standing on a flaming dome.

Then he looked up at the boundless lightning dancing about up above like blue serpents. They interlocked, forming Tribulation Clouds. Hakuun could only pray for the success of his goddess.

A loud rumbling sound roared out from within the Tribulation clouds. At the same time, a blue lightning bolt shot down toward Sukehime.

Not just Sukehime but 34 different blue lightning bolts shot down towards the 34 attackers, Seeing the blue lightning heading toward them, they were distraught with fear and began to run for their lives.

But all their struggles were naughty, the blue lightning seemed to follow them with amazing speed. No matter what divine technique or ancient artifact they used for protection it did not matter they all turned to ashes in mere seconds.

As the blue lightning neared Sukehime, even more lightning bolts fused into it. By the time it was about thirty or so meters from Sukehime's head, it was as wide as an adult male's thigh. As the lightning roared toward her, it carried with it the awe-inspiring power of Heavenly Tribulation, a detached desire to exterminate the threat threatening their master.

Sukehime was not aware of the incoming Tribulation Lightning. Her complete attention was on refining the Curse inscription as fast as possible. Instantly, the killing force of the Heavenly Tribulation fell on the head of Sukehime but before hitting her it collided with the 108 thunder tempering array, there was no ripples on the 108 thunder tempering array as power of extermination of the lightning bolt collided with it a shocking boom filled the world. The thigh's-width sized lightning bolt instantly collapsed into countless arcs of electricity that scattered about into the array , the countless arcs of electricity were then devoured completely by the array and a layer of light blue shine appeared on the dome of the array.

The 108 Thunder tempering array completely covered the Sukehime and the nether flame dome below her. Therefore the nether flame dome was not affected by the heavenly tribulation.

The unsuccessful attack seemed to infuriate the World's will and the Heavenly Tribulation Clouds turned darker. The lightning and thunder crashed about in the sky. One blue lightning bolt after another began to form together and then fall down. This time, there were six bolts that descended. An ear splitting roar filled the air as the area for about 500 meters around Sukehime was transformed into a lake of lightning.

Each of the six blue beams of lightning contained enough power to eradicate the peak power of the Crying heaven world. As they fell down they once again collided the array and scattered.

Blue lightning danced around the Array, filling space around the array for several hundred meters in each direction. The Array in the middle of the lightning, its entire dome glowed with electrical light. The light quickly faded as the lightning was absorbed by the array, in the space of only a few breaths it was completely absorbed. As 6 layers of light blue shine layered upon the previous light blue shine on the dome of the array.

With each Light blue shine layer added to the array the defence of the array increased significantly. Although the lightning surrounding the array was incredibly powerful and out of the ordinary, it still was incapable of damaging it, despite the fact that the array had still only gained 7 layers of light blue shine. From the name of the array one could guess that there are 108 layers to the Thunder tampering array.

The array gently shook in joy, feeling the power of lightning that had fused into it.

Simultaneously, a massive sound like an enraged roar filled the sky. Nine lightning bolts merged together in the air up above. The Tribulation Clouds seethed and then began to pull back. Thunder boomed as the Nine lightning bolts began to fall.

These Nine lightning bolts were Dark blue, almost like bluish black. Then fell down with intense destructive power, causing enormous pressure to bear down on the array. The pressure didn't cause the array to crack. Instead, A huge boom echoed out as the nine lightning bolts slammed into the array. An explosion of lightning burst out for 500s of meters in every direction. The array was in the center of it all, meeting the full force of the Tribulation lightning head on. The array stood stable completely unharmed by the nine lightning bolts. They didn't even qualify to cause a small ripple on the array. After devouring the nine lightning bolts another 9 layers of light blue shine appeared on the dome of the array making it a total of 16 layers of light blue shine, with this the defence of the array was further strengthened.

The Heavenly Tribulation was controlled by World's will which was currently furious and with its furry the sound of thunder filled the air. This time, 16 blue lightning bolts appeared. They looked like 16 ferocious blue rain dragons as they crackled through the air toward the array.

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Due to the Continuous bombing of heavenly tribulation lightning a huge disturbance was created, hearing the disturbance from the outside the worry and carefree people could no longer sit calm, they grew concerned of what was happening outside especially Masako and James though it was for two different reasons.

Masako because Sukehime was her grandmother and last relative who cared for her therefore she did not want to see her grandma get hurt or killed.

James because he was hoping that both sukehime and the masters of the 13 allied families could kill each other in the battle which would be the best possible outcome for the team to survive and complete the Scenario main task.