Crackle—!!
Vividly blue. Or, at a glance, white.
The sensation of qi lightly coiling in her eyes and wafting out. The faint tingle that made my body prickle was a power I knew all too well.
‘That’s Thunder Qi.’
A form of qi modeled after lightning. A branch of Thunder Qi. And that one, in particular—
‘…the Namgung family’s Thunder Qi.’
It was the Namgung clan’s Thunder Qi, said to have been devised in emulation of the thunder of the azure heavens. For a moment I wondered if I was mistaken, but there’s no way I would be.
‘I’ve seen it countless times.’
I’d seen it plenty from Namgung Bi-ah. Even aside from that—
‘Recently, while watching the Heavenly Venerable. And—’
I’d felt it while handling the Thunder Bud. The records etched into my body told me this was no mistake.
That was the Namgung clan’s Thunder Qi.
The problem was—
‘Why Hyeon So-yeon?’
How did she have that Thunder Qi housed in her…