My Substitute CEO Bride (Nash Calicraft) novel Chapter 2552

“Damn it!”

“Whistler!” Aurora shouted.

“Don’t worry about me! Go get the master and the other seniors!” Whistler urged her.

Understanding what he meant, Aurora quickly sprinted toward the inner courtyard to seek help.

At that moment, Whistler caught a glimpse of Yellowhorn’s face.

“You… Who are you?”

“Dead men don’t need to know!” Yellowhorn sneered, summoning another array. This time, dark thunderclouds gathered above them, crackling ominously.

Whistler hastily erected a barrier while simultaneously gathering his own lightning true energy.

“Lightning!” Yellowhorn’s arm transformed into a mass of golden lightning energy.

“Thunder Palm!” Whistler roared, and his own lightning, bright and brilliant, surged forth.

In an instant, the two forces clashed violently. The golden lightning enveloped Whistler. Although his mastery of the lightning technique was advanced, it was not perfect.

“This old man’s lightning is bizarre…”

Traditionally, the lightning summoned by those from Hydra Hill should be bright and pure with a white brilliance, but Yellowhorn’s lightning was murky. This difference left Whistler’s techniques inferior in both weight and power.

Yellowhorn called forth lightning once more, cloaking his entire body in golden electricity.

Before Whistler could even react, Yellowhorn had appeared right beside him. A tremendous force struck him, and he was sent flying across the battlefield until he crashed into a wall. Only then did he regain his senses.

“This guy is so strong. This is a level of power beyond my reach… Am I… going to lose?”

A colossal lightning bolt struck down, leaving nothing but ashes on the ground. Yellowhorn was now convinced. “This is troublesome, indeed…”

Half a meter from the impact point, Whistler’s left shoulder had been grazed by the residual lightning, but he was otherwise unharmed.

“I guessed right.”

Just moments ago, he had foreseen his defeat by Yellowhorn’s lightning. In that vision of his own downfall, Whistler realized something crucial—this lightning was not pure lightning but something different driven by true energy.

This was why his Golden Light Barrier and thunder techniques could not match Yellowhorn’s power. The energy behaved as if it were alive, which prompted Whistler to make a bold attempt.

It was an all-or-nothing gamble.

If that energy could be considered a form of life, then it could also be influenced by his array.