However…
This was Ethan's Annihilation Tribulation.
These runes were fragments of the heavenly law itself. If the tribulation was defeated, they should have dissipated back into the world, reclaimed by the Path of Ethereal.
But Ethan had subjugated the Dragon of Consumption and stolen its primordial ability to Devour. Without it, he'd have had no way to wrest these thunder runes from the heavens themselves.
So, gritting his teeth against the agony and the fog of exhaustion clouding his mind, he continued his frantic harvest.
Suddenly, his face contorted. He vomited a great mouthful of blood, then another, and another. Inside his Energy Core, the previously docile sphere of lightning was expanding violently. Its rampaging power slammed against the confines of his body, threatening to tear him apart from the inside.
