In the sed, aromagic beam shot forward, so fast that all anyone could see was the blinding golden light. It tore through the air, rocks, and everything else in its path before anyone could eve.

  The result? A straight line of ten vilins, all left stuheir clothes singed and smoking, with the shockwave knog them off their feet.

  For a moment, the world went silent. The atmosphere dropped to freezing point as both the remaining vilins and Kaminari's cssmates, Momo and Kyoka stared in shock. The golden afterglow from the bst lingered in the air, making the se all the more intimidating.

  "Ding—"

  Kaminari stood with a cold expression, looking at the vilins, whose faces were now painted with fear. Slowly, he pulled another from his pocket and poi at anroup of vilins in a different dire.

  "If you want to test your luck, step forward," Kaminari said, his voice id trolled.

  The vilins, drenched i, didn't dare move. They hadn't expected a teeo be this powerful. Their eyes flickered nervously between Kaminari and the ten unscious bodies lying on the ground, all with their chests scorched and smoking, as if they'd been struck by an explosive force.

  "Momo, make me fifty steel balls, now," Kaminari anded, his gaze not leaving the vilins.

  "Huh?" Momo snapped out of her daze, startled by the request. "ht! I'm on it!"

  Though she hurried to produce the steel balls, she and Kyoka couldn't help but g Kaminari's back. The golden characters embroidered on his robe seemed to shimmer in the wind, and for the first time, they both uood what it meant for Kaminari to call himself the "First Raikage."

  Before they could process their thoughts further, a gruff voice broke the silence.

  "That move he just used… it only be done once, and only in one dire!"

  The vilins stirred uneasily. One of them had spoken up, challenging the others with his assumption.

  But the rest of the vilins were far from vinced. "You think we're idiots?" one of them spat, gring at the speaker. "You don't even know for sure! You're just guessing! And you expect us to gamble our lives on that?"

  Even if the assumption was correct, that Kaminari could only atta one dire, no one wao be the unlucky target. One wrong move, and they'd end up like the ten corpses at their feet.

  The speaker's words might have held some sway, but physically, no one dared to step forward. Their fear alpable, ae the tension, not a single vilin made a move.

  "Where are you hiding?" Kaminari thought, sing the surroundings for the source of the voice. Whoever eaking was smart—dangerous, even—and that made them a priority.

  But before he could locate the source, the voice rang out again, this time filled with disdain and frustration.

  "Have you all fotten the gift the BOSS gave us?!"

  The surrounding viliated, visibly torn. Some of them wavered, but ultimately, no oook a. Whatever "gift" the voice was referring to, it wasn't enough to override their fear of Kaminari.

  Suddenly, the grouh Kaminari cracked open with a loud *ch*, and two powerful arms burst out from the earth, grabbing onto his legs.

  "Kaminari!" Momo and Kyoka screamed in unison, panic fshing across their faces.

  A vilin, hiddeh the ground, had struck. His hands, now cmped around Kaminari's legs, crackled with a surge of electricity.

  "You fot the gift, but I haven't!" the vilin growled, his voice filled with hatred. "You're finished, kid!"

  But instead of panig, Kaminari's face broke into a grin.

  "Why is he smiling?" a nearby vilin murmured, his eyes wide with disbelief.

  "He's… ughing!" another one excimed, horrified by what he was witnessing.

  Indeed, Kaminari was ughing. Even as the electricity from the vilin's hands surged through him, Kaminari barely flinched. He looked down at the vilin's hands and chuckled.

  "Ah, the level differeween us really is big—especially when it es to Quirks…" Kaminari smirked.

  The lightning c through him was absorbed into his body with ease. His Quirk perfect for dealing with aricity-based attack allowed him to take in the current like it was nothing. In fact, it was recharging him.

  "Thanks for the charge," Kaminari said, his voice low and dangerous. "But now, it's time for you to disappear."

  With a crack of electricity, Kaminari released a massive surge of golden lightning into the vilin's arms. The current traveled straight down to the masked figure still hiddeh the ground.

  "Impossible… my level—" the vilin's voice broke into a blood-curdling scream.

  For five long seds, the vilin vulsed, his body uo withstand the intense shock. His wails echoed across the battlefield until, finally, he passed out, his body limp.

  "How pathetic," Kaminari said, stepping over the vilin's unscious form. "You thought you were something, but you're just a ckey."

  He tinued walking forward, his eyes sing the remaining vilins. They had pletely lost their fighting spirit.

  "Momo, how's it going?" Kaminari called back without looking.

  "All done!" Momo shouted, throwing a small white bag toward him. Kaminari caught it mid-air, quickly cheg the tents.

  "Perfect," he muttered, eyeing the dozens of steel balls inside. He then looked up, log eyes with the remaining vilins. A devilish grin spread across his face.

  "Now… it's your turn," he said, his voice ced with anticipation. "Don't worry. You won't die… probably."

  With a powerful twist of his waist, Kaminari spun in pce. As he did, he sent a small jolt of electricity into the steel balls, charging them with a crag energy. In one smooth motion, he hurled all fifty steel balls into the air, scattering them in every dire.

  "Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!"

  The steel balls spread out, nding behind or beside the surrounding vilins. Some of them looked down in fusion, sensing that something was wrong. They started to move, but it was too te.

  " Lightning. Three huhousand volts!"

  Kaminari unleashed a torrent of electricity, more powerful than anything he had used before. The energy surged from his body, arg toward the charged steel balls. The balls acted as duits, spreading the electric current outward in all dires.

  "Crack—crack—crack!"

  "Ahhh!!"

  The lightning tore through the battlefield, eg each steel ball like a web of electrical fury. The vilins caught within the circle screamed as the current surged through their bodies, their muscles spasming untrolbly.

  In an instant, the entire area within a twenty-meter radius was engulfed in golden light. Dozens of bodies fell to the ground, twitg as they were overwhelmed by the sheer voltage.

  Kaminari stood at the ter of the storm, his hair crag with leftover electricity. His pn had worked perfectly.

  He turned back toward Momo and Kyoka, who stood in awe.

  "It's over…" he said quietly, watg as the st of the vilins colpsed into unsciousness.