The Hollow Avatar had told me that the tribulation was a test.
Well, I had done a lot of tests in my life, especially at the Academy, so I knew that tests could be studied and prepared for.
Pushing aside the horror of being taken apart by lightning, I was listening hard enough to know that the gold lightning was not random.
I don't know if there was any intelligence guiding it, but all I understood was that this lightning was precise. It struck the places where my Anima was fusing fastest, where I think my body was weakest.
The fusion was not only happening in my Anima Depth, since I learned that if I spread out my Anima all over my body, I could also endure more lightning strikes while giving my Anima time to fuse.
I mapped the strikes. The left side of my chest, the base of my spine, the hollow behind my left ear, the webbing between my right thumb and forefinger, the soft spot behind my knee.
