In the rear, support Empaths healed the wounded and empowered their companions' Spectrums. Altogether, about twenty Empaths were engaged in the fight against the Aberration.
Suddenly, a guttural roar tore through the air. The colossus was not going to give up easily.
It forced itself up from the ground, as if an invisible force had seized its shoulders and dragged it upright. As its feet touched the ground, its white eyes glowed with intense power. Its small head turned toward the commander on the battlefield and smiled sinisterly, its mouth splitting open to reveal four grotesquely protruding fangs.
"Ahskha Ashujiala Thriosha do Cuarime!" roared the colossus.
"You're not going to scare me with your meaningless babbling, you bald freak."
The man smiled defiantly and prepared himself. He took off his jacket and threw it in the face of one of the Empaths behind him.
At that moment, Nova arrived, jumping from the top of a building almost twenty meters high. His blurred figure in the night caught the giant's eye, who reached out his hand with the intention of catching him. And he wasn't the only one— the handsome man raised an eyebrow, clearly impressed by Nova's entrance.
'Sure, you're big… let's see if you're smart too.'
As he fell, Nova smiled slightly.
He took a couple of seeds out of his pocket and threw them at the colossus's hand.
He stretched out his hands and focused on the beast between his fingers as if he had a camera. Then his smile vanished, replaced by a coldness sharp enough to freeze an ocean. The faint glow of his amber eyes was accompanied by the radiance of his golden aura, as the Spectrum of Serenity activated.
A fraction of a second later, Nova said:
"Rasténiye."
The seeds glowed golden for a moment with a soft crackle and exploded into branches and leaves that grew rapidly. The colossus's hand became entangled in roots and branches, as if squid tentacles were strangling it.
All the roots grew to a large size, stretching out, covering the entire arm of the colossus and digging into the ground. As expected of an Aberration whose body has an intense temperature, the branches quickly burst into flames.
That gave Nova a clear landing path, and he slid down the branches before they were consumed by the flames. The soles of his boots spat smoke on contact due to the colossus's temperature.
He took a leap before falling onto the magma floor, landing on solid ground, rolling to cushion his fall, and skidding with his boots next to the handsome guy who was giving orders to the others.
"I'm here, Kayn."
Kayn, the name of the handsome, silver-haired guy who had taken off his jacket, suddenly laughed, causing Nova to look at him in confusion.
"Damn... You sure know how to make an entrance."
"Yeah. Sure."
Nova rolled his eyes.
'This guy had always been so eloquent.'
Without waiting for greetings or introductions, Kayn pointed at the beast.
"There's no time to talk. Get ready, because this is something you'll remember for the rest of your life!"
Kayn clenched his fists tightly, and a fervent energy covered his arms. Nova already knew what he had to do. He spread his arms and looked at the handsome guy.
'My plants won't do anything to that monster. All I can do is this.'
The colossus had freed itself from the branches some time ago and was already trying to crush the other Empaths. It was like watching a volcano with legs tear through the city.
The destruction it left in its wake was horrific. Dozens of houses had been melted. Flames were beginning to consume the vines and plants on the block. The places it passed through resulted in a long line of magma and fire opening up in the earth.
'This monster… it had ruined countless lives.'
He frowned, but he wasn't angry. He needed to focus on empowering Kayn's Spectrum. A good support stays quiet and makes the strong stronger. If you can't do that, you're not fit to be support.
Kayn then became enveloped in the mysterious energy that fills the veins of the world. He flashed a psychotic smile. His eyes turned crimson, bloodshot with veins bursting beneath them. His muscles swelled and the veins on his forehead became quite pronounced.
Even his hair turned black as the red aura of his Spectrum covered him.
"Are you ready?" Kayn said, with a sigh that let out a small cloud of steam.
The colossus roared. It stomped the ground with all its might and lunged forward. Debris rose around it thanks to its mystical powers, the same powers that had lifted it off the ground earlier, enveloping everything in a strange, heavy aura.
The colossus stood ten meters tall—massive and heavy, but seemed to run at over forty kilometers per hour without any difficulty.
Fortunately, this is a spacious place, with a large intersection of seven wide roads stretching between the buildings.
"Here I come!"
Kayn shouted at the top of his lungs, jumping towards the colossus.
Nova's hands trembled for a moment as Kayn and the colossus clashed fists for the first time, but he managed to regain his balance.
A clash between beings of abysmal strength always comes with consequences. The ground shook and the asphalt, previously melted by the colossus, broke into large fragments.
Nova knelt on the ground for more stability.
'How difficult it is to empower people stronger than me.'
He felt energy flowing through every tiny particle of his body. His veins flooded with power. That power flowed out of his hands and traveled through the air like a gentle spring breeze. That breeze caressed Kayn, and in an instant, his red aura exploded, pushing the colossus back a few inches.
'Now you have twice your strength. Make it count.'
Although he said that to himself, he knew Kayn would not waste this opportunity.
Before Nova's eyes, an image from three years ago overlapped with the present. He saw Kayn alongside other people in the form of dark silhouettes in front of a strange dead reptile. Among those people was Miyu.
Kayn jumped back after the first blow. The colossus smiled smugly. And he wasn't the only one.
"What's the matter, big guy? Scared?"
'Stop showing off, you jerk. Just kill him already!' Nova thought, wanting to say it to Kayn's face.
The colossus raised its dominant hand, and the debris that had been floating near it was crushed. Enough time had passed for the rock to melt.
It was time to counterattack.
Kayn and Nova realized this at the same time.
"Shit! We need cover!"
He looked around. His gaze met that of the girl in the pointed hat. He reached out his hand to her and extended his Serenity so that the girl's Spectrum would increase its effectiveness.
A loud thud sounded at the same time. Nova turned his attention back to Kayn, who struck the colossus in the face with a powerful uppercut.
The colossus staggered back, but did not give up. It lifted the debris with its mysterious invisible powers, and the magma balls that had previously been debris fell everywhere.
"I won't let you do that!"
The girl in the hat raised her staff. The winds obeyed her and formed a powerful blizzard that grabbed all the magma and spun it in the sky.
'Nice! We're saved!'
If it weren't for Nova's empowerment, everyone would have really turned into burnt flesh.
From one of the most prominent pieces of debris on the scene, Kayn's gaze turned grim.
"Hey... Did you just try to kill my team?"
His voice was much more serious than before. The brutal and inevitable act of killing humans failed for the colossus. That provoked Kayn's Fury.
'Now you're going to stop clowning around, right?'
Nova frowned, preparing himself.