Kayn stopped joking.His gaze darkened, deep as the infinite abyss of space. His steel-sculpted muscles tensed. His legs burst into flames. His deep, dark aura grew denser, making him appear to be surrounded by fog.
He raised his fist and clenched it tightly, staring intently at the bastard.
"It's about time I crushed you a little, you bald bastard."
Kayn disappeared.
A faint blur of his figure remained on the rock where he had been standing.
The colossus's eyes widened. It looked to the side and saw him there. It was Kayn, flying toward it, charging with a powerful spinning kick.
To Nova, it looked like a masterful move.
Kayn spun in the air like a tornado right after propelling himself off the wall of one of the buildings at the large intersection.
'You really were the strongest on the team, after all,' he thought, and it almost hurt to admit it.
Kayn's leg connected with the colossus's face. A powerful explosion echoed: the impact of the kick, bones crunching, and the colossus's flesh breaking like rock, revealing cracks of active magma pulsing with incandescent light inside.
The Aberration was struck on the right side of its face. Its neck, almost non-existent, twisted horribly, causing its head to now face backwards. It fell onto the building behind it, breaking it and sinking into the shattered bricks.
The magma beneath its feet surged upward, splattering everywhere and setting nearby structures ablaze. There were screams from the Empaths who were almost burned, but they managed to move quickly enough between the rubble and the street to escape.
"It's not over yet," Kayn muttered as he landed on a sharp rock.
'Brace yourself, Kayn.'
Nova could already see what was coming next. A Category 5 was among the most serious threats an Empath could ever face. It took a large group of Seventh Level Empaths like Nova to even think about hurting one, as a Category 5 was capable of threatening an entire city with its mere presence.
'Here it comes!'
His skin crawled as he felt the dense, heavy fluctuation of energy emanating from the destroyed building. Nova frowned.
An Aberration was still an Aberration, after all.
The colossus rose like the undead without support. Something invisible lifted it from the ground as if it were just a puppet on strings. It adjusted its neck with both hands and began to laugh. Its laughter was eerie and guttural.
Muttering words that no one understood, the beast's eyes flashed. It was just meaningless babbling. Anyone who heard it up close would think it wasn't worth trying to understand.
Seeing Kayn freeze there like a fool, Nova frowned and shouted:
"Don't let him recover!"
His shout echoed through the streets. The information reached Kayn, and he couldn't hold back. He jumped again among the rubble and charged another powerful kick at the colossus. However, this time was different.
The colossus raised its hand with its palm facing up, simulating the claws of an animal. Kayn stopped dead in his tracks. An invisible energy enveloped him and lifted him into the air.
"Telekinesis?!" Kayn muttered.
It almost seemed like a joke, but it made sense. The bald bastard had lifted huge drops of magma without even touching them. It had to be telekinesis! That was the bane of any melee fighter.
Luckily for him, Abby was there to the rescue.
The girl, with dark green hair and matching eyes, had not yet finished extinguishing the magma inside the tornado, but seeing her leader in a predicament, she thought she could use this to her advantage.
Nova was also sharing his power with her to make it more effective. That was why Abby felt stronger than usual.
Serenity, and the Ecstasy branch in general, is characterized by the empowerment of Spectrums. However, Serenity has calming effects on emotions, in addition to having a default function. Even if it was only for a few brief moments and was almost imperceptible, Nova could feel other people's emotions.
'She is scared, but the expression on her face says something completely different.'
The slight feeling of fear, strange to Nova, covered a small part of his being. Although it was a very stupid contradiction, it was something he had known for a long time, like a soft familiar touch in the depths of his mind.
'Not much time has passed, but...'
It was nice to fight alongside his former faction mates. That made him smile a little.
Just a little.
Abby placed all control of the energy in her hands. She wasn't a warrior. She was a Support, just like Nova. You could tell from the way she dressed that she was not like those who fought on the front lines.
The energy enveloped her with warmth. It was like feeling the tender embrace of a mother who would help you in the worst situations.
With determination, she clenched her fist and the tornado turned into a large hammer, using the active magma that was cooling inside the tornado.
That hammer was huge and heavy, so heavy that Abby could barely move it with her energy control, but she still tried hard.
She swung her staff hard, pretending to have the hammer in her hands, and made the weapon of wind and active magma hit the colossus's head.
That was enough to stun the creature, whose head sank into its neck with a powerful crash. The dry magma flew through the air, hitting buildings and destroying walls.
That was enough to free the leader.
Kayn smiled furiously as he felt the force that had lifted him disappear. He landed nimbly on the rubble. He looked at the target, who was still standing with a broken neck, and with powerful jumps and kicks, he immediately besieged the colossus's body.
His fists filled with intense flames that exploded with each blow, his eyes showing a glimpse of sadistic pleasure every time blood and burnt flesh flew from the colossus's hideous body.
Is this what they call fire against fire? If that's how it works, it's quite effective.
The colossus's large belly bounced with each kick and punch, but so did the minced flesh, blood, and bone fragments that splattered across the floor with viscous, disgusting noises.
The Aberration's guttural, graceless screams of agony were deafening. Nova had to cover his ears, as did many of the other Empaths.
'Calm down already.'
This guy was going crazy because of his Spectrum, the Rage. Nova was going to do something about it, but in the meantime, Kayn laughed ecstatically. It seemed like the first time he enjoyed losing control of his Spectrum.