Universal Power System

"I AM NOT DONE WITH YOU!" a loud voice echoed throughout the room, sending chills down everybody's necks except Angela.

The source of this terrifying voice was the hole in the wall shaped in the size of a human and this was where Angela smashed into Victor.

A blinding ray of light released from the whole which caused slight burning when Mako laid his eyes on it.

Moments later, Victor smashed himself out of the hole he was embedded into with his wind ability still keeping him afloat; however, this time he wasn't just using the wind ability as Victor's very skin started to glow.

At first, Mako thought that Victor had the light ability. One of the two superior elemental abilities that were far rarer than the regular five elemental abilities and even the advanced elemental abilities that are produced from the resonance of two or more regular elemental abilities.

Since Angela had the shadow ability which was already quite a high-tier ability ranking itself as a B-tier ability, Mako was confident in them clearing out the hidden base and rescuing his friends, but now that he came to the realization that Victor also possessed an ability of the same caliber, one that completely countered Angela's ability, Mako suddenly didn't feel so confident.

Mako and Leon didn't want to make the same mistake their opponents made by pausing their battle and diverting their attention, allowing them to launch a strong sneak attack on you, so they continued to keep the pressure on Boris and Sergei, hoping to finish them off as soon as possible. They trusted that Angela would be able to deal with whatever new Victor had just revealed or at least stall long enough for them to join the fight and aid her.

They continued on with their assault with Boris struggling to keep up with Leon's insane speed as he ran circles around him while simultaneously delivering many hardened punches all over his body.

Sergei was in an even more difficult position as he had suffered some serious damage from Mako's devastating sneak attack which resulted in him not being able to use one of his arms completely.

Despite that Sergei still managed to stand before Mako could launch another attack with his only resort now was to take him out by spamming as many elemental ability skills as it would take to finally defeat him.

However, Sergei's elemental attacks were too slow for Mako who continuously refreshed his sprint ability to maintain a high level of agility that was about 15% slower than Leon's current speed.

Mako carefully maneuvered around rising earth spikes and pillars of fire. He dodged the wind blades with ease and was barely affected by the lightning strikes as his lightning ability level was higher than Sergei's.

On the other side, Boris was on the brink of defeat as his entire body ached and had become purple from the bruises that the thousands of Leon's punches had inflicted on him. With the time limit for his leg armor's active skill nearing his end, Leon also wasted to end this fight quickly such that his opponents wouldn't find an opening to counter him.

After landing a couple more quick punches, Leon dashed away from a very dazed Boris who could barely stand, and sprinted forward with his fist erupting in flames and tensing up thanks to his hardening ability.

Simultaneously, Mako had also closed the distance between him and Sergei again as he continued to make a fool out of Sergei who was firing away any and all ability to try and keep Mako away from, but failing to do so quite spectacularly.

*SMACK!* *BOOM!*

Leon landed a clean uppercut on Boris's chin, sealing the deal as he launched him several feet up in the air. He landed on the ground with a big thud and Leon knew he would be getting back up anytime soon. Coincidentally, his leg armor stopped glowing blue as the time limit for the active skill had expired and now he was back to his regular speed which was still faster than his old self.

On the other side, Mako had wrapped his fist in arcs of lightning as he delivered a crisp right hook on Sergei's face which erupted in sparks upon collision. Sergei's face got blasted back straight into the pile of boxes that were right behind him with blood spraying everywhere.

Mako was worried that he might have just killed the guy but Analyze showed that he was still alive but his HP was in the red zone which meant that he too was out of this fight for good.

The two were finally able to take a break and rest for a bit as they recovered some of their stamina and energy. Both were almost out of energy and couldn't last through an entire fight anymore, but they still didn't give up as they wanted to provide what little assistance they could to help aid Angela in her tough battle.

They both turned towards where Angela was battling Victor and his bodyguards and things weren't looking the best as there was a clear boundary built between them with dark mist enveloping the whole left area but couldn't cross past a certain boundary because of the light that was being emitted from Victor's skin making him virtually untouchable by Angela.

The three bodyguards were feeling more powerful than ever basking in the light that was being released from their bosses as they launched multiple skills toward Andgela's misty figure in the darkness with her not being able to do anything but simply dodge while thinking of a counter to this trouble skill as any attempt to attack with any of her elemental abilities including fire were rendered useless.

She could exit out of her misty form or else she would have to face 4 decent fighters on her own with her being unable to use two of her strongest abilities, but it looked like soon she would have no choice as the light wasn't just repelling her.

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The situation looked dire and if Angela didn't find a solution quickly, one of those elemental abilities would eventually hit her, reducing her chances of winning further.

Mako, who was observing all of this knew that at a time like this, the worst thing a person could do was to panic and run in to help without a gameplan.

Leon was thinking along the same lines as Mako as he was also calm. He knew that in moments like these Mako shined the brightest with his clever mind being able to deduce key points that could be used to turn the tables on their enemies so he simply focused on recovering energy for now while he waited for Mako to come up with something.

Thanks to all those points in mentality and Intelligence, Mako was great at finding weaknesses or vulnerable spots in his enemy. 

After staring at Victor for a few moments who was manically laughing at the hissing noise the misty form of Angela was making whenever it got too close to the light. He was slowly advancing forward using his jet streams that he was using to keep himself afloat in the air.

However, Mako did notice something that was quite odd and potentially a clue which was the fact that Victor hadn't moved from his stance ever since he had escaped from the hole Angela put him in and even now, he isn't using his sniper rifle to shoot Angela alongside his bodyguards to end her quicker.

'It's almost like he CAN'T move' Mako thought. 'Huh? Could it be?!'

Mako suddenly got hit with the realization that maybe his maintaining that pose was the key to maintaining the light that was emanating from his skin.

'If that is true then he doesn't possess the Light ability. There is a different source for the use of this skill,' Mako theorized.

Looking around Mako couldn't find anything that could be linked to Victor using it to make his skin glow, but just then his eyes fell on the weapon that he was holding in his arms, his trusty sniper rifle.

The rifle had a weird shape for the chamber as it wasn't a straight barrel, but instead, the middle of the chamber was quite wider in diameter with a white crystal inside that was currently... glowing.

"IT'S THE RIFLE!" Mako shouted at the top of his lungs as he finally cracked the code. "The light is just the weapon's active ability! GET RID OF THE WEAPON, HE IS WEAK WITHOUT IT!"

Mako's guess was spot on as the expression change on Victor's face said it all.

Most power weapons had some sort of crystal embedded into their design which represented the crystal from which it was formed. 

Mako's Storm Caller Staff had a big crystal on top and the same held true for his combat blade that he had given to Erin which had a tiny crystal at the hilt of the blade.

These crystals would glow whenever an active ability was activated and since the crystal was glowing in the same color as the glow of Victor's skin, it wasn't hard to match the dots together.

"Вы трое! Забудь о ней! Убей этих двух ублюдков!" Victor angrily shouted at his bodyguards who quickly changed their targets leaving Victor alone to deal with Angela. (Translation: You three! Forget about her! Kill these two bastards!)