“A chicken can fly some distance if it really wants, but not every chicken can actually do it,” the leader said as the vaporous energy suffocated Gabe and also choked him. “If it wasn’t for your lightning ability, you’d already have become a roasted chicken.”Within seconds, the energy dominated Gabe and seemingly cooked him alive.The leader was waiting eagerly to take the lightning system from Gabe, but then a bolt of lightning rose from the earth and pierced through the vaporous energy all around Gabe, dispersing it and also energizing Gabe at the same time.The old man’s expression changed. “Did I feel things correctly? He managed to extract lightning from the earth? Earth can easily suck any amount of lightning into it, so how can a mere brat pull lightning energy out of the earth? How is that even possible? In my fifty years of fighting all kinds of battles, I’ve never experienced something like that.”Still and all, the leader began to smile.“It seems your system is a bit more

The leader raised his arm, and his spiked club came flying and landed in his hand. He infused it with a bluish flaming aura that released vapors so thick it looked like a mini cloud was forming high above that neighborhood.So much energy was being leaked from him.Seeing the potential danger Gabe’s lightning held, he wanted to end the fight as soon as possible and get away from here.He leaped forth and swung his spiked club with his whole body’s momentum and energy behind it. “Dragon Cracker!”It was an attack that once broke a dragon’s bones.Gabe sensed the incredible energy held in that attack, which he didn’t think he’d be able to block.His body released as much lightning as he could to his front while his feet pushed him backward and away from that old man.Thanks to this, he was able to make some distance and dodge a direct hit from the club, but the sheer shockwave from the swing of the club still released a tsunami of flames that traveled for miles and swallowed Gabe as wel

A minute earlier.Gabe fell down after taking Maccoy’s Earth Ender technique.“I only used thirty percent of my strength, but still, he managed to channel it through his body and send it to the earth,” Maccoy put the club on his shoulder and stared at Gabe whose eyes still had life in them. “Your body isn’t used to aura yet, so how come you were able to pull off such a crazy feat? Even my body wouldn’t have been able to reroute the energy in the manner that you did. This makes me want to know about your system all the more.”Maccoy released vivre in the shape of a hand and touched Gabe’s chest with it. “Soul Pull!”He tried to pull Gabe’s lifeforce out, expecting that it’d reveal his system as well.However, he was not able to pull Gabe’s life energy out.“Huh?” He tried again and again, but it didn’t work. “What’s going on? Why isn’t my vivre working?”This was the first time this ever happened to Maccoy so he was quite confused.“Just what kind of system does this brat have for it t

The eight squad captains gathered in Zack’s room once more.“He left a mark on Frida’s body? And he can sense it from afar? Sounds like a trap for me,” one captain opined. She was Wendy Cormen, a long-faced lady with an abnormally big nose ring.“I feel the same,” the fat-cheeked man voiced his mind. He was called Fatty Pensor.“We can’t trust some stranger. He might be luring us into a trap. We should interrogate him strictly, and then he’ll reveal his true face.”“Do you not trust my instincts, Pensor?” Zack uttered in a moderately cold voice.“U-Uh, I do, Commander,” Fatty Pensor nervously smiled. “But Young Lady Frida’s life is at stake here. We can’t afford to make even a tiny mistake.”“And we won’t,” Zack replied in an assured tone before unfolding a map. “From what that young man Gabe vaguely described… I think I already have an idea as to where Maccoy might be. It’s this place.”He put his finger on a group of mountains, and this got half the squad captains sweating.“T-The El