Universal Power System

Chapter 273 The Final Showdown (Part 1)

As Victor Voss and his henchmen entered the chamber, a heavy silence descended upon the room, broken only by the occasional pained moans of the two incapacitated gang members who had fallen victim to Angela's shadowy onslaught.

Victor Voss, dressed in the same casual outfit in which he tracked and kidnapped Bill and the others, exuded an air of calculated confidence. His piercing eyes surveyed the scene with a mix of amusement and curiosity. Behind him, his henchmen, a formidable group of individuals, each possessing unique abilities, stood ready for action.

A long-barreled futuristic sniper rifle hanging off his back, his trusty weapon of choice in any fight or job.

Mako and Nathan exchanged uneasy glances, their bodies tense and minds racing to come up with a plan all the while Leon still struggled to overcome the effects of paralysis that plagued his body.

Angela was in fact very strong and was quite possibly as strong or stronger than Victor, but there were still six other members who would make things difficult for her and Mako wasn't very confident about his team engaging in another major fight so quickly as they were all halfway through their energy pools.

"Ah, it appears we've have some new guests," Victor commented, his voice laced with sarcasm. "Boys, please extend our finest hospitality to our new guests."

Angela maintained her composure, her icy gaze fixed on Victor. "Thank you, but I will have to pass," she retorted, her tone unwavering. "Victor Voss, you are under arrest. It is best for you and your lackeys to surrender, I don't want things to become ugly."

Victor showed a moment of realization as he absorbed Angela's words before chuckling with a cold and humorless sound. "Oh, my, you are from the military, aren't you? I can't believe it took me so long to realize that! All this time, I thought you were sent by a rival gang to jeopardize our mission, but I overlooked the obvious answer. Let me guess, Is this the rookies' first mission?"

Nathan clenched his fists, his explosive energy crackling around him. "What do you mean by that!?"

Victor wasn't the slightest bit phased by Nathan's threatening posture as he continued to grin and chuckle. "If only you guys had shown up an hour earlier, I wouldn't have wasted an hour of my life trying to get this answer out of your teammates that I captured, not that I didn't enjoy torturing them."

Mako's eyes burned with anger at the mere mention of Victor torturing his friends. He looked quite injured with several marks and bruises all over his body which showed that he had taken a serious beating, but it wasn't from the gang members that they had fought before because he emerged in this state when he and Leon tried to sneak attack the Lightning user and his friend.

"WHERE ARE THEY!? WHAT DID YOU DO TO THEM!?" Mako shouted at Victor with rage bubbling out of his body.

Victor laughed maniacally finding extreme joy in Mako's rage and anger.

"Don't worry little boy, they aren't dead yet, but unfortunately I can't say the same for you. I have a score to settle with you." Victor said while pointing at Mako with his pointer finger.

Mako was a bit taken aback by Victor's sudden claim that he had a score to settle with him when this was the first time they had faced each other.

"What do you mean by that!?" Angela asked trying to buy as much time as possible so Leon could fully recover from the paralysis.

Victor suddenly took on a cold expression, showing that he was in no mood to continue this useless chit-chat.

"You'll find out soon enough," He said as he raised his hand to signal his men to begin advancing. "I don't know how the mayor was able to contact the military when we had taken all the necessary precautions but that doesn't matter right now."

"You are here now, and not only have you been a major pain in my butt these past two days, but now you actually dared to trespass into my territory and take out my own men... there are consequences for such actions."

With a subtle gesture, Victor signaled his henchmen to advance. Each of them stepped forward, revealing their abilities.

Mako quickly used Analyze once again on all of them to see if he could learn their weaknesses by gaining information on his enemies.

Unfortunately, his skill failed not only Victor which was to be expected but also on 3 out of the 6 henchmen that stood ahead of him.

This meant that every single henchman was almost as strong or stronger than him which was a scary predicament, as it was going to be extremely difficult for them to make it through this without heavy injuries.

Yet, despite the odds being so unfavorable, Mako's heart remained unflustered as the only thing on his mind right now was to make sure that his friends were safe and alright.

Leon recovered from his paralysis just in time and used his speed ability to dash to Mako's side, his body radiating an aura of determination. "Don't worry, I'm not out of the fight yet, I got your back."

Nathan, too, steeled himself for the battle ahead. 'I can't fail my very first mission. There is still so much I need to do, I can't let it end here.' He said to himself in his thoughts.

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Angela initiated the battle by casting a giant wave of shadows that covered the entirety of the area covered by Victor and his men. She then transformed herself into her misty shadow form as she traversed into the dark mist, aiming to launch powerful sneak attacks on them while they were blinded by the wave of shadows. 

Victor immediately equipped his rifle in his hands which was actually a power weapon. His body radiated with wind aura as his eyes began to glow green. Victor Voss had activated his Wind Mutant Gene, enhancing his physical stats as well as greatly increasing the level of his wind ability.

He created a vortex of wind under his feet which he used to updraft his body high up into the air, narrowly escaping from the shadows that were about to consume and blind him as well.

The sniper rifle activated mid-air as it retracted the barrel and and holographic sight formed on top giving Victor the perfect shot aimed straight for Mako's head.

Mako's senses hadn't even begun to detect the imminent danger that was closing in on him and it looked like, Victor would take out one of the intruders in the first ten seconds of the fight.

Victor's fingers slowly squeezed the trigger, about to release a powerful shot aimed at Mako's forehead, ready to kill.

However, before Victor could finish taking the shot his sight suddenly got engulfed by a giant shadow beast with glowing red eyes and a ain't mouth with red glowing sharp teeth.

The beast quickly neared Victor in the air and looked like was going to bite him, but Victor quickly created a strong gust of wind from his palm blasting the creature back and propelling him backward as well.

The beast very closely resembled the nightmarish creatures that Mako had encountered on his first night which were produced by a machine, but Victor knew that the intruders couldn't possibly have a machine similar to them, and it was then that it hit him.

The machine they had used was actually a prototype meant to replicant one aspect of a very strong ability called the Nightmare ability which was obtained by resonating the Fear and Shadow ability.

The smile on Victor's face quickly disappeared as he realized that the opponent he was facing was no pushover because if she actually possessed the actual Nightmare ability, this fight was going to become much more difficult than he first anticipated.

'What the hell is a peak tier Alpha ranked officer doing here?!' He said to himself in his thoughts as he couldn't believe the military would dispatch such a high-level officer for such a low-level mission.

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Meanwhile, Mako who was completely unaware of the danger that he narrowly avoided, quickly huddled Nathan and Leon close to him, giving them a basic game plan they could execute.

"Listen, I wasn't strong enough to sense the weakness of all of them, I was only able to sense some of them, so our first order of business would be to target and eliminate them from the fight," Mako said.

Mako had analyzed three of the six men; the first man was Boris, a burly man with big muscles and a very athletic physique. He possessed the strength ability which greatly boosted his combat strength making it quite disastrous if they were to receive a powerful strike from this guy without any defense.

However, Strength wasn't the only ability Boris possessed as he also had the Earth ability which greatly improved his overall strength and power. It covered for his weakness as Strength users are often bad at defense and speed, but if you have an elemental ability that can protect you from counters, it becomes very difficult to land a critical strike on you.

Then there was Lana, a woman who had a level 5 sound ability which was her only offensive ability as her other ability was a stronger version of a problematic ability, Mako had only encountered once before, the Determination ability.

An ability that wasn't very versatile and had very specific uses, but one that was so strong and overpowered that it made Mako view her as one of the most dangerous people among the three that they were planning to take on. 

Finally, there was Sergei, a man that crackled with regular yellow-colored lightning, but that wasn't the only ability he possessed as this was the first gang member that Mako had encountered that possessed 4 abilities, just like him and Bill.

Sergei had Level 4 abilities of Fire, Wind, Earth, and Lightning, making him quite a tricky opponent as versatility was his bread and butter. There wasn't a weakness that he couldn't create a counter to, not a situation that he couldn't adapt to.

The odds had just shifted dramatically against Mako, Nathan, Leon, and Angela as just the three weakest members of the group they were facing were so strong, that Mako couldn't even begin to think how strong the other three were or Victor himself was.

Mako was feeling a bit stupid after seeing the threat level of the enemies he was about to face with Commander Sable's words ringing in his ears. 

Maybe it was better for him to wait till the morning and have the reinforcements deal with this situation...