District 42-Chapter 397: Turning the table

’My body is starting to get severely harmed. If I keep going like this, they will destroy me thoroughly. I can’t let this happen at all! My creator is needing my help! I need to do everything to help my creator! My memories, my feelings, my past life... I must forget everything and stop to go easy on them!’ MMA thought as he got beaten for several minutes.

He was doing his best to dodge those attacks while counterattacking, but it wasn’t paying off. His best at that state wasn’t enough. He needed to push himself harder if he still wanted to keep going.

’I will make every single one of this team... regret to have ever raised their weapons against me! They will know, what power really means!’

"Discharge!" MMA chanted, in a less calm manner than he did with his other techniques.

Indigo Energy exploded from his body as if he was an overwhelmed battery of energy that went above its limits.

That bright explosion of blue light and shockwaves made the group retreat immediately. If they were to stay closer to MMA, they would surely be caught in the shock and might as well die.

’Damn it!’ Casper thought as he leaped backward to get as much distance from that discharge of energy as possible.

’I can feel the power of this energy from far away. I have never seen anything like this before. No other technology had such power capacity before... Even Vick’s shield has a limit as to how much impact it can transform in energy and accumulate. MMA seems even more unstoppable right now. If this energy resumes being his overall power, then things will get complicated again...’ The soldier just hoped that it wasn’t the case, but he knew that he couldn’t run away from that fact. 𝑓𝘳𝑒𝑒𝓌𝘦𝘣𝘯ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝑚

Ivar approached Casper slowly as they watched that display of power in which they couldn’t even dare to come any closer.

"Casper, I am always excited about fighting, but I don’t feel like it now ... This guy is just a monster... No, I can fight monsters as well, like Jomurgand, after all. In the end, the Boss is much worse than any other monster that any legend could come up with. He is worse than a lot of other smaller gods I know from the myths."

The White warrior looked concerned at Ivar. The man was obviously struggling even to talk. And not just him, everyone there was exhausted, both mentally and physically. They were several minutes battling against the Boss, and the guy just showed more and more gas to spend every time.

"I thought that we were doing good, but all this energy changes my calculations. Our chance of winning is getting smaller each time." Ari also approached and commented.

"If it is still not zero percent, we can keep going. Tell me something like this again when it’s surely impossible that we can win."

Ari and Ivar nodded at him, the others could hear the conversation despite the loud noise of the explosion, so they nodded as well.

"I know that it hurts, but our freedom is at stake here! Let’s get going!" Casper shouted.

Once that blue explosion ended and the shockwaves lessened their frequency and strength, the group began to move.

They rushed towards MMA again.

The body of the cyborg wasn’t much different from what it was a while ago, but the lines of Indigo Energy were thicker and they could feel the difference in power in the air.

The group began to use the same strategy that they used before, trying to overwhelm the Boss and deliver more damage on him.

However, this time MMA wasn’t the same person as he was a second ago. "Discharge" wasn’t a function of his body that was just for show.

Now the cyborg was moving across the battlefield as swiftly as Casper and Ivar, he could even match Camilla’s speed. Also, he had the destructive power and deadliness of Leo and Tein. He was the perfect combination of all those people into one warrior.

As soon as their onslaught initiated, MMA began his attack as well, following their same pace.

He didn’t need to use the portals at all, but just cunningly countered the movements that the group made by predicting where they would show up next. He also found a pattern on the portals that allowed him to do so.

’Canute is still human. Even if he is a genius, his mind still tends to get attached to patterns. It is easier to think this way, after all!’ MMA thought.

Meanwhile, MMA was using that green smoke against his enemies. After all, that was the biggest weakness of Loki: his technique wasn’t too good when cooperating with others. just a taste of that smoke was able to kill someone.

’Besides this Loki, there is Ari, but he is even easier than him. I just need to keep in mind where I am stepping and recognize when my enemies are trying to drive me to a trap.’

With swift footwork, he was able to avoid all those explosives on the ground as if he knew exactly where they were.

’And, finally, these attackers are good, but not good enough to compare to me!’

In just some minutes of battle, MMA turned the table. The hunter became the hunted again.

’This is useless! No matter how many times we try to make it, it’s not worth it! Our efforts seem pointless before the power of this man... this cyborg!’ Casper thought.

The group backed away again.

Compared to one minute ago, they were two times as harmed. It was hard to believe, but MMA was the one beating them in this round, and it was even worse than what they did with him.

However...

"That’s not the end of hope... We still have a decisive movement to use..."

Rurik appeared beside Casper, from one of the portals made by Canute. His gloves were bright red.

"Yes. That’s right, White warrior." Rurik said. A determined expression was displayed on his face.