The atmosphere across Site 2 shifted in a single, terrifying instant.
Only moments prior, the city had been quiet under a heavy overcast sky.
Now, the pristine paved streets and the forced, trembling smiles of the terrified citizens dissolved into pure, unadulterated chaos.
Horrific, mutated beasts surged out from the dark alleyways, their venomous fangs snapping and claws scraping against the concrete as panic erupted across the entire sector.
“Long time no see, Tez…”
A dark, raspy voice sneered through the rising smoke.
Mika stepped forward from the haze, his eyes gleaming with sheer hatred, his voice dripping with absolute venom.
Around his body, a sickly, purple-green toxic aura radiated outward—a lethal, stamina-draining miasma that slowly withered the surrounding air and devoured the Maana reserves of anyone standing near it.
The Young Legends—Tez, Sha, and Rihasa—instantly dropped into low, defensive fighting stances.
Their eyes widened as Mika made his presence known, accompanied by the suffocating pressure of his dark power.
“Sha, Weza! Go help the citizens escape from these monsters!” Tez commanded without turning his head, his fiery eyes locked tightly onto Mika.
“Rihasa and I will take care of this one-time defeated villain!”
“Defeated?!” Mika roared, his veins bulging across his neck as his aura flared violently.
“I was only defeated last time because I vastly underestimated you brats! Now I am going to cut off your hands and tear you limb from limb, Tez!”
Without another word, Mika rushed forward, breaking the sound barrier as he blurred across the street.
But Tez and Rihasa were no longer the inexperienced kids who had struggled weeks ago.
Remembering every brutal second of their grueling twelve-hour training session inside Master Kaizo’s gravity chamber, they synchronized their breathing as one.
They drew deep upon their inner reserves, matching their Maana pulses perfectly.
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COMBINED ATTACK: INFERNO CLAWS
USERS: Rihasa (Divine Claws) + Tez (Flame Inferno)
ELEMENT: Holy Light + Sacred Flame
EFFECT: High-Impact Armor Penetration & Burn
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Divine Claws!” Rihasa yelled, his hands morphing into razor-sharp talons of radiant, blinding energy.
“Flame Inferno!” Tez screamed, pulling his arm back as his right fist exploded into a roaring column of scorching red fire.
They unleashed their techniques simultaneously.
In mid-air, the sacred holy light and the blazing inferno fused together, forming a massive, dual-elemental beast claw that slammed directly into Mika’s chest!
BOOM!
The explosive impact sent a shockwave tearing through the surrounding buildings, shattering every glass window within a hundred meters.
Mika was hurled backward like a ragdoll, skidding over fifty meters across the asphalt before crashing heavily into a concrete barricade.
He coughed up a huge mouthful of dark, metallic blood, staring down at his charred armor in sheer disbelief.
“What?! Blood?!” Mika spat, wiping his chin with the back of his hand, his teeth grinding together.
“Am I getting weaker… or have these bastards grown this ridiculously strong in such a short time?!”
Enraged beyond reason, Mika unleased his full aura, the dark miasma around him condensing into a heavy, destructive energy construct—the Hollow Axe!
With a psychotic screech, he swung the massive energy blade horizontally.
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Tez and Rihasa instinctively backflipped in opposite directions to dodge the deadly arc.
However, the stray shockwave of dark energy didn’t stop—it hurtled directly toward a small, trembling young girl trapped in the crossfire against a fallen vehicle!
“Watch out!” Weza screamed, abandoning his retreat.
Without a second thought for his own safety, Weza sprinted across the battlefield and threw his body directly in front of the child!
SLICE!
The razor-sharp energy wave tore violently across Weza’s chest, ripping through his jacket and flesh.
Weza let out a agonizing cry as he was hurled across the pavement, crashing hard onto the concrete, heavily bleeding as pool of red began to spread beneath him.
“WEZA!” Tez, Sha, and Rihasa shouted in synchronized horror.
Before any of them could leap to Weza’s side, a sudden, sizzling shower of green acidic fluid rained down from the sky above!
Tez barely dodged out of the way as the liquid hissed, melting through solid asphalt and steel like hot butter.
Descending from the rooftop of a nearby skyscraper stood Lika—Mika’s equally ruthless brother.
Behind him on the surrounding ledges emerged an overwhelming horde of over two hundred grotesquely mutated bio-monsters, snarls echoing through the downpour.
“Heavy breathing…” Tez gasped, dropping to one knee.
The toxic miasma in the air was rapidly eating away at his Maana reserves, making his lungs burn with every breath.
He looked back over his shoulder at Weza’s pale, bleeding form.
If we stay here and try to fight this army, the poison and the acid will kill Weza before we even finish!
Tez thought desperately.
We need to get him out of here right now!
“Sha, Rihasa!” Tez shouted, his voice ringing out with fierce, unbreakable determination above the sound of thunder.
“I am going to make an exit for you! Take Weza and get back to Lockout immediately! Go!”
“What about you, Tez?!” Sha cried out, his eyes wide with fear for his brother.
“We aren’t leaving you behind!”
“I said GOOOOO!” Tez screamed, his body exploding into a towering, blinding pillar of sheer volcanic heat.
“Rescue Weza and get him to the prison base! Maybe he can awaken a power like us—we need a new ally if we’re going to survive this!”
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SPECIAL TECHNIQUE: LAVA TORNADO TWISTER
USER: Tez
OUTPUT: 30% Blaze Maana
EFFECT: Creates an inescapable volcanic vortex
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BLAZE!
30% LAVA TORNADO TWISTER!”
Tez slammed both palms onto the ground.
The earth fractured into a grid of molten red light, and a massive, swirling vortex of roaring lava erupted into the sky!
The fiery tornado enveloped Lika, Mika, and dozens of charging monsters, trapping them inside a scorching, inescapable wall of molten rock and blinding heat!
“NOW! GO!” Tez yelled, sweat pouring down his face as he poured every drop of his remaining Maana into maintaining the fiery barrier. This chapter was taken from g.com without permission.
Sha didn’t waste another second.
He sprinted over to Weza, gently lifting his unconscious, heavily bleeding body into his arms while Rihasa provided rear cover, slicing through two stray beasts that tried to leap over the flames.
Holding on tightly under the freezing rain, Sha gritted his teeth, tapped into the absolute depth of his reserves, and focused his intent.
“Aqua Jet!” Sha roared.
Using the heavy rain falling around them, Sha converted the water into a pressurized rocket propulsion system beneath their feet.
In a flash of blue light, Sha, Rihasa, and Weza shot into the sky at speeds exceeding a fighter jet.
The intense physical strain drained Sha’s remaining Maana straight down to 0%, but the sheer force of the blast carried them clean out of Site 2, streaking across the clouds toward the distant fortress of Lockout.
LOCATION: LOCKOUT HEADQUARTERS
Minutes later, a blue trail of energy crashed into the landing bay of Lockout.
Rihasa stumbled out of the steam, carrying Weza’s limp, pale body toward the central mystical prison chamber.
“Hang on, Weza! Just hang on!” Rihasa yelled, rushing past the security doors.
As Rihasa carried him through the ancient structure, Weza’s blood-soaked hand accidentally brushed against the metallic, rune-carved wall of the ancient prison chamber.
HUMMMMMM!
The entire facility shook.
A brilliant, blinding wave of emerald light erupted from the wall, enveloping Weza’s entire body in a cocoon of pulsating green energy!
Before Rihasa’s shocked eyes, the open, gaping slash across Weza’s chest began to knit itself back together at visible speed, the bleeding stopping instantly as his pale skin regained its natural warmth.
Inside the central monitoring command room, Master Kaizo stared at the primary diagnostic screen in utter disbelief, his coffee mug frozen inches from his lip.
“What in the world…?” Master Kaizo muttered under his breath, his eyes narrowing as complex data streams flooded the monitors.
“Is the ancient prison… granting these children Legendary Powers?!”
“What’s happening to him, Master?!” Rihasa called out over his wrist communicator, breathing heavily as he watched the glowing green cocoon.
“Weza isn’t just healing,” Master Kaizo murmured, his voice dead serious.
“He just unlocked and awakened an ancient Legendary Power… The Legendary Power known as ROBO.”
Deep inside his subconscious mind, far away from the physical world, Weza opened his eyes.
He found himself standing inside a vast, infinite metallic domain filled with floating gears, complex circuits, and humming energy grids.
Towering above him was a massive, divine mechanical titan composed of absolute ancient technology—ROBO.
The entity looked down at Weza, its optics glowing with eternal wisdom as it extended a hand, bestowing upon the boy the full knowledge of steel, machinery, kinetic weaponry, and magnetic manipulation.
Meanwhile, miles away in the dark, rain-slicked woods outside the borders of Site 2…
Tez stumbled through the thick mud, his boots heavy, his chest heaving.
The Lava Tornado Twister had successfully allowed his friends to escape, but it had stripped him of every last ounce of Maana he possessed.
His body was violently shaking from Maana exhaustion, his vision blurring as dark spots danced across his eyes.
He reached out, his fingers slipping against the wet bark of a tree, before his legs finally gave out completely.
“I… I made sure they got away…” Tez whispered weakly, his voice fading into the sound of the falling rain.
As his strength completely vanished, Tez collapsed face-first into the muddy grass, his consciousness fading into absolute darkness…
TO BE CONTINUED….