Chapter 173: Wombo Combo (1/2)

Moby, who was still in a state of shock, was on the dirty, muddy ground, staring at the black night sky above him that was unobstructed by any trees due to him breaking them during his impact.

His face bore the impact of what like a canon, despite his efforts of trying to block it in the last second. Luckily, although he felt extreme pain in his shaky face, there seemed to be no bones cracked or broken which would have taken a bit longer to heal with his demon regeneration.

Moby could have easily forced himself to stand back up and fight but he decided to play dead for a bit longer just to have time to himself as he needed to completely rethink his plans of attack.

When he read that he had a sound ability, he had no idea that it would lead to what happened. In his mind, he thought that he would have extremely loud screams that annoyed and messed with people's ears allowing him to attack while his enemies were distracted, but he was sorely mistaken.

The ability that Jason used was unlike anything he had ever seen or read about in his hours of ability research. However, that was to be expected, there was no way he would know everything. So, that only meant that he had to decipher his ability with the knowledge that he now knew.

It seemed like a snap was what activated his ability. He snapped, and in the next second, he was already right in front of Moby's face. The only sound-related explanation that Moby could formulate was that when he snapped, he was able to travel through those sound waves at incredible speed to reach his destination, and his powers would only be activated as long as the sound wave lasts, making him need to snap once more. He also determined that Jason was not actually turning into sound waves, but his body just becomes really fast as he travels through them, which means that it is possible for him to be hit in the middle of his ability usage.

However, all of that was, for now, nothing more than a theory. He had no idea if Jason needed to snap to activate his ability and if he was limited to only travel through the sound waves of his snap. He also did not know if he was only able to move linearly as he had just done or if he was able to move non-linearly as well. And last but not least, he did not know if what he had just shown him was the full extent of his sound powers or if there was more, which he had no doubt in his mind was the case due to his stats in mind.

Assuming everything he had just stated thus far was true, his ability seemed to be like a weaker version of blink, that gave instant movement instead of the speed of sound. Plus, blink did not require the user to do any hand gesture to activate, but the only downside was that its range was fairly lacklustre compared to Jason's ability that allowed him to travel as long as his snap reached. And from the volume of his initial snap, it seemed like his metal gloves amplified the sound, making it reach farther which also reinforced the fact that he needed to snap to activate his ability, otherwise he would not have needed such specially made gloves.

Since Moby was able to defeat Natalia with worse equipment and fewer skills when they had around the same power level, in theory, he should be able to do it much easier against Jason who he could more easily block, track and predict due to him having to snap before each activation. If he just didn't allow him to snap, he had nowhere to flee.

He knew that it would still be a tough fight, but if he used his trump cards and current knowledge to his advantage, he felt like victory was already assured, making a smirk appear on his still bloody face.

”Hey, Nags… It's been a few minutes now… Do you think I killed him?”

”Did the boss really expect that kid to be worthy of taking your place as the third seat? He wasn't even able to survive a single punch…”

”If you killed him then you should be prepared to die by the hands of the boss,”

”B-but I didn't know he would be so fragile!”

Then, suddenly, in the middle of their conversation, a sudden blast of purple energy appeared out of nowhere, striking Jason in the face with immense force when he least expected it, creating a dust cloud in front of Jason's now bloody face, causing him to shout from the unexpected pain as he was unable to see his opponent, putting his hands in front of his face for protection.

The only thing he was able to see through the dust cloud was a pair of 2 glowing eyes, confirming that his attacker was non-other than Moby.

Then, suddenly, he felt several immense clanking sounds of metal clashing against metal coming from both of his hands, making his entire body shake but feel no pain as he panicked threw a random kick in front of him that seemed to have hit absolutely nothing.

This made him inwardly curse as he prepared himself to snap away. However, when he moved his hands, they for some reason, felt extremely slow, and before he even got the chance, his hand was struck by an immense force that did not allow him to snap as his guard was almost completely blown away.

At first, the attacks that were hitting him were fairly weak as they just bounced off of his armour, almost like they were nothing. However, the more they came the stronger the attacks got as well to the point of them being able to cut through his armour with moderate difficulty, allowing who he could only assume to be Moby, to be able to strike his flesh.

He noticed that the brunt of the attacks were directed at his hands and arms that were blocking his face instead of his armoured yet exposed body right under.

”Get the fuck away from me you filthy bug!” Jason screamed in outrage as he completely ignored snapping as it didn't work the last time, opting to roll away out of the dust cloud instead.