Chapter 174: Frozen (1/2)

”YOU! Cheap! Lucky! Son of a bitch! While I was playing nice, you were just playing dirty! Well, fuck that shit! Now you're dead!” Jason's voice rang throughout the entire forest, nothing but rage filling his eyes.

”Heh, tough talk for a fella with a small cock. You're just making up excuses for your failure! Just face it! You're weaker than me and you're a disgrace to your gang!” Moby replied with clear mockery in his voice, not even suppressing his laughter that made Jason's blood boil even more.

”Shut the fuck up! Before I kill you, I'll have fun ripping off your tongue and feeding it to you for uttering those words!” Jason screamed in outrage, as he prepared to snap his fingers when he suddenly noticed that in between his monologue, Moby's figure had disappeared and ran off into the forest.

”Get back here you fucking cobat knowledge to jump from tree to tree like he was a ninja while Jason who was tailing him was nowhere near as graceful as he broke through every tree in his path in his pursuit to catch up to Moby.

That confirmed one of Moby's theories, the theory that Jason was only able to travel linearly using his ability since if that was not the case, he would have travelled around the trees instead of breaking and going through them which no doubt greatly slowed him down as he had to stop at every tree his sound waves hit.

However, despite all of that, he was still slowly but surely catching up to him which was less than ideal.

He was still fairly far away from the waterfall which was his destination so he began to speed himself up using his demon flash with every step that he took which used up a great amount of demon energy, but it was demon energy he was more than willing to spend.

Yet, in spite of all his efforts, Jason was still able to reach him in the end.

”Now I got you, you little bug!” Jason screamed with a crazy look on his face, snapping his fingers as he reached Moby's location, immediately throwing a punch with his metallic gloves.

Moby had already predicted his attack due to him having to snap, making him turn around using his freezing time skill to slow down Jason's movements, allowing him to just barely dodge his speeding attack, giving him the opportunity to counter.

He unequipped his novice demon katana and threw it back in his inventory, giving him free use of his fists, as it would do little to no damage if it was not used in a combo. Plus, not to mention the fact that Katana's, in general, were not very effective against heavily armoured targets.

He infused his fists with nearly every last drop of his remaining demon energy and used the opportunity to strike Jason's lungs with all of his might in order to knock the wind out of him and slow him down, cracking his armour even more, making him slightly stagger, clenching the area of impact in pain as he landed on a nearby tree branch.

Normally, that blow would have not done nearly as much damage. However, due to Jason's already heavily injured, fatigued state, it was much more effective.

*Cough*

”You… You'll pay for this!” Jason's voice resounded through the air once more as he immediately snapped his fingers to follow Moby who had already fled even farther away, not even taking the time to properly catch his breath.

Since Moby was now all out of demon energy, he had to deactivate his eyes of sin as he was not able to sustain it any longer which heavily slowed him down. And, now, using his freezing time skill would also be futile. This meant that it would be virtually impossible for him to dodge another one of Jason's attacks.

With his current stats, he was only able to sustain his eyes of sin for around 6 minutes, and along with the use of his other skills like air steps, freezing time, and pure demon energy, it managed to drain his demon energy reserves faster than he had expected.

The useless feeling of being out of demon energy was something he didn't want to experience and put him at an even greater disadvantage than anything else. This wake-up call made him realize now more than ever that he should prioritize his intelligence stat over everything else inorder to use his extremely powerful skills that came at a high energy cost.

He had put a fair amount of distance between them but it was only a matter of time before he caught up to him again, especially in his now slower, weakened state.

'Just a little big longer…' Moby inwardly thought as he had nearly reached his destination, using every ounce of energy in his body to force himself to go even faster as he could now pick up on the sound of the water fall's distinct crashes.

”You're not getting away this time bitch!” Jason bellowed with a mad look on his face, snapping his fingers as he was once again in range for an attack, and this time, he had no plans of missing.

Moby inwardly cursed his bad luck, he was so close…

But he had no plans of losing or giving up as he used his quick thinking to find a way out and make it work out in his favour.

With a subtle smirk on his face, he turned around with his hands blocking his visage, keeping his momentum, no intentions of dodging as it would have been futile.

”DIE!” Jason screamed as he appeared right in front of Moby, punching him straight in his arms that had suddenly sprung up to guard his face.