Chapter 176: Setting The Stage (2/2)

”From spectating you, I would say that I got a fairly accurate read of your fighting ability so far. But I'm not sure what other kinds of powers you are just gonna whip out your ass so I won't be taking any chances. Not many outsiders have seen me use this form and lived to tell the tale, but lucky for you, you're not going to be an outsider for long since I'm forcing you in. When I beat you, I'll prove to the boss that I'm greater than you and more worthy of the 3rd seat. So, then you would be bumped down to the 4th seat and take Jason's spot as my lackey!” Nags announced with an amused laugh, spreading his arms out wide like he was embracing the moonlight that was shining down and reflecting off his armour.

'Well, fuck, there goes my plan of catching him off guard with sin-mode while he's toying with me to gauge my strength… He's going all out right from the start... He's smarter than he looks,' Moby inwardly thought as he stared at the blinding yellow light that appeared from Nags's direction.

Instead of attacking him during his transformation as he was not sure if it would be blocked by a barrier, he decided to use the opportunity to counter his transformation with a transformation of his own.

Moby closed his eyes and calmed his nerves, focusing his energy into an empty spot in his head, different from the one used for evolution.

As he filled that hole, his body began to mimic the filling by transforming.

A raging, purple and red aura began to consume and swirl around his body before a small amount of light blue, almost white energy was added to it, causing his wide, expansive aura to have 4 colours yet was mostly black as it began to grow even more, destroying all life around it.

The ground underneath his feet began to tremble and crack as large waves and ripples began to form in the shallow river under him, the waterfall shaking like crazy as it was also affected and consumed by Moby's aura.

Suddenly, 2 black, small, scaly horns sprouted out of Moby's head that looked like a mixture between dragon and devil horns.

They looked slightly bigger than before with small, subtle blue icy lines added onto them.

His hair that was mostly black was now redder than ever before as the few streaks of red in his hair began to conquer more territory on his head.

Shadowy black lines of ominous energy ravaged throughout his entire body, creating patterns that spread all the way up to his face and under his eyes that were glowing purple with a more complex structure than before, red pupils that looked like that of a viper.

Red, icy blue, but mostly black wings began growing out his back, forming cracks at the back of his armour as it crushed through it and spread out wide in the open. His wingspan was around 2 meter in length which was around half the length of Avilia's. Yet, unlike Avilia's wings that looked like pure demon or devil wings, he looked like a cross between a dragon's and a demon's wings.

When Moby opened his eyes, the first things he noticed were the large, protruding wings in his peripheral vision, catching him extremely off guard as that did not happen the last time he transformed.

He also felt like he somehow received an even greater power boost than when he was using it now than when did against Natalia. And to his knowledge, he had yet to see a notification telling him that his sin-mode was levelled up or upgraded in any way.

Shaking his head to forget and throw that information to the back of his head as he had much bigger, and more pertinent things to worry about.

When he looked in front of him, he Nags, in the same stance he had before, laughing his ass off with his arms spread wide, white light surrounding his body that caused cracks and a small crater under him, the grass around him being pushed but what seemed like heavy wind coming from the aura surrounding him.

Yellow energy was already forming around his body in the shape of an animal but it was still too early to tell what animal or beast it was meant to be.

Since Moby had finished his transformation before Nags, he decided to use the opportunity to attack and interrupt his transformation as he put out his hands in front of him and was about to blast direct demon energy at his still transforming opponent.

However, before he even got the chance, a blinding flash of light coming from his direction engulfed his entire vision, making him instinctively lift up his hand to block the light, not allowing him to do what he wanted to do as it all happened at the least opportune time.