50 Attack (1/2)

*scrreeeecchhh*

Layla immediately stopped their car as soon as she found that their tires were hit. She furrowed her brows, thinking about something.

”What was that?”

Max sat up and looked outside to see what happened. He wasn't sure what it was he heard, but he was aware that it was quite serious, seeing the solemn expression of Layla and Lydia.

”Stay down! Something or someone punctured our tires.”

”What?!”

Max quickly hid behind the door, assessing the situation they were in.

'What is happening here? Is someone actually attacking us?'

Max thought of all possible suspects but he could only think of one.

'Xiao Ming?'

'There's no way he's this stupid right!? Does he really want to die by attacking three Awakeneds?!”

”Max, just stay down here. Don't follow us out!”

'Wai...'

Layla and Lydia got out after asking Max to stay down. They considered that this might be an attack and they don't want Max to get hurt as he won't be able to defend himself.

Closing the door, their expression got a lot serious as the entire area turned deathly silent.

They looked everywhere around them for any movements and focused on catching any sound of footsteps to know if there's anyone in there.

They knew that they're in the ideal position for an ambush as they were on a road outside the city without anyone near them. The darkness at night made their situation even worse.

Without warning, someone jumped onto their backs, gripping a dagger. Both of them jumped away reactively as how they were trained to.

They both trained for years, studying different combat techniques that they knew this kind of simple attack can easily be evaded by just dodging away from it.

Fixing back their position next to each other, they focused on their attacker to see who it was. The unknown guy was wearing a black mask with a set of black clothes.

They couldn't recognize him in any way except that he had wide shoulders and a muscular body but that wasn't helpful in any way.

The masked man looked at them for a moment then rushed straight to Lydia. He might have judged her to be the easier one but he couldn't be more wrong about that.

The masked man ran in an unpredictable way, directly going for her neck to stab it but Lydia easily grabbed his wrist firmly with her hand.

”Arggghhhhhh!!!!”

An explosive sound of lightning rang out as purple lightning streaked out from her hands rushing straight to his arm, frying it through as the masked man cry out in pain.

The dagger fell to the ground as the man pulled his arm forcefully away from Lydia. What happened next surprised them all including Max who was peeking out from the window.

The man swiftly leaped tens of meters away from them. It was at this point that they became aware that the opponent they were currently facing was an Awakened, the same as them.

They kept their guard up as they watch for the next move he does. Lydia's Purple Lightning showed it's power by looking at how mangled his arm turned to be.

It was completely black, limping on his side, seemingly unresponsive. The man looked to be in so much pain as he tried to steady himself.

'What kind of damage was that!?'

Max saw everything that happened, he watched as Lydia destroyed that man's arm with her lightning.