169 The End the Two Syndicate Leaders (1/2)

Day 5 – 2:27 PM – Multi-Purpose Clubhouse, Citta Italia, Molino III, Bacoor City, Cavite

Mark dodged every single attack Black Devil was throwing him with great concentration. It was good that he had an about two hour rest on the way after leaving the settlement and he managed to release the unwanted energy he collected overnight to overload the brains of the thugs that surrounded them in almost an instant.

According to his experience, most of the fatigue that he suffered from being an Empath came from the undesired absorption of foreign emotional energies and storing those gathered energies somewhere in his subconscious. When he saw what Freed did before and started to practice it, he did not only learn that he could use the unwanted emotional energies and release it. The only restriction was that, there needed to be a recipient for the released energy for it to work.

For Empaths like him, fatigue was the worst side effect of receiving these foreign energies. As for normal people however, the sudden invasion of foreign energies containing condensed emotions could leave different repercussions. The mildest of those side effects was nosebleeds due to emotional stress but the worst was for them was that they were likely to receive psychological trauma.

Even if he did manage to rest along the way, if he was unable to release the pent up energies from last night, his movements would be likely to be too sluggish and he would be unable to avoid these ferocious attacks. Unfortunately for Black Devil, his mind was clearer now. Not only that he could see the attacks but he could also feel when his enemy would release the attack.

The worst thing Mark was experiencing right now however was that his Emotion Induction was not working on Black Devil at his current state. The black skinned man was filled with rage in his mind that it was blocking even the energy Mark was releasing on his opponent.

Still, none of the two was having the advantage against the other in this fight in the eyes of the spectators around them. Black Devil kept on attacking while Mark kept on avoiding the attacks. It seemed that there was no leeway for Mark to attack. Many of the soldiers and the police around wanted to help but they had no idea how to. None of them were Mutators or even just Evolvers. It was unknown why it seemed that it was too rare for soldiers like them to become one.

Not known to anyone, Mark was still not using his most trained ability in the previous years. It was not because he did not want to but he was reserving it as his trump card. He just needed to measure Black Devil's capabilities so that he could immediately give a death blow the moment he used it. After all, he could not prolong its use anymore especially when he lacked sleep himself.

Mark looked at his opponent who had just missed another punch. The man was wearing a white thin tank top and jeans with torn parts. His clothes further emphasized that Black Devil's whole body was covered in this black coloring. The only parts Mark could see that was not covered in black was his eyes and inside his mouth. Due to this, Mark deduced that the only part covered was his skin and his internal parts like the mouth and eyes were still normal.

The only way to kill this guy was to shoot his eyes and mouth. That was easier said than done. Mark was sure that if this person was to see where he was aiming his gun, he would either dodge or break his gun. If the latter situation happened, it would be even harder to defeat this self-proclaimed devil.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.

In the least, if he would aim at his opponent's eyes and mouth, he needed to make him in the least, take Black Devil's sight away from his attack. Mark suddenly smiled with a bright glint in his red glowing eyes. He had an idea to try. If it was successful, not only that Black Devil would take his sight away but could also confuse him for a moment.

Another kick came making Mark step to the side. On Black Devil's blackened face, aside from rage, there was a tinge of impatience. Since the start, none of his attacks were able to connect. With his fury reaching its peak, his attacks became faster and stronger.

”Don't f*cking move! Is this all you can do? Dodge and f*ucking run away?!”

Black Devil cursed as he punched the air.

”It's no use taunting me. Are you an idiot? If you really wanted to kill me then hit me first.”

Mark calmly replied making Black Devil even more furious.

To everyone's confusion, Mark suddenly grasped the suppressor of his assault rifle. Even Black Devil was confused but he continued his assault of punch and kicks. There was no pattern or style to the attacks but the might and speed was really astonishing. Still, Mark kept on dodging the attacks and even started to remove the suppressor of his gun.

Black Devil then unleashed a kick from the side which Mark dodged by jumping backwards. Finally, the suppressor was removed. Mark raised his head looking straight at Black Devil. For some reason, there was a change in Mark's countenance.

At that moment, Mark threw the suppressor towards Black Devil's face incurring a ridiculous expression on almost everyone in the vicinity.

'That's it? That is why you removed the suppressor of your gun?'

That ridiculous question suddenly entered the minds of the people around.

No matter what, there was nothing that the thrown suppressor could do against the enemy!

As if to support that assumption, Black Devil caught the thrown suppressor and crumpled it with one hand.

Mark then started to move ignoring what was in everyone's minds. Kicking his foot backwards, he moved in a faster speed than before that even Black Devil was surprised. In the last moment, he unleashed a downward punch towards Mark but the latter only circled on the trajectory of that punch. At the moment the punch hit the ground, Mark kicked the outstretched arm launching him towards Black Devil's behind away from his sight.

Of course, Black Devil turned around to his left while he withdrawn his left arm that he used in the previous punch.

Unexpectedly, he felt a sudden weight on his right shoulder making him look at it by reflex and stop his turning movement thinking that Mark had already turned to the other side. What he saw however was a muzzle an assault rifle. His mind blanked. It was because he could not fathom what this was for. The muzzle was not pointed at him but towards the ground in front of him.

RATATATATATATA!

A torrent of gunshots echoed firing towards the ground causing several flashes at the corner of his right eye. The flashes did not do anything however but he suddenly felt disoriented and closed his eyes by reflex. He then held his ear and staggered backwards in shock. The bullets did not hit and the flashes were not enough to blind him but the sound of the multiple shots from the assault rifle placed directly beside his ear shook his brain. It made him close his eyes by reflex and some of his muscles stiffened.

The next thing he knew, there was a hot metal intruding the insides of his mouth. He tried to open his eyes immediately but he was not able to anymore. Black Devil felt searing burning pain in his mouth together with several mortifying impacts in his head and everything when black in that instant.

Mark pulled the gun away from Black Devil's mouth and let his lifeless body fall to the ground. This guy's skin was really too thick. Mark was sure that with the number of shots he made inside his mouth, his skull must have been broken. However, there were only bump marks on the upper back side of his head. Slowly, the color of Black Devil's body started to return to normal as a sign of his ability unable to support its activation anymore.

”Acoustic Startle Reflex… It's really effective when the target least expected it.”