Child of Destiny

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Just as Nathan took a step forward, the wall where the artificial mutant was buried suddenly exploded, throwing rock fragments in the air. And right after it freed itself from being buried, it quickly kicked the ground and launched itself at Nathan.

Bang!

Swoosh!

Within a blink of an eye, it reached Nathan and was already in the middle of throwing its fist at the latter.

Nathan did not even flinch when the attack can as he casually lifted his right hand and blocked the incoming punch.

Boom!

An explosion quickly erupted and sent a violent ripple in the air.

The surrounding trees bent toward the direction of the shockwave produced by that collision. But as the violent gale continued to push them back, the surrounding trees started to get uprooted one after another before they were swept away by the strong gust of wind.

The air started to spiral around the two, dragging the recently uprooted trees. Then a huge tornado was immediately formed not long after.

Roar!

Enraged, the artificial mutant released yet another deafening roar that reverberated throughout the whole place. It even fueled a huge tornado to spin around at an even stronger rate. And quickly after that, the artificial mutant started throwing a barrage of punches at Nathan.

This time, Nathan did not want to entertain this mutant any longer. He took a step forward, getting a little closer to the latter, before suddenly thrusting his fist forward.

Bang!

The punch quickly connected, hitting the abdomen of the artificial mutant before it could even react.

The mutant was immediately sent flying once again upon impact. But at this instance, Nathan did not let it reach the other side of the mountain as he quickly caught up with it in midair.

He then swung his fist down and smashed it at the body of the artificial mutant, sending it down to the ground.

Bang!

Boom!

Nathan did not stop there as he quickly followed it and dropped a kick from high above. He further buried the artificial mutant in the ground, not letting it get back on its feet once again.

But during the process, Nathan could not help but knit his brows as he found that the body of this artificial mutant was much tougher than he expected. Moreover, its body seemed to contain a much more powerful force than he had expected.

Bang!

The artificial mutant suddenly flew out from the ground while extending both of its arms. It was planning to grab Nathan, but it was already too late since the latter quickly leaped into the air right after he sensed the vibration under his feet.

Swoosh!

Nathan was about to land when the artificial mutant suddenly burst out with an explosive speed and flew straight to him. It even reached him before his feet could even touch the ground.

The mutant caught up with Nathan and threw its fists once again, seemingly doing the same, simple attack as earlier.

‘It has gotten faster?’ thought Nathan as he could see the noticeable increase in speed from the mutant.

Since Nathan was still in the air at that moment, he would not be able to dodge this incoming attack, nor block it, especially when he did not have a firm foot in the air.

This particular punch from the mutant, albeit reckless and brute, would most likely hit Nathan before his feet could even touch the ground.

At least that was hot as it was supposed to be!

But Nathan just raised his foot middle air and lightly tapped it at the fist of the mutant.

Bang!

Then an explosion as strong as the one earlier erupted once again, turning the already violent tornado around them to spin more violently.

Swoosh!

The two maintained their positions for at least a second before Nathan suddenly increased the strength of his foot and pressed it down, making the fist of the mutant crush on the ground.

Despite being out of balance, the artificial mutant moved its other hand and reached out. It was trying to grab the foot that was stepping on its other hand.

Nathan just raised that foot before suddenly sending a forward kick with it. He sent a kick that quickly landed on the body of the mutant before the huge grabbing hand could even reach him.

Bang!

Nathan did not immediately chase after the artificial mutant as he was thinking of something. He wanted to end this fight as soon as possible which was why he summoned his Natural Force, but at the same time, he could not use an advanced martial art skill since he was worried that he would accidentally obliterate the body of the latter.

He still needed to bring this artificial mutant back with him in their base for study, so he could not seriously ‘damage’ it.

Aside from that, there was another troubling matter that was bothering him. He felt that this artificial mutant was rapidly growing during their exchanges.

Those exchanges might be brief and few, but given Nathan’s rich experience, he could instantly identify the minuscule changes in the movements of the mutant.

It might be extremely small changes, but Nathan was sure that this artificial mutant was evolving at an insane rate.

With a frown, he clicked his tongue and cursed. “Tsk! This is going to be a little troublesome.”

*****

At the same time, in the location where a battle between the four artificial mutants and David’s group was taking place, the group also discovered the same problem as Nathan.

They had discovered that the four artificial mutants were evolving at a rate that could even make them scared.

“F*ck! These guys are surely getting on my nerves,” cursed Jerimiah as he regrouped with the others.

They temporarily disengage in battle as they all found a very troublesome matter. The artificial mutants were gradually overpowering as the battle continued to progress.

The four were currently grouped together as they pressed their backs against each other. They were covering every direction while entrusting their backs to the others.

And surrounding their group were the four artificial mutants, trapping them in every direction.

“Hey, David! Can you still carry on? You sound like a pregnant woman who is having her labor,” said Laurent in a joking tone as he heard the laborious breathing that David had.

“F*ck you! How about you came here and try this zombie dude? Do you think it is easy to fight an artificial mutant made from the corpse of a previous top talent of this continent?” snarled David as he tried his best to catch his breath.

He could fight more and even end the battle in a domineering fashion if he unlocked the fourth phase of his Limit Break. The problem was he did not want to rely on it since it would further destroy his foundation.

He had been using the higher phase of his Limit Break much more frequently than he was supposed to do. And if he continued to unlock those phases with his current strength, then he would most likely be damaging his foundation to the point that it would affect his future progress in the path of Mentalism.

At most, he could only set phase three as his limit. But if he continued to exceed that limit time and time again, then he was harming himself in exchange for solving the problems that he could just solve by putting in more effort.

The problem was their current situation really required him to beak more seals to solve it.

During this time, he suddenly turned the side and asked Jerimiah. “Hey, dude. How about we switch? Unleash your Killing Star and take down this guy. I really can’t unlock more seals on my Limit Break.”

“F*ck! You deal with your problem yourself!” snarled Jerimiah before quickly adding. “Do you think that I will be in this state if I use my Killing Star? It is obvious that I am unwilling to use it since it will cause us more trouble than what we already have.”

“Bro, you don’t worry. We will put you in a good sleep once we are done here,” encouraged Laurent.

“F*ck you!” snarled Jerimiah. “How about you put more effort and defeat that opponent of yours? For f*ck’s sake! You are the one who is facing the weakest one.”

Laurent quickly retorted. “That was before! Don’t you see? This guy grows much faster than the rest! He is almost stronger than any of us now.”

“Hey, Vincent! Say something!” he then turned to the guy beside him, who was keeping his silence since earlier.

“Shut up. I am thinking,” replied Vincent almost instantly.

He was also surprised at the sudden change in development. They were clearly on the winning side earlier right before a deafening roar sounded from the direction where the entrance of the enemy’s base was located.

During that time, they clearly had the upper hand. But the situation quickly took a sudden reversal when that roar reached its place.

“That roar definingly f*ck us up,” muttered Jerimiah as he also came up with the same conclusion.

The other two nodded their heads before David suddenly pointed out. “That is obvious, Mr. Genius. But can you please refrain from cursing too much? It is not healthy to the ears you know?”

“What the f*ck does it have to do with our f*cking situation? Are we f*cking going to miraculously take down these guys if I f*cking stop cursing?” snarled Jerimiah back.

“Hey! Do something with your cousin,” said David to Vincent beside him.

“Sigh~,” Vincent could only sigh helplessly as he was getting a headache from the three.

But at the very least, this indicated that they were still not at their wit’s end since these guys were still in the mood to joke around despite their current predicament.

The problem was none of them were willing to use their trump cards since each of them had a serious consequence. And using them just to deal with these artificial mutants was clearly not worth it.

At that point, David suddenly suggested. “Since none of us are willing to take the risk, then let’s take the long way around.”

“Forget about, dealing with individually. Let’s drag them into a team fight,” he added with a smirk. 𝑏𝘦𝘥𝘯𝑜𝘷𝘦𝑙．𝑜𝑟𝘨

“I doubt, they can work together better than us.”

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