28 Cosmic Manipulation

Currently, at the center of this wasteland, there was a giant but invisible barrier. The barrier was surrounding an area of some 3 sq.km. It not only restricted communication with outside, but it also created illusions, making it impossible for others to notice the happenings inside the barrier.

Inside, Lisa's face was filled with disbelief as she gazed at the person. Her body trembled as she noticed he was smiling even though his powers were nullified, and he was no longer Kiba!

"How could he smile in such a situation!?" Lisa mumbled.

Her subordinates didn't know how to answer. They were equally shocked by the transformation of Kiba into a new person.

The multiple energy waves from the satellite dish-like devices continued to nullify his mutant powers, giving him no chance to use his powers.

The new person has normal length jet-black hairs with sky-blue iris and a handsome face. 

"You continue to surprise me," The new person said with no signs of panic on his face.

"Kiba, just what on Earth are you?" Lisa asked in a voice full of disbelief.

"Please don't call me Kiba," The man shook his head," I like to keep my personal and professional identities separate."

"What the hell are you talking about?"

"I use the name 'Kiba' when I am in my previous form," The man explained with a smile on his face," My current form has a different name."

"Kiba, stop with the nonsense," Lisa pointed at him and said," Just surrender and you can save yourself some pain. You no longer have a chance to escape now that your powers are nullified."

"Firstly, call me 'Zed'. That's the name I have lived with most of my life," The man was still relaxed as he continued," And lastly, the fun has just begun."

"You think your shapeshifting abilities change who you are? Kiba or Zed? It doesn't matter! You will become my experiment specimen!"

"Shapeshifting? I don't have such ability so you are mistaken," Zed looked at her like she was no threat at all," Let me enlighten you before I send you all to the underworld."

"You..." Lisa was incensed by his attitude. He was giving her no importance at all.

"Zed is what I was born as," Zed nonchalantly continued, "Kiba is what I become when I use my true powers. I feel rather offended when you call my true powers' form as shapeshifting."

"You can use those overpowered abilities in your other form? Haha, you must have suffered some mental damage then," Lisa now felt at ease after hearing his explanation," You have lost your Kiba form, and yet you are smiling and talking nonsense instead of begging?"

"We will see who will beg," Zed said, still smiling.

Lisa has enough of his attitude. She looked at her watch to make sure the nullifying devices were functioning properly.

"Amir, knock him out," Lisa said to one of the men in black.

Amir has clad an electronic bracelet on his right hand which prevented him from the energy nullifying waves.

"Yes!" Amir dashed forward and lifted a hand to punch out.

"You want to die first?" Zed asked when Amir was just a few steps away from him.

"Shut y--- WHAT?" Amir was suddenly terrified.

Zed's iris has started turning into golden!

"H-how? The energy waves are nullifying his abilities...so how?" Amir didn't even get time to think further as he heard a heaven-shaking rumbling from above.

He raised his head toward the sky with an expression of horror.

"Just what in the world is going on?" Amir collapsed on the ground in utter terror.

It was night sky with the full moon, but now as far as he could see, the entire sky was shrouded with stormy black clouds.

RUMBLEEE

Golden lightning flashed through the clouds, emitting shocking might. The clouds seethed while the lightning struggled to break through some hidden restriction and descend.

The lightning might not be able to leave the clouds, but its fury created an earth-shattering pressure. The stones and the ruined mountains started breaking down into nothingness; almost as if they didn't dare to be in the presence of golden lightning!

Lisa and others were terrified as well. With absolute fright, they realized that their abilities were dissipating. It was not nullifying but erasing the powers from their very existence!

"W-what has he done?"

"How could he summon such power even though he is facing the ability nullifying device?"

Zed's iris was now a combination of blue and gold. His hair has turned into golden and was growing every second along with his height. His face changed as well!

Kiba has arrived!

"H-he has turned into Kiba again?!"

It didn't stop here. The half- blue in his iris was now being replaced with gold. His iris were fully golden just like the lightning in the sky.

BOOOM

The ability nullifying satellite dish-like devices started malfunctioning. The energy waves they emitted bounced back, creating fissures on them.

"There is only one possibility! There is a limit to the amount of power those devices can nullify... earlier Kiba's powers were within the capacity of those devices! But now!"

"It is impossible!"

"Fuck! We are seeing the impossible! So stop saying impossible again and again!"

"You mean Kiba was hiding his real power within when he faced those energy waves?! If he wanted he could have countered those devices at the start?"

"That won't make sense! Why would he allow his powers to be nullified in the first place?"

"Weren't his earlier powers already overpowered enough?! How could such a monster even exist with more overpowered abilities than before?"

Lisa didn't know any answer. The shocking pressure made her cough up a mouthful of fresh blood.

Swoooosh~

The debris and stones in the wasteland floated in the sky before turning into dust.

Kiba's new transformation was complete. He aimed a finger at the sky, reducing the pressure.

He then stepped in front of Amir with an amused expression.

"You wanted to die first, right?" Kiba asked.

"P-please don't. I will become your subordinate---"

Kiba ignored Amir's words and placed his right hand on Amir's head. The next second, Amir's body started glowing with a golden radiance.

Amir felt a tremendous amount of energy pouring into him. The energy was so vast that he felt he was a glass container trying to hold an ocean! 

"Aaahhhh! Stop! I beg you to stop!"

His eyes turned blood-soaked as he tried to control the energy inside him.

"Stop?" Kiba has a playful smile on his face as he said, "I am giving you so much power for free, so, why will you want me to stop?"

Amir's body cells were expanding at a crazy rate to control the growing energy but it didn't help him.

The cells were undergoing transmutation at a rate that his body couldn't support. Every cell inside him felt like a bomb on brink of explosion.

"Ahhhh! Nooooo!" Amir shouted as his body expanded like a balloon.

BOOM

Amir exploded into gore and blood.

"Amir!" The other man in black screamed. Goosebumps erupted over his body, his mind crashing with fear.

Dying was terrifying enough, but to not even have a corpse was scary beyond words.

Not a single drop of blood touched Kiba. His smiling expression didn't change the least bit as he turned towards Lisa and her team.

"It can't be! You have the ability of Cosmic Manipulation!" Lisa cried in shock.

Cosmic Manipulation! The power to manipulate all cosmic forces!

Theoretically speaking, the user can create, shape and manipulate cosmic energies to produce nearly any effect they desire, including the molecular restructuring and transmutation of matter, the manipulation of matter across space and time, the creation of force fields, the creation of inter-dimensional portals and vortices, telekinesis, and cosmic awareness! Everything was possible!

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