Battle In Wasteland

Kiba smiled in return, feeling remorse for harming her earlier when she wasn't at fault. While he was no saint, he didn't want to harm innocents unless it was necessary.

"How about 7 o'clock on December 14th at Close Horizon?" Carole asked.

"As the lady commands," Kiba bowed in acknowledgment.

Today was November 14th, so the date was a month away. Kiba didn't mind the wait.

"Farewell, my lady," Kiba said as he left the floor.

"I hope I don't fall in love with that rascal," Carole thought with a smile.

Kiba reached the 83rd floor.

One section of the floor was free from the electromagnetic field barrier, preventing all types of teleportation or spying activities inside the building.

In reality, Kiba could teleport without hindrance, as if the barrier didn't exist for him. This was how he could have an affair with Eva without letting anyone know. Only Eva knew no place was restricted for Kiba as long as he wished it.

But obviously, Kiba couldn't let the world know the true might of his teleportation powers. To avoid suspicion, he used his teleportation powers where there was no electromagnetic field.

Soon, white light surrounded him and he teleported away from the White Angel Corporation.

He failed to notice blue energy ripples surging into his teleporting force...

***

SCREECH~

Suddenly, Kiba appeared in midair above a wasteland. As far as he could see, there was nothing but ruined mountains with no sign of vegetation or habitation at all.

"What the hell?"

Before he could think further, he was under the onslaught of a dozen rockets. Kiba's eyes turned cold, but he did nothing to dodge them.

BOOM!

There was a gigantic explosion, covering miles. The ground below caved in from the impact.

Far away, a man and a woman stood, carrying rocket launchers.

"Is he dead?" The man asked.

"It wouldn't be that easy," the woman answered, "Otherwise, we wouldn't be making so many preparations. But at least this attack will wear him down."

Swooosh~

The next second, the explosion cloud disappeared, as if there was no explosion at all. Kiba floated in midair without any injury.

"A monster! Even his clothes are fine!" The man cried in disbelief.

"He can fly!" The woman was terrified.

From what they knew, he had high physical strength and teleportation ability. They were also aware he could convert his physical strength into an invisible armor, but there was no mention of his ability to fly.

The very second of the explosion disappearing, a man with tiger claws leaped up. The air flashed with dazzling scratch marks as he charged up, aiming the claws at Kiba's neck.

From another direction, a masked man appeared. A glowing spear of lightning emerged in his hand, and he shot it at Kiba's head.

Some hundred meters from him, there was a woman. She opened her mouth, and an arrow of poison flashed out, shooting at Kiba's face.

In total, there were eight people attacking Kiba's vitals. They were in perfect sync as if they had experience in team cooperation.

Kiba's expression didn't change at all. He continued to float in the same place, waiting for the attack to land on him.

"Let's see how powerful your attacks are!" Kiba said with a smile.

"Still cocky?" The man with the tiger claws had a smirk on his face.

The next moment, the tiger-claw man's smirk disappeared, and his eyes opened wide in terror.

Kiba had disappeared from the location! They, on the other hand, were in the place where Kiba originally was!

The worst part?

They were facing the attacks they launched a few seconds ago!

"He swiped locations with us?!"

This thought barely flashed in their minds when the woman with poison ability emitted a heart-wrenching scream.

The tiger claws of her teammate stabbed into her throat! Her throat ripped apart, and blood gushed out like a fountain.

Her headless corpse collapsed...

"Anita!" The man with the tiger claw cried in horror.

How could he stop such a powerful attack at the last moment? Before he could think of what to do, a lightning spear blasted his head.

The man with lightning ability released a similar heart-wrenching shriek as his forehead was impaled with the poison arrow. Similarly, the other mutants suffered attacks from their teammates.

All eight attackers were dead, but they died by the abilities of each other!

"Wow! Your teammates' abilities are deadly!"

Kiba exclaimed as he teleported in the middle of the man-woman duo carrying rocket launchers.

The duo shivered in fear, unable to believe the turn of events.

How was he able to teleport their teammates from far away?!

No!

How can he use his teleportation ability, to begin with!?

The entire region was locked with an electromagnetic field, aimed at stopping teleportation!

"Why are you sweating so much?" Kiba asked with a smile.

"P-please don't kill me!" The man begged when Kiba placed his hand on his shoulder. He didn't dare to attack him.

"You are making me look like the bad guy here," Kiba was annoyed by their response.

"We don't dare, sir," the woman muttered.

Kiba ignored her words and instead, turned his head towards the eastern direction of the wasteland.

"Till when do you plan to hide there?"

The next moment, there was a ripple in the air. The space distorted, and through it, Lisa and two men stepped out.

"You used such a cheap illusion device despite being from the government," Kiba was disappointed.

Lisa's expression was heavy. She couldn't believe her eight subordinates were killed, that too without creating a single scratch on Kiba.

As they looked at each other, behind Kiba, the ground flickered.

With a sharp whistling sound, a blazing drill shot out, twisting with fire energy. 

Its speed was too fast, leaving behind a trail of multiple blurs as it stabbed at Kiba's neck.

Inside the ground, the mutant who launched the sneak attack thought he succeeded, but just then his heart constricted.

The drill was grabbed by Kiba!

"How could he be so fast?!"

The mutant was stunned.

"My my, another sneak attack... how unsurprising!"

Kiba remarked as the drill continued to rotate in his hand. The blazing fire energy around it surged into spiraling flames and burst out, trying to burn him. 

But to the horror of the mutant, the flames didn't even touch him. Even as this happened, a sense of crisis suddenly rose in the mutant's heart.

"!"

The same instant, Kiba gripped the drill in his hand tightly and pierced it on the ground below. The ground collapsed into chunks of charred stones and debris, and through them, the drill charged below, right at the mutant's heart!

"Urgh!"

The mutant released a pitiful cry. The blazing drill cut through his heart!

In a matter of seconds, his body caught fire, and he burned to ashes...

Some distance away, Lisa was astonished. This mutant was a hidden piece she implanted for a scenario like this, but even this failed.

Kiba turned towards her while tossing away the drill.

"It seems you have covered this region with a barrier, effectively blocking all modes of communication," Kiba's voice was nonchalant as he continued, "It makes killing you all easy."

"You can even use your teleportation ability as a domain?" Lisa asked, ignoring his threatening words. She knew very well that a head-on clash was now unavoidable.

"I am a man on a Holy Mission so God has blessed me with some abilities," Kiba answered.

"Y-you!" After seeing his display of powers, Lisa was sure her hypnosis never worked. She knew he had scammed her into sex!

"I must say, you caught me off guard when you teleported me here," Kiba said as he stepped towards her.

The man and woman duo behind sighed with relief. They were confident that they could survive now that Lisa would act.

"How can the electromagnetic field and teleportation interference devices not work on you?" Lisa asked as she summoned an energy shield. The two men, on the other hand, transformed their skin into that of steel.

"Why don't you try to contemplate the answers in the underworld?" Kiba playfully asked in return.

"Don't be so cocky!" Lisa declared, "The battle has just started!"

BANG!

The ground split open, and five satellite dish-like devices rushed out. They released greenish sonic-like waves on Kiba.

Before the waves could touch him, a circular barrier popped up, surrounding Kiba. The waves crashed on the barrier, creating no damage.

"I couldn't believe I have to use my trump card. The world government would imprison me if they realized I have brought an ability nullifying device without permission."

Lisa gritted her teeth and pressed a button on her watch screen.

"But it would be worth it as long as I get my hands on a specimen like Kiba! Not even he would be able to act against one of the strongest technologies of the world government!"

Suddenly, more satellite dish-like devices appeared from the ground. The energy waves they released were orange.

"It is over!" The man-woman duo from behind had a smile on their face.

Kiba's expression changed for the first time. The barrier protecting him started fading.

There were no cracks, but instead, the barrier was disappearing as if the combination of green and orange waves carried the power to nullify all his abilities.

The barrier disappeared, and Kiba found himself under the onslaught of two different types of energy waves combined as one. The mutant abilities inside him nullified.

"WHAT?!"

The men in black were horrified by the effect the energy waves were creating on Kiba.

"Just what is going on?"

The combined waves had the power to deactivate mutant powers, but on Kiba, the effect brought unexpected changes.

His long golden hair turned shorter. Even the golden color from his hair faded, leaving behind jet-black hair.

The most surprising change was his eyes. His eyes had an equal combination of blue and gold, but now the golden color faded. Soon, both his eyes were blue with no hint of gold.

Next, his face started undergoing a transformation. The skin on his face disappeared and was replaced with new skin.

The new face was equally handsome as Kiba, but it was young. Kiba looked like a man in his late twenties, but the new face was of a man in the early twenties.

Even his height changed. Earlier, his height was 6 ft, but now he was 5'8".

It was like a new person had appeared instead of 'Kiba'. The new person was equally handsome with striking features, but he was not 'Kiba'! There were no physical similarities at all!

Even the aura released by this new person was weak, nothing like Kiba.

"W-what is he?" 

"Is he a shape manipulator?"

"No! How can someone have so many abilities! Flight, teleportation, enhanced physical strength, energy manipulation for the barrier, and now shape manipulation!"

"He could even see through the illusion and resist psychic abilities! Could he have even more abilities?"

"It is impossible for a single person to have so many abilities! Not even the greatest scientists in the World Government can produce so many abilities inside a single mutant!"

Lisa's body started trembling. Even though Kiba's powers had nullified, and he had changed into a different person... she felt more uneasy after seeing the expression on his face.

"How could he still smile in such a situation!?"