Chapter 168: Combination Attack

Chapter 168: Combination Attack

The heroes charge down the stairs toward Goro. Joe activates his electrical state, his body turning white as massive currents of electricity surge over his skin. His speed skyrockets, and he zips down the stairway, leaving short trails of electricity behind him.

“How about another Blitzkrieg!!” Joe shouts.

He reaches Goro and slams a punch into him, but the impact is nowhere near as powerful as his earlier strike. Goro immediately grabs Joe by the neck, stopping him cold. His electricity fades, returning his body to normal.

“Shit! I have overused it!” Joe thinks.

“That ability of yours seems to have lost its oomph,” Goro says.

“So has yours!” Zeth shouts.

Zeth leaps forward from the bottom of the steps and kicks Goro in the head, forcing him to release Joe and staggering him backward.

“The continuous beatings you have taken have started to weaken your body’s ability to handle your magic,” Kurt says.

Goro turns and bolts down the hallway, making his way through its twists and turns.

“What’s the matter now!?” Joe yells after him. “Can’t handle us!?”

The heroes give chase. Along the way, Enigmuses rush in to intercept them, but the heroes punch and kick them aside without slowing, never breaking their pursuit.

They burst into a technical room packed with computers and equipment. Goro is already there, standing his ground as he charges his magic energy.

“No more running!” Joe shouts.

“This ends here!” Kurt adds.

Goro pulls out a syringe and injects a yellow liquid directly into his arms.

Joe’s eyes widen. “A syringe…”

“What?” Kurt asks.

“Never mind,” Joe replies.

A smile spreads across Goro’s face as he suddenly rushes forward.

His speed has increased drastically. As he closes in, he sidesteps and swipes his arm across Joe’s side, sending Joe crashing into Zeth and slamming both of them into the wall.

Kurt retaliates, throwing a Flame Aura Punch. Goro blocks it with his arm and counters with a brutal punch to Kurt’s face, knocking him backward.

Zeth and Joe force themselves back to their feet.

“We will need to combine our attacks!” Zeth says.

“Understood!” Joe replies.

Joe releases his magic, forming a storm cloud along the ceiling.

Zeth fires a Star Shine Blast into the cloud, and it is immediately absorbed. Goro looks up, trying to anticipate what comes next.

The cloud begins rapidly firing smaller Star Shine Blasts downward at him.

Goro sprints, attempting to outrun the barrage, but Kurt intercepts him and slams another Flame Aura Punch directly into his face.

The remaining small Star Shine Blasts strike Goro in succession, dealing continuous small amounts of damage. He recovers quickly, digs his hands into the steel floor, and rips free a large section, electrical wires dangling beneath it.

He tosses the chunk of steel like a projectile.

Joe releases a gust of wind to block it and launches a lightning bolt at the same time, but the steel slab plows straight through the defense and slams into Joe, knocking him off his feet.

The lightning bolt continues toward Goro. He grabs an exposed electric wire and absorbs the bolt through it. The electricity spreads from the wire to his body.

“You know, I think I like this electricity!” Goro says with a laugh.

He unleashes a large wave of electrical energy, depleting all of the electrical energy in his body.

As it surges forward, Zeth quickly condenses a Star Shine Blast and hands it to Kurt, who presses his aura into it.

“Quick!” Zeth shouts.

“I’m trying!” Kurt replies.

The compressed Star Shine Blast, reinforced by Kurt’s aura, fires forward like a speeding bullet. It collides head-on with the electrical wave, and the clash of power detonates in a large explosion.

The blast blows everyone backward and tears through much of the room.

As the dust settles, Goro looks over himself and then at the heroes. Everyone is injured.

“This fight is entering its final phase, and I will come out on top,” Goro declares.

With Goro buffed by a yellow liquid, the heroes have started combining their attacks, hoping to finally put him down for good.

Chapter 168 END
To be Continued in Chapter 169: Biology of an Enigmus