Chapter 462: Drone shot
While Kobra kept walking through the stone outcrops silently, Michael stayed in place at the very edge of the battlefield.
He tucked himself at the corner and sat down. He had already equipped his glasses, entering the Drone Vision to transfer his consciousness into his Mithril Artifact.
And while Kobra was so occupied with his own bragging, he secretly deployed the Drone and piloted it to fly high up in the cloudless skies.
He would have wanted to come a lot closer to the ground, but he didn’t want to risk the sound of his Drone being heard by Kobra.
As he stayed up in the air, he saw the tiny movement of grass down below. And just like that, he was able to locate Kobra’s body without any hardships at all.
"Aubilities are something that completely transcend the normal logic of the world. We defy it. And my Aubility allows me to bend light itself to turn myself completely invisible. As long as your eyes don’t lay eyes on me, you will never know when I sneak up behind you."
Kobra kept talking, blissfully unaware that Michael was monitoring his every move above.
"What? No response? Come on, don’t be shy. Ask more questions."
This Kobra’s attempt to goad Michael into giving up his location. He took Michael’s silence thinking that he was afraid of being located. But in truth, Michael just couldn’t speak because he was piloting the Drone.
"Good. Just stay where you are and don’t let me find you. In the meanwhile, let me take this entire battlefield into my own paradise."
Under his invisibility, Kobra’s worm thrashed its head side to side as he activated another one of his Aubilities.
He took his purple knife and stabbed it in the ground. As soon as he made contact with the grass, the giant worm above him started to eat through the soil one giant chomp at a time.
Michael saw the ground underneath Kobra’s feet start to glow a violet light. And after a few seconds, the light completely disappeared, leaving the grass looking completely untouched.
I don’t know what that is, but it’s best to avoid it.
Thankfully, he was looking at the entire battlefield overhead. So even if the light disappeared, he could mentally mark the location in his mind so that he’d know to avoid that specific patch of land.
And with ChatJK4’s help, a highlight of the ’trap’ became visible in the Drone Vision interface.
"There’s no escape, little boy!" Kobra shouted. "I will hunt you down through the ends of the soil. Get out now so that I can put you out of your misery. If you don’t, then you’ll end up swallowed by the earth. I’ll bury you so deep in the ground that you’ll suffocate, prolonging your death. Isn’t it so much better to die by my knife?"
Michael inwardly thanked Kobra for being so overconfident that he very easily gave up all his secrets even without him asking.
Now, he knew that those patches of land were like quicksand and that anyone who stepped into it would be swallowed deep into the earth.
Kobra continued to walk through the rocky outcrops until he eventually reached the very end where Michael spawned.
He kept his voice low, tiptoeing as he slowly went into the very corner of the battlefield. And finally, he saw his target sitting quietly behind a large rock, facing the edge of the Sanctum walls.
"Found you," Kobra said, with the invisible coating around him starting to disappear.
"You know, you could have made this a lot easier for me if you had just surrendered. But now, I’m actually quite annoyed that you had me set up all those traps.
I’m gonna enjoy killing you. And I heard that your company was pretty good, right? The Reborn company: the first company to ever pass the permit test in just three days.
Maybe I’ll just take it for myself once you’re gone. How about that?"
Kobra raised his knife above his head as he walked closer to Michael. And just as he was about to plunge it down into the boy’s chest, a buzzing sound suddenly erupted behind him.
BZZZZZ
Startled, Kobra looked behind and saw a strange metal object flying in the air. He couldn’t understand what it was.
"You’re going to kill me and take Reborn?" Michael’s mocking voice spread out from the Drone, making Kobra shocked to his core.
"You!"
"If you want Reborn, you’ll have to experience reincarnation first. I’ll help you with that."
The two antennae-like barrels on the side of the Drone pointed themselves to Kobra.
And even though he didn’t know what it was, his intuition told him that this was something dangerous. The giant worm’s head appeared above him as he used his purple knife to become completely invisible.
Just then, the Drone fired off a volley of [Unity Gun] right in front of it.
Suddenly, Kobra’s body appeared on the ground as he clutched his stomach in pain.
"ARGH!" he screamed out. "WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT?!"
This was the first time he had ever felt something so painful!
This wasn’t just a gunshot wound, it was a high-powered Unity laser that completely disintegrated the mana in his body—of course it was going to hurt.
Kobra glared at the Drone hovering in front of him. He didn’t know what was happening, but he knew that Michael was the one responsible for this.
Driven by pure anger and pain, Kobra quickly turned around and tried to stab Michael’s body with his knife.
But it was at that moment that he realized that Michael was no longer sitting on the ground.
He was standing, with the Drone Glasses already taken off and currently in his hands.
"You’re not the only one with power," Michael said as the futuristic, mechanical hand appeared above his head.
The appearance of his Diva took the soul out of Kobra’s body. He looked ashen, as if he had just seen a ghost.
He would have never thought that a boy like him was a Maugnetic. It was inconceivable.
Michael then threw a small block of iron towards Kobra before he could react. It quickly attached to his chest, freezing him in place for almost a second.
He then raised his hand and formed a finger gun.
A bright light gathered at the tip of his finger before another [Unity Gun] blasted off directly towards Kobra’s chest.
The beam of Unity penetrated through his chest, before a violet glow appeared and protected Kobra from experiencing instant death.
Michael noticed that the glow came from Kobra’s heart, meaning that it was probably the GodForge pieces that saved him from the Unity shot.
Knowing that he would need time to reload, he quickly left the area before Kobra regained control of his body.
Kobra’s giant worm eventually wrangled itself off from Michael’s Aubility, shattering the glass the switch imposed upon his body.
Once he unfroze, Kobra looked around, feeling like something weird had happened.
"What was that?!"
When he looked around, he no longer saw Michael anywhere in the vicinity.
"That was your Aubility wasn’t it?!" Kobra shouted maniacally as he looked around for Michael. "HAHA! Fine! Try and run away. We’ll see if you can dig out of the hole you’re walking into!"