The Inhumans Emerge

In Poseidonia, Alex gave up attacking and kept circling the young man, occasionally harassing him with steel balls.

"Alex, so this is all the strength you have!" The young man was much slower than Alex and could only chase after him while taunting him.

Alex was furious, yet helpless. He could only stew in frustration. Before coming here, he had already used up all four of his copying slots. Otherwise, if he had copied the young man’s ability, he would not have been so passive. What made Alex feel even more bitter was that copied abilities could not be improved. Though he possessed Energy Absorption, he did not dare clash head-on with the Energy Balls the young man fired.

After the two had chased and tangled with each other for a long time, the young man suddenly stopped and shouted at Alex’s retreating back, "If you keep running, I’ll kill everyone in your nest!"

Alex stopped at once and turned to face the young man behind him, his expression turning extremely ugly. "You wouldn’t dare!"

"Fight me fair and square." The young man crossed his arms over his chest and looked at Alex leisurely. "Otherwise, just see whether I dare or not!"

Alex had no choice. He could only risk his life in a desperate fight.

Seeing Alex obediently return, the young man revealed a smug smile. "Don’t worry. I keep my promises. I definitely won’t touch your nest."

"I hope so!" Alex snorted. He activated all four abilities at once—steel balls, a tornado—then activated invisibility and vanished without a trace.

The young man glanced sideways at the tornado and steel balls without sparing them another look. He immediately turned toward where Alex had disappeared and sneered. "Do you think that will let you escape my eyes?"

As he spoke, hundreds of Energy Balls about the same size as the steel balls appeared over his hands in an instant. The Energy Balls flew about randomly, and the young man intended to force Alex out this way.

"Huh? The Energy Balls got smaller again?" Looking at the Energy Balls, which were even smaller than before, Alex decided to take a risk. I can’t absorb the large ones. These small ones should be fine, right?

When his hands touched an Energy Ball, it immediately shattered, and violent energy exploded wildly. Without a moment’s hesitation, Alex activated Energy Absorption. The rampaging energy was instantly drawn into his body, where it crashed about violently and nearly tore his body into a pile of mangled flesh.

Enduring the pain inside his body, Alex activated Teleportation the instant he was exposed, then activated invisibility and disappeared once more.

Alex’s string of movements was extremely fast. Only after he vanished again did the young man react. Looking at the spot where Alex had just disappeared, his expression turned serious. "Not bad reflexes, but it won’t be so easy next time!"

For ten minutes, Alex repeatedly performed the same actions, absorbing five steel-ball-sized Energy Balls in succession. He used all that immense energy to strengthen himself, and his physical constitution rapidly improved. As his physique grew stronger, Alex absorbed the Energy Balls faster and faster.

The young man also sensed that something was wrong. He decisively gave up on the steel-ball-sized Energy Balls and switched to fist-sized ones. They were slower to fire, but they effectively restrained Alex.

Alex watched fist-sized Energy Balls flying everywhere and did not dare touch even one of them, doing everything he could to evade them. Seeing the young man continuously release Energy Balls from his hands, Alex had no choice but to take another risk.

Although there were fewer Energy Balls now, more and more would accumulate as time passed. By then, Alex would have nowhere left to evade. He might as well gamble while there were still fewer of them.

Alex found the farthest Energy Ball, with no others nearby for the moment. The instant he touched it, violent energy pulverized two of his fingers. How could Alex dare absorb it? He immediately activated Teleportation and fled.

The pain of his severed fingers twisted Alex’s face in agony. The energy filling his body continuously surged toward the wounds, and the numb, itchy sensation of ants gnawing at him multiplied his pain countless times.

The young man lost track of Alex again, but a smile appeared on his face. He had seen Alex’s expression just now, especially those two pulverized fingers. The facts proved that his decision had been entirely correct, and the Energy Balls began appearing faster and faster.

Alex could only keep dodging. The numb itch at his severed fingers gradually eased, and in less than ten minutes, two new fingers grew back, even fairer than before.

Sebastian Shaw’s Energy Absorption could absorb vast amounts of energy. The absorbed energy could stimulate the cells within the body, strengthen physical constitution, restore youth, and even regenerate severed limbs.

Yet even now, Alex could not find any way to deal with the young man before him. He could only evade in embarrassment.

Inside the Floating Temple, Emma was frantic with worry. She wished she could crawl through the display and appear directly on the battlefield. Unfortunately, she did not possess such an ability and could only remain in the Floating Temple, anxiously fretting. It was not as if Emma had not considered asking a Teleporter to take her there, but by the time she arrived, the battle would probably already be over. Not everyone possessed Alex’s Teleportation ability.

"How long are you planning to hide?" Once more than a thousand Energy Balls densely filled the surroundings, the young man stopped. He swept his gaze around and said with faint mockery, "If I make them all explode, the entire city will turn to ash. So will you." If the young man knew Alex could appear anywhere on Earth with a single thought, he probably would not have said that.

Looking at the Energy Balls everywhere around him, no one could see the bitterness on Alex’s face. He had no choice. It seemed he could only run.

"Since you’re about to die, I’ll tell you a few secrets." Having reached this point, the young man believed Alex was certainly doomed and did not mind saying more.

Alex was preparing to leave, but immediately stopped upon hearing that.

"I’m not human, nor am I a mutant." The young man’s face was filled with pride, smugness, and arrogance. "I am the greatest creation on Earth—an Inhuman!"

Alex was utterly confused and could not help asking, "An Inhuman? What’s that?"

"We are the gods of Earth. Everyone should submit to the Inhumans!" Hearing Alex’s words, the young man became frenzied. Countless Energy Balls swarmed toward Alex’s location.

Alex’s expression changed drastically. He activated Teleportation and disappeared from where he stood.

"Alright, it’s over." The young man’s expression instantly returned to calm. He coldly looked around and said in a low voice, "Let me send you to hell!"

"Oh, right. Remember my name—Tashim!"

As Tashim spoke, the Energy Balls exploded simultaneously. Energy even more terrifying than a Nuclear Bomb surged outward in an instant. Countless high-rises were reduced to dust beneath the shockwave, unstoppable by anything.