Journey Of A Legend

While things escalated to unexpected heights between Greg, Joe, and the Dia Family, until then in the western part of the Federation, the Voodoo Family was also in turmoil.

However, it wasn't because of an interior fight amongst the family members, but because of the news that one of their strongest experts with one of his subordinates has died.

*BOOM!*

Inside a luxurious room, a man punched a wide hole into the wall, almost making the whole building to collapse because of his mistake.

But instead of blaming the man, the several people and subordinates behind his back were just sweating profusely in silence, not daring to utter a single word.

No, instead all of them were shaking uncontrollably, worrying that one single word from them could make the man even angrier than this.

"Tell me the story again. But now with greater details and don't you even dare to miss even the slightest detail that happened."

The subordinate who was covered in injuries and blood was kneeling on the ground with lowered head and started to tell the story from beginning to end.

Talking almost an hour straight, the subordinate told everything to the man before him he saw, while ignoring the pain and the blood which was flowing out of his wounds without stopping.

After he finished, he lowered his head even more and said calmly, "Unfortunately, I was not able to kill the Absorber and also failed to save Carter and my comrade. I have failed miserably and I will take any punishment without objection."

When the man heard this he turned around and looked at the keeping man on the ground.

The man was clad in a thin metallic armor that had a dark purple color, while on both sides of his waist, he had a pair of twin daggers.

The man had long black hair that reached his waist behind his back and had a pair of emerald green eyes.

The whole man leaked out a weak presence of a God rank, yet for some reason, anyone glancing at him would know, he was far stronger than that.

As time passed by slowly in sheer silence, the man waved his hand and said, "You will get your punishment, but I won't take your life. It was unexpected that something like this happened, and even I wouldn't have been able to anticipate this outcome."

The subordinate hearing this sighed slightly with relief and relaxed.

"Thank you very much."

The man waved his hand and said in a terrifyingly calm voice, "Don't say thanks to me yet. Say that after you have taken your punishment and brought that boy's head back with you alongside all of those bastard's corpses. Naturally, I will lend you my subordinates as a way of help."

"!"

When the subordinate heard this he looked stupified and looked up, only to see his boss's ice-cold glare on his skin.

"Then that means..."

"Yes.", nodded the man and continued, "That means you will go and erase the Clanwing Family from the surface of the Federation and kill Greg Hyde personally."

***

While things started to turn to the worst without anyone knowing it, Greg was jumping here and there to avoid Henry's terrifying-looking scythe and Scott's fist.

To Greg's surprise it appeared that Scott was able to withstand Joe's power, but as to how it was unknown.

It could be because of his Guardian's power or a Soul Creature's ability, or maybe Henry was able to nullify the power in the vicinity just as his mask. 

Well, looking at that Henry's weapon was able to transform and use the flying energy in the air which came out of the people around, Greg believed the latter should be the explanation to this mystery.

"Well, at least the others are struggling and won't be able to fight as I can see, so I am okay. I can somehow fight against the two even if I don't win.", thought Greg calmly as he looked at the several people on the ground struggling to stand up.

As he did that he avoided another attack from both Henry and Scott and glanced toward Joe's direction.

There he could see that both of them were engaged in a heated fight. One using extreme speed to the point it was almost a blur and a flash, while the other one used its time powers to keep up with the disadvantageous speed.

"Nick's time power is quite interesting, but he is using his time powers completely differently as Jonathan.", thought Greg as he looked at Nick.

He knew Jonathan and has already fought against him once, so he could easily copper him to Nick.

While Jonathan was using his time powers in a way to make his movement speed faster, Nick did the opposite. He slowed the time and attacks around him to a crawl.

Naturally, Jonathan could slow time down too, but he preferred to stop it completely. Just think about it, why slow time down if you can entirely stop it? Right?

However, Nick was obviously incapable to stop time. He could only slow it down and reverse it.

The latter power naturally came with great consequences, but since Nick has reached the God rank too, Greg wasn't quite sure if that power of his put a greater burden on him or no.

"Well, I know Joe and I am sure he will be able to take care of him. As for my situation..."

*Swish!*

*BAM!*

Jumping to the side, letting Scott's first to explode onto the ground, Greg looked calm.

As he found it out, Henry had more of a supporter power than an attacker, while Scott was obviously a close combatant.

Scott's power was quite unique, however. Every time he hit something, let it be the ground or something else, or taking a step, his body would release sonic attacks, making Greg's head feel quite dizzy.

Scott's power was not only powerful on the close range because of his strong physical strength, but his sonic waves could injure his enemies in the long-range which was quite annoying.

He was terrifying for to fight against, no matter how Greg looked at it.

However, Greg knew he could easily win if he wanted, especially with his currently obtained new strength, however, he didn't want to spill blood.

If he would use his full strength, he fears he would cut a few of their limbs off if not kill them. So fighting against someone above his rank, but in a way where he needed to restrain himself, made Greg's head hurt a bit.

"I could use my mask's power to counter Henry's attack and Scott's sonic waves, but I fear that would affect Joe's energy-sucking too. I could also use my speed to knock the two unconscious, but I don't thin-, wait. Yes, that should work."

Thinking of solutions while dodging assaults from time to time, suddenly an idea popped up inside Greg's head, making him to smile instantly.

"I will use my newfound Core Territory. Let's see if I can stop time."

As he said that, Greg activated his Fifth Flow and instantly his body lit up with blinding light.

Immediately, his body's speed accelerated to greater heights, but for some reason, both Scott and Henry were able to keep up with him.

"Let's use it now."

Knowingly it was useless to waste time, Greg activated his Core Territory, and instantly the light around his body expanded like crazy.

1 meter, 3 meters, 5 meters, 15 meters, 50 meters...

Almost in an instant, the white light engulfed a 100 meters in radius, making Henry's and Scott's body to slow down to a crawl instantly, but not to a complete halt.

Seeing this, Greg looked surprised and frowned.

"Why didn't their body get halted?", thought Greg with confusion, but instantly found out the reason.

On the side, Nick who was fighting against Joe with extreme concentration pointed toward his direction. Or to be more specific, above his head.

Raising his head up, Greg noticed that above his Core Territory, a white circle with a strange carving on it was rotating slowly.

Instantly, Greg realized that Nick was using his power to help Henry and Scott, countering his Core Territory.

And what was even more surprising, that while the halo above his head was slowly rotating, Greg noticed that not only did Henry's and Scott's movement turned back to normal, but they became even faster than before.

"Damn. He is stronger than I have thought!"

*Swish!*
*BAM!*

"And it seems that power affects my speed too. Perfect.", thought Greg seriously as he avoided both men's attack with great difficulty.

Even though he was using his fastest speed he could muster currently, he felt that his speed became not faster but instead slower.

*BAM!*

After barely avoiding another assault from Henry's scythe from the side again, Greg's expression turned serious.

"Then let's see what you will do against this!"

Immediately as he said that, Greg switched to his First Flow, and activated both his Second and Third Flow at the same time, making his body to explode with extreme power.

*BOOM!*