A ray of green light bigger than the one Mako released before against the Terra Beetle King burst from his right hand in a straight line as it instantly collided with Mikhail’s breastplate.

All of a sudden, Mikhail began to experience an extreme level of force on his abdomen area. He couldn’t describe the pain that was jolting through his entire body, but it felt like his inside would burst out and spray everywhere any second now.

Mikhail’s vision had instantly become blurry after receiving the initial impact and what followed afterward was the land and Mako moving further and further away from him.

The green energy beam began carrying Mikhail upward as it continuously collided with his breastplate dealing increasing amounts of damage every second.

The Energy Stream skill increased in strength the longer it was maintained by the user, dealing increased amounts of damage to the opponent.

Mako had only maintained the Energy stream for about 5 seconds, but in that time frame, Mikhail was launched many many feet into the air, and his beloved breastplate started to crack and tear apart under the pressure of the green beam attack.

It wasn’t until the sixth second that Mako felt a hand grab onto his arm and forcefully stop him from continuing the Energy Stream attack. The hand was quite strong and Mako knew that it was futile to resist as he instantly recognized who the hand belonged to.

“That’s enough, son. You don’t want to kill him by accident now do you?” Officer Eric said as he appeared beside Mako and was the one who was currently holding his arm.

Mako slowly lowered his arm and canceled the skill, thus ending Mikhail’s torture and leaving him about 50 feet in the air.

As soon as the beam was stopped, Mikhail finally felt a bit of relief as the constant pulsing burning energy that was trying to tear apart his skin was no longer attacking him. He began descending back to the ground with speed but he didn’t care. He had accepted his defeat and was just grateful that the pain went away quickly.

Mikhail landed on the ground with a big thud causing a lot of dust to kick up into the air. When the dust eventually settled, Mikhail could be seen embedded into the ground, unable to move and being barely conscious.

Natasha watching from afar could believe the turn of events that had taken place in the last thirty seconds. She watched with horror and shock as Mikhail lay in defeat in front of Mako, being one with the ground.

“NOOO!!” Natasha screamed as she quickly made a run toward Mikhail.

“Boss!” The imposter yelled as he too rushed behind Natasha toward Mikhail.

However, both of them were stopped dead in their tracks halfway through as they watched Mako’s hand glow with that same green glow as before.

This time Mako expanded his aura freely, making sure that both of the were within range so that they could easily be affected by it.

Mako had aimed his green hand right at Mikhail’s neck. He was threatening to use that beam attack again to destroy Mikhail completely.

“Stay back!” Mako yelled as he addressed Mikhail’s two accomplices. “One wrong move or decision and your leader’s head goes bye-bye.”

“Ha Ha Ha! You can’t kill him. You will be stopped by that patrol officer before you are able to finish off my boyfriend!” Natasha replied to Mako’s threat.

“Ohhh… You’re willing to bet his life on that!” Mako responded with a grin before turning toward Officer Eric.

“Legally, I can only intervene when an attack has gone too far and if it will kill instantly, then I can only mobilize after the skill has been cast. This skill cast by this young cadet is quite unique and fast and even I was only able to reach him after five seconds had gone by, so I am not sure I will be enough to protect him.” Officer Eric explained.

The Officer’s statement hit Natasha’s heart like an electric shock. She couldn’t believe that Mikhail would be at the mercy of his prey at a time like this now she was stuck with him as well.

“What do you want?” Natasha asked in a much more respectful and quieter tone.

“Willing to cooperate, huh? Wise choice!” Mako said.

“First I want you to break the fear trance over my friends and set them free,” Mako demanded.

Natasha didn’t know what to do now. She was stupid enough to leave her hostages unmanned and rush toward her boyfriend’s aid. Now she had no leverage against Mako and would have to follow his instructions correctly if she wanted to save Mikhail.

She reluctantly opened her palm which began to glow with a liquidy purple light and she soon crushed it using her own hand due to which all of a sudden all four of Mako’s friends had regained consciousness.

At first, they looked confused as from their perspective they were trapped in an infinite dream where they kept on reliving their worst fears again and again to the point that it was driving them insane, and then all of a sudden they are transported to a lush big open field with the sun shining brightly in the sky.

They were all quite confused and slowly began to recollect a bit of their memory to piece together how they got here in the first place. However, before they could even have the chance to do so, their sights locked on a couple of people in the middle of the field.

Since they were all ability users they had good senses including their sight as well. Almost immediately all four of them were able to recognize Mako who was covered in mud, scratches, and injuries all over.

All four of them quickly bolted over to Mako’s side because they didn’t know what the situation was like and wanted to lend a hand if they could.

They quickly made their way over and stood beside Mako who was aiming his hand next to a cadet’s neck with two cadets facing him from the other side. As soon as the group laid their eyes on the two individuals, they immediately began to remember what had happened.

*************

The group had finished building the shelter and was now waiting on Mako to return so that they could finally get something to eat and that was when the imposter showed up again.

He began taunting the group by transforming into various people including Andrew which pissed Erin more than anyone else.

Originally, the plan was to hold the imposter off near the shelter until Mako came back, but the taunting had gotten straight to Erin’s mind and she quickly began giving chase to the imposter.

The imposter wanted exactly this as and he began leading the group down a pre-determined path where Natasha was hidden from sight. She quickly began putting every person into a dream state as they ran past her where their nightmares run rampant.

They were being consumed by their fears when all of a sudden they stopped and they were all snapped back into existence.

The group didn’t know the whole scoop just yet but they were willing to bet that they were now free because of Mako freeing them.

************* 𝒷𝒹𝓸𝓿𝓁.𝒸ℴ𝓶

“There… I did what you asked. Now please let him go,” Natasha said as she slowly tried to inch her way toward Mako and Mikhail.

Mako grinned as he heard those words and quickly got off Mikhail. Natasha rushed over to Mikhail however she was topped once again and this time it was done by Officer Eric.

“Sorry, but you can’t! Mikhail Fedorov has been defeated and will be removed from the premises safely. He is in critical condition and you could mess it up further.” Officer Eric said.

“What…” Natasha said in shock as she was unable to process what was being said to her.

“But he said th…” Natasha tried to argue but was cut off by Officer Eric once again.

“What he said is not important! As soon as he let go of the body of the cadet, it meant that the duel was officially over, and Mikhail Fedorov has lost the fight and hence is being removed from the island.” Officer Eric explained himself for the last time before deploying a stretcher, laying Mikhail on it, and disappearing right in front of their eyes.

Both the imposter and Natasha now looked scarcely over to Mako and his friends who were shooting glares of death at them for all the trouble and pain that they had caused them.

“I am pretty much exhausted from the earlier fight and I see you guys want a piece of the action too, so let them have it,” Mako said with a smile toward his friends.

Mako’s friends instantly had huge smiles on their faces as they were finally given the chance to get even against the people who had been making their life hell on the island. Erin in particular had an even more devious smile as she was the first to march forward and aim an icicle directly toward the imposter.

“This one is mine!” She proclaimed as her eyes began to subconsciously glow white again. Seeing Erin now with her eyes glowing was setting shivers down the imposter’s spine as he slowly started to back away while blurting out that this was all just a big misunderstanding.

Their futile attempt didn’t budge at all as all four of them quickly rushed forward to attack Natasha and the imposter.

**************

Mako on the other hand still had about 500 energy left so he wasn’t as drained as he claimed and could still fight, but he trusted his friends to finish the remaining job so that he could stay behind and see what all the system notifications popping in his head were all about because there were quite a few to go through.

*Ding!*

*Ding!*

*Ding!*