After Gnomon passed through a time circle his body moved at a speed that not even Abet, the sin of Envy could see him
"It would be nice to capture a sin and you told me you won't leave until you get knocked out so rest assured, I will grant your wish in a bit" Gnomon said
He then with his super speed punched Abet up in the sky and then started to combo him with many speed attacks and it was clear that Abet couldn't do anything about it
'Second strongest in UMP? The strongest is James Khora, so that means Gnomon is stronger than Kamira?' Luck thought as he saw Abet flying in the air from Gnomon's attacks
"What's wrong? I thought you wouldn't stop!"
Gnomon said as he attacked Abet, he then to finish his combo he kicked Abet back to the ground, destroying the ground below him
Abet got up and shook the dust off his shoulders
"You move too fast for me! Should I start trying for real now?"
Abet asked himself as he stretched his arms and legs, then something scary happened
Abet's head transformed into a dog's head, a white dog's face, Abet then charged at Gnomon with a speed that Luck couldn't see toward Gnomon, since Gnomon used the time circle he was able to dodge the attack with his incredible speed
'Did he get stronger?' Gnomon thought as he was floating in the air
Suddenly Abet appeared behind Gnomon, punching him
The attack sent Gnomon to a house meters away, crashing at it and destroying it
'I heard that the sins have a form that reveals their true power, maybe this dog form of Abet is that' Gnomon thought as he started flying at an incredible speed at Abet
Within seconds he reached him and tackled him into many buildings, Gnomon then redirected his flight up, and up in the sky was where Gnomon and the awakened Abet had a huge brawl, attacking each other sent huge waves of air pressure at Luck, that defenselessly watched them
'I can't believe these are the same guys I saw before...'
Luck thought as he watched them, in this moment he realized how weak he really was, and how much more work he had to do to be able to at least fight by their side as a sidekick
Suddenly the two of them violently crashed into the ground near Luck, the impact of their crash sent Luck away
"I didn't think you would last this much! You honestly surprised me!" Abet said in a demonic voice to Gnomon
"Thank you sin! I didn't think I could last this long against you in that form too" Gnomon said as blood fall down from the right side of his head
'Is Gnomon losing? Then what am I doing sitting here like a useless brat?'
Luck thought as he got up, his eyes were full of D E T E R M I N A T I O N
Luck then started running toward Abet, passing by Gnomon
"What are you doing kid?"
Gnomon yelled, but Luck ignored him
"Specialized Mana Zone!"
Luck yelled as he put his hands together, he then twisted one of his arms but his attempt to create a SMZ failed, Luck simply passed out right in front of Abet
"I admire his tenacity! Even though he had little to no mana he still tried to help by using a SMZ, too bad it failed!" Abet said as he laughed hysterically
Gnomon clinched his hands
"Don't ever laugh at this kid, this kid is working hard for us even though he doesn't have to, and he never complained, he simply improved and improved to be able to help us. He is far better than you or me..."
Gnomon said as he created three-time circles, he then passed through them, Abet watched him do that confused, suddenly his head meet the ground, Gnomon's hand helped his head do that
"...Too bad you won't be able to see him become better than he already is!"
Gnomon told Abet as he applied more force to his fist that squashed him, Gnomon's eyes had become like a clock that ticked incredibly fast
"Now you have done it!"
Abet said as he tried to punch Gnomon but he failed, Gnomon answered his punch with countless more that destroyed the ground below them, Gnomon then kicked Abet's dog-like head so hard that launched Abet to a house meters away
Abet tried to get up from that house but before he could do that Gnomon was already in front of him with a barrage of attacks ready, the attacks landed before Abet could even see them, this happened because Gnomon is currently moving faster than the speed of light
After the barrage of attacks was over Gnomon backed down, Abet could hardly stand after all that
"That's what I like, show me more!"
Abet yelled but before more could happen Daniel appeared, blocking Abet from walking at the frozen-in-place Gnomon
"That's enough for today, ya can die later"
Daniel said and before Abet could respond Daniel hit him hard on his head, knocking him out, and as soon as Abet got knocked out his head returned back to normal
"That was impressive to see Gnomon, I can't wait the day to fight ya, sadly my physical defense is too great for yar little fast punches so I don't believe that ya can beat me, but we will see" Daniel said with a smile, he then got ahold of Abet's body and started running away
Gnomon tried to move his body but he was unable since most of it was broken by his speed
'Damn it! Move! I have to capture a sin! If I do our work will be much easier!'
Gnomon thought as he tried to take a step, but the only thing he managed to do is fall unconscious
…
"What happened?"
Gnomon wondered as he found himself staring at the ceiling
"I was fighting Abet... Did I lose?" Gnomon wondered out loud once again
"You didn't lose, you just overdid it"
Kamira said as she was peeling oranges for Gnomon, Luck was also with them, he had a bandage on his chest
"Are you alright Luck?" Gnomon asked when he noticed his bandage
"I'm alright, I have a cracked chest but it will quickly heal, at least that's what the doctors said"
"The proper question to ask is if YOU are alright, Luck says that your body was steaming the whole time-fighting Abet and he told me that you even fought him in his awakened form" Kamira said in a schooling tone
"It's okay, judging by his power level most of the others sins are about the same level or lower, maybe that's why they haven't launched a full-scale attack on us yet" Gnomon said as he got into a sitting position on his bed
"So why was Abet looking for you Luck?" Kamira asked
Luck quickly swallowed the piece of orange he was eating
"He said my father was near the island and wanted to talk to me, and for some reason he had to send him for that, he then started spurting some crap about envying me and then started beating me" Luck explained, he then ate another piece of orange
"I will never understand those guys, thank god everything went alright and nobody died..." Kamira said as she sighed
Luck felt a bit skeptical, the thought of someone from his friend group dying in battle was a foreign concept but when battles such as these start to escalate these thoughts will come up again and again
'What would I do if Gnomon died back there? The answer is probably nothing, I'm like an ant in front of them, I can sure do some damage but it will be minor, sadly I can't do anything yet, I can simply fight as hard as I can to survive'
Luck thought as he devoured the last pieces of orange he had left
"Want more?"
Kamira asked as she offered a freshly cut orange to Luck, he took it and got up
"I'm going back now! Bye, bye"
Luck said as he exited the hospital, turns out they were in a regular hospital in Biol, He then started walking back, it was late night so there wasn't anybody on the streets, not even animals, so Luck had a quiet walk back to his home as he ate the orange, but as soon as he entered the last straight line to his home he saw a man standing, the man was dressed in a black suit
'I'm not in a mana zone so he is probably no harm...'
Luck thought as he walked past the man
"You are not welcoming your old man?"
The man said, Luck immediately turned around to see the man's face. It was the man in his family picture, that man was Lucifer Gestalt, his father...
"What do you want?" Luck asked loudly
"Don't shout, it's late" Lucifer said with a smile
"I'm not playing with you! Tell me what you want!"
Luck said as he got into a boxing position, he didn't have enough mana to even create a mana zone
"I'm here to ask you for something..."
"You want me to join your stupid squad? I told many of your guys that I won't so stop bothering me" Luck told him in an aggressive tone
"Not that, I want you to ask about your powers, it appears you have started showing signs of something like a golden mana, you know there are three variations of mana, the normal blue mana, the black, and the golden, golden mana is directly connected to Aurumia, the light spirit of mana, that means you are special Luck, people like them shouldn't have you under their wing, you should be free, doing whatever you want" Lucifer explained to Luck
Luck looked a bit shocked from what he heard, but mad nonetheless
"I'm not like you! Unlike you I have people that I care for, I can't let them fight against people like you alone, so NO I can't do whatever I want, but there is one thing I can do for sure. That thing is destroying you and whatever you stand for, Skotos would never obey humans"
Lucifer started laughing at what Luck said
"We don't plan on befriending Skotos, we plan to overpower him and control him, something that if he had every SSS we could easily do"
'SSS?' Luck wondered
"You seem confused, don't tell me your friend hasn't told you about the Six Sinister Shards!"
Luck didn't reply, he couldn't say anything, he didn't have anything to say too
"A SSS is this little thingy!"
Lucifer said as he showed Luck the shard of Space, and to show him he got incredibly close to Luck
"Don't come near me!" Luck yelled as he used his gravitational powers to push Lucifer into a wall
While doing that the shard in Lucifer's hand started to glow and enhanced Luck's power, since normally with the amount of mana Luck had he could only push an empty water bottle
"Hope?" Lucifer asked as he hit the wall
"What?" Luck replied confused
Suddenly people started waking up and they were about to see what was happening, so both Luck and Lucifer quickly ran away from the scene
Leaving what was said unfinished...