Chapter 162 Chapter 162 – Offer
Nick narrowed his eyes.
Was Futuma bluffing?
It sounded very convincing that he knew that someone was there.
Even more, since he didn't know where Nick was, Nick's ability remained active.
It was actually possible to know that Nick was somewhere close to someone without deactivating his ability.
At this moment, a strong internal conflict was happening inside Nick.
Was Futuma bluffing or not?
If he was bluffing, he should be running out of Zephyx pretty soon, and Nick could get the jump on him.
If he wasn't bluffing, Nick might actually die to the poison.
'It doesn't actually matter,' Nick thought with narrowed eyes. 'One possibility has a high chance of death while the other is just a missed opportunity.'
The truth was that Futuma wasn't bluffing.
The Dung Heap's ability allowed someone to give off poisonous gas.
When the poison wasn't being absorbed by any living thing, it would simply go back into the body of the person who used it, replenishing a part of their Zephyx.
Naturally, using this ability still consumed Zephyx since one couldn't reabsorb 100% of the poison they had given off, but the Zephyx used wasn't a big deal.
Nevertheless, the amount of Zephyx Futuma was getting back from using his ability was far lower than normal, which meant something big was breathing and absorbing his poison.
Futuma had spread his gas over a radius of 50 meters.
Unfortunately, while he knew that someone was there, he couldn't tell where they were.
He just knew that they had to be within a 50-meter radius of him.
And he also knew that it had to be an Extractor.
After all, any normal animal or human would have already died by now, and Specters don't breathe.
So, it had to be a Zephyx Extractor.
Zzzt!
At that moment, a blue spark appeared on top of one of the buildings.
Futuma looked over.
At that moment, Futuma saw a semi-transparent Barrier that was burning the gas he was releasing.
Naturally, this was Nick.
By activating his Barrier, Nick could protect himself from the poison, but the sound and visual effects of his Barrier would also reveal his location to Futuma.
Under normal circumstances, Nick would have just run away in secret.
"You want to talk?" Nick asked from his rooftop.
If Futuma wanted to kill Nick, he would have simply waited without saying anything while using some kind of method to contact Ardum.
At that point, Ardum would arrive with Selina, and they would search through the surroundings for Nick.
Yet, Futuma had said several things, and he had even explained his ability.
This meant that Futuma wasn't interested in killing Nick.
At least not right now.
Futuma could see Nick's appearance through the blue shimmer of his Barrier. noVe)lb.In
As Nick looked at Futuma, he saw his Barrier slowly vanishing.
Naturally, Nick hadn't deactivated his Barrier.
There simply wasn't more to block for the Barrier.
This meant that Futuma had pulled his poison back.
When Nick realized that, he deactivated his Barrier. After all, keeping it active drained a lot of Zephyx.
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