Chapter 145: Rose Snow
Mark felt some strain on his eyes as the world blurred into a darker shade. Everything around him faded into multiple shades of black and gray, but there were many red lights littered around the area that showed the weaknesses of the things in his field of vision.
Mark turned to the anima and he saw that its body was filled with black other than a few places that were dull red. The only parts of its body that glowed red were its eyes as well as a spot right in the middle of its forehead that blazed red. That had to be the spot where it was weakest.
Phwoom!
Mark wasted no time and bolted straight towards the monster. The monster roared in anger and slammed its hand down on the ground to crack the floor! The floor broke into hundreds of pieces and the monster grabbed stones and threw them at Mark!
Phwoom!
Slam!
A body suddenly appeared from the side as Derek destroyed all of the stones that were going toward Mark at once! Mark continued moving without pausing, and the monster slammed both hands into the ground again to disorient Mark, but Mark was able to easily move to the side and avoid the hit.
[Mana Circulation] has been activated.
Mark could feel his physical attributes increasing as the mana in his body strengthened him to a higher level than before, and he used that extra force to launch himself into the air! He pulled his fist back and focused all of his power on his arm before unleashing a devastating blow toward the anima!
[Critical Strike]!
BOOMM!!
The anima roared in pain as the punch caved in its face! Its entire head crumpled like paper as it was sent flying back and stumbling down the street!
Mark landed back on the ground and clenched his fist a few times to reduce the slight throb that he felt. The center of its head was extremely hard, but thankfully, it only took one punch to kill it. The street was silent, and there was no one around as they had all run away to avoid the fight.
But once the fight ended, everyone slowly started to come back as they realized that Mark won. Mark could see people poking their heads out from behind walls and coming out from under cars as they began to murmur while looking towards him.
"He won."
"Isn't that GHOST!?"
"GHOST!! GHOST!"
"Oh my God, it's GHOST!"
People were starting to swarm around Mark in waves as they saw him standing victorious over the anima, and Mark realized that they were going to mob him if he didn't get out of there as quickly as possible. Mark was not interested in meeting people, and he didn't need to stay behind to feed his ego with their thanks, so he just prepared to leave and go back to Arit and Talia.
But before Mark could leave, he heard the roar of the anima he just hit as it shot back to its feet and charged toward him again.
"So it wasn't dead."
Mark hadn't seen the notification from the system yet, so he wasn't sure if the anima was dead or not, and now it would be too late for him to warn the civilians to stay away. Mark knew that they would probably get caught up in the middle of the fight, but he couldn't stop fighting to start protecting them since the monster was charging towards him at a crazy speed!
ROARRRR!!!!
FREEZE!
All of a sudden, there was a sudden chill that spread across the entire area before a large wall of ice grew from the floor and rose into the sky for more than a hundred meters. The ice wall engulfed the anima and encased it in a block of solid ice, and it also blocked out everyone that was running towards Mark from getting closer!
Mark raised a brow in mild surprise as he breathed out a cold breath. That was quite the display of magic. Mark didn't remember any Superhuman from City A having this amount of power. Who the hell is this?
Clack! Clack! Clack!
The sound of high heels walking across the ice echoed from down the street. The sound made Mark turn around, and he saw a figure appearing from within the icy fog that had spread across the area. She was a beautiful woman with long white hair that almost seemed to glow. She had a small face and full blood-red lips that drew Mark's gaze for a moment before he focused once more on her icy blue eyes.
Mark could not deny that this was a beautiful woman, and from the way she moved and carried herself, Mark could tell that she knew it too.
"That was quite the impressive display, Mark Vanitas."
Mark did not know who this was. Even though Mark was a superhuman, he didn't care much about other superhumans, so he barely knew any superhuman that wasn't from his city. He was only interested in fighting against Anima, so he left the job of figuring out who people were to Pat. Mark immediately activated his [True Sight] skill at the same time that Pat spoke up.
[That's Luna. Leader of the Moonlight Guild. Strong as fuck. I was going to tell you that there was another calamity class approaching you from the west side of the city, but she killed it in seconds, so there was no need.]
On the other side of the call, Pat clicked through a few records to see what Luna's full abilities and power ranking were.
[She controls water, and her guild has many S and A ranks in it. Her rank is undefined. I didn't even know she was in City A, so it's obvious she had been lying low. Be careful around her; she's known to be a difficult one.]
Patrick was currently watching the clip of Luna using her power to boil the other Calamity class anima like it was nothing! She easily destroyed it from the inside out by taking control of the water inside its own body and raising it to steaming temperatures! By the time she was done with it, there was absolutely nothing left of it at all!
Patrick had never felt bad for an anima before, but at that moment, he pitied that anima.
Mark digested what Patrick told him while looking through the information that his system sent to him.
…
Name: Rose Snow
Race: Human
Title: Madam Luna
Rank: EPIC Rank I
Potential: EPIC Rank II
Skill: ???
Description: ???
Affiliation: True Good
…
Rose Snow? Haven't I heard that name somewhere before? For some reason, I can't remember.
Mark raised a brow as he read through the name that the system gave Luna. Why was her name Rose Snow on the system when Pat said that her name was Luna? Does that mean that she is hiding her true identity from everyone around her? Well, it was nothing new for superhumans to take on a fake name to try and hide their real identities.
Even Mark was doing something similar, although his own fake name was given to him by the public themselves.
But Mark didn't know why that name was so familiar to him though. He was sure that he heard it somewhere before, but he just couldn't pinpoint where he heard it. It felt like a memory from a long time ago that he simply forgot about because there was no need to hold onto it.
Mark shook his head to get rid of those thoughts.