Ability Dampener

Dampener upon activation

A tool used by Spectre, to temporarily weaken one's ability level by 50%.

## Usage

Upon activation, anybody near the pulse will have their ability level reduced to half (for example, a 5.2 becomes a 2.6). These effects are only temporary, requiring the Ability Disabler to permanently nullify the threat of weakened targets. This is shown when the House Invaders say that they are running out of time and rush to escape.

As of Chapter 260, a new Spectre chemist has developed a chemical to negate the effects of the dampener. Terrence was the first to try it out in the field, and it took 18 minutes for his strength to return to him.

As of Chapter 264, the dampener is revealed to have a time limit of over an hour. With the dampener being shot at 10.35 am and its effects waning off at 11.35 am, a marked improvement over the one used during Seraphina’s kidnapping. It should be noted that there was another dampener fired at around 11.10 am (against Remi and Arlo) within the vicinity of the ambush against John and Blyke’s group. Whether this has the effect of elongating the initial dampener’s effect has yet to be confirmed.

The dampener effect’s wearing off are quite immediate, with Isen being acutely aware of the return of his enhanced senses and both Blyke and John being able to use the upper limits of their abilities, Energy Discharge and Aura Manipulation respectively within 5 minutes.

## Effects

* Arlo's Dampened Stats
* Leilah's Dampened Stats
* Isen's Dampened Stats
* Blyke's Dampened Stats
* John's Dampened Stats (Amplified Energy Discharge)
* Remi's Dampened Stats
1/6It is implied that all High Tiers lost access to their passive skills.

* **Arlo**'s punches and Barrier are significantly weaker. He loses access to Invulnerability (Body Armor) and has to revert to a force field for effective defence. It also should be noted that none of Arlo’s opponents suffered from reflective damage when attacking his barrier.
* **Elaine** struggles to heal herself.
* **John** is unable to replicate Arlo's Barrier until he activates his ability. He mentions that he can only replicate and amplify one ability or is barely able to replicate two abilities. (Possibly only Mid-Tier abilities)
* **Seraphina and Leilah** show much slower reflexes, with Sera losing the ability to rewind injuries.
* **Isen**'s enhanced vision and detection range are greatly reduced and is much slower than before.
* **Blyke's** shots are much weaker than before and have reduced range.
* **Remi** is much slower than before and is unable to output as much voltage as she used to.

## Plot

### Rage

Spectre uses it's dampener on Seraphina. After this, they attempt to disable her, which eventually worked but Sera managed to escape.

This group later appears in a truck outside John's House, with the objective of kidnapping Seraphina. They start by dampening Arlo, Elaine, John and Seraphina. After this, a group attempts to sneak into the house to kidnap Seraphina. Arlo attempts to stop their truck with a barrier, but it goes crashes through. They ultimately fail and escape before the effects end.

### Revelations

The group pulses a cafe in Lovun Town, where Leilah is meeting with Arlo and Seraphina.
After being dampened, Arlo struggles to fight a group of mid-tiers. He is then assisted with Leilah and along with Seraphina, manages to get away with the help of Kayden.

### Infiltration

While Seraphina is away on a mission, Spectre decides to ambush the safehouse when they were separated. The group first dampens then attempts to disable several notable targets, with Arlo and Remi encountering a seperate group and the dampener's effects when attempting to assist the group.

It is only after Terrence who had consumed a chemical to negate the dampener's effects, manages to disable John, with Remi, Arlo and eventually Seraphina arriving too late to assist. Seraphina, in retaliation for John being disabled, gives Terrence a taste of his medicine by injecting him with the disabler. He is then turned over to the Authorities along with the other members who did not manage to get away.

## Trivia

* It is unknown what the dampening device looks like or how it is delivered as of yet. But it can be safely assumed to be portable as Spectre was able to bring it up to the mountains to use it and that it utilizes a scope to fire.

## References

1. ↑ Chapter 73
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Chapter 260
3. ↑ Chapter 263
4. ↑ Chapter 261
5. ↑ Chapter 264
6. ↑ Chapter 215
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chapter 261
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Chapter 72
9. ↑ Chapter 259
10. ↑ Chapter 68
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Chapter 214
12. ↑ Chapter 258
13. ↑ Chapter 260
14. ↑ Chapter 263
15. ↑ Chapter 264
16. ↑ Chapter 265