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He had just the thing. A sweeping laser "net," capable of covering seventy cubic meters of space in front of him with a single flash. It could also be concentrated into one giant beam--and empowered with his soul, of course--if he wanted to do some real damage, but the situation didn't call for that. Yet.

The suit opened up at six different points: the shoulders, waist, chest, and palms of his hands. Focusing lenses appeared from each compartment, varying in size relative to their location. Then red lights blasted out all at once, crisscrossing and weaving together to form a crimson web of glowing beams.

It filled his vision, illuminating the sky far more than the still rising sun. He didn't register any damage being done, though. The lasers should've been able to shred the Invisibility of any cloaked units--or simply shred the units themselves.

He swung the net wide across Bloodeye's last known location, searching to and fro.

There it was. A sudden splattering of blood and tumbling chunks of flesh arrived. The cloaking shuddered, and Abbas saw seven men there, less than twenty meters away.

Well. Three men, now.

The others were in bad shape, too, apart from Bloodeye himeself, who was only scorched across his face and chest but otherwise fine.

Time for concentration, then. Abbas locked onto the man with his visor and made every single laser converge on him at once.

In an instant, it burned a hole straight through Bloodeye's chest and set his black trench coat ablaze.

The man reacted by converting his entire body into red fumes. The flames were immediately extinguished, even while the fumes scattered out wide.

Abbas didn't intend to let himself be surrounded and smothered. He might've liked to use the laser net again to further scatter Bloodeye's fumes, but this was where the downside kicked in. The power draw. More than perhaps any other weapon in his arsenal, the lasers demanded power. The suit could regenerate its own fuel cells, but only very slowly--and only when it was functioning properly, which it most certainly was not.