69Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡgOBn0Ck6AbFulvia stood calmly before Felix, observing her as a beast would a house pet, as her cloak flapped in the warm wind.
"I'll give you one chance: Stand down. You'll answer for your attack on us, but there's no reason to make the situation worse," Fulvia told the overconfident klevonian.
Felix was smug as she twisted a new lollipop in her mouth.
"You know, I'm known as Lucky Gale for a reason," she popped it out disturbingly before putting it back in. "No one can defeat me once I lock in. The more you fight me, the lower your chances of winning are."
Fulvia raised an eyebrow in disbelief.
"You really are ignorant if you think defeating the Ryfa Pakt will be easy. You may be a 3-star threat, but that's not enough to defeat me."
"With my power, that won't be necessary. Besides, your threat level incorporates the authority you wield as Ryfa Pakt. Considering you're not a zaster klevonian, without that, I bet your threat level's a lot closer to mine," Felix's wings fluttered as she spoke.
"Well then...," Fulvia's right hand turned white as she brought out her iridescent dagger. Her klevonian blood began to boil in anticipation of battle. "I'll play along. It's been a while since I was able to get some real exercise."
Felix looked Fulvia up and down with expectancy.
"Seriously. That's it? You sure you should be holding back? It won't make much of a difference either way."
Fulvia noted that Felix seemed to be aware that she could transform. Of course, Aeric told them.
"That won't be necessary," Fulvia assured her condescendingly. Her dagger levitated in the air as several illusion copies of it manifested before Fulvia.
When she fired them at Felix, the klevonian didn't bother dodging, showcasing that she was skilled enough to see through illusions.
"Seriously? What was that?" Felix griped in offense.
"Not enough for you?" Fulvia mocked her. "What about this?"
Fulvia manifested a larger number of copies of her dagger and sent them flying toward Felix again, except this time she used a more advanced iridescent technique called illusion congealment to make some of them feel like actual copies of her blade instead of just being illusions. This technique focused the illusion more on one's sense of touch than their sight, which made illusions feel real even though they weren't. She'd done this to Tymon when they first met to convince him they'd been fighting. But since Felix knew how to bypass illusions, Fulvia stepped it up a notch.
She then applied a technique she referred to as Reality Shifting. By channeling her energy into her Ten Ha, her illusions gained a boost in potency that allowed her to enhance any illusion she created with Illusion Congealment to literally become a temporary part of reality instead of being a simple illusion. By using this, some of her daggers were now real copies of the original. This was the same technique she used to make the wall of PRP she placed around the vicinity a reality. It was a taxing technique, so she was limited to turning only one illusion into reality aside from her dagger.
Felix dodged the daggers again, but was taken by surprise when a couple of them actually cut her. She held her sliced shoulder and rubbed the bleeding cut on her face as she replayed what had happened in her head.
"I understand now...," Fulvia heard her say.
Hm. It only took once for her to grasp it. I'm guessing the more complicated and grandiose the attack, the longer it'll take for her to find a way to understand it.
Just to make sure, Fulvia fired off the same attack again. This time, Felix's eyes darted around as she moved to avoid the real daggers while letting the illusions pass through her.
"There's a 0% chance that'll work on me again." Felix boasted.
"I see that. I was testing your ability. You really can adapt. And rapidly. But it's not physical: your mind just sees the way to avoid or counter the attack. Let's try something a little more complex then."
Fulvia decided to fire off another barrage of daggers at Felix. The klevonian dodged a few before one ran through her thigh, causing her to wince in pain before realizing she wasn't bleeding.
"Illusion congealment? But I was sure it..." Felix said in confusion just as another dagger plunged into her arm before fading away.
Felix howled in pain as red blood ran down her arm to her fingertips
"You're shifting the illusions at the last second...," she declared.
"Your Probability Field can't account for spontaneous alterations as fast, can it?" Fulvia was pleased to have discovered the flaw in Felix's ability, but she knew the more she did it, the better Felix's reaction time would become, so she ought to end the fight before too long.
Fulvia switched things up a little and blurred toward Felix. Without her transformation, Felix was faster and stronger than her, but Fulvia could use her illusions to throw Felix off. They entered close combat with Fulvia unleashing a flurry of dangerous slashes with her dagger that cut Felix over and over.
She constantly confused Felix by changing her dagger to a harmless illusion when Felix tried to guard, then reality shifted her dagger when Felix tried to counter. As they continued, Fulvia noticed that Felix was slowly adjusting – getting to the point where she could dodge most of Fulvia's blows.
Fulvia was barely putting in any real effort, but she was still impressed, nonetheless. Still, without a spirit arm of her own, Felix remained at a disadvantage.
And Felix knew this.
"Quit toying with me!" she spouted in frustration as the winds raged.
Felix sent blasts of high winds at Fulvia, but Fulvia simply cut through them with ease. The humiliation of Fulvia maintaining the upper hand without having to rely on her transformation was getting to Felix. Her reaction time grew faster in her rage until she was finally able to avoid each of Fulvia's swings.
Felix laughed a little maniacally.
"That condescending attitude has cost you," she huffed. "You said I couldn't beat you, but you can't beat me either now. I can see through each of your attacks. We're at a stalemate, too."
"Not even close," Fulvia scoffed before slashing Felix diagonally across the face.
Felix flapped her wings and dashed back several feet while holding her bleeding face. The poor girl looked a mess with so many wounds.
"How...?"
"I'll give you a clue: I have a Ten Ha," Fulvia stated, flipping her dagger casually.
"What does that have to do with anything?" Felix grunted through the blood that trickled down her face.
Fulvia looked at her with pity.
"Aw, you truly are a pawn. Your comrades told you nothing about me when you were sent here, did they?"
Fulvia took a step forward, causing Felix to take a step back. Fulvia sighed.
"Did you know, when I was young, most already figured I'd become Ryfa Pakt someday once I matured. This was before I'd even earned a Common Blade. Why do you think that is? That even with powerful figures like the Titan Generals around, it was practically fated for me to assume this position."
Felix didn't respond but grunted in pain.
"It's because I was born with a terrifying ability – one that allows me to negate everyone else's."
For demonstration, Fulvia manifested a dome around them that nullified Felix's power. Even the raging winds from Felix stopped.
"This effect can also be channeled into my blade. Which means...I can cut right through your Probability Field," Fulvia stated, terrifyingly calm.
Felix stared at Felix, dumbstruck as she was left completely vulnerable. With that, Fulvia chose to end things there and dashed toward her, then landed a final strike that left Felix unconscious. She was betting it would be a lot easier to get information from her than it would be to interrogate Fuse.
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All in all, things looked pretty good for us. Cinder was holding his own against Fuse. He couldn't seem to take him out, though. I guess that showcased the difference when a klevonian with a resonant blade also possesses a zenith mark. But Fuse couldn't finish things either. They were at a standstill.
But Felix was defeated already. Now, if Fulvia joined Cinder, they should easily be able to—
My thoughts were disrupted as a voice spoken from everywhere was heard clear as day.
"Interesting. This turned out better than expected."
Then a presence, unlike anything I'd ever felt, suddenly appeared, uplifting loose parts of the ground. It wasn't the volume of power that struck me, but its nature. Buildings cracked as they seemed to be pulled apart. The air became heavy with power, and the ambient energy in the air bent toward somewhere above us, then started to spin around a single point in the sky.
In the center of that point was a man with short, stylish, dirty-blonde hair and a lean, muscular physique. He wore extravagant dark jeans with gold belt framings and a matching dark cloak with red on the internal linings, which was worn around his shoulders. Beneath the cloak was a deep red silk shirt that was open to expose his bare chest and abs. For the most part, he appeared like a Caucasian human except for the red parts of his skin on his chest and stomach.
Just from his appearance and the power I felt, I knew who he was before accessing his bio card. He was Aeric, the resident zasshu and Tenshu of Cindar. But he was also known as The Astral Prince: a 5.5-star threat with a current EQN of 99,600,000. His bio card indicated that he was in his restricted state, which told me that his real EQN was a nauseating 996,000,000.
All things seemed to gravitate toward his presence. My senses, the light from the moon, power itself: it all seemed to acknowledge him as the center of the universe.
He descended gracefully as everyone stopped what they were doing. He then landed softly as the plasma, light, wind, and iridescent energy that flowed toward him blended together as they swirled around him.
"Hello. Vermin...," he said, revealing a wicked grin.
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