Her powerful gaze t the two shining red suns in the depths of Rui's eyes as she took her stance with a grave expression.
She didn't know what was happening with him at the mont, but she knew that he was not in his right mind.
She also knew that she couldn't kill him.
The consequences for them would be so apocalyptic that it would make the Beast Incursion seem ta.
This was one thing that all the clan leaders had had hamred into them.
As the weakest of them all, she would need to hold back the least out of all of them, which was why she had been chosen for the task of incapacitating the Dawnbringer without killing or crippling him.
And yet, when she experienced the extraordinary power of the man before her, she realized that this task was most likely not as easy as she had initially thought it would be. The sheer power of his mind beggared the imagination. It was beyond anything she had even fathod was possible.
And yet, she did not intend to fail.
BADUMP!
Her Martial Heart and Mind blazed into power.
Her Martial Soul was always there.
The very root of her existence seed to morph as her Martial Embodint blood in all its epheral glory.
She beca a blizzard.
One so cold that it made even Niflheim seem like a warm sumr day.
WHOOSH
In the blink of an eye, she leaped at Rui at blinding speeds.
Ti slowed down to a crawl in Rui's eyes as he applied a reverse Temporal Disharmony on himself, speeding up his perception of ti to astronomically high degrees. His normal hypnosis was already extraordinary and now it was astronomically enhanced by the Gigabrain technique.
His perception of ti accelerated by orders of magnitude.
A rush of euphoria flooded the sum totality of his extraordinary mind as he found himself
being able to not only perceive but also to react to the attack of a Martial Sage.
And yet, she was so astronomically faster than him that he was barely able to move centiters in the ti that she was able to move ters.
A titanic speed gap.
One that could never be compensated for by the likes of Phantom Step.
He needed sothing better.
And just like that, he created a new technique.
Monts before her attack struck him, he created a new technique. "Soul Blinding."
WHOOSH
Her eyes widened as her attack crashed into an empty image.
And yet, it wasn't a feint.
Sohow, he had evaded her attack by centiters.
Sohow, a Master had evaded the attack of a Martial Sage by centiters.
She gritted her teeth with a hint of humiliation and shock as she leaped back into action, exerting a greater portion of the titanic power that lay dormant within the depths of a Martial Sage.
RUMBLE!!!
The world shook.
It shook as she unleashed an even greater blow towards his jaw.
And yet, the attack didn't so much as touch him.
WHOOSH
It crashed into yet another empty image, missing his jaw by re centiters.
"Enough of this charade," she growled with a hint of rage as she drew a spark of materia prima from within her body.
And then she moved.
This ti, space and ti itself quaked as her body surged forward at truly astronomical speeds. Her fist once more surged towards his jaw with trendous montum.
And yet.
Despite her effort.
WHOOSH
She missed him by re centiters once more.
Once more, he managed to move out of the way of the attack.
She didn't understand.
She didn't understand what was happening.
And yet, she didn't have ti to.
Her impatience and haste continued elevating to even greater heights.
The longer this went on, the greater the humiliation she faced.
She could not tolerate his resistance any longer.
Her mind honed into extraordinary focus as she concentrated on one and only one thing.
One and only one person.
The Dawnbringer.
She was to take him down at any cost.
No matter what.
And it was precisely this impatience that fueled her own weakness.
RUMBLE!!!!!
She launched herself with such a devastatingly furious velocity that heaven and earth
mourned with agony.
She launched herself with such a ruinous montum that the very fabric of space and ti
quaked.
WHOOSH
She arrived before him, unleashing an onslaught of blows, each surgically aid at knocking
him out.
And yet.
WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH WHOOSH!!!
And yet, he evaded each and every single one of them.
He evaded them even as her nacing determination and impatience continued rising with
each passing mont.
He evaded them even as her effort and exertion continued rising.
Not only had he managed to form a preliminary model on her when the Sages had arrived with
the Angel of Laplace before the barrier was ford, impeding the technique, but he knew
exactly what she was thinking.
He knew she couldn't kill him.
He knew she was extrely impatient and hasty.
He knew she was desperately trying to knock him out as soon as possible.
He knew that there were very few targets on his body that she could aim for in order to knock
him out safely.
He understood that, within these circumstances, her psychology was highly predictable in addition to the statistical foresight of the VOID algorithm.
This allowed him to know the future itself.
And yet, that was only half the answer to evading her.
The other half was an optical illusion known as the Induced Motion Illusion Effect. It was an
optical illusion where a moving object appeared to be static as a result of the cognitive effects of color contrasts, object shapes, and object positioning. The mind was evolutionarily evolved to extrapolate and this manifested in a myriad of illusionary effects that even the subject was
entirely helpless to.
Ordinarily, it was impossible to trick a Martial Sage with such a paltry illusion. An optical illusion was limited to vision, after all.
Sages almost universally possessed a myriad array of extraordinarily powerful and exotic senses that allowed them to behold the very fabric of the universe and reality as it objectively
was.
And overcoming all of them was precisely the genius of the Soul Blinding technique.
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