Chapter 833: So how? [2/2]
[No, she is not. It's an application of her domain. What she is violating is the law of classical mechanics. She is not creating any energy as she swings her sword. It's just that she swings it to hit you. Distance which should have been taken into account is distorted.
[Thus, by the rules of her domain you are in front of her. So, you should be hit. Which in turn is enforced by creating an attack that had no property but to hit you, because you are in front of her, so her attack should reach you.]
'That makes absolutely no fucking sense! I am over a kilometer away! How am I in front of her?'
[This was why nothing Tuesday and Sunday did reached her. She can change where she is so long as she is in her domain. If you shoot her, her rule would change her location to somewhere that isn't along the bullet's path making it miss. Even this finding was solely because [Gladiator's] [Student] analyzed her attacks while getting beat up.]
'But she seems to be more cautions that before isn't' she?'
[It is probably because she has no information about the skills of the other disciplines. She should have some idea but not enough to accurately predict what we are about to do.]
'Fine, then how do we beat her?'
[By attacking her when the same time she does. Her "location" is predicted to be only fixed the moment she decides to attack. Thus, unless she is attacking, she is impossible to hit.]
As we were discussing a .50 BMG raced in front of us and slammed into Lilly's nonsensical attack. The [Interceptor] [Executioner] kept firing was a round blessed with {Insight}. Consequently, it could theoretically stop any attack as the attack's weakness was what it aimed for.
"Tsk. These disciplines are tricky! Then how about this!"
Lilly then ran towards us. I say ran but it was more like she blinked. She took three steps then suddenly appeared in front of Monday. The moment she did, Wednesday swooped in. [Sky Sentinel] was not the strongest but was the one with the fastest reaction time.
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"[BURST]!"
My princess got alarmed when a John Smith suddenly was within a few feet of her. I had two AA-12 held in front of me firing full auto. The pellets similarly got redirected but I wanted to try ramming my body into her. Even if she bent space, she should still exist somewhere.
"TSK!"
Clicking her tongue, Lilly didn't evade but instead maneuvered her gun arm to shoot me down. I did a flying barrel roll to evade her counterattack before running away. Thankfully [Sky Sentinel's] [Attuned] allowed me to sense the attack and respond before it happened.
At that moment, an [Annihilate] round made its way towards Lilly. Having fended off Wednesday, Lilly then raised her hand which suddenly made the .50 BMG round vanish. Taking this moment, Saturday in Ninja, used [Shadow] and appeared behind Lilly.
"What?!"
Unlike before, I felt the alarm in her voice. I then broke my concealment and tried to lunge for her from behind. All of Lilly's abilities were built on the fact that her domain was fucking up where she was. So, rather than shoot her, pinning her down was my next go to.
But contrary to my expectations I only briefly got to touch Lilly. Afterwards, Saturday appeared over 500 feet away. "Did she just fucking blinked me?" I commented in irritation. With Saturday out, Monday and I tried to also rush, and body slam my princess.
"ANNOYING!! GO AWAY!!!!!!" She screamed.
The Untamed then sent a powerful kick towards Monday. I brought up my shield intending to block her strike, however after I felt a powerful impact hit, I felt the air change. I also found myself teleported over half a mile into the east.
Seeing Monday kicked into nothingness, I had Tuesday brought his guns forward and fired everything he could towards Lilly. In the same moment, Friday fired another [Assassinate] round for support. [Executioner's] [Track] showed where Lilly was, even if her we couldn't hit her.
With Saturday and Monday gone, Lilly rushed towards Tuesday. Despite emptying magazines of .30-06 and 7.62 NATO everything vanished the moment they touched my opponent's body. With a smug smile, Lilly tyrannically cleaved my guns in half.
She then aimed the Minigun just inches from my chest like a spear, "Try not to die, Dearest!" Whirling sounds of the M134D's sprang to life. Along with them the rapid gunfire of a rotary machine gun!
But before they could hit me, overlapping Tomahawk shields suddenly appeared and created a wall in front of me. They were naturally replicated Shields created by Thursday who finally rejoined the battle.
"Ridiculous!"
He also had an armory worth of SMGs all emptying their clips as if their lives depended on it. It didn't make much difference as once again the rounds simply vanished. However, something happened which no one expected.
Friday's soul powered bullet slammed into Lilly's gun causing it to explode.
"What?! How?" Even Lilly seemed caught off guard.
'[Maestro]! We finally hit her! What happened?'
[We finally figured it out. Lilly's skill has limitations, she is brilliantly disguising it by executing different attack patterns. She has two modes which she cannot use at the same time. Let's call them "Close" and "Open" modes.
[In "Close" her domain denies all attacks, as a side benefit, she can eject people with her touch. Her "Open" mode on the other hand allows her to blink with just a step and make attacks the bend the rules of distance and space.]
'So how does knowing this crap going to help?'
[Each mode has limitations. "Close" is protected from outside attacks. But should something come from within her domain the effect is lost, much like your [Vortex]. This is why she panicked earlier; she sends people away as she cannot respond to attacks from inside as well as out.]
'Then the round from earlier?'
[It was due to luck. Because of Thursday's barrage, Lilly shifted from "Close" to "Open". The [Annihilate] round was already in her domain which was why she couldn't stop it. "Open" allows her to move around, but she cannot tank bullets and must evade.]
'Hoo…'
I see. No wonder Lilly had conflicted behaviors. She sometimes evaded bullets and ran. But also blinked and tanked bullets like a fucking brick. She alternated between sword slashes and firing her Minigun, but did not use both.
The difference lied in which mode she was in. It was nothing short of luck that my Soul Avatar's mapped Lilly's abilities. Funnily enough it was only because everyone was here that we managed to do so. Tuesday and Sunday despite giving their all got pummeled without much to show for it.
'Then can we beat her?'
[Now that we know how her domain works, Yes. Yes we can. It would depend on if we can use her domain's range against her. Possibility of victory is at 87%. The plan would be forcing her to defend with bullets and then rushing her with Wednesday, Tuesday and Thursday.]
'Sounds good. Let's do it.'
Lilly's Domain was quite small compared to the South American's make the size of a small room. But that fact that it followed her was a fucking pain. We just had to bombard her with bullets to force her to "Close." The rush in and pin her down inside.
That might have been impossible to do before but not now. When we started, she was a half Descendant, meanwhile I was just human. The gap slowly decreased when I became an artificial descendant. But now? I was already beyond what Lilly was capable off.
Her body was not even a full Descendant as her mother was human. In contrast, I was the equivalent of a 9th Generation. While she was a Specter, baring a domain, I could already fight on the same rank. And I was going to make sure she remembered.
"Tsk. {Armory}, do not get cocky Dearest!"
Lilly rewinded her Minigun while she rebuked me. It was obvious that she wasn't happy. But sadly, I didn't give a damn. My blood was burning right now. Especially at the realization that I could now take on even Specters!
Of course, Lilly was considered a Specter newb. But I also was pulling my punches. I had yet to use {Replace}, nor {Rewind}. At my current combat ability fighting Specters no longer seemed like a dream.