Aron imdiately moved from his location without wasting a single second, the mont he sensed spatial instability, as it was one of the only few attacks that could actually go through his shield.
But the spatial fractures were just the after-effects of a complete attack from the Grand Xor’Vak, who had used the stellar storms in space and forced the magnetic lines in them to cross and short-circuit, releasing a burst of energy equivalent to millions of hydrogen bombs.
At the sa ti, he had also compressed the stellar wind into a razor-thin blade of high-pressure plasma, creating a shock front that missed Aron, who moved from his location very fast, and went on to hit the dwarf planet. The pressure difference was so extre that it created a supersonic boom in the plasma, creating a visible ripple on the stellar dium that looked like a crack in glass as it physically shattered the material structure of the dwarf planet.
The joint effects from the two attacks created a thermal pressure gradient so intense that it created spatial instability by flash-heating a pocket of space and instantly expanding the surrounding pressure, creating a local vacuum collapse that led to the spatial fractures.
The after-effects were very fast; the mont it took for the spatial blade to miss him and for the spatial cracks to appear was less than a tenth of a second. But the dwarf planet itself had neither the ti nor the ability to avoid it. It compressed for a mont before it blew outward in all directions, failing to handle all of the abuse it had been inflicted with and carrying massive amounts of energy.
The Grand Xor’Vak redirected all of the chunks heading in Aron’s direction, bombarding him and trying to crush him using their montum. At the sa ti, Aron was pushed very far away, making it obvious that his opponent was planning to push him outside the designated boundary of the fight, where anyone who is pushed past it would automatically count as a loss.
It was put in place to avoid soone on the verge of losing from just bolting away and running for days, if not weeks or months. The boundary was slowly shrinking with each passing second, but due to it starting with a million-kiloter radius, it was going to take a very long ti for Aron to be pushed up to it.
“If you don’t do anything, you are going to lose without even initiating a single attack. So are you going to keep taking it easy?” the Grand Xor’Vak spoke using mana at Aron, who was still being pushed and bombarded by the chunks and remnants of the planet.
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“Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck. Where the heck did spatial attacks co from?” Aron asked himself as he wondered where they ca from.
He had had combat simulations with Seraphina, who was now more than ten tis the strength she had when she joined the empire, and had even gone further to have Nova create a Seraphina who was still ten tis stronger than even that. But even at that level, that Seraphina had no attack that could induce spatial cracks and fractures.
It was that which had given him the confidence to be able to face his opponent without much risk to his life, despite looking out for other possible ways that might cause him harm.
It ant that the Grand Xor’Vak was stronger than they had imagined him to be, to the point where anyone who looked at their estimation would say they were exaggerating. But it seed like they were still far from the actual level the Grand Xor’Vak was at.
“Okay, we better go all out, or we risk actually dying,” Aron, who was planning on learning everything from the Grand Xor’Vak to benchmark himself, threw all of that out of the window to now go all out.
Imdiately, a shield in its passive mode was created before it was expanded to kiloters in radius. It then stopped growing and imdiately turned active, blocking both the entry and exit of the objects before it started changing shape into a very small cylindrical cannon ten ters in diater, making it thousands of kiloters long but only ten ters wide, fitting all of the stones, magma, lava, and all other materials that were thrown in his direction inside the cylinder.
If the cylinder was highlighted, the last quarter away from where the dwarf planet was looked completely empty, but that was only for a mont as a rune appeared and instantly activated, creating a massive explosion that filled the entire empty portion of the cylinder. The explosion didn’t leave, as it was a sealed part, leading to the explosion going back and forth within the sa area, building pressure with each round.
Aron allowed it to build pressure for an entire second before he turned off the part blocking the pressure from the part of the cylinder with the stones and him, imdiately sending everything inside it outward like a cannon toward where the Grand Xor’Vak was, making it look like a cannon had just been fired.
Aron, who was among the fired projectiles, was fully focused on the rune he was creating while traveling, using the debris as a cover to hide his real location. He knew none of the things fired with him were going to do any harm, using them and the chaos created when they were fired to activate the invisibility rune that hid everything about him and made him stealthier the more mana he inputted into it.
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“Where are you?” the Grand Xor’Vak, who was now floating where the dwarf planet used to be, asked in a low voice, verbalizing his thoughts as he focused on trying to find where Aron was. At the sa ti, he was exuding his mana, having it ready for imdiate use the mont he discovered where he was among the rapidly approaching debris.
“It doesn’t matter since you are still inside the debris field,” he said when the chaos inside the approaching debris made it impossible for him to detect his opponent. He decided to obliterate all of it as he raised both his hands, making it clear that he was intent on repeating the attack that had destroyed the dwarf planet, but this ti with both hands.
Hmph, he grunted as he started dropping his hands.
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