109 ORDER IS SERVED
Rewind's power could fold ti itself, splitting it into individual fras.
If she missed a strike, she simply rewound to the fra before the miss and struck again—correcting her mistake, becoming faster, more focused, more furious with every iteration.
The Order of the Cockerel had a na for this kind of ta-skill: Rewind.
According to Dan, it was called cheating.
Dan swore under his breath. "Why haven't I heard of this damn cheat skill before?"
"Because it's special to our cell," Rewind IX replied, stepping forward to finish the job. "We wouldn't be top assassins without a surprise like this."
Her eyes burned.
"Now die."
She struck again.
Dan twisted aside—barely—evading the blade.
But ti snapped back to the mont before. The mont rewound. The strike corrected mid-arc, and steel tore into his other shoulder.
Blood sprayed across the ground.
"Damn. This isn't good," Dan thought, staggering back. "With a skill like that, no matter how fast I am, she'll always course-correct to hit ."
"Think, Dan. Think."
The next strike ca.
Dan retaliated with Montum Collapse, compressing kinetic force into a single, devastating blast.
Before it could detonate, Rewind flickered—ti reversed—and she avoided the attack entirely. She reappeared behind him, her blade slicing across his back.
"You're strong, boy," she said, blade dripping with blood. "But there's no escaping a true assassin of ti."
Even Dan's fusion skills were useless if Rewind IX could undo every mistake…. She was bound to kill him eventually.
"You're not an assassin of ti," Dan snarled. "You're an assassin of cheats."
Dan was soaked in blood. Fortunately, his blue blood was already healing him—but not fast enough.
A few more cuts and he'd bleed out.
He gritted his teeth.
It was ti to use his final trump card.
"Drain…"
He tried to trigger the mining app through Vision Connect, but the Drain icon refused to appear.
The Conditions were not t. Dan rembered last ti he used Drain on Ivory…. He was badly wounded. That could be the missing ingredient here.
"Damnit, I barely hurt the cheat and therefore couldn't Drain from her… and if I can't Drain, what else can I do?"
Rewind lunged again, aiming straight for his heart.
Dan threw out both arms and unleashed a sonic burst. The wave smashed into her, hurling her backward—but she flickered, rewound the second before impact, and appeared in front of him again, her blade sinking into his chest.
"Damnit! The bloody rewind even dodges sound!"
Pain burned through him. Rewind laughed, while circling and teasing him.
"I've killed tas far stronger than you—so with even flashier skills. You're nothing special. You'll die here."
Dan's breath ca ragged. "Then there's only one thing left to do."
He turned and dashed into the nearest derelict building, vanishing into shadow.
"You can't hide," Rewind called after him. "Just give up."
She stepped inside the dark building carefully, her blade raised. The interior was half-collapsed, shafts of light cutting through holes in the ceiling. Dan stood motionless in the center, blood dripping from his fingers.
"Found you…
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