Galaxy Fall: All My Skills Are Maxed-Chapter 127: Impossible!!
"...?!"
Elizabeth and Cupcake froze in absolute shock. They were staring blankly at the small white paw which had suddenly frozen in mid-air, inches away from Mirabella’s face. It wasn’t stopped by a magical barrier or a burst of aura; it was as if an invisible, physical wall of pure diamond had intercepted the strike.
"What are you doing, Cupcake?" Mirabella asked calmly. She opened her eyes, the dark energy completely gone, and slowly turned her head to look at the stunned white cat.
"Um..."
Cupcake was entirely speechless. She was staring wide-eyed at her master, her feline mind unable to process the absolute physical resistance she had just encountered, not knowing how to answer the question without sounding guilty.
"Nothing." The cat finally answered, hastily lowering her paw and sitting back on her haunches, trying to look innocent.
Mirabella sat up gracefully. She moved her piercing gaze around the lavishly decorated room, her enhanced vision now seeing the world through the lens of her God-Rank skill. She saw the ten identical, translucent clones standing in a perfect defensive perimeter around her. Some were standing directly in-between the solid matter of the velvet couch and the glass tables.
’Oh, these guys aren’t only invisible to others, they are also phantoms, which can pass through physical objects... But they can instantly solidify their mass to stop an attack or strike back,’ she thought, slowly nodding as she fully understood the terrifying mechanics of the skill. She stood up, brushing off her uniform.
"Both of you, follow me to the training ground." She said in a tone that brokered no argument, and walked purposefully towards the exit, leaving a completely stunned Cupcake and a highly confused Elizabeth behind in the parlor.
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[Dragon Empire Academy Training Ground - 7 PM]
The vast, reinforced obsidian arena was empty, illuminated by floating magical spheres that cast a cold, sterile light over the stone.
Mirabella stood at the exact center of the training ground, the ambient wind whipping her hair. She stared intensely at Elizabeth, who stood a few paces before her. She then looked over her shoulder at Cupcake, who stood behind her.
"Ok, now... Both of you, attack me with your strongest attack, make sure you’re aiming to kill."
"Huh?"
"What?!"
Both Cupcake and Elizabeth were dumbfounded, dropping their combat stances and staring at Mirabella like she had genuinely gone crazy.
’I know the Miss has a bit of a screw loose when it comes to training, but isn’t this practically dangerous? Besides, it’s not like I can even physically kill her with her stats,’ Elizabeth thought, her mind racing to find the logic in the suicidal order.
"Just attack me." Mirabella ordered the two, her expression deadly serious, her eyes tracking the ten invisible Guardians taking up defensive formations around her.
"Miss, there is one major problem," Elizabeth said nervously.
"When I got officially assigned to you, the Empire’s Great Mage cast a high-tier binding spell on my soul... The core purpose of this skill is to make the attendant completely powerless towards their assigned Master... Meaning, none of my magical attacks can affect you. It will simply stop and reverse back onto me," she explained, revealing the dark, paranoid world-building of the Dragon Empire, which strictly ensured its elite students were never assassinated by their own assigned servants.
"Huh?"
Mirabella was momentarily stunned; she had no idea there was such a restrictive, automatic defense mechanism built into the academy’s hierarchy. She looked over her shoulder at Cupcake.
"Don’t look at me... It’s the exact same basic law. I am your bound spirit familiar, so none of my attacks will be effective against you... But I am fundamentally different from Elizabeth... Your attacks won’t work on me due to the soul pact, but it will work on her," Cupcake said smoothly, her explanation immediately dropping Elizabeth’s mood.
’So she can attack me with full force, but she can’t attack that smug cat... I wish I could take her systemic advantage,’ Elizabeth thought in mild annoyance.
Mirabella held her jaw, calculating the variables. ’This is troublesome. I was planning on testing this new God-Rank skill’s offensive capabilities with these two... I don’t need to test physical attacks directly hitting me; the Guardians will completely block it. What happened with Cupcake’s paw in the parlor is definitive proof of their automated defense.’
She stared at them with renewed focus. "Seems I will have to go with that." She nodded, finalizing her parameters.
"Both of you, attack me physically, full force and speed... If you can multiply, do it..." she yelled at them, commanding them to bypass the magical restrictions by relying purely on physical kinetic force without lethal intent.
Elizabeth thought for a moment, analyzing the loophole, and sighed. "I guess a pure physical attack is possible... But if we infuse genuine killing intent into our strikes, the Empire’s seal will reverse the damage to us..." She closed her eyes, gathering her dense Lv200 energy pool.
"I can do it."
With that focused thought, her figure blurred. She separated into ten perfectly identical physical clones, and her heavy broadsword appeared simultaneously in all ten of the clones’ hands.
"Attack."
WHOOSH!
The ten Elizabeths shot forward with explosive speed, the stone cracking beneath their boots as they scattered in all directions to flank Mirabella in a synchronized assault.
Mirabella stood perfectly calmly in the center of the kill zone, her hands relaxed at her sides. Through her connected vision, she watched as five of her invisible, Lv500 Celestial Guardians turned smoothly towards the ten incoming threats and moved forward to intercept.
’Just thinking about what will happen physically, kind of gets me excited,’ Mirabella thought, a faint smirk playing on her lips as her Guardians stopped directly in front of the ten completely unaware clones, who were still charging furiously towards Mirabella’s position.
She watched as the five Guardians simply stretched forth their ethereal hands towards the charging clones. The next moment, a terrifying, invisible kinetic force smashed brutally into Elizabeth’s ten clones, throwing them violently backwards through the air.
BAM!!!
The ten bodies smashed heavily into the reinforced obsidian ground. Nine of the clones instantly vanished into wisps of smoke upon impact, returning the feedback to their original body.
’What just happened?’ Elizabeth thought in pure shock. She hit the ground rolling and violently vomited a mouthful of warm blood onto the stone.
’What is this force?! Only a Lv300 and above fighter can breach my defenses and injure me this easily... But...’ She looked up fearfully at Mirabella, who still stood absolutely calmly on her original spot, her hands still resting at her sides.
’She didn’t even move a muscle. Not even a single trace of spirit energy flowed out from her core... Is this an automatic, invisible defense skill?’ she thought, wiping the blood off her lips with the back of her trembling hand.
’But I felt something physically attack all my clones simultaneously. A blunt force strong enough to take me, a Lv200 All-Bloodline user, down with a single, effortless hit... An attack I couldn’t even perceive, let alone dodge.’ She forced herself to stand up from the cold ground, moving her sharp gaze frantically around the empty space surrounding Mirabella.
’What the hell is actually happening here?’ She closed her eyes, pushing past her internal injuries, as two hyper-focused, agility-based clones appeared directly behind her, both armed and ready.
"Go."
The two clones shot forward, burning their core energy to move with five times their previous speed, turning into literal blurs of motion.
’My raw agility stat is higher than hers... There is no physical way she can catch up with my—’
BAM!! BAM!
Elizabeth stood frozen in absolute terror as her two hyper-speed clones flew violently backward, their weapons shattered. They smashed heavily onto the ground and vanished instantly into smoke, neutralized before they could even get within ten feet of their target.
"Impossible..." she muttered in creeping horror, finally realizing she wasn’t fighting Mirabella at all; she was fighting an invisible, insurmountable god.
