Chapter 2804: Starry Mystic Eyes

Date: Unspecified

Time: Unspecified

Location: Myriad Realms, Card World, Southern Region, Blossom District, Three Mischief Encampment, Mystic Dimension

"Mystic Eyes!" the Field Marshal chanted as one of her starry eyes turned normal while the sky of the mystic dimension turned starry just like her starry eye.

The Emissary of Light suddenly felt a sense of being naked, as if all his secrets were laid bare for everyone to see. He felt like there was nowhere to hide, not even in his own mind.

"Star Shower!" With the Field Marshal’s words, the stars in the sky of the mystic domain began to fall like celestial artillery shells, with devastating speed and force.

The Emissary of Light’s danger sense flared sharply, not a vague unease but a clear spike of lethal intent cutting into his range. For a split second, the false helpless tension on his face now hardened. The nine energy orbs snapped into motion.

They arranged themselves without hesitation: three layers, three orbs per layer. Each layer formed a ring, but not a flat one. The planes tilted, offset, constantly shifting like a gyroscope trying to stay upright in a collapsing world. The rotations didn’t match. One ring spun fast and tight, another slower but wider, and the third somewhere in between, creating interference patterns that made their paths hard to predict.

At a glance, it looked like three luminous rings orbiting him from different angles, slipping and re-aligning, never staying fixed for more than a heartbeat. They expanded outward keeping him dead center. Instead of waiting for the incoming soul slashes, the rings began to hunt them. Each orb adjusted its path mid-rotation, breaking perfect symmetry just enough to intercept trajectories. The moment a slash entered the perimeter, one of the rings would tilt, an orb snapping across its path to absorb or deflect the strike before it could converge.

The outermost ring took first contact, bleeding off force. The inner rings reinforced where needed, tightening or widening their spin to plug gaps the moment they formed. Creating an efficient defense using offense. Within seconds, the remaining soul slashes were either intercepted or diverted away from him, freeing him to focus on more dangerous and pressing matters.

Seeing the Emissary of Light’s gyro ring defense, the Field Marshal’s eyes shone. Instantly, the raining stars changed their trajectory and headed for the Emissary of Light like heat-seeking missiles. The falling stars began to bombard the Emissary of Light’s three gyro ring defense from all angles, throwing him around the mystic dimension as if he were a football.

The attack was nonstop, the frequency of the strikes suppressing the speed of the Emissary of Light’s calculations to maneuver the nine rings in a three-gyro-ring battle formation. After all, that battle formation was meant to be operated by nine card apprentices, not one. He was expending a lot of mental energy, soul energy, and faith to operate it alone, as each starfall strike felt like being hammered by a mountain.

Since all of the Field Marshal’s attacks, the slashes and the starfall, were enhanced using celestial force, he couldn’t rely on pure defense. He had to enhance it using faith to resist the celestial force in her attacks. If he hadn’t, one of those slashes from earlier would have been enough to destroy his defense and kill him.

Now, to keep his defense up with the frequency of the Field Marshal’s attacks, he began to use his faith to enhance his mental energy. Soon, his calculations were easily able to keep up with the frequency of the starfall strikes and decrease the mental strain on him by a huge margin.

Since the attacks were coming to him he didn’t have to expand the orbit of the rings to seek them, he redirected that faith to enhance the nine energy orbs so that they would be able to withstand the starfall strikes better and not be thrown across the mystic dimension like a football with each strike.

Despite the faith spent, with every strike, he was still being thrown around the mystic dimension, not far, but just enough to disperse the force from the impact. With his faith, he could stand in one place like an immovable mountain, but he would end up spending three times the faith than he’s spending now.

With his defense finally enhanced, he could spare attention to think of a decent way to get out of being defensive and prepare a solid counter for the Field Marshal, forcing her into defense in her own domain.

However, just then, out of nowhere, he was caught in an explosion, blowing a third of his body to smithereens. While regenerating, the Emissary of Light wondered how the explosion had gotten past his defense. No matter how he racked his brain, he couldn’t understand how this was possible. How could an explosion strong enough to blow a third of his body apart get past his defense without him noticing? The more he thought about it, the more absurd it felt.

Nonetheless, once again, after his body had just regrown, out of thin air, he was engulfed in a blast. He barely managed to keep his head, a part of his neck, and his right shoulder. Spending faith to regenerate instantly, the Emissary of Light replayed the last few minutes in his mind, trying to figure out what had happened, while increasing the faith spent on enhancing the energy orbs.

Yet, once again, just as his body regrew, without any warning, a blast swallowed him whole. Knowing this could be the end of him, as the blast swallowed him, the Emissary of Light spent his reserve faith without hesitation, allowing what was left of him to regenerate faster than the blast burned him to ash and maintain his defense, not letting it fall.

Before he could even recover from that ordeal mentally and physically, multiple starfalls struck his defense, kicking him around the mystic dimension, and before he knew it, another explosion took what he had managed to regenerate head-on, without even giving him time to think about what was going on.

The Emissary of Light had no choice but to keep burning faith without any reservations to ensure they came out alive from these explosions. After all, he couldn’t use the faith he saved if he died.

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