Shalltear - How many times do we have to teach you this lesson, old man

He unleashed Divine Strike, a martial art that was impossible to perceive.

But even using Domain and Divine Strike at the same time, he couldn’t reach the monster before his eyes. The attack was still so slow she could catch his sword by the ridge on the flat of the blade with no trouble. So that was why...he used one more martial art.

He saw the face of Gazef Stronoff in his mind. If he hadn’t met him in the capital, even if he had made it to this point, he definitely wouldn’t have thought to use it.

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He unleashed an ultra-fast Divine Strike against the opponent he sensed with Domain. But that wasn’t all. Divine Strike wasn’t speeding up a single swipe of his sword.

The attack was—

—four simultaneous slashes.

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“Fourfold Slash of Light!”

Actually, Fourfold Slash of Light had a major weakness.

Unleashing four strikes at once was a burden too great for the user’s body to bear, so the attacks would go all over the place. Due to the move’s low chances of hitting its target, even its inventor, Gazef, ended up reserving it for use against multiple enemies—when he was surrounded, for instance.

Fourfold Slash of Light had fewer strokes than Sixfold Slash of Light, so it was somehow manageable to direct them all at one opponent, but landing all of them was still a rare feat.

There was no way such a haphazard attack would hit Shalltear Bloodfallen. Brain was well aware of that.

But there was a move Gazef Stronoff didn’t possess that Brain did, and it supported his accuracy within its range to an astonishing degree: Domain.

The four errant slashes were redirected with the help of Domain’s superhuman precision targeting, and the blades traveled the arcs Brain saw in his mind.

Four simultaneous, ultra-fast slashes that would absolutely hit their target...

This blow would be difficult for even vaunted heroes—humans who had surpassed human capability—to block. It would be nearly impossible to block all four slashes with the physical abilities of a member of the human race. It was an attack that was truly beyond human.

But Shalltear Bloodfallen stood in the uppermost heights of ability, where no one could surpass her. From the point of view of someone like that, those four divinely fast attacks might as well have been moving at a snail’s pace.

“Hmph,” she scoffed. And her left hand blurred, moving even faster.

A hard sound like the clang of metal rang through the air—the four attacks and blocks had happened so fast that the sounds became one. So in other words...Shalltear blocked all four slashes, and not a single blade reached her.

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Volume 6, Chapter 11.1