timestop

Now, I thought, using a new trick. Expending an enormous amount of MP—so large, in fact, that it was only useable at all thanks to the effects of my cost reducers and was still almost cripplingly expensive—I felt things change as I revealed one of my trump cards. It was something I’d kept in reserve to give myself a major advantage in a crucial moment, but…to think I’d need to use it just to have a chance.

By raising Acceleration to level 99, you have gained the skill ‘Tachyon.’

Tachyon (Active) LV1 EXP: 7.94% MP: 100000
The ability to temporarily remove oneself from the normal flow of time. By warping time and space around himself to exist solely within a specific ‘moment,’ the user can seemingly cause time to stand still.
Additional 100000 MP spent per ‘moment.’

All of a sudden, I could move within the frozen world and I immediately shed a Skin to escape the attack. Cinder’s claws swept through only an afterimage, distorting the space around them as they went. I analyzed the attack even as I escaped from it and knew I’d made the right choice—it wouldn’t have been my flesh those blades would have cut; they’d have carved straight through the space I’d occupied.