Unbreakable

As I was completely incased, I looked down at myself contemplatively. The layer of metal armor seemed almost weightless and even without using Armored Shell, it seemed to be consider a part of me. Good, that was one thing I’d worried about, especially considering the effects of Kavacha, and it wasn’t something I’d wanted to test with Kubera without being sure. But now…

Kubera (Active) LV1 EXP: 0.00%
An ancient technique named after its user, one of the Apauruseya of Vytal. The man that became known as Kubera was born with a close bond with all the precious metals hidden within the earth. As he grew in power and strength, so did his connection to them, until he was able to turn aside even the sharpest of blades with a thought. In time, however, he came to learn of power of the Apauruseya and sought to imitate them, breathing life into base steel and creating a being that protected the Yaksha. As war raged endlessly in the fallen world, however, Kubera found that neither his guardian deity nor his riches were enough to protect his people and so sought a yet deeper truth within the summoned steel. In time, he realized that they were born of his soul, as much a part of him as he was of them. Soon after, he joined the ranks of the legendary god-kings of Vytal and mastered this art alongside them, internalizing his guardian where he’d previously drawn it forth from the earth.
Metal Affinity rises to Max.
The user of this skill is immune to Metal Elemental attacks, including attacks made with metal weapons.
Active MP-based skills that do not naturally share an affinity with an Element way be given the Metal Element at no additional cost.
Only those with a Metal Elemental may use this skill.
A Metal Elemental may not be manifested while this skill is active.
Only one Elemental may be merged with in this fashion at a given time.

I felt Crocea Mors, then—my First Elemental and the one I often kept closest, in the steel of my sword. He moved through the steel that cloaked my body and then just seemed to…disperse into it and me. This time, I felt the steel push inwards, seeping into my flesh and blood and bones. I could see my body changing before my eyes, becoming metallic through and through—a massive change, when Agni had merely intensified the flames around my body, but I suppose that was the difference between the ‘energy’ Elementals and the ‘material’ ones. After a few moments, it was molten steel running through my veins instead of blood, feeding into a moving metal musculature. Even my heart had changed, taking an almost mechanical look.

And having survived that change, I reached deeper, to something that went above and beyond my body—and felt myself change even further. It was at once a quiet change and a startling one as my beat once, something flowed through my entire body, encompassing every part of my being…and leaving me looking the same as I had beforehand. Visibly, nothing had changed in the slightest, not even when I looked at the deepest layers of my body.

But I felt different, as if every part of me had been abruptly cast aside and replaced with something wholly new. And when I opened my Third Eye to look at myself, I seemed different as well. More…solid, I suppose I could say. Or perhaps more certain.

I turned my attention back to the Panoptes as it finished gathering power. I knew exactly how much energy it had gathered and while I was fairly certain it wouldn’t be an instantly lethal blow, an attack like that could very well strip away anywhere from a third to half of my health bar. With Sahasrara active alongside my other defenses, I wasn’t particularly worried about that, though—but then, that why I was testing this against a giant peacock instead of against Ziz. Nonetheless, I prepared myself to take the shot.

There was a moment of silence and then something tiny and unbelievably quick leapt from the tip of the creature’s beak to the center of my forehead. Despite the amount of energy it had gathered, the attack looked like nothing more than a spark of static electricity.

But when it connected, there was a burst of color and sound and light. Power washed over me, shattering the ground beneath my feet, around me, and behind me. Though everything between the Grimm and I went entirely untouched, a trench was carved for over a kilometer behind me as a rush of light swept it away. It was an attack powerful enough that, if not for the effects of the Gamer’s Body and Sahasrara, it wouldn’t have been surprising if my entire upper body vanished despite my defenses.

And yet, I felt nothing.

As the light faded, I lifted my hand and pursed my lips, ignoring the dust and smoke clinging to my skin.

“Not a scratch, huh?” I mused. “As I thought, something like this works pretty well against the Grimm.”

Kavacha (Active) LV1 EXP: 0.00% MP: 100000
The armor of the gods. Rather than a defensive technique, the nature of this skill is one of transmutation—a shift from base material to something more. By using this technique, the user temporarily transforms their entire body into something that does not—and cannot—naturally exist within the Kingdom; a substance which originates instead in the worlds above. Similar in structure to the elements which compose the soul, it is an impossibility given form, and highly resistant to the touch of the mortal world.
Body transforms into the unknown material ‘???.’
Physical attacks that inflict less than 10000 damage after all applicable defenses instead do no damage.
Physical attacks that deal more than 10000 damage reduce their end damage by 10000.
MP attacks that inflict less than 1000 damage after all applicable defenses instead do no damage.
MP attacks that deal more than 1000 damage are unaffected.
Additional 100000 MP used per minute.