Tyranny was a wind-type relic . With every swing it birthed hundreds or thousands of cutting gales . Solid objects were shredded in its wake . The might of it was frightening and the winds locked down a whole area .

Opponents had to weigh hunkering down or trying to run through the deadly attack . Weaker challengers were defeated outright by this opening attack . Stronger ones found it hard to move safely and had to take it head on .

Nothing had survived so far against Mercury’s Tyranny! Even defensive relics of similar cla.s.s were rendered useless, unless their bearer was much stronger than him .

His was a name that held weight in Fulmulta . He first earned a place among the Mighty Ten when he was very young . Among his generation it was widely believed he had the potential to become a Master .

It was Mercury’s character to try and hide or downplay his faults . He never revealed his feelings or shared his reasons . But this time it was obvious . Lance had shamed his brother who was even more talented than he had been . It was a slight against their family name . How could they let it stand?

“He’s too strong, we’ll never beat them!”

Idonea had started to tremble . Mercury’s opening attack was enough to convince her she was way out of her depth . There was no way they would win . Apollo hadn’t even joined in yet .  

Surrender! The thought kept ringing through her mind .

This wasn’t a test, it was a chance for revenge . Idonea didn’t care about any inner circle, she had a specific goal . Getting in the middle of this conflict wouldn’t do her any favors . But it was already too late . She didn’t even have a chance to open her mouth .

Mercury already had Lance locked down . From several dozen meters away he leaped through the air as more power coursed through the saber . Another hurricane of biting winds spun around his weapon like a tornado .

Thousands of strikes in one!

If this didn’t kill Lance outright it would make him a cripple! Idonea had no time to defend herself . Although the brunt of it was aimed at her companion, some residual power was flung toward her . In that instant, as she prepared herself, it felt like gravity came cras.h.i.+ng down .

“Interesting . ”

Cloudhawk felt the power take hold . It was different from the kind Terrangelica used . Dawn’s relic tried to crush opposition with thousands of pounds of force . Tyranny, however, highly compressed the air around them – squeezing on all sides . The former’s intent was to flatten, the latter to implode .

This Lance weakling clearly hadn’t beaten Mercury’s cousin . He won through underhanded tricks! He’d been lucky that Jupiter wasn’t experienced, that was how he defeated him . Fighting Mercury was like trying to defeat a G.o.d by comparison .

As Tyranny came screaming down, Mercury was confident he had him .

But his confidence was shattered when Cloudhawk waved a hand . Instantly all of that crus.h.i.+ng pressure disappeared . From within Cloudhawk’s sleeve a beam of purplish-red light was cast out . Striking like an angry python, it ignored Mercury’s domineering power .

s.h.i.+t! He pulled Tyranny back into a defensive position . Moments later the room shook as an ear-piercing explosion tore through .

When his whip struck the sword sparks filled the air . Clear scorch marks were left on the steel where it’d suffered from high heat and voltage . All who witnessed it couldn’t believe what they’d seen .

He’d moved so fast . No one saw exactly what Lance did . The whip crossed the distance in a blink then disappeared like a bolt of lightning . Although he had surprised Idonea many times already, she still couldn’t believe what she was seeing . It was like he was a completely different person .

What just happened? How had Lance been able to move so easily despite the pressure? And with a perfect counterattack! It was so impressive he suddenly seemed much closer to Mercury’s level than people thought .

“He has a special relic . It lets him create a vacuum . ” Mercury scowled . Being knocked back by this punk put an embarra.s.sed lilt in his bearing . Apollo looked on in open suspicion .

Tyranny’s pressure was based on control over air . Anyone with a relic that created vacuums could easily counter it . But knocking Mercury back with a whip strike like that couldn’t just be explained away . Lance had to have strength to back that up .

If Cloudhawk were facing Terrangelica’s powers he would have had fewer options . Mostly, use his superior physique to fight through it . But air pressure was different . His control over the superstring turned air into a vacuum with only a thought .

“Apollo, let’s deal with them together . ”

“I just need a little backup,” Cloudhawk told Idonea . The whip in his hand crackled with fire and electricity . “I’ll handle these two . ”

Mercury brandished his sword and came in for another attack . Apollo joined him and as he lifted his sword there came a cascade of stars . Orbs of energy peppered the area like a meteor shower . Cloudhawk and Idonea were both caught in it .

So that was his power . The Nebula Blade allowed him to call a rain of stars . The wide-scale attack was deadly, especially in a closed environment .  

But Idonea did not remain still . Plucking a necklace from around her throat, she hurled it into the air . Suddenly it began to change, stretching longer then connecting at the ends . A portal now hung in the air between the two groups .

Cloudhawk’s eyebrows shot up . “What? Spatial power?”

Idonea wasn’t impressively strong, but she was lucky enough to have inherited her father’s abilities . The necklace she carried was called s.p.a.cefetter .  

The chain-like edges of the portal began to rotate . The murky s.p.a.ce in between solidified until it was clear as a mirror .

Anything that touched the mirror – physical or energetic – was sucked in and flung out the other side . While from the outside it looked razor thin, inside was another story . How much s.p.a.ce actually existed between the two points was determined by the relic’s bearer .

Idonea absorbed Apollo’s attack and in the next instant she moved her hands . The mirror rotated ninety degrees and fired the energy toward Mercury . All of a sudden he had hundreds of burning lights bearing down on him like machine gun fire .

“Better than I thought . ”

Idonea’s combat skills were undeveloped, but that didn’t mean she was weak . Her low-grade necklace didn’t give her a way to use her spatial talent for direct attack . Instead she used her foes attacks against them . It was more of a defensive relic .

Apollo and Mercury were caught off guard and weren’t sure of their next move . Cloudhawk exploited their lapse by attacking again with the whip . It struck Tyranny again in the exact same spot and this time sent it flying .

Apollo moved like a phantom, so far his shadow could hardly keep up . Cloudhawk had heard that the Mighty Ten’s leader was strong and so it seemed . He relied more on his martial skills than his mental energy .

Quick as the wind, he leaped across several dozens of meters with his sword aimed for a killing blow .

Cloudhawk responded with the whip . It wrapped around the Nebula Blade and tugged it askance . It cut nothing but air . Apollo reacted quickly, loosening his grip and plummeting toward Cloudhawk with a crus.h.i.+ng kick .

But when he came in range something altogether miraculous happened . His dramatic attack was cut short when Lance caught him with a fist to his face! Both men were knocked backward .  

He blocked Apollo’s attack?! That could only mean he had a good const.i.tution on top of his mental abilities . Mercury lashed out again, birthing another storm of windy blades at Cloudhawk’s back . He was too distracted by Apollo to notice .

Idonea called out then manipulated her necklace . The portal swallowed up most of the attack and flung it back toward Mercury . It was the best she could help .

“Enough!” A voice boomed across the hall . “Pa.s.s . Let them through . ”

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