Infinite Paths: The Raging Phoenix-Chapter 1541: How cute

In the next moment, Rain landed on his feet and then took a deep breath... he was having a hard time doing so thanks to his broken bones, but he eventually pulled off. frёeωebɳovel.com

The Temporal path was updated.

Lvl 35: Time Reversal - Reverses the flow of time within a confined space, undoing recent events or restoring objects to previous states. Higher levels increase the time rewind and decrease the cost.

Lonos furrowed his eyebrows when he felt that... it seemed that Rain was still absorbing the information that he got in that dimension, but something was off... that kind of power was part of Instantaneous Strike, but Lonos didn’t use that power per se and alone in the dimension.

"It is a very fun technique..." Rain said. "I didn’t think that it would be a ranged attack, but I guess it makes sense. It would be a hassle to approach the enemy and then return to the previous position."

Lonos scowled... to think that Rain would catch on so quickly. His techniques, in theory, had some flaws, but they were only diversions that made the enemies unable to tell how they worked.

"Since I am tired of you, I will just use the next level of my strategy," Rain said.

As Rain’s aura vanished, Lonos’s eyes widened in surprise, his expression shifting from confidence to uncertainty in an instant. For a fleeting moment, it seemed as though Rain had been reduced to a mere mortal, stripped of his otherworldly abilities. However, the sudden emergence of another aura around Rain quickly dispelled any notion of his weakness.

Incredulously, Lonos saw the familiar temporal aura enveloping Rain, mirroring his own. The realization dawned upon Lonos like a thunderclap, a revelation that shattered the illusion of Rain’s vulnerability and laid bare the true extent of his power. With mounting apprehension, Lonos understood that he was facing not just a formidable opponent but a peer, a master of time whose prowess rivaled his own.

In that electrifying moment, the stage was set for a battle unlike any other, where the boundaries of time and space would blur, and the fate of worlds would hang in the balance.

"You... how..."

"You gather the knowledge and fill in the blanks, that is all," Rain said. "After seeing you copying the overseer, it became obvious how that technique works. Still, this is only something that someone with the power of information aspect, void aspect, and energy aspect would be able to pull off. Or someone like you."

As it turned out, half of the things that Rain said after he returned were lies... he didn’t use the energy of the red star to sustain that dimension, nor did he use the power of four aspects to suppress Lonos power... he only wanted to analyze his skills very consciously. He created that dimension to gather all the data necessary to rival Lonos’ true power.

Thanks to that, he connected the dots between the overseer and Lonos. Lonos and the overseer possessed the ability to transcend the confines of conventional existence, ascending to the realm of five-dimensional beings. In this state, they not only transcended the limitations of physical form but also wielded unfathomable power over their time and energy. Unlike humans, who are bound by the constraints of linear time and finite energy, Lonos and the overseer had access to the entirety of their temporal and energetic essence, spanning across the dimensions.

When Rain first saw the overseer, he was struck by the overwhelming magnitude of his energy, a force that seemed to dwarf his own by billions of times. This staggering power disparity came from the overseer’s boundless access to the accumulated energy of its entire existence, granting it unparalleled control and mastery over its own resources and knowledge. Similarly, Lonos possessed the potential to attain such a state, capable of harnessing the vast reservoirs of temporal and energetic essence at his disposal.

In essence, the ability to become five-dimensional beings granted Lonos and the overseer an incomprehensible scope of influence, empowering them to manipulate the very foundations of their own existence. Rain was doing that on a smaller scale now...

"... This is a bit hard to control," Rain said while furrowing his eyebrows. "It is like trying to control my future self."

Before Rain could do that further, Lonos charged at him and then surrounded Rain with countless Instantaneous Strikes that didn’t leave any room for him to dodge. Still, Rain just used his aura to defend himself... the aura weakened considerably since it only had a few seconds worth of energy, but he ended up with only a few scratched and that left Jonos speechless...

"Impossible..."

"By making myself completely vulnerable for a while, my power multiplies when I want to use it," Rain said. "It is like using ten mana points per second to fight at an average best but then ignoring that and fighting at the peak of one hundred for a single moment. This is truly an interesting technique, but you aren’t using it fully... why?"

Lonos aura was the same, but he wasn’t multiplying his power like Rain by leaving himself defenseless during a few moments... he was doing the inverse, even though the aura wasn’t supposed to do that... Rain could only guess that he truly hated that feeling of powerlessness.

"Hehehe... how cute," Rain said and then used Origin Punch.

Lonos tried to escape, but he got punched in the stomach, and his body bent backward, and then he was sent flying in the distance. His eyes were wide open as he endured that agonizing pain for several moments... The attack reached the same level as his Charged Temporal Strike, so it was no wonder he was completely shocked by the results, and that wasn’t all.

The Temporal path was updated.Lvl 40: Temporal Restoration - Restores temporal balance to disrupted places, repairing paradoxes and restoring continuity to fractured temporal threads. Decreases the effect and power of time magic against you by by one thousand points per level.