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Yumi revived herself from the dead with her own skill, forcefully freeing herself from the attack priority debuff casted by HuoLi. Her long pink hair shook violently as her body violently pieced itself back together, in that every piece of her damaged body rushed into a single point like tiny bullets of organic material. A bright light flashes before her form was complete once more and... She wasn't undead. She was properly alive, her blood flow and heart rate seemed to be completely normal.
The impromptu teamwork of Amelia and the rest began to break down as everyone was tossed back. The light had caused enough force to propel everyone in the vicinity. While HuoLi was initially a grade lower than everyone, she would be the only 'combat' type magical girl here. The other 2 were less used to fighting, and their skills weren't suited to be attack magic either. They were barely making their magic work under the basis of their skill descriptions, operating under their skill's magic effects that they instinctively understood, it required high ingenuity to form their magic into something that could hurt others.
Amelia's [Blessing] was never meant to hurt others, in fact it couldn't kill at all. All it could do was to amputate limbs permanently like it previously did. Her [Revelation] as well, helped to manipulate knowledge or awareness. But these are pretty much auxiliary effects, they couldn't do any damage on their own. She walks forward while casting [Revelation] on the surroundings.
Himei and HuoLi jumped back, though the magic hit them as well in the form of transparent sky blue light. Everyone in the immediate vicinity was hit with [Revelation], Amelia could perfectly control its effects with each target. To her teammates, it gave them extra awareness on the enemy's locations, bypassing any illusion or deception magic if used by the enemy. It also roughly heightened their senses even more.
To her opponents... It made them unable to focus on her teammates, leaving herself to be the sole individual under their collective gazes.
"[Loss in crime]. " (Neah Ari)
Her hair was mint green and floated gently above her shoulders, reaching only to the base of her neck but not touching her skin. Her combat dress was a mix of greyish purple and dark green, with the main hue being grey with dark green highlights, painting a sharp and aggressive looking military style combat dress. Her rank was displayed in a dark green metal with various medals and ribbons also made with dark green cloth. Her top was squarish, where her chest snuggly fits into the uniform to form a voluptuous mount.
Her skirt was similarly dark grey with high boots and reinforced opaque tights underneath. The skirt was pleated with gleaming dark green metal highlights and roughly 3 loose belts sat atop her hips. The belts don't seem to serve any function as they aren't tightened around her body but laid atop as if they were decorations on a Christmas tree.
"[Blessing]." (Amelia)
This time she casted it on herself, avoiding the magic casted by the opponent all together by causing it to miss. She raised her fist while keeping her body low, launching her knuckles like a rocket that blasted through Ari's cheeks. Her fingers collide against Ari's flesh, tearing it apart in a shower of blood. Long Yi arrives closer, getting a step a head of everyone else with [Cataclysm] 's effects, ignoring cause bringing effect instantly.
Amelia watches in composure, staring down at Long Yi as she appeared right in front of her. [Revelation], when casted on herself cna bring forth knowledge of the unknown, traces of the future. Despite being a 'saint', a support type magical girl, she was still a God magical girl, her infinite computational ability allows even the comprehension of concepts beyond human comprehension. This includes... Knowledge of skills.
She can't predict the opponent's skill if they keep it hidden, but once they cast their magic they practically become an open book. As for her allies, she didn't need them to cast their magic for her to know their effects. As such, everything was still within the margin of her expectations. Huo Li arrives to intercept Long Yi, using her attack priority to slip in between Amelia and Long Yi. Even if Long Yi reversed cause and effect, arriving at the 'outcome' of landing an attack while skipping the cause, Huo Li's attack priority still allowed action before her opponent's magic to take effect.
Long Yi's dragon jacket bent through the air, weaving and bobbing vigorously under the wind pressure. Her fist was already outstretched, but it stop short of Amelia's body. Looking a little closely, Huo Li's palm was in the way. Ari had already recovered and was launching a simultaneous attack with Yumi.
" Second skill, [Vice of an observation long past, dawn of an interlocking dimensional matrix of myth: Laplace]." (Himei)
To the dawn of civilisation, the sky returns to ancient times as if filling the usual insipid grey with saturation. The environment changed. It wasn't an Oblivion Magia or an illusion, Himei had brought everyone here to the distant past. The reason was...
"[Zeus, god felling thunder]." (Himei)
It allows her to seek help from the gods of the past. It was hasty to assume the gods of ancient pantheons weren't real, conversely it was also too simplistic to say they died out or didn't exist in the first place. In reality, the truth was far stranger than fiction. Once could say they are both alive and not alive at the same time, as they all reside in their own versions of the afterlife. Occasionally they bless the human world, but they have taken a strict stance of non-intervention, leaving it to the actual living gods such as Himei, Amelia and the dragon god.
Superimposing the world of the past over reality, this was zeus at his prime. It goes to say that their number of followers did not correlate to their strength, every single individual's power was down to their own circumstances. Zeus was known as a ruler who had forged his lightning into an oppressive force that could rule the divine, an absolute that would ensure a large gap between him and the second strongest individual in his pantheon. Of course, Himei wasn't only going to use one god as reinforcement.
We've heard of alternate futures, this was the alternate past where the other gods didn't hesitate to help out Himei when they see her. Gradually, more and more of them appear. It felt like Himei was controlling the divine lightning herself, more and more magic poured in until it overflowed, resulting in an explosion that would have never occured in the past.
Temporarily, no one could hear a thing. There were no longer air particles around after all, the explosion sent it all away. A burst of light so brilliant it outshone the sun erupted, unleashing enough energy to annhiliate the solar system multiple times over... And it's climbing. The flow of magic has never stopped. It grew exponentially, reaching the scale of a galaxy then multiple galaxies.
"[Petty denomination]." (Ari)
The light dims almost immediately, fading into black. The expelling energy is rushing back to the point of collision where everyone's magic was clashing, as if time was reverting. Even in the tiny details... Everything felt like it was going backwards in time to reach their initial state.
"... Time manipulation...?" (Himei)
"... The light dimming isn't a rewinding of time... Things are moving backwards, but they're moving beyond their initial state.
Existence value manipulation... Think of it like Kaori's [Calamity], but it has to act on something that exists." (Amelia)
" It's going to be troublesome to deal with someone like Kaori. But we can do it. " (HuoLi)
Huo Li spoke with her eyes trained onto her enemy's body, a slightly monotonous tone exuded her frigid atmosphere around as she declared their capabilities sufficient to bring down their foes.
Her word is enough to push Himei into action, she steps forward, summoning the power of other gods and gathering it into her fist. She guides the magic and shapes it finely into a pair of brass knuckles on each fist, its existence was a fused multitude, a composite product that shone like a band of rainbows that kept rotating its colours. Even having converted the magic into a simple pair of knuckle attachments, they bent the surrounding space around her fist, sapping any light around it in a small radius to form a vacuum sphere around each fist. The attachments still glowed in a myriad of saturated colours, illuminating gracefully.
She swings her fist forward, her figure had vanished in a flash and arrived behind Ari. There is a set target for [Petty denomination], otherwise it wouldn't only be the explosion but the change in scenery would also have been reversed. Then before the environment is changed, before Ari sends the era back to the present where the power of the gods that she borrowed were weaker, she has to take her out.
"Here. First skill, [Akashic editor: 'Cursed maiden of the all-seeing sight: Amon Mei'] ." (Himei)
Her fists 'see' their target and striked it down. Connecting beyond time and space, her rainbow knuckles impact Ari's cheek. Just as her magic allows her to view the entire universe at once, bypassing her congenital blindness, it could also work the other way around. Rather than channeling information directly into her mind, she's sending her attack as information at everyone else's mind. And to the world itself. The world 'sees' the effect of her punch that ignored every possible law and is convinced of her opponent's injury.
However, through the effect of [An external long held wish, inner Catastrophe]... Long Yi reversed it. As long as she was around, any lethal damage that they might have dealt could easily be removed. As if it was an undo button. She surmised that she didn't have a choice, Long Yi is undoubtedly the strongest one here. Someone has to deal with her and preoccupy her down to every attack. In an instant, Himei launched 3 fist strikes through space, her hand flashing into rainbow light as her body began to move faster than her knuckle attachments.
"[Loss in crime]. " (Ari)
"...!" (Himei)
"Tch! [Revelation]... It was skill disable." (Amelia)
Huo Li arrives behind Ari, her extradimensional scythe tucked neatly on the back of her palm, it's entire lop sided structure rested stably without any of her grip strength acting on it. Flicking her wrist, her fingers rotated around to grab the scythe's handle while spinning it forward in the same motion. *CLANG!* The screeching of rubbing metal rings out chaotically as Yumi intercepts with her forearm. The scythe's edge rubs against the rubber of Yumi's hazmat suit, her heavy breathing escapes her gas mask, Huo Li could observe that Yumi's obscured gaze laid intently on her body.
"[Blessing]." (Amelia)
Her suave intonation softly echoed behind Ari, alerting Ari to her location. Her mint hair spins around, her body ready to use [Petty denomination] on any attack coming her way. She had a firm understanding of her own skills and fighting style, every destroyer had been here for a different amount of time, but all of them had countless years of experience. That's why...
She raised her palm, aiming her fingers at Amelia as her palm faced the floor. Then she twisted her arm to face in another direction. Rather than her damage reducing skill [Petty denomination]...
"[Loss in crime]." (Ari)
Her mint green hair fluttered from the air pressure caused by her own movements, after her arm twisted it faced at Himei. Disabling the effects of other skills isn't its only ability, it was a mere side effect of stealing their skill.
"[Amon Mei]" (Ari)
Shortening its name, she calls out the name of her stolen skill towards Amelia who was gunning straight for her.
"... [Blessing] x2." (Amelia)
... Anything that Ari gained from stealing Himei's skill, it was brutally ignored as Amelia's fist smashes through whatever defences she threw up, her fist continued to fly past and struck Ari's cheek. Her knuckles blew past her head instantly, rather than a decapitation... A large chunk of the head got disintegrated without a trace. Long Yi was about to cast [cataclysm] on [Blessing] x 2 in order to erase its effects, but she was firmly stopped by Himei's second skill and attacks.
Yumi was also held up by Huo Li who had spun her scythe repeatedly, gouging out bits of Yumi's hazmat suit and trimming off locks of brown hair. For some reason her scythe could not dig into Yumi's flesh under the hazmat suit... It was something that was as hard as the material that made Huo Li's scythe... In other words, she might be in the same position as Huo Li. Reinforcing her body with an extra dimensional material to reach the realm of God magical girls.