Getting a Technology System in Modern Day-Chapter 1042: The FINAL FIGHT VI

Aron reached the same conclusion as the knowledgeable viewers. His mana sense, which was faster than even his eyes that looked to be frozen in place, made it clear that the shrinking of the shield was slower than the speed at which the Grand Xor’Vak moved. If he released his attack in the current situation, it would break through like a stone through unreinforced glass, and it would be even more difficult to capture him in the same situation again, as he would be wary of it.

His mind, currently operating at maximum time compression, immediately got active. The complex runic script that was the creation formula for the shield was immediately being edited at a much faster pace than even the Grand Xor’Vak could move. Some words were added, some were removed, and some were replaced, but in that short period, more than a hundred thousand different modifications were made before he immediately provided it with mana, which was the same as pushing an update on a live website.

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“Arghhhhhhhhhhhh,” the Grand Xor’Vak shouted as he pushed his body with all of the mana he could gather at the moment for this attack. He needed to get out of this prison as fast as possible in order to earn himself even a brief moment to replenish the expended mana, as his attempt to tough it out until the emperor ran out of mana had failed, and now he was running low while at the same time having sacrificed most of his physical protection.

As he dropped his hands and finally unleashed the attack, he lost control for a moment, failing to suspend himself. But it didn’t matter, as he needed to fully brace himself for the backlash and aftermath of the attack that was going to fall on his mana-less body, together with the gaps in his scales to protect him. As he braced himself, he closed his eyes.

But when a tenth of a second went by without anything happening, he opened his eyes to find something that he would describe as impossible in front of him.

The spatial fractures that he expected to happen as the aftermath of his attack had happened, but instead of doing any damage, they looked as if they were suspended in time, or rather, moving in slow motion in front of his eyes. He finally saw the process of how his attacks happened, broken down from one fraction of a microsecond to another.

However, he couldn’t really be immersed in observing the process because that was not the time to do so. His legs lost their strength, causing him to fall to his knees. Though he didn’t hit the shield’s inner wall, which looked still though it was closing in on him, his body was suspended in the middle of the open space, held by the gravity from all directions of the cube.

“How? How could you do that?” he asked with great difficulty about what he was seeing and how it could even have been done. He wasn’t expecting an answer; it was just such a heavy mental blow that he couldn’t help but ask it loudly.

“Thank you for your stubbornness and pride in trying to outcompete me in mana capacity. You allowed me to gather the near-unfathomable amount of mana needed to use temporal runes,” Aron’s voice was heard before his body revealed itself to be just a few meters from the outer side of the shield, which made the distance between them hundreds of kilometers.

Although he was confident that he could win the fight with his current abilities, he knew that confidence was a result of the incomplete information he had about the Grand Xor’Vak, meaning it could be completely wrong. It was the same way the empire had covered their capabilities through lies and many other ways. So just to be sure, he had finally returned to the system shop to spend some of the unfathomable amount of SP he had earned through the war and bought the basic space and time runes.

However, despite them being the most basic runes, they cost him an arm and a leg. When he assimilated the knowledge, he realized that he couldn’t even use it in real-time as a means of attack or defense due to the amount of mana required being more than his body could expend at the same time.

This meant he needed to expel and contain mana in an area for about twenty minutes straight before he could use even one of the attacks. Since the fight prevented one from accumulating mana beforehand, he couldn’t even prepare it, so he didn’t even imagine an opportunity to use it would reveal itself.

So when they entered the battle for who could outlast the other in mana output, Aron just used the shield to contain the mana, with only a small portion of it being used to increase density while the rest was stored for his ultimate use. The moment he saw the spatial crack attacks were coming, he finally put it to use.

He chose a target for his temporal ability, as the amount of mana expended increased with the size and number of targets, so he just targeted the empty space moments before the spatial cracks appeared, effectively slowing the time around the space where the cracks appeared to the point where it almost looked like it was moving in slow motion.

As Aron spoke, he didn’t just float there idly. He moved his hands into a T-position, and the moment he was done answering the question, he brought his hands together, CLAPPING them. Although there was no sound in space, it didn’t matter to anyone. The area inside the cube where the Grand Xor’Vak was suspended just turned into pure white light, as if a supernova had happened in front of the viewers’ eyes.

Moments later, the temporal ability that brought the spatial cracks to a near-halt was released, destroying everything in the vicinity, including the CUBE. Aron disappeared from where he was moments before that happened, appearing nine hundred thousand kilometers from where the cube had been, all of this before...

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