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The blade struck with the speed of lightning, surprisingly catching the pneumarian off guard. However, the blade hadn't penetrated his skin. Due to the vast power difference between the two, Damien's blade wasn't able to break through the pneumarian's and raked harmlessly against the pneumarian's blue skin, proving just as vain as the rest of our attempts of resistance.
"A cindium blade?" The pneumarian inquired as he grabbed the blade barehanded. "This doesn't appear to be a spirit arm. Who would create something so useless?"
Damien quickly seized the opportunity and connected a path of his energy to the blade, applying his Overload ability to it, activating his Static Aura. With it, he could inflict or intensify the pleasure or pain someone felt through their nerve receptors, something that proved effective against Junichiro. His goal was to cause as much pain to the pneumarian as possible, but we watched with bated breath as his power didn't affect the pneumarian at all.
"Of course," I breathed. "A being made entirely of energy wouldn't have pain receptors. Does that mean we can't hurt him?"
"We do feel pain," the pneumarian said, answering my rhetorical question. "Although it's not quite like the pain material beings such as yourself feel. For someone like me, only another source of overwhelming energy can hurt us. Or a spirit arm."
He added that last part as if reluctantly adding something that had slipped his mind for a moment.
"So, even techniques like spirit enhancement are pointless considering the gap between us," Za'Fia summed up.
"Precisely," he responded with a mature confidence. "Do you all concede now that you understand how hopeless resisting is?"
"Not a chance in hell," Za'Fia retorted as she flared her power, and I began to charge my own attack.
"I couldn't have said it better," Arne remarked, cracking their knuckles as the two of them charged forward and punched the pneumarian as hard as they could with their strongest-quality spirit enhancement. Still, their blows didn't amount to much besides generating a gust of force that sent ripples through the water and blew sand from the beach outward.
Before the pneumarian could retaliate, I emerged from a shadow beneath the pneumarian and unleashed the strongest Destructive Fist I could muster square onto his face. To each of our astonishment, the pneumarian's head was blown apart, and his body was sent flying dozens of feet.
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Fun fact: Za'Fia's flame arm is only manifested so long as Za'Fia can keep up the concentration. Luckily, she's gotten used to maintaining it for long periods of time without too much effort.
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