With a clear goal in mind, I made sure to remove all distractions. I was only focused on one thing, and that was to make her brandish that axe with all her might.
However, for such a thing to even happen, I would need to put her in danger. Otherwise, I would never be able to do such a thing.
‘I guess I should use everything that I can.’
With those thoughts, I used my sword aura without wasting a second, and I also conjured a strong flame to coat my sword.
In the lapse of a few seconds, my sword, which had previously looked normal, was now extremely dangerous for anyone in this world. Even if I was weaker, this weapon wasn’t in the least. This sword had been crafted by the best blacksmith in the entire world, so when I coated it in such a manner with my powers. It could cut down everything standing in its way.
In fact, as I thought of the powers at my disposition, I decided to try something.
I wanted to coat my sword with aether. I knew it was a risky move to pull off in battle, but I just had a feeling that it would work.
I tried my hardest to summon aether, and when I did so, Zoe stopped attacking me as she just observed what I would try to pull off with this new energy of mine.
She knew that it could potentially benefit me to not attack, so that’s what she did. After all, she didn’t care about the winner of this battle. This was only some kind of spar to see the extent of my strength. I had no way of winning even with my previous strength, and it wouldn’t change now that I had lost half of it.
Nevertheless, as I conjured aether around my sword. I realized that the sword was rejecting it as if making it known that it couldn’t be used on objects.
‘Is it impossible to use on objects, or is it just me that isn’t skilled enough?’ I thought in the back of my mind as I tried once again.
However, it was once more the same result. There was nothing I could do. Aether would get rejected by the sword over and over again, making me lose hope of using it in a fight.
“It was a nice idea, but it seems that the aether isn’t listening to your will just yet for some reason.” She smiled. “I’ll show you my tribe’s powers now.”
After she uttered those words, I noticed a purple hue surrounding Zoe’s eyes. The purple hue resembled aether a lot. Actually, I believed that it was aether. However, she couldn’t use it freely like me. I think that’s what the restrictions God placed on the tribe when using the aether.
That’s also why he believed that they could teach me how to use it. However, it seems like they still hadn’t realized it for some reason.
I didn’t mention it right now since, right as she activated her tribe’s powers, she dashed in my direction, prompting me to dodge her strike.
However, this time, I wasn’t only planning on dodging and blocking her strike. I wanted to see just how powerful their ability was.
“Come on, try to attack me. Stop dodging!” She shouted.
At those words, I just smirked as I slashed my sword as fast as possible toward her neck, aiming for the kill. However, even before I started performing my strike, she moved away from the trajectory that I was planning to use, and when I tried to change it, she once again moved.
She truly could see a few seconds into the future; she could see all my intent when I was trying to attack her, making it pointless to even try to land a strike on her. She could see all of them before I had even launched them.
She started laughing out loud when she saw that I had given up trying to attack her.
“Why aren’t you attacking me? Are you scared of me?” She smiled.
I just shook my head. “There’s no point. You can react to my attacks before I even launch them. So, I’m just wasting energy by doing so.”
“Do you understand just how powerful this makes us?” She asked me with a smile.
“Yes. I knew of the potential when I first heard about this ability of yours. Being able to see into the future in real-time in a fight could even be considered cheating by some people.”
Zoe was glad that I had understood that she stepped away from me and said, “Well, there is no point in continuing this fight any longer. Did you learn something from this fight?”
I shook my head. “I did not. However, I noticed something quite interesting when you activated the tribe’s power. There was a purple hue around your pupils.”
Zoe just frowned at my words. “A purple hue? What are you talking about? Even when I fought against other tribe members, I never noticed such a thing.”
“It might be because I can use aether and was able to spot it. However, this gave me an idea. If I were to infuse aether energy into my eyes. Maybe, just maybe, I would be able to use the same ability as you.”
Zoe realized that what I was saying made a lot of sense, and she nodded excitedly. She had never expected something like this to happen at all.
“Yes, you should totally do it. There’s not a single doubt about that part!”
With those words, I didn’t waste any time as I guided the aether within my body toward my eyes. It listened to me quite well, and I was able to control it to quite a decent level. However, I was still clearly lacking. Nevertheless, I didn’t care too much as the purple energy finally reached my eyes.
Instantly, I could feel my field of vision changing.
There were afterimages everywhere around me.
It seemed like I had acquired the tribe’s special power just like that.
