Then it attacked.
No warning. No courtesy. Just instant, overwhelming dimensional warfare.
The guardian's first strike folded space through twelve-dimensional rotations, creating a hypersurface that sliced toward Elias like a guillotine blade made of pure topology. The attack existed simultaneously in all twelve spatial dimensions, impossible to dodge through normal three-dimensional movement.
Elias didn't try to dodge.
He unfolded himself across dimensional layers, spreading his existence through five parallel dimensional sheets so that the hypersurface passed through empty space that he temporarily wasn't occupying.
The attack missed by existing in the wrong dimensional frame.
Elias counterattacked immediately—projecting his fist forward through a dimensional channel that connected his position directly to the guardian's center mass, bypassing the intervening space by treating distance as a topological illusion.
The punch landed across six dimensions simultaneously.
