His gaze swept the cracked walls and uneven stones.
"Perhaps," he thought, "he hides for reasons of his own."
Meanwhile, Ramses roared and thrust both palms forward, releasing a compressed sphere of ether that crackled with violent force. The blast shot toward Zion like a cannonball.
Zion calmly raised both hands.
The sphere struck the center of his palms.
Instead of exploding outward, the energy recoiled as if it had collided with an invisible spring, deflecting downward and smashing into the ground where it carved a shallow crater without harming a single bystander.
Kiara blinked.
From the system, she knew Zion possessed a passive rebound mechanism that activated when attacks struck the exact center of his palms, yet seeing it function repeatedly with such precision stirred suspicion.
"Is that my increased luck?" she wondered.
[Your luck points do not affect the Android. The result is due to the target's reduced luck.]
