Mazinger Kaiser's attack did not stop just because Seven Gods Combination had gained an extra layer of shielding. The heavy greatsword came crashing down on Seven Gods Combination's head under Mazinger Kaiser's full-force swing. The instant the blade struck Seven Gods Combination's barrier, a powerful repulsive force blocked the attack, halting the greatsword roughly a meter from its head and preventing it from advancing any farther. That tremendous repulsion seemed to possess a rebounding force as well, shoving the greatsword back with even greater power.
Xiao Ran sensed that something was wrong the instant his attack was blocked and immediately understood the purpose of Seven Gods Combination's barrier. If another pilot had suddenly struck Seven Gods Combination like that with nearly all their strength, the barrier's repulsive force would have violently flung the attack away like a spring or like magnetic poles of the same type repelling each other. Most pilots would have found it difficult to react in an instant under such circumstances and would naturally have been thrown off balance by their own rebounding attack.
But the one fighting Seven Gods Combination now was Xiao Ran. The instant the greatsword's slash stalled and its force rebounded, Mazinger Kaiser made a new move under his control. Against this type of repulsion-based shield, unless one possessed absolute power capable of directly breaking through it, any simple, ordinary, purely physical attack that did not exceed that threshold would, at worst, be reflected back with all the force that had been applied. Generally speaking, that force would be doubled and reflected back in an instant.
As for energy-based attacks, especially for Real Robot units, Beam Attacks generally relied on some kind of force field to restrain beam particles. Thus, such a barrier also possessed a certain degree of defensive capability against Beam