The Void Reincarnator's attacks were ghostlike, everywhere and nowhere, impossible to predict.
Teresa immediately entered a combat stance. Her movements were swift and precise, each flash of sword light accurately cutting down the afterimages that tried to approach.
However, the Void Creature's speed and strength far exceeded her expectations. Even giving it her all, she could not completely defend against every attack.
Just then, the scythe-like forelimb tore through the air, sweeping toward her with fierce Aura.
This time, it seemed to have foreseen Teresa's evasive route and adjusted its attack direction in advance, leaving her almost nowhere to dodge.
Teresa's pupils contracted sharply, but she did not choose to retreat. Instead, she decided to meet the blow head-on.
Every muscle in her body tensed to the limit, her feet planted deeply into the ground as though she wished to Merge with the land itself and draw greater strength from it.
"Hah!"
With a sharp cry, Teresa suddenly exerted force with both arms. Her greatsword blazed with dazzling light like lightning splitting the darkness as it collided fiercely with the scythe-like forelimb.
For that instant, time seemed to freeze. The deafening crash of metal against metal shook the air, and even the surrounding space trembled.
Everywhere, sparks flew. The shockwave produced by the collision of the two forces spread outward, instantly blowing away the surrounding mist and revealing a brief moment of clarity.
Yet what shocked Teresa was that even though she had put everything into that strike, the scythe-like forelimb merely trembled slightly. It had not been severed as she had hoped.
She felt resistance unlike anything she had ever encountered, a force from a higher dimension that far exceeded the limits of her understanding.
At that moment, she truly understood the insurmountable gulf between herself and the Void