When A Xu confessed to Kozumi Kazuki and tried to prove the existence of the "Heart Barrier" to Haruhi Suzumiya through an intense imitation of male-on-male behavior, Cheng Tian's Heart Barrier had already become completely tangible.
Moreover, in a sense, Cheng Tian's mastery of the AT Field—or rather, the Light of the Mind—had come infinitely close to Power Angel, known among the Apostles as the "strongest rejection type."
Its manifestation was that Cheng Tian could stack AT Fields in layers like Power Angel did. Even if one layer was successfully shattered, the attacker would still have to face the subsequent layers of damage reduction.
Power Angel could even use these barriers for forceful physical interference, employing them as stepping platforms or heavy objects to smash people with.
Cheng Tian was even more flexible in this regard. The presence of six Miniature Lightning Angel wingmen gave his tactics far more possibilities.
Of course, as the former user of the Crystal Wingman, Crystal Moluo Eye, Fakt's Eye, and Crystal Heartscape, Cheng Tian's skill with wingmen could practically be called unmatched.
These things had originally only been usable on his own body, but now that they had been expanded for use with machines, Cheng Tian naturally had no reason to keep them in cold storage.
They could defend, attack, and even absorb energy from enemy units. Cheng Tian was already considering whether, if he ever had to face Big G, their combined energy drain rate of 6% per second could contend with the energy recovery rate granted by Big G's Prototype Accessories.
Other than being unable to match the still-living Lightning Angel in terms of maximum output, Cheng Tian basically regarded himself as an enhanced version of Lightning Angel in terms of tactical flexibility.
He could do practically everything Lightning Angel could, and