People really were often forced into greatness. Gou Dan remembered that Tieba had once been full of a popular thread discussing sliding tackles. It contained all sorts of unbelievable arguments, including one claiming that people could dodge bullets when they were extremely furious...
The situation before her was far more terrifying than dodging bullets. The laws governing the countless explosive elements as they evolved within this force were incredibly complex. Being caught in the middle made her feel like a fallen leaf in a storm. The slightest carelessness would leave her smashed to pieces.
When she had first learned the footwork, even under completely calm conditions, the ordinary rhythms of the elements had nearly tortured her to death during Elementalization. Now, with the elements running rampant, the difficulty was no different from being dragged straight from Newbie Village into Hell Level!
To put it in realistic terms, it was like making someone who had just learned to ride a bicycle pilot an aircraft carrier. It was completely absurd...
But after several dozen seconds passed, Gou Dan suddenly realized that she seemed to be... doing all right?
Looking at the storm of elemental particles around her—too fast for her eyes to see clearly, forcing her to dodge entirely on instinct—Gou Dan suddenly started to believe the saying about people being able to do anything when they were extremely furious...
If that was the case, then didn't that mean sliding tackles worked too?
No, what kind of nonsense am I thinking? Don't get distracted, you idiot...
Unfortunately, Gou Dan's bizarrely effective dodging relied entirely on the extreme state of emptying her mind. Once her thoughts became muddled, forcing herself into that state would only be self-deception.
In practically less than one ten-thousandth of a second, countless divided particles wrapped around Gou Dan.