Krell Belmont's aura armor sank into his body, gradually losing its sheen until it seemed to have dissolved. But his opponent knew that Belmont's skin alone was now as sturdy as battleship armor. He really did have "a face thicker than the bend of a city wall," in the most literal sense.
Besides, since this was an occult technique, its defensive capabilities certainly weren't limited to physical attacks.
This was the "Aether Shield," a technique far more advanced than steel skin or dragon-scale armor.
It was said that when this energy barrier fully unfolded, it would form a peculiar magnetic field that rendered all high-velocity kinetic weapons useless and caused energy attacks to tangle with it, triggering a nuclear explosion. Only slow-moving melee weapons could possibly pierce it, such as watermelon knives and daggers...
How could a shield this stupid possibly exist?
In reality, this was a technique of the "Guardian" constellation. Once this armor was activated, every pore and even every cell was enveloped in stimulated spiritual energy. How could its boost to combat ability amount to merely a little extra defense?
Rather than a shield, it was an active buff that enhanced every aspect of the body's combat abilities.
It was an invincible defense and an unstoppable offense, a divine technique that excelled at both. And in the relatively confined space they were fighting in, it would amplify that advantage to the fullest.
At its most extreme, the guy could turn into a three-dimensional pinball in this room and smash me to death. General Finn Berenkest was finally starting to regret his decision. He really shouldn't have installed four layers of armor in the walls of his office, including a layer of reactive armor.
...The same model used on dreadnoughts of the Main God class.
But what else