"As I thought, it's no longer simple mechanical transformation. It's true rule-based adaptation." The Commander's expression hardened. She spoke rapidly, assessing the battlefield in an instant.
"Conventional suppression, elemental counters, and power clashes are all useless. We need layered defenses, brute-force dismantling, and pressure from multiple fronts!"
Before she finished speaking, Android 18 had already leaped into the air. Her boundless bioenergy erupted, forming countless dense energy barriers that overlapped without a gap. They became an unbreakable wall at the very front of the battlefield.
Right behind her, Mei Terumi unleashed her Water Release at full power. Vast clouds of mist gathered from nowhere and became the Source-less Water Realm, enveloping the entire barrier. The yielding strength of water cushioned the rule-based impact layer by layer, dispersing the temporal shock.
Mai Shiranui's flames soared, weaving Hellfire into a net across the sky to burn away the tangled threads of energy. Crystal's hands flew as the primal forces of earth, water, fire, wind, and lightning surged forth. The five elements cycled, reinforcing and countering one another to form an exceptionally stable elemental ward.
Layer upon layer of defenses locked together. Powers, elements, energy, and rules worked as one, holding back the terrifying Temporal Collapse Cannon by sheer force!
Boom!
A cataclysmic explosion of rules erupted!
There was no blaze filling the sky, no spray of shattered stone. Only black-and-white ripples of spacetime spread wildly, sweeping across the world.
Vast stretches of the surrounding ruins were erased. The entire ground sank several meters, and broken towers in the distance dissolved in an instant. Even the dust, energy, and traces of presence in the air were wiped clean, leaving a zone of absolute emptiness.
The layered defensive barriers shook violently, breaking one after another as they absorbed the force.
Each time a ward