"Now do you see how wise it was of me to share the Knowledge Essence with you?"
Ash, who had just had his head blown off, showed no nerves at all. He even had the presence of mind to joke. Felix, who had been clinging desperately to his Supreme Tail Feather, heard Ash speaking normally, and it felt as if she had fallen from ten thousand miles in the sky only to land on a cloud made of cotton candy. Her emotions surged so violently that it was as though her spine had been pulled out; all strength left her body, and she dropped downward. The swaying, dancing Supreme Tail Feather suddenly extended, wrapped around her, and handed her over to Daedalus nearby.
"Refraction Guard, Source Power Holy Domain, Knowledge Barrier—none of them worked." Ash sighed. "The depths of a God Country angel really are impossible to measure."
Ash was not stupid. Since Source Power would slowly recover anyway, there was no reason not to use defensive Miracles. Whenever he moved around outside, he layered multiple defensive barriers on himself. "Refraction Guard" and "Source Power Holy Domain" were almost always active on him, even when he slept. "Knowledge Barrier," meanwhile, was a defensive Miracle Diya had constructed with the Gospel God as its core. Its effect was very simple—when someone locked on to him, Knowledge Barrier would confuse the enemy's perception.
In truth, the perception-confusing effect was only better than nothing, because "Knowledge Barrier" was a trigger-type Miracle: before it triggered, it would continue to exist, but once triggered, it would become ineffective, so it could only confuse the enemy's perception for an instant. But what Ash and the others needed was not to confuse the enemy; they needed the triggering of "Knowledge Barrier" to discover that someone was ambushing