Chapter 67: Stellar Technique—Great Aegis, the Prototype of a Domain

Chapter 67: Stellar Technique—Great Aegis, the Prototype of a Domain

‘Tendou, are you sure you want to do this?’

Outside the Ember Base’s gravity chamber, Caroline looked at Tendou—who was preparing to enter alone—and once again asked him with a deeply serious expression.

For someone like Tendou, who was neither an Enhancement Type nor a Transformation Type, entering the gravity chamber too early wouldn’t help his training at all.

On the contrary, it could even hinder his growth to some extent.

After all, he was only twelve years old—right at the age where his body was still developing.

Training his physique under such intense gravity before he’d fully grown definitely wasn’t a rational move.

At least, that was how Caroline saw it.

But since Tendou had insisted, he clearly had his own reasons—and the confidence—to do so.

Because this wasn’t just related to his current defensive methods.

It was also tied to the future prototype of his Domain.

Therefore, even after Caroline repeatedly tried to persuade him, Tendou casually assured her he would be fine and declined her concern.

Unable to win against him, Caroline could only let him enter the gravity chamber and stayed outside to monitor him the entire time.

And the moment Tendou stepped into the chamber for the first time, the interdimensional audience immediately understood why he insisted on using it.

Most people entered a gravity chamber to find ways to strengthen their physical bodies.

But Tendou entered the gravity chamber to train his “Vector Control.”

The moment he walked inside, a faint, illusory vector force field appeared around his body.

At the beginning, Tendou could only counteract the gravity pressing down on him using a rough “force-against-force” method.

But gradually, as he adapted to the chamber’s gravity and further refined his control over his Star Origin, after a few days he managed to precisely divide and redirect the gravitational force.

The result was that out of the 1.5× gravity pressing on him, he split off 0.5× and diverted it elsewhere—leaving only the normal 1× gravity on his own body.

A few days later, Tendou reached the point where he could fully nullify “gravity.”

The effect was similar to the gravity acting on him flowing past him like water, sliding harmlessly off his body and being guided down into the floor of the chamber, unable to affect him at all.

At this point, Tendou’s training in Vector Control had reached exactly what he envisioned.

In the days that followed, Tendou continued to raise the gravity level of the chamber, pushing it all the way to a staggering five times gravity.

Even under 5× gravity, Tendou could still move freely—completely unaffected.

This was the moment when Tendou had finally developed a brand-new defensive Stellar Technique: Great Aegis.

[Stellar Technique—Great Aegis:

Upon activation, a directional vector force field is formed within a 9-millimeter distance around the user’s body surface.

It can deflect all incoming attacks and redirect them elsewhere.]

Watching the explanation of Great Aegis and Tendou’s entire training process, the interdimensional audience finally understood why Tendou—even without being an Enhancement Type or Transformation Type—could unleash close-combat power equal to or even surpassing those types.

They also finally grasped what level Tendou’s strength had reached at this point in the story.

For long-range attacks, Tendou had Dark Grey, terrifyingly powerful with extremely short charge time.

For close-quarters combat, he had Great Aegis, which provided fixed damage reduction and immunity to low-power attacks.

For mental resistance, Tendou had the Star-Eclipse Eye, allowing him to see through illusions and making him extremely difficult to deceive or manipulate mentally.

Tendou’s overall combat power had reached an astonishing level.

You could say that at this point, Tendou was essentially a fully maxed-out, five-dimensional, perfectly balanced “polygonal warrior,” with not a single weakness anywhere on his body.

“Good grief, so not only can you reduce incoming damage by a fixed amount, you can even completely ignore all attacks below a certain threshold? Haah?! You’ve really taken Vector Control and played it like a cheat code!”

“No wonder Claude went berserk and activated his mech, yet still couldn’t break his defense with a single punch. Turns out he redirected all the force into the sand under his feet!”

“Fixed damage reduction + immunity to low-power attacks + partial damage reflection + immunity to most elemental attacks—bro, are you sure this is still Vector Control?”

“Tendou: “If you don’t drain my mana bar first, you think you’ll ever see my HP bar? How naïve.””

“Run! There’s a monster loose!!’

Amid the interdimensional audience’s barrage of commentary, the animation cut back to the real battle.

BANG!

Once Tendou got serious, his speed suddenly increased by an absurd two to three times.

Even with an infrared tracking system assisting him, Claude still couldn’t keep up with Tendou’s speed.

Combined with the mech’s naturally clunky movements, the result was that—aside from the very first punch—Claude spent the rest of the time being completely overwhelmed.

Very quickly, the cockpit of Claude’s mech lit up with a flood of red warning lights, accompanied by shrill alarms.

CRACK!

After Tendou kicked the mech’s right arm joint, the mechanical limb was blown clean off.

At the point where the arm detached from the main frame, numerous wires and hydraulic pipes were exposed.

Those severed wires and tubes now resembled torn human blood vessels, spurting electrical sparks and splashing large amounts of blue coolant.

And because the mech shared sensory feedback with the pilot, even though Tendou hadn’t directly harmed Claude’s physical body, the 100% pain feedback from the neural sync system made Claude experience agony beyond anything he had ever felt.

A sharp, miserable scream burst from his throat.

But Tendou didn’t stop just because Claude screamed.

In an instant, he appeared beside the mech’s remaining left arm, grabbed the forearm section with both hands, and pulled hard.

CRACK!

Under Tendou’s strength, the mech’s arm was ripped off by brute force.

Immediately after, Tendou swung the two-ton metal limb like a baseball bat and smashed it into the mech’s chest.

BOOM!!

Claude—along with the entire mech—was blasted into the shallow sea, the enormous machine erupting into a massive water plume nearly ten meters wide.

Meanwhile, the alarm inside Claude’s cockpit became even more piercing.

[Warning: Structural damage has reached 40%]

[Warning: Several critical functions have failed]

[Warning: Power core overload; estimated shutdown in one minute]

On one side was the deafening alarm.

On the other was the neural interface endlessly feeding back excruciating pain.

Claude, already frail and sickly to begin with, could no longer endure the dual torture of mind and body.

He suddenly coughed up a mouthful of blood.

Curled up in the cockpit, the blood he vomited even contained fragments of his internal organs—showing just how dire his condition had become.

Although the battle between Tendou and Claude felt long, in truth, from the moment they began fighting until now, only about fifteen seconds had passed.

Including the ten seconds Tendou spent finishing off Yong Amsan earlier, altogether, Tendou had spent a mere twenty seconds from start to now, yet had already killed Yong Amsan and grievously injured Claude.

Just as Claude finally managed to suppress the agony racking his body and prepared to activate the hidden power source in the back of his mech for one final, desperate strike against Tendou, a sharp alarm suddenly blared through the cockpit again.

[Warning, warning: Massive star energy reaction detected. Evacuate immediately. Evacuate immediately.]

Claude lifted his head in despair and, through the cockpit’s viewing window, clearly saw Tendou standing in the distance—hand raised—black light flickering restlessly at his fingertip.

That black light… was all too familiar.

Its source was none other than Tendou’s signature Stellar Technique: Dark Grey.

Given his current physical condition and the state of his mech, there was absolutely no way he could dodge Tendou’s incoming Dark Grey.

Shadow Weave—Phantom Assault!

Just as Tendou was about to end Claude with Dark Grey, a pitch-black silhouette suddenly emerged from his shadow.

Lina—who had been standing far away only moments ago—had somehow slipped into Tendou’s shadow without anyone noticing, ready to catch him completely off guard.

But even though Tendou’s back was facing her, he spoke as though he had been expecting her all along—words that made her heart seize in terror.

“Finally.”

The instant Lina heard that, her heartbeat stalled.

At the same time, a terrifying force appeared right in front of her—one that filled her with dread.

Tendou’s left hand, without her ever noticing, had already shifted behind his back. And now, right before her widening pupils, he slowly opened it.

In his outstretched palm sat a Dark Grey—a second one he had prepared for her long in advance.

“I never said I could only fire Dark Grey one at a time.”

BOOM—!

With those words, Tendou fired two Dark Greys simultaneously.

One streaked toward Claude in the water. The other shot straight at Lina behind him.

BOOM!

The first Dark Grey struck the mech’s core dead-on, setting off the remaining star energy inside. The entire mech burst like a firework beneath the sea surface.

Meanwhile, the other Dark Grey—hidden in advance specifically for Lina—pierced clean through her chest, leaving behind a bowl-sized, charred crater on her pale skin.

She collapsed heavily onto the glowing beach, stunned and filled with despair.

“Why…?”

Lina couldn’t understand.

She had always appeared in public as a Vocal Type Trait Starbearer.

So how did he not only see through her but also prepare a perfect counter in advance?

She had used this shadow-based assassination method to kill many opponents far stronger than herself before—including even a second-order Starbearer.

All because they mistakenly believed she wasn’t skilled in close combat, relaxed their guard when they approached her, and died as a result.

So why did the same trick fail completely on Tendou?

In the face of her question, Tendou tilted his head, thought for a moment, then smiled and gave an intentionally vague answer.

“Why? Maybe it’s because I’m a little special. After all, that shadow you thought was so well hidden was painfully obvious to me.”

At those words, Lina’s fading gaze shifted—and landed on Tendou’s pair of azure eyes, glowing faintly with the presence of a special Star Path.

All the doubts that had been swirling in Lina’s mind were completely resolved in that moment.

It must have been because of Tendou’s eyes—those special eyes—that he was able to see through the “pseudo-note” attack she created by combining her Shadow Origin with her Star Gear: Human-Bone Harp, and ultimately deduce her true Star Origin ability.

Thud

With her confusion gone, Lina’s remaining body finally collapsed onto the beach. Blood poured endlessly from the gaping hole in her chest, staining the surrounding sand into a crimson tapestry.

Meanwhile, not far away—Yong Amsan’s headless corpse soaking in a pool of blood… Claude’s mech, burning like a torch on the ocean surface… and Lina’s tragically beautiful fallen form…

Together, they formed a hellish tableau with the theme of “Death” and “Elegy.”

And the artist behind this painting was the silver-haired boy standing on the beach, smiling softly, looking harmless and gentle.

Half a minute.

From the moment the four of them first engaged Tendou, to the moment three of them lay dead. Only thirty seconds had passed.

Half the time Burdean had originally allotted.

Yet in that remaining half of the mission window, four combat ready Dark Starbearers had reduced into one.

Meanwhile, after witnessing his three teammates die one after another before his very eyes, Visel's lab coat was soaked through with cold sweat.

This madman, who normally tortured others for fun and fed on the fear of his victims, was now experiencing fear of his own.

Mission? To hell with the mission!

Without a shred of hesitation, driven by pure instinct to survive, Visel turned and fled.

But he had barely begun to move—his drug-enhanced beast-like wolf legs hadn’t even finished tensing—when a teasing, almost playful voice whispered beside him.

“Where do you think you’re going?”

Visel’s neck stiffened as he turned his head ever so slowly.

Tendou was suddenly standing right beside him.

And Tendou’s right hand—at some point completely unnoticed—was resting lightly on Visel’s shoulder.

Tendou looked harmless.

No killing intent.

Just a gentle, innocent smile.

But only Visel knew how terrifying that smile truly was—

What kind of meaning hid behind it.

Because the silver-haired boy in front of him… was a demon wearing human skin.

To emphasize just how horrifying Tendou appeared in Visel’s eyes at that moment, the production team showed Tendou’s shadow stretching across the ground, lengthening at a visible speed.

It warped into the shape of a massive humanoid monstrosity—its mouth twisted in an exaggerated grin, its features obscured in darkness.

And in front of this towering nightmare silhouette, Visel’s trembling body appeared pathetically small.

Helpless.

Utterly powerless.

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Note:

Think of Tendou Great Aegis as Toaru Accelerator Vector Field + JJK Gojo Infinity

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