The magic spear infused with power-enhancing spells was sent flying swiftly to attack Ebony's real body
Even though I didn't use the Image of Ikonn for concealment and didn't use G•Room to increase gravity for greater thrust or E•Room to add electric charge, I was sure it could definitely take care of Ebony
Revealing every card right away wasn't a very good idea when fighting aliens, since they might have technology to scan and record our data to analyze and find countermeasures against us in the future
Even though I was now in the mirror dimension, there was no 100% guarantee that we were safe from being recorded in image, sound, or video. Maybe Ebony, who was about to be pierced by the spear, had some psychic trick to transfer the experience of his dying body into an imaginary data cluster to a receiver on the ship, or maybe some alien technology similar to an airplane's black box, but upgraded to record detailed image, sound, and video from every 360-degree angle, which could then be used to create a realistic simulation
It was just an overestimation of the enemy. Maybe Ebony Maw didn't even have anything like that!
Shuk!
Boooommmmmmmmmm
The sound of the spear piercing the psychic's real body was just like a magic spear piercing a normal living creature's flesh, followed by the explosion sound of the physical body being hit by multiple spells at once. And to be cautious, the Winds of Watoomb were summoned to gather the remains of its body, then disintegrate them with the venom of magical beasts, along with another jolt from Baltakk's lightning spell until not a single microscopic particle or cell was left
"Too easy, isn't it?" I accidentally said what I was thinking out loud, and could feel my body hair stand on end because Haki detected and warned that Ebony Maw's presence, who had just been blown to pieces, had reappeared behind me within 100 meters, his body completely normal and uninjured
And he shot a psychic crystal the size of a spear at me with such speed and force that it was clear he wasn't planning to capture me alive to figure out how to break the Time Stone's protection anymore
But I didn't intend to play illusions or create decoys to joke around anymore. It was time to truly fight and see…
Between Mind and Magic, the special powers of human imagination— which one is superior?
Not counting my Ope Ope Fruit powers, which I'd use the moment I detected Ebony using technology to block magic— similar to how the Mana Eaters released mist to prevent drawing energy from other dimensions
Clang!
Screeechhhhhh
The spherical Shield of Seraphim was summoned to block the psychic spear, scattering golden-white sparks everywhere, while the spear disintegrated and reformed itself— just like my shield did
"Impossible… why doesn't your Seraphim Shield dissolve when struck by the Void Dagger?"
'Void Dagger… a new special power keyword I'll have to look up later. But it's probably some kind of alien psychic ability. Kamar-Taj doesn't study much about psionics, so it might be tricky to find data,' I thought while coating the Seraphim Shield with Haki to strengthen it against his attacks
We struggled to see which would fall apart first— his strong Void Dagger that could easily destroy barriers, or my proud Seraphim Shield of Kamar-Taj. Nearly 5 minutes passed while Ebony kept trying to talk, using the same rhetoric about the grand balance of life and death in every star across the universe
When he saw that I wouldn't respond at all, he gave up trying to break through my defense with one Void Dagger and instead created hundreds of clear crystals, aiming to stab from every direction at once. I responded by opening dimensional gates at every point where the crystals were flying toward me, with each gate's destination being— the caster himself
"Don't be foolish. Do you think my power will turn back and harm me?" The psychic crystals moved through the air as if alive, darting like dragonflies, weaving through the gates to return and strike me again— but they were shattered into molecular dust by Baltakk's lightning strike
However, they reassembled themselves in a fraction of a second without losing any speed as they came at me again!
The Crimson Bands of Cyttorak were summoned to bind them, merging with Valtorr's venom to dissolve them, which worked— but not in the way I wanted
Because Ebony Maw had intentionally let those crystals disintegrate to sever the connection from his old Void Dagger crystals that were captured, allowing him to immediately create a new set of psychic weapons to attack me again!
"You sorcerer! You'll never defeat me…"
"Bored now," I said simply, matching how I felt. For nearly 20 minutes, Ebony Maw had been praising Thanos non-stop. And by now, I'd analyzed over 60% of his psychic abilities. So it was time to finish this— with the power of the Ope Ope Fruit, since I had already expanded my ROOM to cover the mirror dimension from the very start
"Your heart… I'll take it."
"Hm?"
Shhhhhhukkkkkkkk!
"Arghh! Cough— cough— impossible… the Black Order's battle suit… arghh…"
Before he could even finish praising the suit's supposed protection against physical and magical damage, his entire life force vanished as I used G•Room to crush and compress his heart and internal organs all at once— destroying him from within, not caring whether his anatomy matched a human's or not. As long as it was inside, I crushed it. Then electrocuted him again just to be absolutely sure he was gone for real
And for true safety— real, absolute safety— after confirming that there was no life force in this dimension, I CLEANED ROOM: sterilized the operating field using my awakened Ope Ope powers that could eliminate every microorganism within the ROOM at the cellular level, then sealed it off by compressing the mirror dimension into a sphere— to later seal it away, ensuring that no remaining dust or particle of Ebony Maw could ever "revive"
Because I didn't know what kind of alien race Ebony belonged to, or whether he could regenerate or transfer his soul into another body— so I had to make sure everything was done as perfectly as possible!