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I had discovered this new application of Self-Deception purely by chance.
While sparring with Ellen as usual, I’d grown genuinely irritated after taking hit after hit (not that this was a rare occurrence).
In any case, I truly wanted to pierce through Ellen’s impenetrable guard. Just once.
Just this one time, I wanted to knock her sword away and create an opening with a single blow.
And so, I swung.
“…”
“…”
But nothing happened.
I still failed to knock her sword away, and her counterattack left me with her blade against my neck.
Ellen tilted her head in puzzlement. “That felt strange just now.”
“… What did?”
Though my attack failed, it had surprised Ellen.
“It was different from usual.”
Having sparred with me for such a long time, Ellen knew exactly how my blows usually felt, with or without my supernatural powers.
She said that my attack at that moment had felt oddly more powerful than usual.
Although I didn’t manage to pierce through her guard, that single blow had indeed been much stronger than usual.
“Try it again.”
Ellen didn’t know exactly what I had done, but asked me to do it again. After several trials, I realized a new way to use Self-Deception.
Instead of overall physical enhancement, I could focus my supernatural power in one specific direction for a very short time—whether...
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