Through the haze of smoke and destruction, as Aaaninja was methodically destroying Lucian's attacks one after another, Lucian appeared like a phantom, as though he were the perfect assassin born from darkness itself, his katana tearing forward toward Aaaninja's waist as he moved to split the man cleanly in half from the torso with a single decisive stroke.
But Aaaninja's head snapped toward the direction as though he had foreseen this outcome and had been patiently waiting for it all along, his expression calm and cold as he activated Temporal Slip and Reverse Causality at the same time. The next moment, he vanished from where he stood as he slipped through the folds of time and space yet again, phasing out of existence like a ripple disappearing into still water, and following his disappearance, Reverse Causality erupted instantly as it targeted Lucian's head with merciless inevitability.
