Bab 868: Select Few...

Apart from a groan, Aliya did well to handle the hammer strike and she retaliated with a shot of the Monument energy within her gauntlet.

The energy struck Amelia but she appeared to have absorbed it.

That made no sense to Aliya who had at the very least expected an evasion but then she realized her perception had been screwed with again. The energy she had seen herself shoot out against Amelia had all been inside her head.

She never actually attacked Amelia just as she had not actually stabbed her earlier.

Aliya tried her absolute best to break through all that Amelia was doing to her mind and her perception but she soon found that there was a reason Amelia had brought their battle into the Perceptive Domain.

Aliya could trust nothing. Every time she appeared to have succeeded, Amelia would show her that she had failed before punishing her.