>>5370039“Wh-What?” you mutter, barely processing what's happening as the ground rushes up towards your face. Then almost by reflex you catch yourself, left and right arms crashing palm-first to the ground and narrowly stop you from smashing face-first down into the sand. You stay there a moment or two, feeling the world spinning unsettlingly enough to make you want to puke, but you manage to keep your lunch and rise back up to your feet. You stagger a bit, not finding your balance immediately in this still-unfamiliar form just to see the Saiyan standing there, waiting for you.
“You okay?” he asks, genuinely concerned. “That one looked like it got you.”
“I'm fine, you should worry more about yourself.” you say, and immediately Karn re-focuses his aura into the hardened shell around him. As you attack, you can see that his aura's thickness almost doubles. Once more you jab with your left, but this time it is not a punch. Instead you thrust your left hand forward open, grabbing him in your much larger hand. Catching him by complete surprise, as he'd no doubt expected another punch. But you have him now. “Now, let us see just how durable this armor of yours really is, shall we?”
“Tch!” he exhales through his teeth as you start slowly increasing the pressure. Second by second you squeeze down harder and harder, yet his armor seems completely impervious. It even seems brighter than it was a few moments ago when you'd first grabbed him, and wait, hold on. Was it always this hard around him?
“You...Clever.” you say as you look closer, and realize just what he's done. His enshrouding energy is more than twice as thick as it normally was, glowing brighter because his energy is several times denser. Quite the impressive feat, but you've already realized the flaw in his defense. He can't move. With his ki that densely packed in around him, there's no way his body can actually move inside of it. So now it all comes down to a matter of strength. “A test of might, then? Let us see if I possess the power to crack this seemingly-impervious shield of yours.”
He doesn't reply, no doubt unable to even open his mouth as you focus everything you've got into your left. Bringing to bear all of this form's physical might, squeezing down with your full power, you feel the strain as your arm begins to tremble. But then you hear it, and feel his armor begin to fold!
<span class="mu-s">CRACK</span>
Straight up the middle of his seemingly impervious defense, you watch and listen as the entire technique cracks. Unable to withstand this body's superior might, his nigh-unstoppable defense starts to yield! You can do thi-wait what?
