>>6317142“That's because you're not real. You're just a distraction.” you say as you close your eyes, focusing more intensely on your ki sense.
“We'll show you real!” Basil shouts, but as you focus on your ki sense, suddenly you feel it. The barest hint of ki, a whisper of suppressed ki coming not from where Basil's voice is, but to your left. Feeling it close in, and as it does, you strike. Feeling your left fist slam into something as you jab, opening your eyes and seeing your fist already through Bergamo's own arm, slamming into his chest. But you feel solid contact, and feel whatever you'd hit get launched back. Watching as the outline of some sort of reptile-seeming creature perhaps is implanted in the outcropping.
“Got you!” you roar, gathering your ki into your right fist as you jump down, ignoring the phantom fighters as you've found the real culprit behind their physical damage. Dropping down as the creature grumbles, you wait until you've dropped down below it to fire your energy. Unleashing a wave of emerald ki that blasts the invisible fighter out through the rock wall, out of the dome of energy and straight off the Tournament of Power stage entirely.
“Gamisaras, of the Fourth, has been eliminated.” you hear as the Grand Priest speaks, but mysteriously the illusions don't fade away. Seems he wasn't the one behind this, there's another.
“Tch.” you exhale, ignoring the phantoms around you as you close your eyes, focusing. Narrowing your ki sense to just the area inside the dome, you quickly identify your four teammates. But then you detect another, on the fringes hiding behind the central pillar. And the other-
But just as you detect it your instincts scream at you to move, leaning your head back just in time as you feel the wind from something the size of a bullet rushing past your head. If you hadn't moved, that second ki signature you felt would have slammed straight into your jaw!
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