>>6134077“Give me everything you've got!” you shout, crossing your arms and drawing your aura in, activating your Energy Body. Condensing your aura around you into a suit of skintight armor, your energy humming as her fists strikes your crossed arms. But unlike before, you don't budge. Her strike doesn't even knock you back, which clearly surprises her as her eyes widen in shock.
“Wh-What?” she exclaims, gritting her teeth tries to uppercut her way through your crossed guard once more. Again her fist slams into the intersection of your arms, but this time you don't so much as budge. Which stuns her, Galatea freezing in place for two seconds before drawing her fist back, trying the same strike again. Putting even more power into it she draws her fist way back, rising from her ankles to over her head in a powerful smash punch. Which once more is stopped, you barely feeling it. And when your guard once more doesn't break, she backs off, taking her stance warily. “What the hell is this?!”
“The Energy Body. A defensive technique I've developed over my career.” you tell her, lowering your arms and retaking your usual fighting stance. “Makes me a whole lot harder to knock back, much less damage.”
“Oh yeah? We'll see about that!” she shouts, dashing forward in a blur. She moves far faster than you were expecting, moving far faster than before as she fires another heavy right. One you raise your left to block, but this time instead of deflecting her strike simply block it with your forearm. Stopping her most powerful strike so far with a single arm, halting her in her tracks. Her eyes widen, gritting her teeth before firing a heavy left hook at your head. Raising your right, you catch her fist inches from your face, stopping her next strike as well. “Grrrr! HAAAAA!!”
With a shout she launches into a seemingly practiced combination. Heavy right hook aimed at the jaw into a left cross also at the jaw followed by a right uppercut to the guts, each of which you stop with your hands. Fully stopping each attack short, the woman's frustration growing by the second as her rush is stopped short. You don't even back up, your Energy Body absorbing the shock of her increasingly powerful blows. With each strike you feel her strength grow, raising her power more and more with each attack. Drawing upon more of her power by the second, the woman keeps swinging, her blows getting more and more sloppy as she gets angrier. You're going to have to address this.
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