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He forced himself up, his guard unable to be raised any higher than it already was as he took his first real look around, not just for any new attacks but to get a lay of the land, taking in all he saw.

It was an empty, white space, one that looked like it went on forever with the only thing it obviously contained being hundreds of square pillars jutting up into the sky within his immediate line of site, all of them gently gliding and moving about in a way that was constantly obstructing his vision of anything that might come his direction but no more attacks to be seen, at least not yet.

“But then, who says they’ll be coming head-on?” He muttered, looking behind him and finding a long, almost straight wall, with a curve so gentle it would have been easy enough for anyone without the eye for it to miss, telling him that they were at least contained without the risk of someone going backwards, giving no option but to go in.

But while the attack came from in front of me, there’s no reason to assume that they aren’t fired from the wall, nor that I won’t be shot at from behind once I start going in there.

It was the exact sort of scenario where having clairvoyance would have been ideal but even if it wouldn’t be perfect, it wasn’t like he didn’t have options to fall back on himself, with mana to be spent as he materialized a few small mirrors and kept them suspended in the air around him, giving him a constant view of his back as he started to move forward, going to the closest pillar.

Like everything around him, it looked white but on closer examination, that was because the structure itself was translucent, making what shone through the other side of it indistinct and fuzzy.

Another way to obscure attacks then? He thought as he knocked on it with his one good arm. But the pillars… these are definitely mana constructs. If there’s a bunch of magic nullifying attacks flying around then aren’t these going to break pretty fast? Unless they were built to be immune to them? Mmh, not liking this, let’s get going already.

Despite the pain and injury, with the way he was constantly swearing at every god that world held in his thoughts he was getting the full benefits of his ill intent, the skill buffing his attributes significantly and letting him race through that floor of the trial as he started to move, watching the pillars pass in a flash and only stopping when he saw something else zip by him.

It was the only thing that had any colour in that white world, appearing as a bright red and as he examined it while it passed a few feet from his head, the world froze in the face of his thoughts.

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The most immediately obvious aspects were that no matter how fast it was moving, it wasn’t more than he could react to and even more importantly, it wasn’t invisible, with those two points combining to a single fact. If it had been within his line of sight before he’d been hit, he should have been able to react to it.