Miles looked at the ethereal membrane covering his body. It looked like a protective bubble, but he could feel more than that.

“Miles, you did it!” Coin’s hologram body was watching over him from start to end. He didn’t dare to make any noise, but after Miles opened his eyes, he too jumped in excitement.

“Although it doesn’t look like a mirror, it is still ultimate right?” Coin asked.

“It is, buddy. This is my Armor of Payback.” Miles said with a smile. He felt the name of the armor in his mind. “I need to define details.”

He closed his eyes and imagined the form of the armor first. He remembered what Dusek said and matched it with the notes he researched.

“The Ultimate is a form of manifestation of energy-based structure. The more details added to said structure, the stronger it becomes. Like a building shabbily formed with energy will be prone to get destroyed, while a building with 8 pillars and made of concrete and supported by steel beams are stronger. The more details and limitations there are in the structure, the stronger it becomes.

Energy constructions, Ultimates, are the same. For example, a dagger ultimate formed from a certain type of metal can only kill poisonous monsters is stronger than a dagger ultimate with no condition and details even if the latter’s owner is stronger. Because the first one can only kill one type of monster while the other has no limitations.

There are also other conditions that have to be met. For example, the gauntlets of the General Cross get stronger when he is winning. If he can push his enemy into losing position by psychological or physiological warfare, the power of the gauntlets increases and also amplifies General Cross’s base powers.

There is also the randomness effect such as your world tree. The product of the tree is random, and because you cannot choose the effect it automatically increases the strength of the tree and fruits.”

“Randomness, conditions, weaknesses, definitions. The more detail is added to Ultimate, the stronger it would be.

“Starting with definition.” Miles thought and imagined the form of the armor.

“I don’t want armor. Armor Ultimate would prevent me from wearing orb or crafted armors. So, ethereal armor I can summon over my real armor. Black in color with golden lines.

It is full body armor, covering my body fully except my eyes.” Miles drew the armor like a painter, in his mind. Its black color was darker than the abyss, while golden lines on it looked similar to the coin's color. The lines were starting from his two eyes and creating a strange letter throughout the armor.

“The weakness; It is ethereal, so any attack will pass through it. It doesn’t stop anything from passing through but registers them only. Be it harmful or helpful, they will be passed through my Armor of Payback to reach me.” No armor could stop all types of attacks. Miles didn’t need that either. What he wanted was armor that could pay back.

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“Conditions; Any power that passes through the armor will be recorded. After the damage is reached a certain limit, the user, I, will be able to pay them back. Be it harmful or helpful, I will pay back with their own medicines.

Only abilities intended to be used on me can be registered by the armor.

The will of the ability user is what matters. If the one attacking with a strong attack just wants to save me, armor will ignore it, and the one heals me with nefarious thoughts will not be registered as good.” Although there were only three conditions, it was pretty limiting.

“Randomness; redirecting the same element would mostly be ineffective. So instead, the attack will be reflected in a random element. It can be the same and worse, but can also be a random better element.”

After Miles finished structuring it. The invisible armor on his body turned into black ethereal armor with golden drawings.

“This feels great!” Miles clenched his arm and looked at himself from the stream Coin was displaying.

“I need to test my armor first,” Miles said and called Alex after he removed his ultimate. Not long after he arrived at the training room Miles was practicing. When he saw him, he sighed in relief. “You worried me to death. What happened?”

“An accident with Strengthening Serum,” Miles said with a smile. “I need to practice with someone about a new technique I learned.”

“You sure, you are hurt right?” Alex said.

“I am better already. Let’s start.” Miles said and dashed at Alex. His hands turned into beastly claws, while his legs shone with energy.

Alex quickly answered by surrounding his body with lightning. He dashed back in fast speed, while dodging Miles's attack, also formed lightning lances to throw in his direction. As soon as he was a distance away, he summoned the star map ultimate.

Miles looked at the starmap ultimate and smirked. Alex noticed it but ignored it for the time being. Miles dodged the lances coming his way, used the frontal dash to appear in front of Alex, and attacked with Five Finger Claw Death.

Alex was too familiar with the move and wouldn’t defend against him. He took a few steps back and formed lightning vines to stop Miles’s charge, but the latter was much faster than the last time they fought. The vines couldn’t catch up with him.

The duo fought evenly, without letting an attack land on them. They were way too familiar with each other, and attacks weren’t heavy-handed, so there weren’t any injuries on them yet.

“My ultimate is ready, now you lost!” Alex grinned as the star map moved on his back. He leaped on top of it and drew lightning from his ultimate. The lightning quickly formed a giant sword and started to fly towards Miles. Just when Alex felt happy, something incredible appeared in front of him.

Black armor with gold designs. It looked noble and solemn. Alex wasn’t sure what was armor for, but he knew ultimates weren’t things to be taken lightly. Each ultimate had mysterious powers that couldn't be explained in a normal sense. His ultimate was enchanting his powers as it drew power from the atmosphere. Who knew what Miles’s ultimate did, but it was too late for him to withdraw his attacks.

When the lightning sword arrived at Miles, Alex looked carefully to see what the ultimate would do, but to his surprise, nothing happened. As if it was intangible. Nothing but air.

Miles crossed his arm in front of him and charged his energy into his arm to defend against the attack. When it landed, it created a massive lightning field. It started to destroy his skin despite his energy, and it was forcing it to penetrate his inner organs. But Miles felt the armor was getting stronger. When he fully defended, the armor was shining with gold sheen.

Alex looked at the armor with bated breath, but Miles was grinning. A sword of lightning formed in the air. It wasn’t as strong as Alex’s but it was still pretty dangerous. Especially when thinking Alex's body was a lot weaker than Miles’s. But Alex was the incarnation of Lightning God, and he was immune to the lightning element, so Miles didn’t hold back at all: The sword flew towards Alex and vanished.