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The sword strike moved toward Cassie. It was completely invisible, but she could still feel it approaching her. Cassie was sure that an attack like this could never kill someone of her rank, even if it managed to injure her. Still, she didn't dare underestimate it, so Cassie immediately used her ability.

The strike suddenly froze in place.

The time around the invisible attack had been completely stopped. This was Cassie's ability to freeze an attack by freezing the flow of time around it. Her ability mostly worked on beings weaker than her, as well as objects and attacks, allowing her to stop them for a short period of time.

However, something suddenly changed about the attack.

It remained frozen for a moment, completely motionless in the stopped flow of time. Then, without any warning, it suddenly moved again.