I inquired as the fear in my family was palpable. Was that how much I eventually had? Umbra was creaking from the sheer amount of he possessed.

  Krahinn told me with a tone of dread.

  I checked, fearing the answer was what I thought it was.

  Krahinn snapped at me.

  “Krahinn, what are we looking at?” Papa inquired as adult Luna and me stared blankly back at us.

  “Recreated copies of adult Luna and Nil; no will of their own but copied all the abilities. Nyx likely loaded them with a strong desire to kill Nil’s family.” Krahinn answered with dread in his voice.

  I inquired, wondering if he could be attacked by this.

  Krahinn warned me.

  Before I could ask for clarification, copy me finally began their assault. What was I witnessing? Umbra folded around all of us as the space contorted into a sphere to contain everyone inside of Umbra. In a blink, copy Nil swung his sword with a massive as he attempted to cleave my family in half. Nautilus used her scaled hand to block the attack which got followed up by Luna materializing next to her already swinging into her ribs. I think that was the first time I saw Nautilus bend almost in half from the force while I could hear several things crack and pop. Uncle Nez, Uncle Nox, Mama, Papa, Dad, and Mom all had eruptions of blood. What? When? How? I felt Krahinn rewind time partially as adult me was already attacking me at the end of the time rewind. Krahinn tried using to deflect the assault as everything seemed inverted from my point of view. Krahinn shoved adult me aside as the world spiraled around us to move Krahinn and I back into the path of his attack.

  Papa tried assisting from the side, only for a second phantom sword to swing down straight between his eyes. He barely got his sword up to block the attack, slamming him into the ground as his sword broke from the force behind the attack. Nautilus began dealing with adult Luna, an action that only seemed to infuriate clone me. Krahinn immediately launched a at copy Luna that immediately was grabbed by copy Nil and swung like a sword right back at us. Seriously? How? There was a blur, and then countless slashes erupted all at once with deadly precision at my family. Uncle Nez conjured a that instantly got assaulted with several knives before it even blocked them partly.Why did he keep shimmering? What was that shimmer?

  My family all went to dodge, where clone Nil materialized in an instant next to Uncle Nez stabbing his sword for his heart. Krahinn instantly used to move Uncle Nez out of the way as the space around us had several battle for supremacy, causing contortions in space as Papa, Dad, and Uncle Nox all supported Krahinn against the clone of me. How was he so strong? In an instant, ten all went for Krahinn. He shimmered ever so slightly, which I think meant more time was inbound. Why did it shimmer right before time unleashed? Oh, great.

  Apparently clone me was not satisfied, as several copies of him all appeared attacking everyone with massive claps of thunder from his strength. Wait, where was Luna? All I could see were copies of myself. From his perspectives there were still a few copies of myself, as they unleashed a barrage of . How did I make those copies? That didn’t sound like it ended well. Luna already began her next from behind my copy protecting her. What all could do? That reply was met with three rapid shimmers as Krahinn immediately shot out several and to block whatever was inbound. Nautilus attempted to attack Luna but was intercepted by one of the replicas which instantly vanished in a miniature black hole, twisting her inwards with an unnatural crunch as Luna followed up with a hook straight to her head. Nautilus launched towards the ground where Mom caught her before she slammed against the ground. Mom’s hands were glowing with as she tried using some distance forced healing on copy Nil who unfortunately shattered it with . I was nowhere near as creative as I could have been with was a glaring lesson from all of this.

  “How do we deal with this?” Dad snarled in irritation.

  “I imagine by dealing with clone Nil first because I do not think we’re getting close to clone Luna while he breathes.” Uncle Nox snapped in irritation.

  Was she being that problematic? I clearly had a long way to go, unfortunately. Not entirely sure that was meant to be comforting, but I knew now was not the time. I had no idea how much Luna was distorting everyone’s senses thanks to Krahinn, which was so comforting to learn. We had no time to strategize as clone me apparently at no point stopped casting at my family. Several metal rods manifested by him as he began tracking where each family member was. Oh, . Great. I loved seeing my own get used against me. There was another shimmer, and space began twisting again as several bright orbs appeared behind the metal as the copies charged towards us.

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  Each of them dissolved themselves into small black holes as the orbs exploded, launching with massive explosions as streaks of light towards their targets. Each were intercepted with as my family was assaulted from both sides. Nautilus, Papa, and Uncle Nox all rushed clone me, trying to attack as he vanished. In an instant, there was a foot in Nautilus face, a sword deflecting Papa’s, and a headbutt into Uncle Nox’s skull as he launched an orb of light over his back straight at Dad. Uncle Nez, Nautilus, Mama, and Mom all joined against the construct of me, trying to gain any form of ground against him. One shimmer later and everyone was in switched positions in a blink with construct me folding Nautilus over his knee. Nautilus began falling as copy me was immediately slugging Mom across the face with enough force that the space around his fist distorted before pivoting into knee from the other side. Mom collapsed as she clearly got knocked out, bleeding profusely from the attack.

  Krahinn immediately intercepted with Papa and Mama to try and deal with the clone of me. At this point I was more a passenger to Krahinn’s control as he was heavily borrowing my to try and mitigate the endless assault of time manipulation copy of me was spamming. Nautilus was limp on the ground, green blood oozing from her mouth as her breathing was quite shallow while Mom was motionless with a monstrous black bruise from where the knee slammed into her. Duke Dawnsfield was moving and protecting Mom and Nautilus away from the ongoing fight. Papa attacked clone me with their swords clashing as Mama came from the side. Mama appeared on the other side of clone Nil who deflected Papa’s sword away as he shifted into a fast kick. Uncle Nox came from behind to blitz the construct who manifested two swords of to deflect the sword away as the other came swinging down.

  Uncle Nez used to protect Uncle Nox from the attack which warranted a barrage of towards him. I could cast that many without using my ? Dad went to attack thin air, which must have been the Luna construct’s doing. Were we gaining any ground against the two of them? I was struggling to even grasp just how many and were clashing at the moment as the construct copies of Luna and me seemed to effortlessly produce a response and counter despite being outnumbered. Just how much ability did Nyx instill into the two of them? How did these copies work? Was there some form of weakness we could exploit?

  Krahinn lectured me.

  I asked, trying to think of something.

  Krahinn explained quickly while making a few plates of to block the next onslaught of the attack.

  I probed because I didn’t understand why he wouldn’t just cast that .

  Krahinn snapped at me.

  I wasn’t sure how to feel by the fact the sole handicap on the was not able to kill me. I didn’t want to distract Krahinn as the brawl ensued, so I kept my remained questions to myself. Mom and Nautilus were still on the ground motionless. What could I do to help? All I was currently providing was the ability to tell when some time based was inbound and some limited functionality. So many were rapidly firing and stunting each other as Luna made some odd hand gesture before all my family froze for a second. What was that? Krahinn was coughing as my body felt something inside crack a bit; that could not be good if I had some sensation from whatever she just did.

  Krahinn grumbled mentally as time shot back a few seconds. The rest of me family looked fine now, but Krahinn clearly was feeling the strain.

  I checked as I could feel Krahinn’s exhaustion.

  Krahinn answered. He had been staying mostly on the defense as my family kept trying to deal with the .

  I probed, hoping there was a limit.

  Krahinn answered as he sounded tired. If Krahinn sounded this tired, the strain of what he was dealing was much greater than I realized.

  Uncle Nez made several spears of as he protected my mom from Luna trying to slug her on the ground. me went to attack with an to slice her in half to stop her from recovering and being able to heal everyone else. With a rapid set of pivots from my clone, Papa, Mama, and Dad were all launched in various directions from his attacks, sounding like successive thunderclaps from the powerful hits. Copy Nil threw his sword at Uncle Nez, coated with a ridiculous amount of , barreling towards him. Uncle Nez used several to slow it down as he tried dodging to the side. Nil used to move Uncle Nez back in line with the attack, pinning him in the way of the sword as he broke the walls with needles. Krahinn went to the attack aside, but Luna and Nil both began attacking me directly to force Krahinn to block. Uncle Nox desperately used to get between the two, shoving Uncle Nez out of the way as his arm was nearly chopped off by the sword. Uncle Nox began staggering, looking pale as his arm was bleeding profusely and clawing at his chest with his good arm. Then I realized in Nil’s hand was some red, pulsing muscle that he crushed as Uncle Nox fell to the ground limp.