I shall poke the heavens

"Why do I have to fight you?! If I have to fight a senior, I will be forced to show all my trump cards! How thick skinned are you to force a junior to bare themselves in front of you!"

"Monica, stop talking like that and get in the ring. I have no idea what your new skills do since the names are cringy and totally different from how skills usually work."

Crap, I'm about to get my behind set on fire again. Better do as she says, regarding the fighting that is.

"This junior will reluctantly spar with senior. Please go easy on me."

Navi sighs but no longer bothers to chide me for my eloquent manner of speech. This junior sister's charms are unstoppable! Or at least the lady in the bakery said so when she gave me free cookies.

"Monica, concentrate! I'll give you the first strike but that is it. After that I will come after you."

Why does she always have to be so mean! I can't even curse her in my head because she is listening. Better attack before she loses her patience.

I grip the staff I got and rapidly advance. I want to use the lightning hare movement technique but I still mess up on the third step so I just sprint normally.

Navi watches me coming with an almost bored expression on her face. I'll show you my true power!

"Grow bamboo grow!"

I thrust out my staff and channel one of my new skills. A bamboo shoot made up of energy emerges on the staff's top and transforms it into a spear. But Navi just swats the tip of my staff aside and the bamboo shoot withers and disperses. Damn!

"You said you would let me have the first strike! How dishonorable of you to go back on your word!"

"I said I would let you attack first. I never said I wouldn't defend. And now that you have attacked, I can do so too."

Navi smiles evilly and punches me. That's an amateur punch with little to no technique but the brute force behind it vastly surpasses my strength.

As the fist approaches me, I pretend to block it with my staff only to activate another skill.

"Tornado Counter!"

I spin my staff and slink away to the side. The staff spins around Navi's arm using it as an axis to keep turning. Since Navi thrust her fist forward and is still going, the staff advances along her arm threatening to hit her in the face. Of course she just swats it away again.

"What are you going to do now? Collapsing hollow punch? Losing your weapon mid fight due to your own skill is not exactly smart. And since it's behind me your pull skill won't work."

"Hihi, it's not a pull skill. Staff to me!"

I strike a pose as I reach one hand up and grasp at the air. A small spatial distortion occurs and my staff reappears in my hand.

"So you can distort space… great. Any other insane skills you want to show me?"

"Sure. Ten instance kick!"

I shot forward and my leg blurs and ten ethereal kicks fly towards Navi from different positions. Her eyes sharpen and she starts dodging and blocking but one gets past her. She definitely let it through on purpose though.

As the hit confirms, the other nine kicks disappear into nothingness. Only the instance that is the most advantageous for me will ever remain. But since it can be any of them, my opponent needs to block them all.

Navi disappears the moment I touch her with my shoe and reappears a few steps away.

"That's a pretty useful skill but why do you fight with a staff when you usually relying on your arms and legs?"

"Because staffs are the best! I'll teach you a lesson for disrespecting my staff! Originally I did not want to make use of this as it drains me but this junior sister must maintain face! I shall poke the heavens!"

I channel every ounce of mp, strength and focus into my staff and thrust towards Navi. The staff creaks under my power and a horrifying pressure spreads out as the very air screeches, being torn apart where the staff advances.

Navi actually looks surprised but still tries to swat my staff away. However, the power is too much and her hand only lightly diverts its course before it impacts her shoulder. And… nothing? Ah, despair.

I wake up in my bed with Navi sitting beside my bed. Ah, what is there even to life for when even my supreme attack can't leave a scratch on my enemy.

"Stop moping. I just absorbed the attack but that was some serious power you produced considering your level. It did drain all your mp and knocked you out but the result was…"

"Was what?"

"Let me put it in perspective. Your overall level is 27 and your strength stat is 40. However, the power behind your attack should have required a strength stat of above 150 or more. That's more than what Blood, who is currently more than three times your overall level, has. That means your skill almost quadrupled your damage output. And I heavily suspect your skill's output was limited by your mana."

"Yeah, the skill consumes all my mp…"

"So it consumed like what? 3000 mp? Suppose we can assume that for each unit of 1000 mp you use, the skills power goes up by one fold… yeah, I'll just have Guy take a look at you so we can be sure."

"No, heaven's secrets must not be revealed!"

"Don't you start with that again. For us to support your growth and to give you work, we need to know what you are capable of."

"But you said I can't work since I am too young."

"I did say that but… turns out, that using the fact that you are from a different plane, we can play a lot of tricks."