The air inside the Cartenone Temple shimmered unnaturally, bending with a strange rhythm. Corridors duplicated endlessly, platforms repeated themselves like broken mirrors, and faint echoes of past battles played in distorted loops. This was Frieren Folder's domain—a labyrinth of time itself.
Brush D. Rush landed on a shifting platform, white void flaring across his body. "Time loops… we're not just dodging attacks—we're fighting the past, present, and possible futures all at once."
Equinox's violet lances shimmered as she adjusted her footing. "We can carve through space, Brush, but time… that's different. These loops will try to trap us, replaying our mistakes."
The first wave of attacks arrived: phantom versions of the team, distorted and looping, striking precisely where the team had failed before. Brush teleported just in time, Erasure flaring to erase the past failures, creating safe paths.
"You think you can rewrite history?" a distorted voice echoed—Frieren Folder itself, manifesting as a tower of overlapping pages, each flickering with frozen moments. "Every step you take… already taken… will trap you forever!"
Brush clenched his fists. All his powers surged together, reacting faster than the loops could form. Interconnectivity linked platforms and timelines, giving the team coordinated footing. Interception redirected incoming phantom strikes into harmless trajectories. Creation Guardians intercepted duplicates, while Erasure consumed the looping attacks.
Equinox leapt through the air, violet streaks cutting paths through phantom enemies. "Keep moving! Each loop we break weakens the domain!"
Frostbinder froze repeating platforms to stabilize the team, RobbRox rebuilt collapsing bridges, and FooTube projected illusions to confuse the time echoes. Melody Guard harmonized, suppressing temporal feedback that threatened to trap them in repeated mistakes.
Frieren Folder's laughter filled the space. "You can erase attacks… but can you erase regret? Can you erase what has already happened?"
Brush narrowed his eyes. "We don't erase the past—we overwrite it!"
He slammed his fists together, unleashing Erasure fused with Creation and Destruction. The phantom attacks shattered as timelines collided. Interconnectivity flared, linking stable zones and creating paths through the cascading loops.
Equinox's violet lances struck the core of the domain simultaneously, slicing through layers of time. The tower of overlapping pages trembled, then collapsed, scattering frozen echoes into harmless fragments.
Brush landed firmly, aura blazing. "Another one down. Four domains left."
Equinox touched his shoulder. "We're adapting faster than the domains can rebuild. But the next one… it's going to push us harder."
A faint shimmer appeared in the distance—the sound of Oshi No Crunch's idolized packets, already forming the next deadly stage.
Brush exhaled, fists still glowing. "Then we move forward. Together. No hesitation."
The team nodded, united and ready, stronger and more synchronized than ever as they prepared to face the next domain and its insidious, mind-bending trials.