Nikola had been silently speculating on what was to come for Tengoku's demonstration, but then as he heard him start to monologue briefly, his suspicions started to rise as to said demo
A monologue? Really? Well now, this is starting to seem like it will certainly be trou...
Alas, Nikola did not even have time to finish that thought regarding Tengoku's monologue preamble to his demo when, suddenly, he witnessed a giant dome of what seemed to be black energy in form of some undecipherable script manifest all around them and then, he felt what could only be called an irresistibly overwhelming weight force him onto his knees and then flat onto his face in pronated position on the ground, as though the jutsu had warped and intensified the very gravity of the earth itself. Moreover, despite all his prodigious intellect, he found that the force acting upon him in those several moments was so terribly incalculable as to shut off any and all thought processes that had been running through his mind till then.
From what little he could see from his position flat on the ground now with his head slightly tilted up, Tengoku seemed to be saying something while he maintained his technique for a few more moments, but alas, nothing of that registered in Nikola's mind as his entire body was in instinctual fight-or-flight mode at the time. Fortunately, right afterwards, Nikola felt himself released from the technique as Tengoku cancelled it, and so, Nikola shakily rose to his feet and while doing so, he also noticed that Suzuya was in a similar albeit much better position than him, most likely due to the preparatory stance he had taken before the demo began in earnest. It took several moments for Nikola to re-calibrate his body and mind back to their default modes, but he did manage to do so in the end
Shadow Clones? There appears to be a fair few of them too...and what was that other technique's mechanism of action, I wonder? It felt as though the pressure had suddenly been intensified several fold nigh instantly during this technique's activity duration somehow...how very intriguing...it would seem that our current Hokage is also quite the interesting research specimen with his knowledge of and access to that technique of his that he showed us just now...
Nikola mused thus silently with his usual neutral and unreadable expression back on his face as he listened to Tengoku's next words which were basically him inquiring whether either him or Suzuya had any queries for him. So, after Suzuya said his bit in comparing the technique they both just witnessed and experienced, Nikola put in his two cents as well, and as he did, his researcher's attitude inevitably slipped out yet again despite his attempts to conceal it, thus making his facial expression once again seem like that wild-eyed, knowledge-hungry, information-obsessed one that could be expected from a stereotypical mad scientist with yet another nigh-manic ear to ear grin playing on his face again. Nevertheless, his words were perfectly coherent despite the harrowing experience he had just been through since all his faculties had come back by this point
"Hmm, that was truly a fascinating demonstration, Lord Ten. I am starting to now come up with some hypotheses as to what that technique could be powered by and based on, at least in terms of mechanism of action, the main ones being some sort of pressure alteration and even perhaps weight manipulation...most intriguing, indeed. Moreover, this knowledge should be able to assist me greatly in expanding my personal experience horizons going forward and more specifically, in trying to come up with countermeasures for similar future situations. So, again, you have my deepest gratitude for allowing me to experience such overwhelming power at so early a stage...and lastly, if I may ask, what are those clones doing over there?"
With that asked, Nikola now fell silent and his expression came back to his default neutral one as he recomposed himself while waiting for whatever would happen next in the current situation.
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