Alex watched as the glowing papers neutralized his boxes,
So that's how those papers work huh... he thought calmly. Then, Meruin finally cast the spell she had been charging for so long and Alex felt a strong field starting to form a few meters above Meruin.
Suddenly, seven glowing energy swords appeared above her head and proceeded to start spinning and moving around, hovering above Meruin as she herself began walking towards Alex. At that point Alex knew that the sheer power contained in each of those seven swords was immense and that defending against them would be futile. Escaping was an option though but he was sure Meruin would have something up her sleeve that would let her catch up to him. So he did the only thing he was able to do at that moment. Prepare for an assault on Meruin.
But -
there was always a but - the fight would be on his terms, not on Meruins. Alex mumbled something silently and then pointed at the ground Meruin was stepping on. A low, guttural sound would be heard at first and after a second, a pillar of stone would shoot up from the ground beneath Meruin, dragging her with it upwards. Alex had manipulated the equation of Kinetic Energy -
K=(1/2)*m*(u^2) - to give the patch of ground its own Kinetic Energy. The pillar would be moving upwards fast, gaining height rapidly. What Alex had in mind was that after a while, he would stop the pillar from moving any further and so the immense momentum would carry Meruin over into space - more or less shoot her like a bullet, effectively ending their little fight without it having even started. Had Meruin found a way to escape the pillar and the sudden change in momentum and continued her attack, Alex would use Archimedes' Box to create seven yellowish-blue rectangles with electrical properties, making them super-sharp and with almost no air-resistance and would shoot them at her.