So, due to some wierdness in wording I'm confused.
Mainly about counterspelling and mythicness.
Flexible Counterspell (Su): Your mythic power enhances your ability to counter others' spells. As an immediate action, you can expend one use of mythic power to attempt to counter a spell. This ability otherwise works like readying an action to counter a spell, except instead of using the exact spell or dispel magic, you can instead expend a spell or spell slot of a level equal to or higher than the target spell.
Resilient Arcana (Su): Your spells and effects become more difficult to identify and dispel. Add your tier to the DC of any checks to identify your spells, recognize them as they are being cast, or dispel them using dispel magic or similar effects.
So here's a couple of sample scenarios.
1)Mage A and B are fighting. Mage B after a few well quipped insults throws a fireball at mage a. Mage A using a readied action and dispel magic, makes a caster level check and attemtps to dispel the fireball. Success, he's not nuked. This would not work if he didn't ready an action though correct?
Scenario 2) Same as above, but Mage A has Flexible counterspell. Mage B throws a fireball, and mage a attempts to counter it using Dispel magic and his readied action. Oh no, he fails! But fear not, he has flexible counterspell. my question is can he use it, already having attempted to cast a dispel magic?
Scenario 3) Same as 1, however deciding that he might fail to counter the dastardly b's spell, he spends the mythic point, and uses a 3rd level spell, but this time didn't ready an action to dispel the spell. Does it work?
Scenario 4) Both A and B are mythic. A has flexible counterspell, but B has Resilient Arcana. Mage B casts his spell, but A fails to identify it. Oh no! but fear not, he can still use dispel magic or Flexible counterspell, because neither rely on knowing the spell! He might survive! My question, if he wants to use Flexible Counterspell, can he do so by spending his mythic point, and use a 4th lvl spell and hope that it is high enough to dispel the oncoming spell?
Also, does the spell that he uses with flexible counterspell automatically match the spell that getting used against him?
And finally, what if Mage B stills and silents the spell that he's casting? Does the other mage get a chance to use flexible counterspell to get rid of it? Technically since dispel magic doesn't let you counter spells that have durations of instantaneous, and the fireball is now incoming, I don't assume that he can use it to get rid of the fireball mid flight.