Chapter 929: Borrowing Your Imagine Breaker
“Could it be that Wuming wants to duel me?”
Kamijou Touma immediately panicked. Although he knew Lin Wuming’s challenge was definitely a “friendly spar” and not a fight to the death…
But thinking of Lin Wuming’s famous battle achievements and various legends, as well as the widely circulated “Strongest Telekinetic User Battle” series of videos online, Kamijou Touma didn’t feel he had even a slight chance of winning—even if he possessed the trump card, “Imagine Breaker.”
Because the power gap was too vast, in Kamijou Touma’s view, this duel held no benefit for him—he couldn’t even gain experience or grow from it!
In fact, Kamijou Touma had simulated scenarios of fighting Lin Wuming in his mind more than once, but no matter how he deduced or hypothesized, the number of times he could defeat Lin Wuming… remained zero!
Because Lin Wuming’s specialty was long-range combat, especially “Mind Power Acceleration Cannon” sniping from beyond a hundred meters.
Kamijou Touma’s “Imagine Breaker” had almost no way to deal with this move—as long as it was controlled properly, Lin Wuming could completely make the “Mind Power Acceleration Cannon” turn into a pure kinetic projectile without any Nen in its final stage.
Because it contained no Nen and was purely inertial flight, “Imagine Breaker” could not negate it.
Kamijou Touma could block a full-power “Railgun,” but he was helpless against the weaker “ordinary kinetic projectiles.”
Moreover, Kamijou Touma also knew that Lin Wuming possessed a high-speed movement ability that was almost like “teleportation.” If he wanted to leave, Kamijou Touma, with his ordinary human body, simply couldn’t stop him!
In other words, if Lin Wuming wished, he could instantly move to a distant location at the start of the battle, then end the fight with one or more “Mind Power Acceleration Cannon” shots!
This combo was almost unsolvable—at least Kamijou Touma had no way to counter it.
For this reason, in Kamijou Touma’s view, a duel with Lin Wuming was meaningless.
This was not Kamijou Touma’s fault; the reason he came to this conclusion was largely because he and Lin Wuming were too familiar with each other—this “familiarity” removed all suspense from their duel.
After all, Kamijou Touma’s “Imagine Breaker” could be considered a “first-sight kill.”
When an enemy is caught off guard and suddenly has their magic or esper ability negated, not to mention the mental panic and agitation, just the stiffness and wide-open vulnerability after a big move misses are enough for Kamijou Touma to launch a counterattack.
Kamijou Touma’s best tactic was to use “Imagine Breaker” to bring a originally powerful enemy down to his own level, and then defeat him with his rich street fighting experience!
Unfortunately, this tactic was ineffective against Lin Wuming, because Lin Wuming also understood Kamijou Touma, knew about the existence of “Imagine Breaker,” and was even clearer about the power and unreasonableness of “Imagine Breaker.”
So if a real battle started, Lin Wuming would not give Kamijou Touma a chance to get close to him.
Because they both understood each other’s strength and fighting style so well, Kamijou Touma was certain that the outcome of the battle was determined from the very beginning.
“Who said anything about a duel?” Seeing Kamijou Touma’s passive and somewhat agitated reaction, Lin Wuming asked helplessly, “A duel between Our… seems meaningless, doesn’t it?”
“Uh… but you and Sogiita Gunha and Accelerator…” Kamijou Touma also paused, then quickly waved his hand, “I misunderstood, don’t worry about it, it’s good if there’s no duel.”
Because in the first half of the year, Lin Wuming and Sogiita Gunha held a “Strongest Telekinetic User” match almost every week, and sometimes Accelerator would participate as well.
At that time, it was considered a grand event, and rumors like “Lin Wuming is keen on dueling” also emerged.
So just now, Kamijou Touma subconsciously thought of “dueling” first.
Actually, Lin Wuming could also understand Kamijou Touma’s line of thought. Given his experiences last semester, it wasn’t strange to be mistaken for someone who liked to duel strong opponents.
In fact, that statement wasn’t wrong. As his strength increased, Lin Wuming became increasingly unafraid of dueling others; even with Accelerator, Lin Wuming didn’t mind fighting him now.
However, if it were Kamijou Touma, then forget it, because the existence of “Imagine Breaker” made a duel with him, in a sense, a true “one-hit decides victory” fundamentalist duel, where the outcome was decided with the first move.
“I just want to experience the power of ‘Imagine Breaker,’” Lin Wuming explained, “Don’t be too nervous, there won’t actually be a fight.”
To be precise, all Kamijou Touma had to do was extend his right hand.
All the remaining operations would be completed by Lin Wuming.
This was an attempt, or perhaps an experiment.
Kamijou Touma stated that his “Imagine Breaker” was perfect for dealing with enemies from the magic side, so Lin Wuming thought about the problem he was currently facing—could magic backlash also be eliminated using “Imagine Breaker”?
Lin Wuming also extended his hand, hovering it above “Imagine Breaker,” then began to recite the incantation and activate the magic.
Heaven Canceller had just warned him yesterday—Lin Wuming continuing to cast magic was a slow suicide, and he shouldn’t use it easily unless absolutely necessary.
But Lin Wuming, at this moment, unhesitatingly defied the doctor’s orders. As the incantation was chanted from his mouth, magic power was generated again within Lin Wuming’s body, gathering and weaving into magic…
The violent backlash arrived as expected—Lin Wuming could feel his body almost collapsing from the cellular level. This side effect was even more severe than the doctor had judged!
The effect was also immediate; Lin Wuming was directly pulled into “Bullet Time” state, and the surrounding world “froze” again.
Fortunately, Lin Wuming was prepared and slapped his right hand downwards—directly onto Kamijou Touma’s “Imagine Breaker”!
Clap!
A loud clapping sound, accompanied by Kamijou Touma’s cry of pain, echoed in the ward.
Although Lin Wuming had some control, in the “Bullet Time” state, the instantaneous speed of his clap still reached subsonic levels.
With this slap, Kamijou Touma only cried out in pain, but his right hand was unharmed, which was the result of “Imagine Breaker” taking effect and nullifying the “abnormal power.”
In fact, even Lin Wuming’s own right hand felt a faint ache for the first time in a long time.
The good news was that the magic backlash was indeed eliminated; his body, which had been on the verge of collapse, instantly returned to calm, as if the previous sensation was just an illusion and nothing had actually happened.
But on the other hand, the “Bullet Time” effect was also negated, and Lin Wuming returned to normal time.
