Marvel: Starting by Collecting Debts from Kamar-Taj
Chapter 34

Intuition Domain and the Fate of Defeat

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Not long after Li Wei returned to the Marvel Main Universe, a probing attack on the Myriad Realms Secret Society's floating city, still under construction, provided him with a perfect testing ground.

The attackers were no ordinary force, but the Purifiers, an extremist branch of the Kree Empire, a notorious marauder race in the universe. They possessed advanced energy weapons, powerful individual combat armor, and genetically enhanced, ruthless warriors. Detecting abnormal spatial fluctuations and energy concentrations near Earth's orbit, they believed valuable technology was there to be plundered and dispatched an elite squad for a raid.

Twelve vicious-looking light assault craft broke through the outer warning perimeter and appeared directly near the floating city's construction platform. Dozens of Purifier warriors clad in dark gray powered armor swarmed out like locusts. Highly trained and perfectly coordinated, they unleashed deadly beams from their energy rifles, instantly blanketing the core platform where Li Wei stood.

Yet Li Wei, standing at the center of the platform, did not so much as furrow his brow in the face of this sudden saturation attack from all directions.

Act One: Absolute Evasion—A Stroll Through Bullet Time.

In the instant before the attacks struck, [Time-Source Intuition] had already activated at full power!

In his perception, the world seemed to enter a viscous amber, flowing slowly. Those scorching energy beams were no longer uncapturable flashes of light, but clearly visible "energy corridors" with fixed trajectories. Every tiny movement of the warriors—the fingers pulling triggers, their shifting footsteps, even the movement of their eyes beneath their visors—was broken down into countless continuous frames and instantly interpreted by his intuition.

Without receiving any explicit command from his brain, his body responded naturally.

He used neither magical shields nor wide-range teleportation. He merely... moved.

His body swayed with the smallest possible motions, like willow catkins in the breeze. One energy beam skimmed past his temple, and its scorching shockwave stirred his hair; another passed beneath his ribs, vaporizing a piece of construction material behind him; a third, a fourth... every attack missed him by a hair's breadth!

He seemed to be dancing an elegant yet lethal waltz amid a storm of gunfire, every step landing precisely in the gaps between death's shadows. Before him, the dense web of firepower was riddled with openings! The Purifier warriors discovered in astonishment that although their targeting systems had clearly locked onto him, every beam they fired inexplicably missed!

Act Two: Lethal Efficiency—Intuition-Driven Slaughter.

Evasion was not the goal. Driven by [Time-Source Intuition], Li Wei's counterattack was as natural as breathing.

He did not even look at his enemies. As his body evaded, the Startrail armguard was already raised.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

The rounds were not fired in a random spread. Each one followed an optimal arc that defied conventional physics, bypassing allies—the resisting Shadow Guards and automated defense turrets—obstacles, and even incoming energy beams, before striking their targets with precision—

One round traced a strange upward curve around the edge of a Purifier warrior's raised shield and drilled into the joint between his helmet and neck armor.

Another first struck the platform's metal wall, then used the ricochet angle to pierce another warrior's power core from an inconceivable blind spot.

Yet another round split into three in midair, shooting toward enemies in three different directions. Each trajectory was calculated independently, perfectly evading every interception.

This was not shooting. It was weaving death! His intuition seemed capable of processing tens of thousands of streams of information at once, planning a single unavoidable path for every round. The tactical coordination and armored defenses the Purifier warriors took such pride in appeared utterly feeble before attacks that were practically governed by causality itself.

Act Three: The Endgame of Foresight—Total Tactical Domination.

Seeing that the situation had turned dire, the Purifier squad's commander activated a large-scale Spacetime Stasis Bomb hidden aboard the assault craft, attempting to freeze the entire platform and create an opportunity to retreat.

The activation signal had only just been sent, and the energy had yet to fully spread. Li Wei did not even turn to look at the assault craft that had activated the bomb. Based on every subtle energy fluctuation on the battlefield and the enemy commander's body language, his [Time-Source Intuition] had already "read" the intent.

Almost at the exact instant the bomb activated, Li Wei casually swept his left hand backward.

A tiny, highly unstable portal appeared at precisely the point where the Spacetime Stasis Bomb's core energy erupted. Most of the stasis field released by the bomb was directly "swallowed" by this precisely positioned portal and transferred to a distant, uninhabited asteroid belt.

Only an extremely faint aftershock spread outward, causing the dust on the platform to float for half a second. That was all.

Watching Li Wei remain completely unharmed, still elegantly "strolling" as he harvested the lives of his subordinates, the Purifier commander fell into utter despair and collapse. He could not understand why every tactic, every piece of technology, every surprise attack became as laughable as a child's game before this man.

The battle ended less than a minute after it began.

Purifier corpses lay strewn across the platform, each killed in a single strike, their wounds precise and fatal. Li Wei stood in the center, his suit still immaculate and his breathing steady, as though he had merely gone for a walk.

He lowered his head and looked at his right hand, feeling the [Time-Source Intuition] that had fused into his bones.

"Not bad," he murmured, as though evaluating a newly arrived tool.

This ability gave him an almost absolute right to seize the initiative and evade when facing any form of attack. To him, combat was no longer a contest against an opponent, but a one-sided "execution procedure" whose outcome had long been foreseen.

He glanced at the wreckage and gave the Crimson Empress an order:

"Analyze their technology, especially that Spacetime Stasis Bomb. As for the bodies... hand them over to Hank McCoy—Beast. See whether Kree genes have anything interesting."

This brief yet brutal encounter not only tested his new ability, but also brought an unexpected "gift" to the Myriad Realms Secret Society. And Li Wei's terrifying reputation would undoubtedly spread through any survivors, further intimidating those cosmic forces watching from the shadows.

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