Two furious roars echoed across the mall at the same time.
The lightning sorcerer from 400 years ago and the modern lightning sorcerer began their first official battle.
Almost simultaneously, both figures vanished from where they stood.
The next instant, a boom rang out.
Jie Jian's fist and Hajime Kashimo's fist collided fiercely in the middle.
Their excessive cursed energy crashed together, unleashing a powerful shockwave that shattered the surrounding glass one pane after another.
"Hmm!"
Feeling the force coming through his fist, Hajime Kashimo involuntarily took a step back.
What was going on? Why was this guy so strong?!
But he had no time to think, because Jie Jian's next attack was already coming.
Jie Jian swung his left fist at Hajime Kashimo. At the same time, the cursed energy in his body was actively activated, raising his strength by another level!
Thinking it was merely an ordinary left hook, Hajime Kashimo casually raised his arm to block it.
Yet the instant that left fist struck him, he realized something was wrong.
It was clearly a left fist, so why was it even stronger than the previous right punch?!
Not only that, after taking Jie Jian's punch, Hajime Kashimo felt as though his soul had trembled.
Like someone who had drunk too much, he actually stood there in a daze!
Only when another straight punch from Jie Jian struck him in the face did Hajime Kashimo snap awake from his dizziness.
The force of that punch sent Hajime Kashimo flying.
His body spun repeatedly through the air before crashing into a store, finally coming to a stop.
Watching Hajime Kashimo get sent flying, Jie Jian laughed a few times in satisfaction.
"You like showing off? Watch me send you flying!"
As they said, the left fist dealt high damage, while the right fist dealt even higher damage.
Go learn that basic-attack-and-skill combo. There were way too many details to pay attention to.
Inside the store, Hajime Kashimo rose awkwardly from the toppled merchandise.
With his extensive combat experience, he immediately realized that the "stun" from earlier had definitely been caused by Jie Jian's technique.
It seemed the other man's technique was not entirely the same as his. His own technique merely gave his cursed energy the properties of lightning.
But Jie Jian's Lightning Technique seemed to have given him other special abilities as well!
Yet there was no fear on Hajime Kashimo's face. Instead, a trace of excitement flashed through his eyes!
"Omoshiroi! Looks like not all modern sorcerers are trash!"
Hajime Kashimo raised a hand toward the distance. The next moment, an iron staff flew over from nearby and landed in his hand.
The iron staff contained negative charges Hajime Kashimo had left behind. By attracting them with the positive charges in his body, he could automatically retrieve it from afar.
He had casually stuck it into the ground earlier to test Jie Jian's ability.
Although he was still unsure what conditions Jie Jian's stunning technique required, Hajime Kashimo felt that it was very likely restricted by some condition.
And that condition was most likely that it had to directly strike the opponent's body!
To avoid being directly hit, the iron staff's ability to block attacks was extremely important.
Hajime Kashimo rested the iron staff on his shoulder and strode out of the shop with a loud laugh.
"Four hundred years. You're the first lightning sorcerer to make me suffer. In terms of techniques, Hajime Kashimo acknowledges you as the strongest!"
"Huh?" Jie Jian nearly lost it. "Hajime Kashimo, you're still showing off at a time like this? You've really never met anyone who fights dirty, have you?!"
Hajime Kashimo's expression darkened. He stopped wasting words, flashed forward, and arrived above Jie Jian.
The iron staff, wrapped in Hajime Kashimo's cursed energy and carrying overwhelming force, smashed down from above.
Although Jie Jian considered his physical defense fairly decent, he had no intention of standing there and taking the blow head-on.
A basic attack with such an obvious windup was far too flashy. He simply sidestepped and dodged it.
Seizing the moment when Hajime Kashimo was at his side, Jie Jian raised his arm and threw a massive elbow strike!
"Take my Black Flash Elbow Strike, man!"
The words "Black Flash" instantly made Hajime Kashimo's pupils contract.
As the strongest sorcerer of 400 years ago, how could he possibly not know about Black Flash?
When the discrepancy between a physical strike and a cursed energy impact was within 0.000001 seconds, it could create spatial distortion and raise the attack's power to the 2.5th power!
Thinking of the force behind Jie Jian's earlier punches, if Black Flash landed, he would either die or be severely injured.
But they were too close now. It was already too late to dodge.
Hajime Kashimo could only hold the iron staff across his chest and pray that he could block Jie Jian's Black Flash.
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However, something unexpected happened.
The black lightning Hajime Kashimo had imagined never appeared. Although the force transmitted through the iron staff was immense, it was not impossible to withstand!
Hajime Kashimo, who had been knocked back one or two meters by the elbow, glared at Jie Jian with a dark face.
When he saw the regretful look on Jie Jian's face, how could he not understand? He had been played!
"You bastard! If you can't use Black Flash, why the hell are you shouting it?!"
There was not the slightest hint of embarrassment on Jie Jian's face.
"Hahahaha, isn't shouting Black Flash with a boss elbow strike just basic practice? No reason not to shout it."
Hajime Kashimo's already dark face darkened even further.
Looking at the unreliable sorcerer before him, he chanted wildly in his heart.
Don't get mad, don't get mad. Getting angry at an idiot isn't worth it.
He took a deep breath, suppressed the anger in his heart, and looked at Jie Jian with clear eyes.
There was no longer any anger in his gaze. All that remained was confidence in his impending victory.
"The farce is over, boy."
Hajime Kashimo looked coldly at Jie Jian.
"You may speak your last words. I have gathered every part of the equation for victory, and I will bring down upon you the Whip of Complete Defeat!"
Jie Jian narrowed his eyes slightly at those words.
What did this old guy mean? Did he have some move I didn't know about?
That shouldn't be possible, right?
But confused or not, Jie Jian was not worried in the slightest.
If he lost, then he lost. He could just come back next time.
He grinned at Hajime Kashimo.
"Last words? I don't have any. But I can tell you my name. I'm Jie Jian."
"Jie Jian?" Hajime Kashimo repeated it quietly. "Not a bad name. I'll probably never forget you for the rest of my life."
The next moment, cursed energy circulated through Hajime Kashimo's body, and he confidently snapped his fingers.
Yet three seconds passed, and nothing happened!
"Hmm!"
Hajime Kashimo looked at Jie Jian in disbelief and activated the cursed energy within his body again.
Yet no matter what he did, the scene he expected never occurred.
Jie Jian squinted at Hajime Kashimo, who was putting on a performance in place, and seemed to understand something.
"Oh! I get it. Kashimo, you wanted to activate the positive charges inside my body, right?!"
Hajime Kashimo's cursed energy possessed the same nature as electricity. He could separate the electrical charges in his cursed energy into positive and negative charges, transferring positive charges into his target while striking them.
Once enough positive charges accumulated inside the enemy's body, he could not only use the attraction between positive and negative charges to rapidly approach them or pull them toward himself.
He could also release the negative charges in his body, causing them to react with the positive charges within the enemy and directly generate a lightning attack inside their body!
This allowed Kashimo's electrical attacks to possess their own Guaranteed Hit effect even without using Domain Expansion.
During their earlier close-range exchanges, Hajime Kashimo had already injected a large number of charges into Jie Jian's body.
Yet at this moment, those charges seemed to have vanished completely without a trace!
Seeing Hajime Kashimo's changing expression, Jie Jian knew he had guessed right.
He smiled at Hajime Kashimo.
"Kashimo, did you forget that my technique is lightning too?
The charges you planted in my body were assimilated and absorbed by me long ago. Where would there be any charges left for you to react with? Hahahahaha!"
Jie Jian's uninhibited laughter echoed through the mall, while Hajime Kashimo's expression became exceedingly grim.
He knew very well that he had encountered a technique that countered his.
It was normal for sorcerers to have countering relationships.
Just like the Sendai Four Heavenly Kings, whose techniques had severe countering relationships with one another.
When a sorcerer encountered someone who countered them, they would often choose to temporarily avoid the confrontation.
His technique did not grant him any additional combat abilities, and there was no way he would use the only destructive ability he had, Mythical Beast Amber, here.
At this moment, running away was the optimal solution.
But Hajime Kashimo had no intention of fleeing. The fighting spirit on his face grew even stronger.
Running away when he encountered a sorcerer who countered him might indeed be the optimal solution.
But that was the mindset of trash!
Hajime Kashimo would defeat Jie Jian with his own hands even while being countered!!!
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