The Strongest God of Thunder, Inscribed in Tokyo

The look in Hajime Kashimo's eyes completely changed.

Years of an undefeated career had not worn down his fighting spirit, and at this moment, his long-dormant heart burned once more.

Come and fight to the death!

Hajime Kashimo laughed loudly, the cursed energy on his body surging like a tidal wave.

He raised his iron staff and violently smashed it toward Jie Jian.

Jie Jian wore a solemn expression, the trace of a smile in his eyes also fading away.

He clearly felt that Hajime Kashimo's combat style had changed.

He no longer attacked with unbridled wildness like at the beginning, but instead engaged him in a tactical tug-of-war.

As expected of a veteran sorcerer, his foundation was unquestionable, and in an instant, he found the most suitable combat method.

I'm coming, damn it!

Jie Jian responded without showing weakness, the Undying Thunder within his body completely activated as pale blue lightning swept across his entire body.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

The sound of Jie Jian's fists colliding with Hajime Kashimo's iron staff echoed inside the shopping mall, the collision of lightning and lightning emitting bursts of white light, and the shockwaves generated by the impact cracking the surrounding walls.

Another collision occurred, and Jie Jian retreated repeatedly, instinctively shaking his numb arm.

Although cursed energy had the effect of strengthening defense, the iron staff in Hajime Kashimo's hand was also enhanced in attack power by his cursed energy. Adding it all up, it was equivalent to him punching iron with bare flesh.

"Unfair, unfair! You have a weapon and I don't. Even if you win, it's an unsportsmanlike victory. If you have the guts, let's go bare-fist and one-on-one!"

Faced with Jie Jian's provocation, Hajime Kashimo completely ignored him.

"What's unfair about this? You can use a weapon too, and besides, you even used your technique. Why shouldn't I use a weapon?"

The technique Hajime Kashimo mentioned naturally referred to the passive Thunder Field of Jie Jian's Undying Thunder.

During the successive attacks with Hajime Kashimo, his Thunder Field had long since been activated.

Yet what Jie Jian did not expect was that Hajime Kashimo, who also possessed a lightning technique, had an extremely high resistance to lightning.

Jie Jian's current attacks barely had any effect on him at all!

Not only that, but the stun caused by his enhanced attacks also had a poor effect on Hajime Kashimo.

Hajime Kashimo's guess was correct: after he actively activated his lightning cursed energy to induce a stun, he had to drive that lightning cursed energy into the enemy's body.

However, as the owner of a lightning technique, under his conscious control, the moment Jie Jian's lightning cursed energy entered his body, he could assimilate it just as Jie Jian assimilated his electrical charges.

In other words, while Jie Jian was countering Hajime Kashimo, Hajime Kashimo was actually countering him as well.

The outcome of the battle between them could only be decided through close-quarters physical combat.

"Neither of them works, how can this count!" Jie Jian immediately protested, while proposing, "How about this, I won't use the Thunder Field, and you don't use your weapon. Let's have a real man's fist-to-flesh brawl, how about that?"

Hajime Kashimo looked helplessly at Jie Jian.

Although he acknowledged Jie Jian's strength, for some reason, the man in front of him always acted all flippant during a fight, showing not a shred of reverence for combat!

There was no helping it, though; if you made someone play a game where there was no penalty for losing and a reward for winning, you would play it with a smile too.

"I refuse!"

Hajime Kashimo rejected Jie Jian's proposal without hesitation.

His eyes swept over Jie Jian's body, and he suddenly said with a smile.

"It seems your situation isn't quite the same as mine."

Jie Jian looked down and saw several lightning-scorched marks on his body.

These injuries were all caused by the lightning ripples from the iron staff when he clashed head-on with Hajime Kashimo just now.

Jie Jian's technique was related to lightning roots just like Hajime Kashimo's, but Hajime Kashimo's cursed energy was lightning, possessing the exact same properties as lightning.

Jie Jian, however, could only convert cursed energy into lightning and use it for enhancement, making the two somewhat different in their underlying logic.

Therefore, in terms of immunity to external lightning, he was somewhat inferior to Hajime Kashimo.

Jie Jian did not care about his own injuries.

"Just small scratches. I can still fight you all day!"

Hajime Kashimo did not reply. His eyes narrowed slightly as if he were thinking about something.

The next moment, Hajime Kashimo's attack struck again.

Jie Jian sidestepped to dodge, and the old man's iron staff smashed heavily into the ground, shattering the concrete and sending gravel flying in all directions.

After several more skirmishes, however, Jie Jian's brows slowly furrowed.

It was not because Hajime Kashimo's attacks had become fierce; on the contrary, Jie Jian keenly discovered that the accuracy of Hajime Kashimo's attacks had decreased!

There were several times when Jie Jian thought Hajime Kashimo was going to hit him, yet his iron staff smashed into the ground beside him instead?

Another attack missed its mark, and Jie Jian smiled as he looked at Hajime Kashimo.

"What's going on, old man? Are you tired? How about I let you rest for a bit?"

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Hajime Kashimo did not answer.

He lunged forward in a flash and swept his iron staff horizontally toward Jie Jian.

Jie Jian dodged to the side while simultaneously counterattacking with a lightning-wrapped punch aimed at the bridge of Hajime Kashimo's nose.

However, Hajime Kashimo did not take the hit head-on this time.

With a bizarre twist of his body, he used the momentum of the iron staff to lash out from the side toward Jie Jian's arm.

"Bang!"

The iron staff collided with Jie Jian's arm, producing a dull thud.

Jie Jian frowned.

Something was wrong.

The force of Hajime Kashimo's attack this time was noticeably much smaller than at the beginning.

Could he really be tired?

That shouldn't be the case; how long had it even been, and he was already done for?

Could he be holding back?

This thought flashed through Jie Jian's mind, but he quickly dismissed it.

That was impossible—an old bastard like Hajime Kashimo didn't know the meaning of mercy. He must be plotting something!

Hajime Kashimo's attacking pattern suddenly turned bizarre.

His attacks always missed, striking the ground and walls from time to time.

"What on earth are you doing?" Jie Jian could not help asking.

Hajime Kashimo did not reply. Taking advantage of another collision with Jie Jian, he bounced backward off the momentum.

He hoisted the iron staff over his shoulder, a victor's smile on his face.

"Take a look around you, kid."

Jie Jian looked down at his surroundings, and he suddenly realized something.

Everywhere on the ground and walls around him were traces of electrical charges left by Hajime Kashimo!

He understood.

Hajime Kashimo indeed could not drive the electrical charges into his body, but that did not mean charges could only be driven into his body.

His charges could be injected into any object, which naturally included the ground beneath his feet and the surrounding walls.

And all of Hajime Kashimo's attacks that had seemed to miss earlier were simply scattering charges across the entire battlefield!

"Realizing it now is too late."

Hajime Kashimo slowly raised his right hand, a dazzling ball of light glowing at his fingertips—the precursor to activating positive and negative charges.

At the same time, Jie Jian felt the surrounding space begin to glow.

He looked around and saw dense blue spots of light starting to emerge throughout the entire shopping mall.

Those were all of Hajime Kashimo's charges. Hajime Kashimo was about to unleash a massive thunderous bombardment across the entire mall!

Jie Jian's expression changed.

He wanted to escape this area, but it was already too late.

One second before the thunderstorm struck, Hajime Kashimo's incantation rang out across Tokyo once more.

"Positive charge."

"Negative charge."

"Feedback Shock."

At that moment, the positive and negative charges completed their resonance before Jie Jian's eyes. Jie Jian understood that he no longer had any chance to stop the collision of the positive and negative charges.

The Unrestricted Thunderstorm erupted inside the mall with a deafening roar like a nuclear explosion.

Jie Jian's clothes were incinerated to nothingness in the thunderstorm.

The location of the thunderstorm was left with a massive crater, completely battered into ruin.

The shopping mall, symbolizing human civilization, directly collapsed. Amidst the ruins, Jie Jian, who had exhausted every ounce of his strength to protect himself, leaned weakly against the battered structure to support his body.

His entire body's skin was charred black from the thunder's roar, and a wave of scorched odor emanated from him.

Hajime Kashimo, equally battered and covered in injuries, appeared before Jie Jian. Jie Jian immediately forced himself to stop leaning against the wall, standing tall and proper before Hajime Kashimo.

The so-called [Unrestricted Thunderstorm] meant [no designated target].

It launched an indiscriminate attack on everyone within the range, and not even the caster himself was an exception.

However, under the influence of homologous cursed energy, the damage Hajime Kashimo sustained was greatly mitigated.

His injuries were visibly fewer, and his condition was much better; he was entirely capable of continuing the fight, whereas Jie Jian seemingly was not.

In other words... That's right, Hajime Kashimo won!

The strongest god of thunder, inscribed in Tokyo.