Wednesday: The Strongest Psychic

Luke continued his battle in the middle of the streets of Sunnyvale. Elliot used his strange teleportation technique at specific moments, making it harder to dodge him since Luke couldn't predict exactly when to activate his future vision.

He had already received three cuts—one on each shoulder and another near his abdomen. Fortunately, they were superficial, but they were still painful. They made him bleed, and the electricity left behind only increased the pain and fatigue.

Dodging Elliot's strikes with his telekinetic shields wasn't the most effective strategy. Every impact from his opponent shattered them in just one or two seconds, forcing Luke to react instantly with Shambles to escape.

And he was already too exhausted to keep using it nonstop.

The problem was that Shambles required the simultaneous use of two auras: white and yellow. On top of that, before teleporting, he had to form the strongest telekinetic shield possible to withstand Elliot's attacks—if only for a brief moment. He needed that second to be able to react.

It wasn't a sustainable strategy. He needed another method.

So, he turned to his blue aura, planting a simple but effective illusion in Elliot's mind. Using the mental plane was fast—faster than other methods.

At the start of their fight, trying to infiltrate Elliot's mind took too long. But now, pushed to the limit, his speed had drastically improved.

It was an extreme form of training, but effective. He had never used it before since his telekinesis and clairvoyance were more than enough to dodge his enemies' attacks.

Elliot reached Luke and slashed with his electrified sword. Luke's head was cut off cleanly—but it was an illusion.

His body distorted, dissolving into dark ravens that scattered in all directions.

Elliot frowned, quickly scanning his surroundings in search of his enemy. But Luke had already escaped, rising into the air with his telekinesis, two orbs condensing in each hand.

'Take this!' Luke thought, hurling the orbs at Elliot.

The orbs tore through the air at high speed, but Luke wasn't satisfied with that. He extended his palms and gave them an extra push with telekinesis, launching them even faster.

Elliot eyed the orbs. With his speed, he could dodge them, but he knew Luke would just use Shambles to teleport them inches away from him, making them hit their mark.

He wouldn't fall for the same trick again.

Instead of trying to dodge, he raised his defenses to the maximum. A lightning armor expanded around his body, crackling with overwhelming intensity.

He was confident his lightning armor would withstand the impact, keeping him unharmed. After all, Luke had created those orbs in mere seconds and was already fatigued. It was safer to take the hit directly than to risk dodging, only for Luke to shift their position with Shambles.

But that was exactly what Luke had planned.

Just as the first orb was about to collide with Elliot, Luke swapped places with it using Shambles.

He appeared right in front of Elliot.

The second orb vanished into an illusion. If Luke had swapped places with both real orbs, it would've been suicide—because the second orb's explosion would've harmed him as well, now that he was standing right in front of Elliot.

Luke knew that an orb created in such a short time wouldn't be effective. He wanted to land a precise, lethal strike on Elliot.

The instant he appeared, his palm was already prepared.

A blade of razor-sharp telekinetic waves condensed all his energy—ten tons of cutting pressure, gathered since he dodged Elliot's strike.

Using his clairvoyant analytical eye, he detected the weakest point in Elliot's lightning armor and attacked instantly.

The telekinetic blade pierced through Elliot's electric armor. There was a crackling sound.

The lightning flickered, and the compressed energy erupted in a slicing explosion.

Blood gushed from Elliot's abdomen as he stifled a grunt. For the first time in the entire fight, he frowned in fury.

In an instinctive counterattack, he raised his electrified sword and slashed at Luke in a lethal strike.

But Luke was no longer there. With another Shambles, he had vanished.

From a safe distance, Luke panted heavily, exhaustion coursing through his body, but he smiled.

He had finally dealt a serious wound.

"That damn…"

Elliot clenched his teeth, pressing a hand to his wounded abdomen.

He hadn't expected Luke to be so bold, to launch such a close-range attack. Throughout the entire battle, Luke had been cautious around electricity, avoiding close combat as much as possible.

Luke could have tried to deepen the cut or inflict critical damage, but Elliot's counterattack was too fast. If he had stayed even a second longer… he would have ended up with an electrified sword piercing through his body out of sheer greed.

Elliot said nothing. He wasn't going to waste time with words.

He knew that if he opened his mouth, Luke would take every second to slip into his mind and plant another one of his stupid illusions.

Lightning surged around his body as he shot toward Luke.

'Killing intent! Finally!' Luke thought.

At last, he could use his Observation Haki.

Throughout the entire fight, Elliot had kept his killing intent incredibly low, almost hidden, rendering this ability useless.

This ability allowed Luke to sense the intent behind others' actions in the immediate future, giving him the option to predict them. The stronger the killing intent or bloodlust behind an action, the easier it was to foresee with this technique.

But if someone fought with a cold mind and no emotions, as Elliot had been doing so far, it was almost impossible to anticipate their movements.

It was still a relatively small killing intent, but enough. This would allow Luke to save Shambles, illusions, and his future sight, which was much clearer but also exhausting.

When Elliot appeared with his electrified sword ready to pierce him, Luke was already moving. With a precise telekinetic wave, he propelled his body just in time, dodging the attack smoothly and moving away from the residual electricity.

Luke extended both hands toward Elliot. The gravity of the atmosphere changed in an instant.

An invisible force began to converge into a single point in front of his palms. The very space seemed to fold, as if collapsing on itself.

Luke was about to use his new telekinetic technique, inspired by a move from his father-in-law, Gomez Addams.

The air vibrated as the vacuum began to absorb everything around it.

Elliot, still enveloped in lightning, frowned.

"What the hell...?" he said, feeling a tug. His body was dragged forward, no matter how hard he tried to resist.

Luke increased the power. The gravitational field expanded, forcing Elliot to lose control of his movement.

The electricity around him crackled erratically, trying to stabilize his position, but it was futile. He was hurled straight into the center of the vortex.

"Compression!" Luke thought as he clenched his fists.

'Shit!' Elliot thought as the vortex collapsed into a single point.

The compression was instantaneous. The space seemed to explode.

Elliot was flung like a projectile, his body soaring through the air until crashing into a building, breaking through the wall as if it were nothing. The roar echoed throughout the area.

'It's much more powerful than I imagined,' Luke thought.

From his position in the air, the only visible sign of his technique was the vibration of the air around him, as if the atmosphere itself was trembling. But if he had been on the ground, the result would have been much more destructive.

The ground would have shattered, the asphalt torn into pieces, and any loose objects in the area would have been violently absorbed before the final collapse of the vortex.

Still, the technique hadn't reached its full potential. Luke was fatigued, and the amount of telekinetic waves he could condense wasn't optimal.

However, it wasn't that he had been reserving the technique; it was just that this moment was the right time to use it. Any earlier attempt would have been too risky.

Luke called this technique Convergence Vortex. It is different from using normal telekinesis. When you apply telekinetic force on an object or person, you simply push or pull them in a straight line, as if an invisible hand is moving them.

It is an external force, which depends on the resistance of the target to be effective. In Elliot's case, this approach is almost ineffective since he counters it with his electrical power and speed.

But Convergence Vortex, instead of applying direct force, collapses space using telekinetic waves, creating a vacuum.

The crucial difference is that it's not about making something move, but making it have no other option but to move. And when the vortex collapses, the compressed energy is released in a telekinetic implosion.

It's not just force, it's inevitability.

Unlike his telekinetic orb, which is like a pure pressure bomb and its function is to impact and explode, this technique is more useful against fast and hard-to-catch enemies like Elliot.

Since it pulls them toward its core, creating inevitability, it reduces the target's ability to escape.

After a few seconds, Elliot emerged from the building, having sustained two serious injuries in a short period of time. Although the cut on his abdomen was more severe, he hadn't expected such a telekinetic technique and was caught off guard.

'Where is he?' Elliot thought, frowning, looking up at the sky where Luke had been moments before.

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