I Am Genie-Chapter 53: New Energy Usage Technique

Hearing Leo’s explanation, Michael gradually felt that the Chaotic World domain wasn’t too unreasonable after all.

To have a powerful gravitational force requires an extremely heavy object, something even gods like the Eat God or Cook God don’t have the ability to create.

Redirecting gravity is much more reasonable... No, reasonable my ass! If gravity can be redirected all over the place, is it even gravity anymore?

Trying to find logic in an illogical ability is truly a pointless endeavor. Michael then discarded the thought of trying to understand the domain.

"If you use energy to protect your body, can you resist the domain?"

Michael felt this issue was more important for Leo’s domain than for his. Leo’s ability is to disrupt enemies while his is to support his teammates, so it doesn’t get resisted by allies.

"Of course you can, a domain isn’t something you can’t resist. But of course, a domain also has a huge advantage. Under the condition that both parties are on the same level, the energy the enemy spends to resist the domain’s effect will be at least fifty percent more than the energy I lose."

"Oh, doesn’t that mean in a prolonged battle, the advantage will be yours? Even if I fought you, I’d probably lose too."

Because he positioned himself as support, Michael thought he wasn’t too strong in one-on-one combat. But unexpectedly, Leo immediately refuted his words.

"No, you’re wrong. Which of our abilities can’t provide support? You have your way of supporting, I have my way of supporting. But in a one-on-one fight, we can still utilize it differently. Like, you can teleport randomly, how many people can fight back against you?"

Leo paused for a bit, then thought about how to change Michael’s slightly flawed way of thinking. In war, things don’t always go your way, you don’t always have comrades by your side, so you can’t just have a single-track mind.

"You wanting to specialize in support is a good thing. That way when the two of us combine, we’ll have the best effect. But you also shouldn’t forget to train your one-on-one combat ability, because in the future, you won’t always have teammates by your side."

Say what you will, in terms of actual combat experience, Leo is Michael’s seasoned senior. Listening to a senior might not be completely right, but at least it has been right before.

"I get it. So from now on we’ll still fight each other as usual but also use our domains at the same time?" Michael nodded in reply.

"Exactly my thought. Now that we can use domains, we don’t need to waste time doing a bunch of things at once like the past half year. The foundation is considered sufficient, now is the development stage."

While Leo was speaking, he suddenly felt a comfortably explosive sensation in his chest. He closed his eyes and focused for a few seconds to guide the energy, then also broke through to level one.

"Huh? Is this the feeling of breaking through? Not too bad. And I can use energy now. It’s been a long time since I’ve had this feeling."

He raised his right hand, a thin stream of sky-blue energy enveloped his entire hand. In his previous world, he was a martial artist, but not the ordinary kind like on Michael’s Earth.

Martial arts in Leo’s world could utilize a special energy source within the body, so he was very familiar with controlling this stuff.

Leo suddenly threw a punch toward Michael. Michael wasn’t on guard but still immediately raised both arms to block. Their strength originally wasn’t that different, yet now Michael was punched flying back several meters.

"What the hell?"

Michael’s eyes widened, unable to believe what was before him. Leo’s panda hand had somehow become incredibly hard, and when it hit him, it released something that made his arm feel like it was hit by an air cannon.

"Ha ha, surprised? This is martial arts." Leo laughed in reply.

From his tone and attitude, it wasn’t hard for Michael to see that Leo wanted to teach him this technique.

"Is it hard to learn?"

"Hard. Extremely hard." Leo shook his head and sighed.

???

Are you showing off to me? You mean it’s so hard I can’t learn it?

Michael had the kind of feeling where he wanted to hit someone but couldn’t win right now. With the same level of training, but after six months the gap between the two of them had widened by another large margin.

He knew this was because of the decades of experience and the mental training from the time Leo was a holy knight. Before, Michael was just an ordinary young man, what did he have to compare?

"Speak human. Can I learn it or not?"

Even though he asked that, Michael understood he definitely could learn it. The only problem was time.

Leo first withdrew his domain, then slowly walked up to Michael. He put on the profound demeanor of a true martial arts master... Well, the profound look was fake, but the master thing was real.

"First, answer me: have you ever tried using energy like this before?"

???

’Use it where? Earth doesn’t have this stuff. Plus, I just reached level one not long ago, when would I have used it?’

Michael’s eyelids twitched a few times. He was completely sober enough to realize Leo was putting on airs with him. But he was sure Leo wouldn’t be able to put on airs for much longer because he would learn it soon.

"Hmph, cut the crap. I just broke through to level one, when would I have used energy? Using domain expansion and what you’re using aren’t the same."

"Good, then let me see your talent. Mimic what I just did."

"Are you f*cking kidding me?"

Michael really wanted to punch Leo, but in the end, he still did as he was told. He remembered the thin but solid layer of energy covering Leo’s hand and tried to do the same thing.

He focused his mind, sensing the energy in his body. The energy, originally evenly dispersed inside, gathered toward his right arm according to his will.

The energy leaked out, covering his entire hand, but it wasn’t solid and kept slipping from his control.

"Where’s the problem?" Michael frowned in confusion.