Marvel's Master of Heavenly Magic

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To be honest, Accelerator's power is somewhat overpowered.

However, George, through analyzing the 9,980 battles between the clones and Accelerator from his memories, has found a few ways to counteract it.

Accelerator has the ability to control the direction of all forms of energy through skin contact. This includes not only the kinetic energy of physical attacks but also the brainwaves used for controlling thoughts. He can manipulate them all.

What's even more terrifying is his defensive reflection mechanism, which he creates using his power.

Accelerator can use his brain's immense computational ability to set up a reflective barrier on his skin. Anything he perceives as harmful within his cognition—such as gas, nuclear radiation, and other forms of attack—will be reflected back.

This reflection can persist even if he loses consciousness, as long as he doesn't consciously deactivate it.

In theory, as long as the reflection is active, no one can harm his body.

However, George also noticed that the conditions for Accelerator's reflection are tied to his own understanding of energy systems. If an energy system exceeds his comprehension, the reflection becomes much less effective.

Since he doesn't understand it, he can't calculate or control it.

To control it, one needs to analyze the energy, which requires time.

The reflection is indeed powerful, but it has its limits. If the energy of an attack is too massive, George believes even Accelerator will struggle to reflect it.

For instance, if a planet were thrown at him, his reflection wouldn't be able to deflect the entire planet.

And, like all espers, Accelerator has a fundamental weakness: although he possesses extraordinary powers, he still has a mortal body.

He still gets hungry if he doesn't eat, thirsty if he doesn't drink, and will die without oxygen.

Given his current situation, the last two are difficult to exploit, but the first one is quite simple.

Since the magic he wields comes from other worlds, it should fall outside of Accelerator's cognitive understanding of attacks.

Even though some straightforward magical attacks can be analyzed quickly and intercepted, there are other types of magical attacks that can't even be detected, making them very difficult to defend against.

"Any kind of energy can be controlled. Is this what they mean by vector control?"

Upon hearing George's explanation, Misaka Mikoto frowned.

She had never encountered Accelerator, but she had heard of the famed strongest esper in Academy City. She knew that his power was vector control, though she wasn't entirely sure how it worked.

"If that's the case, then my attacks will be unlikely to have any effect. I wonder if increasing my output to the maximum would work."

"It's fine, I have a plan," George whispered to Misaka Mikoto, beginning to explain his strategy.

Meanwhile, in a windowless building located in the Seventh District of Academy City, a white-haired man lying in a red liquid preservation chamber muttered to himself:

"What is going on with this guy?"

This man was none other than the creator of Academy City, Edward Alexander—also known by his public alias, Aleister Crowley, the greatest magician of the 20th century.

Through his nanobots, which provided him with surveillance across the city, he had already been aware of Clone 9981's anomaly when the person in charge of the Level 6 Shift project reported the latest intelligence to him.

At first, he hadn't given it much attention.

Although it was strange for a clone to evolve from Level 2 to Level 4, it wasn't something he considered particularly unusual.

Although the classification of esper levels was fixed, sometimes, exceptional circumstances would break this rule.

It wasn't until the nanobots monitoring Clone 9981 lost track of him that Aleister began to take the situation seriously.

Because while it was possible for an esper's ability to break through its original level due to unique circumstances, it was absolutely impossible for two different abilities to coexist simultaneously.

Clone 9981 inherited Misaka Mikoto's electromagnetic powers—not the ability to become invisible.

Due to the invisibility, the nanobots in the hovering relay system were unable to track Clone 9981. It wasn't until now that Clone 9981 reappeared on the overpass, coming into contact with the original Misaka Mikoto.

"Let's observe for a while, then send in the covert operatives to capture him."

The Level 6 Shift project was not his ultimate goal. The previous mass production of espers program was merely a cover for his true objectives.

His real plan was to deceive the magic world using these two fake projects, thereby sending the artificially created Misaka clones to various parts of the world, and expanding the originally confined "Virtual District" of Academy City into a global phenomenon.

If he could fully control the unfinished "Virtual District · Five Elements Mechanism" and activate the "Artificial Heaven," all magicians' powers would be rendered uncontrollable due to the emergence of a new "realm," ultimately leading to their self-destruction.

The unexpected anomaly with Clone 9981 might derail his plans, so if the clone was fortunate enough to survive Accelerator's attack, he decided to observe for a while before dispatching covert operatives to capture it and study the situation.

In his view, even if Clone 9981, at Level 4, and the original Misaka Mikoto, at Level 5, teamed up, they would still be no match for Accelerator.

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"Is this really going to work?" Misaka Mikoto looked at George, somewhat puzzled.

George's plan was simple: once Accelerator appeared, Misaka Mikoto would fight with everything she had to attract his attention as much as possible.

"Trust me, I'll take care of the rest," George replied confidently.

Once Misaka Mikoto drew Accelerator's attention, George would use his invisibility to get close to Accelerator and cast a soul-binding spell to temporarily disable his defensive reflection.

Without his defensive reflection, Accelerator would become just an ordinary person, and at that point, they'd be able to deal with him however they liked.

Alternatively, George could use a death curse, which ignores all defenses, to directly eliminate him.

If Accelerator's analytical abilities were truly as strong as rumors suggested, and he could instantly analyze George's foreign magic and counter it with a reflection, then George would just retreat with Misaka Mikoto and Clone 9981.

They would flee to the mirror world, and even if Accelerator destroyed all of Academy City in his pursuit, he wouldn't be able to find them.

"Alright, if I manage to defeat him head-on, then we won't need the rest of the plan."

Despite knowing that Accelerator's abilities countered her own, Misaka Mikoto still wanted to give it a try.

George nodded. If she could defeat Accelerator, that would be even better. He was also curious to see Misaka Mikoto's true strength at Level 5.

This situation was unpredictable.

"Strange, I'm feeling that sensation again... like being watched."

After discussing the plan with Misaka Mikoto, George couldn't help but frown.

"Are these laboratory surveillance systems really this advanced?"

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(End of Chapter)