MIGHT AS WELL BE OP

Chapter 1213: A Flaw

Anthony wouldn’t deny it; a small part of him was feeling exhilarated, his battle intent stirring in response. Just over a month ago, he had fought the Demon King and God, both of whom had only managed to injure him once, an injury that hadn’t even drawn blood.

But now, he was standing before people who could draw his blood for the first time in what felt like ages. Anthony couldn’t help but feel that this moment resembled his early days back at the Blue Planet, when he was still climbing to the top. It reminded him of the first time a group of assassins had ambushed him after one of his shopping trips.

As Anthony was about to give in to his exhilaration and battle intent, he immediately suppressed it. This was a battle for survival, not for fun.

In an instant, the Asura man was already before Anthony, his fist booming toward Anthony’s face as though he intended to flatten his entire head. The attack had been fast, too fast. But Anthony was nothing if not ever ready. His Mind Calculation had already predicted this. All he had to do was move. His head snapped to the side as he slipped out of the path of the attack, his body flickering away from where he had stood.

The Asura’s fist met the mountain behind Anthony with a force greater than any nuclear explosion. The mountain shook violently, spiderweb cracks spreading across its surface, yet it remained firmly rooted in place.

Anthony, whose ears rang from the thunderous collision for a brief moment, turned and made a run for it. He wasn’t here to fight.

The moment he crossed a couple of meters, the Garuda woman was already there. She closed the distance as she leaped a few meters above the ground and stomped both of her feet toward Anthony’s ribs from the side.

But Anthony had already predicted it once again, allowing him to stop just in time and lean away from the path of the attack. The cat-like man moved next, but Anthony had already acted first as he simply threw dirt into the man’s face in an attempt to slow him down.

But the man didn’t slow down. The sand struck his eyes, yet he didn’t even bother to close them. Instead, his claws swept toward Anthony’s shoulder as he moved to hack it off.

‘Shit!’ Anthony cursed inwardly. While he had predicted the Rakshasa’s attack, he hadn’t foreseen his own method of stopping the man from failing.

The moment the claw was about to rip through his flesh, the Rakshasa felt his own attack halt midair against his will. His eyes narrowed in confusion as he couldn’t understand what was happening.

The Yaksha, who had an Elven appearance, moved next, his knee hurtling toward Anthony’s skull from behind. But that attack also stopped, his knee held back by an unseen force.

The both of them immediately blurred backward as they created some distance between themselves and Anthony. All four attacks had failed for the second time, but now they understood that there was something greater at play.

“It seems he is someone capable of predicting the future without using Origin Essence,” the Asura spoke as he stared at Anthony with an amused smile on his face.

“It seems so. But people who are able to use skills and abilities without expending Origin Essence aren’t rare, so I’m not surprised. However, for his ability to work this well here… that is surprising,” the Garuda woman stated.

“And what was that power that stopped both the Rakshasa’s and my attacks?” the Yaksha asked.

“It seems to be a space-type ability that also doesn’t require Origin Essence to use. After all, one of the reasons these Ascendants are so easily captured is because they don’t even know how to manipulate their Origin Essence yet,” the Rakshasa with the cat-like eyes stated.

What Anthony had used to stop their attacks was Infinity.

When Anthony had awakened, one of the first abilities he had obtained was Infinity. It was an ability that didn’t require any sort of Mana to activate or sustain. However, when facing stronger opponents, he could channel Mana into it to strengthen its effect. At this moment, Anthony’s Infinity was restricted to a five-meter radius, meaning anything that entered that range would immediately come to a halt.

But… would Infinity work against these people? In the past, Anthony could simply strengthen it, but with the absence of Mana, he could only use it in its base form.

Of course, Anthony wasn’t just standing around waiting while the four of them discussed. No, he was already on the move, covering even more distance. The moment he rounded a corner beside a mountain, he activated his Camouflage ability, which also didn’t require Mana to function, and hid there.

But the Camouflage ability seemed utterly useless, for in the very next moment Anthony sensed a kick tearing toward his chest despite his concealed state. Anthony, who had already predicted the trajectory of the attack, immediately deployed his Infinity to stop it.

But in the next instant, Anthony’s senses blared like alarm bells, sending warning signals throughout his mind. Before he could even react, his Infinity was effortlessly torn apart as the Yaksha’s kick thundered into his chest like the strike of an exploding war drum.

Anthony felt it… pain… immense, overwhelming pain.

His body was hurled backward with maddening force, his back slamming into the mountain behind him as he tore straight through it like a knife through butter. He burst out the other side, crashed into another mountain, then another, the process repeating itself through five mountains before Anthony finally caught himself and landed on his feet, skidding backward to a halt as he carved deep trenches into the ground.

Anthony immediately coughed up a large mouthful of blood as he felt his internal organs twist violently from a single kick. His chest had caved in, his heart was barely holding together, and his body was riddled with injuries from the devastating collisions.

Clearly, the attack had been intended to incapacitate him rather than kill him. If Anthony had been any ordinary person, he would have already been unconscious and barely breathing. But his Beginning Of All Things Physique was simply too resilient.

Just as Anthony had failed to predict that the Rakshasa with the cat-like eyes would simply ignore his sand tactic without being blinded, he had now also failed to predict that his Infinity wouldn’t be able to stop the kick.

At that moment, it finally dawned on Anthony… the Mind Calculation ability within the Sense Dome skill possessed a subtle flaw. While it could accurately predict his opponents’ attacks, it couldn’t predict whether his own defenses would actually work against those attacks.

It seemed that part was left entirely up to Anthony.

It was simply a flaw Anthony was only just noticing. After all, he barely used Mind Calculation to begin with. And even when he did, there had never been anyone capable of withstanding his own attacks to begin with.

His own overpoweredness had prevented him from ever noticing this flaw.

Did this fit the saying that too much of anything is bad?