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Chapter 204: Spirit Power Hidden in the

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The scene became completely silent!

The spectators were all stunned by this scene.

When Amadeus used Shadow, causing the entire Court to be shrouded in darkness, they were already praying for that Japan Team middle schooler.

Because this was, after all, the signature move that made the professional player Amadeus famous.

When they thought Takahashi would be knocked to the ground by the tennis ball, they did not expect a more eerie figure to appear behind Takahashi.

The aura emitted by this monster was even more powerful and terrifying than Amadeus's Shadow!

In their line of sight, the entire Court was shrouded by Amadeus's Shadow, but they could still vaguely see the movement on the court.

But ever since the phantom behind Takahashi appeared, the darkness deepened, as if the entire Court had been baptized in black ink.

And that monster actually opened its mouth and swallowed Amadeus's Shadow alive.

A scene like this, they had never seen before!

Even on the professional circuit, they had never seen anyone break Amadeus's Shadow like this.

……

Amadeus looked at the tennis ball bouncing continuously on his half of the court, his gaze turning completely gloomy.

Asura Divine Path!

I never expected the opponent's dimension-defying phantom to be this powerful!

Suddenly, Amadeus started to laugh.

"Haha!"

Takahashi felt very confused.

"Hm?"

Amadeus said: "Your tennis strength is indeed very good, and you have also gone very far on the Asura Divine Path."

"But the gap between you and me, the gap between professional and amateur, cannot be smoothed over by these things alone."

While speaking, Amadeus tossed the tennis ball up and swung his racket.

"Bang!"

Accompanied by the crisp sound of the ball being struck, Amadeus's voice sounded again.

"I have already seen through your greatest weakness."

"That is, after you hit the ball, there is a delay of less than 0.1 seconds in the leg on the right side of your body."

"Thud!"

The tennis ball headed exactly toward Takahashi's right leg.

……

"What is he saying?"

"This is nonsense, right!"

Kirihara felt very dissatisfied.

"It's not, look at Takahashi's right leg; under Amadeus's deliberate attack targeting the angle, it is indeed a bit slow to react."

Tanegashima said.

Byodoin suddenly realized and said: "Amadeus's Shadow doesn't just make the court dark and the tennis ball larger; the powerful point of this move lies in the immense Spirit Power contained within it."

"And ordinary people cannot return the ball just by facing the Shadow, so they don't pay attention to the Spirit Power within it."

"The Spirit Power contained in 'Shadow' can help Amadeus find the opponent's greatest weakness."

Mifune pondered and said: "So even though the Taotie swallowed the opponent's Shadow, it didn't cause the opponent's Spirit Power to fail?"

Oni asked: "I still don't understand. When the Taotie swallowed my Ghost God back then, my Ghost God also had powerful Spirit Power attached to it, yet it was still neutralized by the Taotie, wasn't it? Why can't the Taotie swallow the opponent's Spirit Power now?"

Tanegashima explained: "Takahashi once told me that what his Taotie can swallow is Spirit Power or dimension-defying moves that are clearly aggressive."

"And just like Takahashi's time and space distortion, this type of Spirit Power where Amadeus finds the opponent's greatest weakness has no aggression at all, and it is the hardest to deal with; not only can the limit of Peerless Perfection not resolve it, but Takahashi's Taotie also has no way to render it ineffective."

"Therefore, the Taotie's swallowing not only failed to make Amadeus's Spirit Power ineffective, but it may have even accelerated the time it took for this Spirit Power to enter Takahashi's body."

Tanegashima looked at Takahashi on the court with worry and said: "Trouble, this has backfired!"

Kirihara asked in confusion: "Does Master have a weakness?"

"How come I never knew."

Fuji explained: "I heard Takahashi say before that issues like weaknesses and blind spots should be viewed dialectically."

"If the gap in strength between the two sides is too large, then weaknesses and blind spots are completely meaningless."

"The gap between our strength and Takahashi's is too far, so it is impossible for us to see the opponent's weaknesses."

"And now standing on the court is Amadeus, whose strength is close to Takahashi's; perhaps only people at their level can see each other's weaknesses."

Shiraishi said: "Isn't this ability of Amadeus the same as Atobe's Ice World?"

Byodoin said in a deep voice: "Don't look at problems so superficially."

"Shadow contains Spirit Power, and Amadeus pointing out Takahashi's weakness is also different from the blind spots seen by Ice World."

"The level of Shadow is unknown how many times higher than Ice World."

"I think what Shadow sees might be a person's absolute weakness."

Sanada repeated: "Absolute weakness?"

Tanegashima said: "Look, ever since Amadeus pointed out that Takahashi's right leg is not coordinated enough, all the balls he has hit have been fully mobilizing Takahashi's right leg."

"Actually, if Amadeus hadn't said it, I wouldn't have discovered that Takahashi had such a weakness at all."

"And calling it a weakness, it's more like a small, innate defect."

Kirihara exclaimed: "A small defect?"

Irie explained: "It's like how a person's two legs are not always the same length; some people just have one leg that is naturally a bit slower to react."

Tanegashima said, "Yes. This is a very, very small problem."

"Generally, it won't have any impact."

Byodoin continued, "But this problem was discovered by Amadeus, and it was also targeted by Amadeus."

"This is the terrifying thing about Amadeus."

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

"Thud!"

"15-40!"

"Switzerland Team scores!"

After being targeted on his right leg by Amadeus several times in a row, Takahashi also discovered this small problem of his.

So he actually had such a weakness?

Takahashi stared blankly at his right leg.

Suddenly, a long-buried memory belonging to this body surfaced.

In the depths of his memory, Takahashi saw a 7-year-old child who wasn't watching where he was going while walking down the stairs, fell straight down, sprained his foot, went to the hospital to get a cast, and didn't use his right leg for three months.

So, is this the reason why his right leg reacts less than 0.1 seconds slower than his left leg?

Takahashi looked up at Amadeus.

As expected of a professional player, he really is much more troublesome than Q. P.

Takahashi could feel that in terms of basic strength, Ultimate Q. P and Amadeus were about the same.

But in terms of match experience, on-the-spot reactions, and mentality, Amadeus far surpassed Q. P.

Especially the Spirit Power contained in that move, Darkness—it really is impossible to guard against!

However, even if you have found my weakness, so what!

He still had one Asura Realm he hadn't used yet, didn't he?

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

Amadeus continued to target Takahashi's right leg.

"Bang!"

After returning the tennis ball, Takahashi quickly arrived at the net.

Amadeus swept his gaze, stood his ground, swung his arm widely, and unleashed another one of his signature moves—Whale.

This was a super topspin lob, and the target was the baseline behind Takahashi.

Takahashi, who was already at the net and whose right leg reacted a bit slower, should not be able to catch up to this ball hit with his full effort.

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