Chapter 218: Secondary Acceleration Light Strike

Takahashi's minute movements were all captured by Borg on the opposite side.

He had carefully observed Takahashi's two matches against Q. P and Amadeus before the tournament; he knew that Takahashi was practically an expert in spin.

Whether it was a Zero-Style Shot or a Spiral Ball, Takahashi could execute them with ease.

Therefore, Borg did not hesitate to hold his racket with both hands and run forward quickly, swinging to return the ball before it landed.

This was the best way to deal with Takahashi!

A faint smile suddenly appeared at the corners of Takahashi's mouth.

Watching Takahashi twist his wrist again, Borg was slightly taken aback.

"Bang!"

The tennis ball came toward Borg again with astonishing momentum.

Unlike the previous shots, this one was enveloped in brilliant golden light.

Wherever the tennis ball passed, it was rendered into a radiant golden ocean.

"A Light Strike?"

Borg, not far from the net, stared intently at that golden radiance, waiting for the moment to return it.

The moment that golden light crossed the net, it suddenly accelerated a second time like a rocket, passing directly over Borg.

"Boom!"

A huge roar sounded behind Borg.

This was the U17 World Cup venue, a specially reinforced court comparable to a professional arena.

Even so, that yellow tennis ball still smashed a significant crater into the ground.

"30-15!"

"Japan Team scores!"

Borg turned his head, looking at the small yellow ball lying amidst a patch of cracks.

In a flash, he understood Takahashi's intention.

That spin was not meant to produce a different trajectory after landing, but to add an opposing spin during the second strike; once the two completely opposite spins canceled each other out in the air, it caused the ball to accelerate a second time.

Because of his high level of vigilance against the Zero-Style Shot and the Spiral Ball, he had only focused on receiving the ball before it landed and had not fully seen the spin on the ball.

And under the intense clash of speed and power just now, Takahashi had no opportunity to add the complex spin characteristic of a Zero-Style or Spiral Ball to the tennis ball.

Recalling the tennis ball that accelerated a second time in the air, and then thinking of Takahashi's slight adjustment of his wrist angle.

In fact, the second acceleration of that tennis ball was not fast; with his own strength, as long as he saw the spin on the ball clearly, it would not be difficult to receive this shot.

Takahashi must have known this, which is why he used the Super Sweet Spot to hit a Light Strike.

And since a Light Strike posed no threat to professional players like Borg, Borg's vigilance toward this shot was greatly reduced.

At the same time, the human eye is naturally attracted to shiny things.

The combination of these two factors allowed the Light Strike to perfectly conceal the complex spin on the tennis ball, thereby successfully scoring!

Borg stared fixedly at Takahashi on the opposite side.

He understood that losing the point involved his own carelessness, but the biggest reason lay in Takahashi's calculations.

Could a middle school student facing a professional player not only be free of any nervous emotions but also successfully deceive the opponent?

This mental fortitude and this on-the-spot reaction were truly powerful!

However, this also exposed Takahashi's problem.

That was the insufficiency of his attacking methods.

With his two powerful attacks, the Zero-Style Smash and the Spiral Ball, being under Borg's intense guard, Takahashi lacked an attacking skill capable of a one-hit kill, which was why he chose this method to score.

Borg acknowledged Takahashi's intelligence, but this kind of cleverness was merely petty cleverness.

He had been tempered by the professional circuit; this method could only succeed against him once, and there would be no second chance.

Likewise, Borg also acknowledged that Takahashi's fundamental strength was already on par with his own.

The best evidence was that last rally, where the two had played for nearly 6 minutes.

Whether it was speed, power, or various complex angles, both were able to successfully receive the other's tennis ball.

Borg was quite shocked; he understood his own strength very well.

In terms of fundamental strength, even among professional players, he was one of the strongest.

He had expected to win easily at the U17 World Cup, never imagining that a 12-year-old boy from Japan, a tennis desert, would become his greatest obstacle.

It was likely that not only now, but in the future, this boy would definitely enter the professional tennis world.

With such a terrifying growth rate, Borg knew that if he did not defeat him now, his future self would find it difficult to have the opportunity to take a victory from him.

In the future professional tennis world, the competition would surely be even more intense.

Fortunately, he was 5 years older than him, possessed rich match experience, and also had a one-hit-kill finishing move—a finishing move belonging to a professional player!

Thinking of this, Borg's originally composed gaze became even more determined.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

The intense rally began once again on the court.

Takahashi looked at Borg's serious, calm, and nearly cold gaze, and he felt it was somewhat troublesome.

Borg's Spirit Power was even more powerful than he had imagined!

During the nearly 6-minute rally of that last point, Takahashi had attempted to use his mental-type finishing moves—Spatial Disorder or Time Distortion—but they had all ended in failure.

Especially Spirit Power related to time, which fails even faster!

Therefore, he used a tennis ball with Light Strike plus Secondary Acceleration, intending to give Borg a show of force and break through his Spirit Power defense, which was like a wall of bronze and iron, yet it still ended in failure.

Moreover, Borg was extremely wary of his spin; in every rally between the two, Borg used his strength to neutralize the spin on the tennis ball as much as possible, making it impossible for Takahashi to use the Spiral Ball at all.

Because the Spiral Ball has exceptionally high requirements for spin and angle.

Borg's incomparably powerful Spirit Power defense, combined with his nearly perfect tennis technique, plunged Takahashi into a predicament.

No wonder the Idle Character was so wary of Borg; Borg was indeed even more powerful than he had imagined.

He could not find any point to break through at all, and the sharp gaze the opponent fixed upon him also made him feel somewhat uncomfortable.

Under these circumstances, if he were not careful, he would fall for the opponent's mental tricks.

Could it be that he really had to use the Asura Divine Path now?

He had a trump card, but the opponent also had a trump card, especially since the opponent was a battle-hardened professional player.

If he were to reveal his trump card first and fail to land a hit, the situation would very likely tip entirely in the opponent's favor.

Just as Takahashi was feeling somewhat conflicted, he discovered that the situation had changed.

The clouds of dust stirred up by the two players' rally on the court suddenly converged, taking on the shape of a vortex.

Takahashi looked at the complex spin on the tennis ball, which was different from before, and his eyes narrowed.

His intuition was indeed correct; Borg had only been attacking tentatively just now and had not fully unleashed his formidable strength.

Because in the rally just now, Takahashi had no way to add such complex spin to the tennis ball, yet Borg had succeeded.

Takahashi flashed to the tennis ball's landing spot and hesitated as he reached out with his tennis racket.

"Boom!"

The tennis ball landed on the racket, exhibiting an extremely bizarre spin.

"Clatter!"

The racket in Takahashi's hand was knocked flying.

"40-15!"

"Germany Team scores!"