Li Yue suspected that if Magneto didn't have the plot armor in the movie, Shaw would've won the battle countless times over.
"Li Yue, go and bring Banshee and Alex here. Let's attack Shaw together!"
"Wouldn't that just give Shaw more energy to absorb?" Li Yue questioned the decision!
"I have observed Shaw's ability. His mutation allowed him to absorb and release energy. But there must be an upper limit for his absorption ability, and if he exceeds this limit, his body will not be able to withstand it. He just absorbed a nuclear reactor, so he should be close to his upper limit. We just have to push him over," the Professor explained to Li Yue.
"Well, I'll take your word for it." Li Yue saw that Erik could still hold on for a while, so he decided to bring Alex and Banshee.
Alex was currently surrounded by armed soldiers. He held his hands behind his head, afraid to fight against the soldiers.
Suddenly, Li Yue's figure appeared next to him and brought him away.
The group of soldiers was confused. Who am I? What am I doing?
Li Yue didn't stop with only bringing Alex back. He trusted that the Professor would tell him what to do next, so he went to find Banshee.
Banshee had kinda been forgotten underwater for quite a while; did he drown?
Li Yue then discovered that Banshee was playing happily in the sea, repeatedly jumping in and out of the water.
"Damn, we were fighting for our lives out there, and here you are playing around," Li Yue was speechless at the sight. He immediately grabbed Banshee and returned to the shore.
Banshee was in the middle of a jump when Li Yue unexpectedly ambushed him. The sea in front of him turned into sand, and he got a mouthful of it. Li Yue almost burst out laughing.
However, Li Yue had no time for playing around. Eric was almost at the limit as Shaw effortlessly melted a hole through every metal shield that he used.
Li Yue rushed to Erik and escaped with him.
...
On the other side, the Professor ordered Banshee and Alex to attack Shaw from afar.
Shaw arrogantly took the attacks head-on and absorbed all the energy into his body. At the same time, he increased the frequency of his own attacks, forcing Li Yue to constantly evade along with Magneto.
The battle continued for more than ten minutes before Shaw felt something wrong. He divided his attention from Magneto and started attacking Banshee and Alex as well, forcing Li Yue to multitask and save Shaw's current target each time.
Shaw suddenly stopped his high-speed attacks and instead crossed his fingers, gathering a ball of red energy that visibly grew little by little.
Was he going to use a big move?
Li Yue felt suspicion in his heart and focused his sixth sense on Shaw's movement. He wanted to be able to whisk Shaw's next target before Shaw even fired the energy ball.
...
Shaw charged the ball for ten full seconds, condensing a dense sphere of energy the size of a basketball. He had to continuously compress the ball; otherwise, it would quickly get out of control.
The energy density had turned the red energy into a purple-tinged one. Li Yue could feel the terrifying amount of power contained within it even from more than ten meters away. It was a horrifying sight.
Finally, Shaw stopped gathering energy and launched himself toward Banshee, charging like a meteor cutting through the sky.
Li Yue immediately teleported to Banshee's side and took him away, narrowly dodging the energy strike.
This was Shaw's ultimate move. The energy that he had condensed for more than ten seconds left a scorched mark on the ground where he passed.
...
"Li Yue, he wasn't targeting Banshee, but the warship!" Before Li Yue could breathe a sigh of relief, the Professor's anxious voice suddenly appeared in his mind.
Li Yue turned around when he heard the Professor's words. Sure enough, the energy ball was launched at an extremely fast speed at a warship. The seawater was boiled away by the immense amount of energy in the ball.
Li Yue had no time to think. He immediately disappeared.
...
"Sir, the radar detected a terrifying energy signature heading towards us! We can't stop nor avoid it!"
On the warship, a soldier suddenly reported loudly.
The commander of the ship had no time to listen to the report, however. He had been monitoring the situation on the shore with a binocular and was shocked to find a mass of energy was launched right at his warship.
"It has been an honor to work with you." The commander straightened his back and patted the shoulder of a soldier beside him, resigning to death.
"Me too, sir!"
...
Suddenly, a figure appeared to intercept the energy ball when it was less than ten meters away from the warship.
The figure raised his arms, which began to transform beginning from his palm. The arms gradually turned into a silvery-white metal and finally formed a silvery-white shield as tall as a person and more than a meter wide.
However, this shield was too thin—it was only a few millimeters thick.
The process seemed slow, but less than a second had actually passed.
The ball of energy smashed on the shield in front of the figure.
Boom!!!
A deafening sound shook the warship, and everyone covered their ears.
A small mushroom cloud rose from the violent explosion. The surrounding seawater was evaporated by the explosion, creating a white mist cloud and a sizzling sound. The figure was completely obscured.
"Sir, we are saved!"
...
The figure that blocked the explosion was obviously Li Yue. He immediately went to block the energy ball after the Professor's warning. Li Yue knew that his energy absorption ability wasn't strong enough to dissipate an energy ball this dense, so he could only transform his arms into an Adamantium shield. Fortunately, Adamantium's reputation as the hardest metal wasn't just for show. Even such a violent explosion was completely blocked, leaving Li Yue unharmed.
Li Yue disappeared shortly after the explosion, returning to the shore. Magneto and the others would be in grave danger if he left them with Shaw for too long.
Anxiety gathered on the shore battlefield.
The spectating humans were also busy. An intense discussion was sparked when the higher-ups received the report of the battle.
In the end, both sides of the human blocs unanimously agreed that they must eliminate those mutants. They feared what an assassin with teleportation ability could do, or a spy that could invade their minds and reveal all their secrets...
In short, the higher-ups gave the order to attack and destroy them at all costs.
The commander of the warship frowned when he received the order, but then he steeled his resolve.
"All personnel to battle stations. Lock the target on the coast. Prepare—"
"Sir?
"Huh?"
"Didn't they just save us?"
"Yes!"
"Then why..."
A pause.
"Because I am a soldier!"
"Fire!"