uses IB to deflect attack into another attack aka SKILL

At a point near Kamijou’s left side, a small flicker of white light appeared in what should
have been empty air.
In the very next moment, a pure white flash of light exploded out. It was a spherical
explosion with a diameter of about 10 meters. It tore straight through the road signs and
asphalt. She unhesitatingly bared her fangs during that moment when Kamijou was
switching gears in his mind.
She called it a summoned explosion.
This supernatural phenomenon was not caused by preparing temples, symbolic weapons,
chants, or ceremonies to complexly draw out and use Telesma. She simply called forth
the power and let it loose without giving it form. Saying she simplified and sped up the
process made it sound nice, but it was the same as firing a rocket without going through
any kind of a safety check. If a magician without the proper knowledge tried to use it,
they would simply become the stereotypical horror victim as they were swallowed up by
the power they themselves had called forth.
“Ghh…!!”
Kamijou forcibly twisted his body and tried to suppress the explosion with his right
hand.
This created an even larger opening.
Leivinia Birdway had already transformed her symbolic weapon into the sword that
represented wind.
She casually held it up and swung it down.
Her attack would cut straight through one edge of the battlefield.
And through the joint of Kamijou Touma’s right shoulder.
The boy was still in the middle of holding out his right hand to deal with the summoned
explosion that had appeared near his left side. He did not have time to swing his arm
back around and block the wind sword. And because he had forcibly twisted his body
around, he was very nearly off balance and therefore could not jump back either.
In other words, this was checkmate.
Birdway was worried about the unknown phenomenon that occurred when his arm was
severed, but Kamijou himself could not freely control it either. If that was the end of it,
that was fine. If he started going on a rampage, that would simply create many, many
more openings for her to attack. Just two or three more swings of her arm would end it
even if that happened. There was no way he could turn the situation around. It was that
kind of decisive checkmate.
But…
However…
The wind sword Birdway fired was knocked away by something.
That something was a pure white light.
It was the light of the summoned explosion that should have been attacking Kamijou
Touma.
“What…!?”
This time, Kamijou’s actions had left Birdway’s expectations. She immediately
transformed her symbolic weapon into a wand and held it out horizontally.
It had been his right hand that had caused it.
Imagine Breaker was nothing more than the power to negate supernatural powers. It
could not be used for anything other than that. But he could freely move those five
fingers and make various different forms out of his hand. And whether it was fire or
water, power would naturally flow in the path of least resistance.
Fire would spread in the direction with more oxygen.
Water would flow down a hill.
And…
There were tons of technologies that took advantage of those properties.
For example, guns used a tube made of a strong material to send the explosive power of
gunpowder in a single direction to fire a bullet.
For example, directional landmines attached the explosive on the inside of a bowlshaped panel to use more of its force to pierce through a tank’s armor.
Air ducts, electric cables, gas turbines, a crane’s wrecking ball, steam locomotives, skis,
smokestacks, pasta makers, fuel pumps…and in a broader sense, even the roads that
controlled the flows of people.
It was no different from that.
He had not used Imagine Breaker to negate the supernatural power.
He had brought his five fingers right up to its border to create the ultimate “wall” with
his right hand. That had created a sort of guide rail that made the direction he wanted
into the “path of least resistance” for the explosive power. He had used that to send the
summoned explosion in the direction of the wind sword.

- New Testament Volume 6 Chapter 7 Part 8