Hunter of Immortals

Chapter 435: Forceful Retaliation

Chapter 435: Forceful Retaliation

Adam was no longer the reckless and ignorant kid he once was. Having endured so many past battles and witnessed countless strange and inexplicable circumstances, he had accumulated a vast wealth of experience.

Just now, instead of recklessly charging into battle, he had made use of Guang Fei's tactical simulation ability.

All of the people ambushing Adam in the hospital had been fooled into thinking that they had entered Adam's psychic world, and it was clear that they were prepared in advance. As soon as they were dragged into the psychic world, they immediately unleashed indiscriminate attacks in organized waves, using an excessive amount of firepower output to eradicate any possible threats.

This was a classic tactic employed by the military, and Adam was confident that there had to have been Komi's national military forces working with powerful adapters from the Guild of Immortality. It was a meticulously planned trap, and he could've easily fallen prey to it had he not been careful.

Thankfully, he had Guang Fei as a secret weapon, and after seeing the tactics employed by the enemy and their firepower output and combinations during the battle simulation, Adam quickly came up with a strategy.

Once again, he returned to the psychic world, but the setting was a lush forest in the mountains as opposed to a prison.

This time, Adam fused with Sludge instead, and at the same time, he invoked Clown, which conjured up hundreds of clones that burrowed into the forest while carrying a range of different weapons. Taking advantage of the rugged and uneven mountain terrain, they attacked the enemy at irregular intervals, not aiming to put an actual dent in enemy forces, but merely harassing and disrupting instead.

After that came the Fountain of Contamination from Nun, which transformed an entire area with a width in excess of 100 meters into a corrosive hellscape.

Finally, Horse Face was invoked, and under Sludge's protection, it was able to sweep its brush through the air in a composed manner, quickly creating the Lamenting Wall that encompassed teh entire sky up above.

All of this had taken place in the blink of an eye, and the enemy didn't even get a chance to react or change their strategy as they were still reveling in the joy of their false victory. Before they had even figured out what was happening, the second battle had already begun.

First, the military units were pelted with attacks from Clown's clones.

Even though they were only using weapons from the World War II era, the rocket launchers and mortar projectiles still packed a heavy punch, while the vastly renowned German machine gun, the MG42, was able to fire off over 1,000 bullets per minute. This was only enough to keep the enemy temporarily occupied, but that was already enough.

As the Lamenting Wall was completed, the surrounding setting was quickly transformed into a city being ravaged by a cataclysmic, doomsday-like vent.

The war-torn scenes from 30 years ago were perfectly replicated, and the atmosphere of despair and insanity in the air was one that was all too familiar for all military personnel that had experienced or witnessed the horrors of war.

Komi's political structure was quite stable, but similar cases took place virtually every single year in the nearby nations, so they had witnessed countless battles.

This was the nature of psychic battles. Anyone that grew complacent or distracted would immediately lose the upper hand and be swept up by Adam's tempo.

The destructive radiance released by the nuclear explosion in the Lamenting Wall drowned out all colors and swept the military personnel into a disoriented daze, destroying the foundation of their concentrated firepower output in the blink of an eye.

After that came the howls of despair, which disabled yet another portion of the enemy forces.

Before they had a chance to regroup, their shadows reached out to strangle them from behind. Guang Fei had entered the fray as well.

Even to this day, Adam still hadn't figured out just how powerful Guang Fei was, but he definitely wouldn't have been any less formidable than a level seven anomaly. Most importantly, his abilities were extremely covert and powerful, able to take effect in any

place where there were shadows.

Following these attacks, only four of the most powerful enemy adapters remained.

One of them was the adapter that wielded lightning abilities, but his lightning was far less effective on Sludge than it was on Mummy.

His reactions were extremely fast as he quickly accumulated energy before unleashing an explosive attack, which tore through the Lamenting Wall and the corrosive hellscape before landing squarely on Sludge's body, sending stone shards flying in all directions.

However, this was only a minor injury that Sludge was able to mostly recover from in the blink of an eye. What came next was the sword projection, which sliced viciously into Sludge's massive body, inflicting a wound that was over a meter deep before running out of power.

The final blow was a swing from the giant hammer, which Sludge was able to send flying with a ferocious punch.

Immediately thereafter, Adam invoked Hellhound right in between the three adapters, not giving them any chance to catch their breath before blasting fireballs and toxins out of two of its heads to inundate two of them.

As for the third adapter, he was attacked by Hellhound using its fangs and claws, and he was almost torn apart in an instant, unable to unleash any further attacks.

The final enemy adapter was the one that had invoked the Mother of All Bombs. Adam had witnessed the nuclear bomb invoked by Patriot, and that one was far more powerful.

As soon as his bomb appeared, the corrosive sewage churning over the ground abruptly rose up into the air, forming a giant pillar that was several dozen meters tall to catch the bomb and prevent it from descending any further.

Immediately thereafter, Mummy appeared before extending its bandages toward the bomb, wrapping it up tightly before dragging it forcefully off its original trajectory so that it fell into the enemy camp.

Boom!

An earth-shattering explosion rang out, followed by the emergence of a mushroom cloud that was over 100 meters tall. The formidable shockwaves released by the explosion had destroyed everything, leaving a massive charred crater in the ground.

Adam strode over the severely ravaged ground while still fused with Sludge, making his way directly toward the final remaining tuxedoed figure.

The man was only able to rise up around a dozen meters into the air, so he still had to look up at Adam, who was 20 meters tall in this form.

"Who's the weak piece of trash now?" Adam asked as he extended a massive hand forward.

The tuxedoed figure dodged the attack, then pulled a rapier out of his sleeve before plunging it straight into Sludge's eye socket, punching a hole straight through its head.

Adam didn't seem to have felt that attack at all, and he made another grabbing motion, in response to which the tuxedoed figure tried to evade again, only to find himself sinking into a viscous net of sludge.

As it turned out, Adam had liquefied his other arm in secret before spreading it out like a net, and the tuxedoed figure was instantly ensnared.

The sludge then abruptly solidified to trap the tuxedoed figure, and with a single merciless punch, Adam reduced the tuxedoed figure to a pile of mincemeat.

Wisps of anomalic power began to spread through the air, but Adam refrained from absorbing it as he didn't want to expose his own secret to Guang Fei.

The battle was nearing its conclusion, Clown's clones were left to eradicate the remaining enemy units as they cackled in a deranged manner while firing off their weapons with reckless abandon.

Guang Fei emerged from his shadow as he remarked, "They didn't put up much resistance at all. Looks like they've severely underestimated you."

"They've grown accustomed to standing above everyone else all this time, and they've become arrogant and complacent."

They would rather believe that Adam had managed to kill Succubus Beth through sheer dumb luck rather than acknowledge the startling rate of his growth. This suited Adam just fine as it only benefited him to be underestimated.

"Let's go see what it's like in there."