abcnovels
Chapter 272: The Peak
Chapter 272: The Peak
Chapter 272: The Peak
?
Mauricio stood on top of a hill, the shielded village below him, where his and the Nightshade faction had gathered to group up before heading to the first big battle.
However, he wasn't caring about any of that for now, but instead just kept staring towards the sky like he was searching for something that only he could see.
At that moment, a member of his guild headed up the hill, and greeted him with a bow.
"Guild master."
"What is it?" Mauricio asked, not looking away from the sky even for a moment.
"Sir Ambrose said about heading out in a couple of days. He was wondering whether Sir Calamity would be joining us."
"I don't know." Mauricio said. "He is doing his own thing most of the time. Even I don't know where he is currently."
"Isn't that dangerous? Especially with the rising tension across the New World. If enemies from other factions find him, he could be in serious trouble."
"Nah, he'll be fine." Mauricio said. "He won't take a fight that he can't win. He's too smart for that."
...
"You sacrificed your arm for that pathetic punch!" Calamity grinned and punched across Adam's face with his grotesque arm. "A bad choice!"
Adam's face got twisted to the side, and half of his face looked like he'd been hit by a sledgehammer.
"Shield Charge!"
Using his body as a ramming shield, Adam tackled Calamity with full force but only managed to make him slide back a few inches.
Calamity went for a punch, but Adam then slithered around him like a snake and put him into a strong headlock.
He wanted to force Calamity on his knees, but he just tore his headlock away and escaped from Adam's grasp.
One of the petaled wings swung down and smacked Calamity across his face. Calamity stumbled backwards, feeling the sting of the impact.
However, his flesh continued distorting and growing. His newly-grown flesh blocked the majority of the impact and caused him to only lose very small amounts of health.
At that moment, Calamity's grotesque arm returned to its ordinary state. However, like at the start of the fight, hundreds of arms sprouted from under his mortal flesh and, like branches of a tree, spread across the street.
"Haa, haaa..." Adam breathed heavily and started using his Kiryoku once more.
It made his breathing turn more and more rapid.
"This is my very own technique I created, y'see." Calamity grinned and punched all of the hundred arms to the sky. "Enjoy it!"
"The Shower of Bloody Armageddon!"
The arms turned around in the sky and started falling towards the ground like a rain of deadly blades. There were hundreds of them, and it didn't look like there was any way to dodge those!
However, Adam jumped into a motion and started weaving through the falling arms like a professional dancer.
There were some arms he couldn't simply dodge, and he used his wings to parry them away before they could land a hit.
At the Observatory building roof, the Originals looked frightened as they watched the hundreds of the arms fall from the sky and destroy everything they landed.
They could barely see Adam in the midst of the fist rain, still dodging and weaving through the chaos.
"Adam!" Otis grabbed the railing and squeezed hard. "Don't get hit!"
With his entire being, he hoped that he would be able to dodge all of them, even though it looked impossible.
There was nothing else he could do but hope!
Agnes teared up and kept shaking in her boots.
For the future of her family and the Originals, Adam had to win the fight!
"Mom, is he alright?" Her youngest daughter asked as she tried to peek over the railing.
With her innocent eyes, she could only see arms falling from the sky and a blur of movement below.
She couldn't see the young man that brought her daddy back to her.
Agnes grabbed her youngest daughter's hand, but she didn't have an answer for her. All she could do was hold her tight and pray that he would be safe.
Near the fight, Raquel couldn't sit still anymore and just watched as the arms kept raining down that sounded like lightning bolts crashing into a ground over and over again.
The mood was dipping down among the Originals.
Since the start of the fight, it looked like Adam could hold his own, but the longer the fight went on, it became painfully clear that Calamity was the stronger one!
Within the fight, Adam kept weaving through the falling arms, but his nose and eyes were bleeding furiously as he was overusing his Kiryoku!
'See further, further, further!' Adam grinded his bloodied teeth together. 'Into the future and beyond!'
He tried pushing his Kiryoku even further to help him overcome this obstacle. He wanted to reach the territory of the future sight that should still be beyond his current abilities.
However, he was incredibly desperate!
He shouldn't be able to use Kiryoku any longer as he was suffering from serious brain damage already, but he didn't have any other choice.
If he stopped using it right now, he would get hit by these arms and would be killed instantly.
At that moment, Adam looked straight ahead and saw an opening. A small opening between falling arms and a way to reach Calamity.
Without the slightest hesitation, he used the Little God's insane speed and jumped through
the opening between falling arms towards Calamity.
It looked like he had escaped the area of falling arms!
However, Calamity then grinned and spread his arms wide as thousands of arms appeared around him like the tentacles of a monstrous octopus.
At that moment, Adam realized that he'd fallen right into Calamity's trap.
The opening was a trap created by Calamity so that he could lure him towards a spot where dodging was indeed impossible.
The thousands of arms came crashing down on Adam, and it felt like the time had stopped for
everyone watching.
No one could dodge this many.
It was simply impossible.
Adam's eyes almost burst as the gears of Kiryoku turned faster and faster. He was able to see
everything around him.
Every dust in the ground, every sweat on his opponent's forehead, every muscle movement, every twitch of a finger on those thousands of arms.
Literally everything!
'Motionless!' Adam stood still, and the thousands of the arms just flew around him like
deadly bullets, moving at an impossible speed.
Each one of the arms aimed to hit him, but for some odd reason, they phased right through him like Adam was just a ghost!
The Originals didn't dare to watch anymore. They all expected that Adam had just lost, and in their minds, they realized that it was impossible for them to go back to their previous life
styles.
No one could defeat Calamity.
That was the harsh truth.
However, at that moment, Adam took a step forward and just walked through the thousands
of arms like they were just a minor obstacle in his path.
'Why can't I hit him?' Calamity's eyes widened in shock.
Adam moved forward, his fist flying forward, and then landed a blow on Calamity's chest,
right at the spot of his heart.
"Chi Strike!"
An invisible blow broke through Calamity's flesh defenses and went through his insides until
it finally landed on his heart.
A twist appeared in his heart, and Calamity immediately coughed a mouthful of blood.
In that moment, Adam reached the peak of the Third Level of Kiryoku!