Chapter 157: Chaotic Battle

As Fighter Li resolved himself to die in this battle, his aura suddenly began to rapidly elevate.

In the process, he displayed to Adam an area in which artificial adapters were superior to organic adapters, and that was their ability to embrace death.

From the moment that they chose to become artificial adapters, they knew that their lifespans would be severely cut short. Some of them did it for the money, some reveled in the applause and acclaim that they received as psychic combatants, and some were forced into the industry.

As for Fighter Li, he viewed this as the means to an end, a way for him to pursue his ultimate goal in life.

It was a life that was going to be as brief, but as also as spectacular, as fireworks.

His resolve to die wasn't just a tough front that he was putting on, and the psychic energy that he derived from this sense of resolve was limitless.

Standing beside Fighter Li at this moment, Adam couldn't help but be swept up by his resolve.

𝗳𝚛𝗲𝕖𝚠𝚎𝚋𝗻𝗼𝕧𝗲𝐥.𝚌𝚘𝐦

Those who were warm and friendly to others could make those around them more open and cheerful, while those who lived every day like their last could ignite the courage in the hearts of their comrades.

I've been living too carefully all this time. I've always been a pawn conforming to the plans of others. It wouldn't be a bad ending for me if I were to die here on my own terms.

With that in mind, Adam also cast aside his fear of death, and in that instant, he was able to sense his own psychic power.

As a result, Mummy's powers were also boosted, and its muscles began to bulge.

At the same time, the chef anomaly was already charging at him while swinging its cleaver through the air.

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"You're going to die sooner or later anyway, don't drag this out and compromise the freshness of the ingredients!"

After its cleaver strike was parried away by Adam's carving knife, the chef anomaly opened its massive mouth before biting viciously onto his body.

Its bite force was nothing short of terrifying, and it was able to even chew through metal. A string of loud snapping sounds instantly rang out from Adam's shoulder as several of his bandages were severed by the chef anomaly's teeth.

Thankfully, aside from its immense bite force, all of the chef anomaly's other attributes were quite ordinary, and Adam was able to plunge his carving knife into its neck several times in succession, creating a huge penetrating wound that forced the chef anomaly to release Adam's shoulder from its mouth.

At the same time, Camera also entered the fray, slicing the chef anomaly into pieces with its scythe arms.

However, not only did Adam have allies to assist him in battle, the same applied to his opponents as well. In the same instant that Adam turned the tables on the chef anomaly, he was dealt several heavy blows in quick succession by the alien anomaly, immediately following which heard the scream of the child anomaly.

Adam recalled that this was an extremely powerful single-target cyberhex ability belonging to Sithu's infantile persona, and it was no less effective that the scream of the anomaly of horror.

In the instant that Adam heard the scream, his body immediately began to become extremely feeble. At the same time, a long tongue wrapped itself around his body before dragging him through the air.

Sithu's mother, the anomaly with the enormous genitalia, had dragged Adam over itself and was about to stuff him into its genitalia.

This was yet another anomaly with extremely skewed abilities, possessing pitiful combat prowess, but immense single-target destructive capabilities.

Adam had once witnessed an aberration being stuffed into its genitalia, and that aberration was eroded away and turned into gold in the blink of an eye.

This was something that Adam had never wanted to experience for himself, but unfortunately, he didn't have much choice in the matter at this moment.

The cavity within the prostitute anomaly's genitalia was filled with mucus, and as this mucus came into contact with his body, his bandages began to slowly turn golden in color. After being turned into gold, the hardness of the bandages was severely compromised, and they were snapped violently with a forceful contraction of the anomaly's abdominal cavity.

Never had Adam been in such a perilous situation since Mummy had evolved into a level three anomaly, and he frantically instructed his anomalies to help him while doing everything in his power to shrug off the effects of the cyberhex and recover his strength.

As time passed, the debilitating effects of the cyberhex began to slowly wear off, and Adam drew his carving knife before slashing viciously at his surroundings.

However, the carving knife's blade had also been turned into gold, thereby severely reducing its hardness and sharpness.

Thankfully, Hellhound swooped in to save the day with a timely Explosive Fireball to blow up the prostitute anomaly's abdominal cavity, thereby freeing Adam as he stumbled onto the ground amid a pool of mucus.

As the mucus spilled out of the prostitute anomaly's body, Hellhound was affected by its mind-altering properties and began to attack its allies.

That was a really close one!

Adam clambered up from the ground in a feeble state as he inspected his surroundings. The battle had only just begun, yet it was already extremely perilous.

All of the enemy anomalies were either level three anomalies that possessed formidable combat prowess or level two anomalies with special tricks up their sleeves. On a battlefield with so many combatants in action once, it was far more chaotic and perilous than any one-on-one battle.

Adam had an extensive wealth of battle experience, but the majority of those battles had either been one-on-one battles, or were battles where his side held the numbers advantage.

This was the first time that he was fighting in a battle where he was severely outnumbered, and it was quite the rude awakening.

He turned to Fighter Li, expecting him to be in an even worse situation, but to his surprise, Fighter Li was keeping up quite well with the three anomalies that he was locked in battle with.

All three of these anomalies were superior to Fighter Li when it came to absolute power, and they held a numbers advantage as well, but if anything, that "advantage" only seemed to be working against their favor. The three anomalies were like a trio of massive hunting dogs, while Fighter Li was as speedy and agile as a lyxn, constantly weaving between his opponents to not only evade their attacks, but also occasionally lure them into attacking one another to sow chaos among their ranks while also creating opportunities for retaliation for himself.

The more complex the environment, the more one's technical proficiency would stand out.

In a one-on-one battle, technique was also very important, but in such battles, there was always a structure and a rhythm to the exchanges taking place.

Even someone like Adam, who was far less technically proficient than Fighter Li, would be able to maintain some degree of control in a one-on-one battle.

However, as the number of combatants in a battle increased, it became more and more difficult to maintain this control.

On a chaotic battlefield like this, attacks were flying haphazardly in all directions, and all Adam could do to secure victory over his opponents was by relying on numbers and brute force.

Man, I wish I had that much skill!

As Adam was watching Fighter Li in action, the effects of the cyberhex had already slowly worn off, and his strength was gradually returning to him.

The first thing that he did after recovering his strength was withdraw Camera back into his body.

Not only was it a glass cannon, it had instantly attracted the attention of all of the enemy anomalies by slicing the chef anomaly into pieces in an instant. The alien anomaly had already pounced at Camera, and it had only taken a few exchanges for Camera to be injured.

Meanwhile, the chef anomaly opened its mouth and began to devour the pieces of its own body. As it did so, it began to grow a new body.

Level three anomalies all had different tricks up their sleeves, and they were very generally very difficult to kill.

I have to target the weakest ones first!

The child anomaly and the prostitute anomaly were both level two anomalies with frail defenses, making them the easiest targets to kill. With that in mind, Adam charged directly at them with Nun and Hellhound in tow.

The other enemy anomalies naturally tried to intervene, but they were stopped in their tracks by a sludge anomaly and a bunch of clowns.

These two had already evolved to become level two anomalies, and Adam had intentionally kept them out of the battle until this point.

These two anomalies weren't particularly effective in battle, but their abilities and attributes made them extremely annoying to deal with.

Sludge was an anomaly of guilt, so it was very difficult to kill, while Clown's abilities made it an infuriating opponent to deal with.

With the diversion provided by those two, Adam was able to successfully rush over to the infantile Sithu before slashing his carving knife down onto its deathly pale face.