Chapter 203: No Weaknesses

With the two gun-wielders fleeing the scene, Adam was forced to face the artificial anomaly on his own.

With his current powers, this was going to be a difficult fight, but he couldn't get away.

Following the enhancements granted to them by the director, all of these anomalies were comparable in power to upper mid level S tier combatants, thereby granting them immense strength and speed, and Adam's original plan was to use the artificial anomaly to completely eradicate the enemy team.

However, the two surviving members of the team had fled far too quickly, catching him completely off guard. As a result, he was left with the unenviable task of facing the artificial anomaly alone.

Even though he was no match for the anomaly, the good news was that he had two meat shields in the form of Mummy and Sludge on his side, while Distortion was able to restrict the enemy's movements, so he was more than capable of stalling for time.

While stalling the anomaly, Adam was constantly surveying his surroundings. He had a feeling that given the underhanded nature of this team, there was a very good chance that the two surviving members hadn't gone very far away at all.

……

As it turned out, Adam was correct.

After the two surviving members of the team fled the scene, they quickly hid themselves behind a massive rock instead of continuing to flee into the distance.

"That bastard snuck up on us!"

"How many cards do you have left on you?"

"Not many. Most of the cards were being carried by Tank. He was the most durable one out of all of us, who could've predicted that he would be possessed by anomaly?" The sniper was watching the battle taking place at the airdrop site through the scope of his sniper rifle. "He doesn't seem to be very strong in this state. Do you think I can blow up his head with one shot and get our cards back?"

"Are you sure you can do that? All powerful adapters have very potent telegnosis, and he's currently fused with an anomaly, so even if he takes a bullet through the head, he may not die. If you don't manage to kill him in one shot, and he decides to come after us in his most powerful form, we'll be in a world of trouble. We managed to get away from him once, but we may not be so lucky next time."

"In any case, I want to give it a try."

The sniper removed the magazine of his rifle before replacing the bullets with armor-piercing rounds, then aimed his scope directly at Adam's head.

In the same instant, a chill suddenly ran down Adam's spine. His telegnosis wasn't very sharp, so he couldn't detect which direction the threat was coming from, but he could sense that his life was under threat.

"Protect me!"

Adam immediately rushed toward Sludge and Mummy at the first premonition of danger, but at the same time, the armor-piercing round had already been fired.

The bullet flew through the air at supersonic speed, and it arrived even before Adam was able to hear the gunshot.

Thankfully, at this point, he had already positioned himself between Mummy and Sludge, and barring any unforeseen mishaps, their huge bodies were going to shield him from the bullet.

Sure enough, the bullet was intercepted, but unfortunately, right as it was approaching Adam, the bullet circled around in the air, bypassing the two massive anomalies to strike Adam.

Both Adam and the sniper were dismayed by the final outcome.

Adam had done the right thing by immediately seeking cover from the bullet, but even though he had already positioned himself between a pair of meat shields, he was still struck by the bullet.

As for the sniper, he was extremely frustrated by the fact that the bullet hadn't punched through Adam's head.

However, he refused to be disheartened, and he immediately prepared to fire again.

"Sludge!"

After being struck by the bullet, Adam could feel that it had pierced straight through his abdominal cavity. The bullet possessed immense penetrative power, and if he were to be struck on the head, there was a very good chance that he would be killed on the spot.

With that in mind, Adam immediately sprang into action without any hesitation, undoing his fusion with Nun before the second bullet arrived before fusing with Sludge instead.

Sludge was an anomaly that he very rarely fused with, not because it wasn't powerful, but because its abilities almost completely overlapped with Mummy's.

Both of them were defense-type anomalies, and as a level three anomaly, Mummy was decidedly superior to Sludge.

However, in this situation, it was made clear to Adam that there were some differences between the two of them.

Mummy's defensive prowess stemmed primarily from the hardness of its body, while Sludge's defensive prowess was derived from its regenerative abilities and the fact that it had no vital regions, therefore resulting in no weaknesses.

During Adam's battle against the sludge anomaly, he had completely flattened it into a pile of sludge, yet it had still been able to make a full recovery.

These attributes made it particularly useful against armor-piercing weapons. Mummy would perhaps also be able to withstand armor-piercing rounds, but there was still a chance for injury, particularly in its current weakened state, while Sludge was essentially the perfect counter to attacks of this nature.

As soon as Adam fused with Sludge, the second bullet immediately arrived, and it punched directly through his head with such tremendous force that a large chunk of his head was blown straight off.

The chunk of sludge that was sent flying off Adam's head quickly squirmed back to Adam after landing on the ground, while sludge from other parts of Adam's body rose up to replace the missing chunk in his head, and it took no more than three seconds for his head to return to normal.

"Is that all you've got?"

Adam spread his arms open in a gesture of provocation aimed at the direction that the bullet had come from.

"Cocky bastard! Let's see if you can keep laughing after I switch to my incendiary rounds and high-explosive rounds!"

Adam's provocation had completely enraged the sniper, yet right as he was about to continue firing at Adam, he was stopped by his teammate.

"Don't fall for his trap! He's intentionally provoking you! Look over there."

The sniper turned to the direction that his teammate was pointing in, upon which he noticed a few figures approaching them from afar.

"His teammates are already on the way. If we stay here any longer, we won't be able to get away. As the saying goes, revenge is a dish best served cold. We'll have more chances later on to exact our vengeance!"

"You're right. With our concealment abilities and long-range shooting, we'll definitely have more opportunities!"

The sniper was no idiot, and he knew that his teammate was right. Thus, he immediately packed up his sniper rifle, and the two of them quickly departed.

Prior to his departure, he took one final glance in Adam's direction to find that he had already been reduced to a massive sludge pancake by the artificial anomaly, and that made him feel slightly better...

……

By the time Nie Yiyi and the others arrived at the airdrop site, Adam had already been flattened countless times by the artificial anomaly.

"Why are you in such a disgusting form?" After forcing back the artificial anomaly with King Arthur's help, Nie Yiyi turned to Adam with a hint of disgust in her eyes. "We agreed to meet back up at the original airdrop site, and you were the only one who failed to show up. Why did you get so far away? If it wasn't for Hook, it would've taken us a very long time to track you down."

"It was worth the trip! I spotted quite a few cards in the torn clothes of that artificial anomaly earlier. I'll act as the meat shield, you guys take that thing down!"

Adam rushed toward the artificial anomaly once again as he spoke, only for half of his body to be blown apart by a single punch from his opponent.

"It looks like he's using this form because he's worried about his other invoked entities being killed by that artificial anomaly." King Arthur was quickly able to make sense of Adam's strategy. "Let's put an end to this!"

With the entire team focusing their efforts on attacking the artificial anomaly, it was only able to last a few minutes before it perished to King Arthur's sword.

After dealing with the artificial anomaly, King Arthur picked up the cards beside it, and Nie Yiyi also found a few cards beside the body of the team healer, who Adam had killed earlier.

"This is quite a decent haul. Most of the cards are points cards, but we managed to find a couple of nice skill cards as well."