Chapter 255: Head Nail

Adam had almost been killed by a single kick.

As a matter of fact, he didn't even know whether he had just been punched or kicked. In any case, that one blow alone had almost been enough to kill him on the spot.

While on the brink of death, Adam immediately began to conjure up clones.

Clown was quite adept in the conjuration of both clones and illusions, and he was hoping that these abilities would be able to buy him some time.

After conjuring up a bunch of clones, he began to flee while all of his clones also scattered in all directions.

"What a pathetic little trick!" Hebi no Miko scoffed with disdain, then stomped a foot down onto the ground, instantly propelling herself up into the air.

Immediately thereafter, she made a strange hand seal, and a layer of dark clouds instantly appeared over the entire sky.

"Let there be thunder!" Hebi no Miko roared, and deafening thunderclaps instantly rang out across the entire area.

The thunderclaps erupted like explosions in Adam's ears, and just the powerful soundwaves alone were enough to topple half of the buildings on the entire street, as well as all of the panels of glass.

All of the cars and public transport vehicles had also been destroyed, and even the ground was trembling violently as if an earthquake were taking place.

In the face of these devastating soundwaves, Adam felt as if his head were about to split open. Blood began to gush out of all of his orifices, and his already severely wounded body was reduced to an even more terrible condition.

Adam's clones weren't faring much better, and all of them were instantly immobilized and knocked down by the rumbling thunderclaps.

All of a sudden, Hebi no Miko switched to a different hand seal, then unleashed her invocation ability once again.

"Let there be lightning!"

After the thunder came the lightning, and incredibly thick bolts of electricity came raining down from the heavens, striking all of Adam's clones to destroy them at once, while Adam himself was also zapped to within an inch of his life.

Having already died once, Adam was very familiar with the sensation of his psychic body fading away, and he was reliving that experience now.

On this occasion, he didn't see the director's face. Instead, all he could see was his own frustration and indignation.

There are so many things that I still haven't uncovered! Even now, I still don't know who made me a blank slate...

Unfortunately, there was nothing that he could do.

No one in this world was invincible.

Even someone as powerful as Eyeless had perished on the path that he had chosen for himself.

Those who chose paths that were lined with thorns always ran the risk of being torn to shreds by those very same thorns.

Adam had always felt like Eyeless was too foolish and uncompromising for his own good, yet only now, on the brink of death, did he suddenly realize that fundamentally, he and Eyeless were the same type of people.

Both of them had chosen paths that pitted them against all odds, so it was no surprise that both of them were met with the same fate of premature demise.

"You think I'd let you die so easily? You must suffer more for what you've done!"

Right as Adam's consciousness was about to fade into nothingness, his body began to miraculously discover, and as he opened his eyes, he saw a face that was completely identical to Oni no Miko's, and it was twisted in vengeful fury.

His throat was caught in a death grip by his assailant, and he wanted to struggle, but was unable to muster up any strength.

Hebi no Miko had only used her abilities to slightly heal Adam, and her intention was never to allow him to make a full recovery.

"What do you want?" Adam spat through gritted teeth. "If you want to kill me, then do it!"

"I'm not going to let you die so easily!"

Poison began to flow out of Hebi no Miko's hand as she spoke, and it slowly condensed to form a head nail.

A head nail was an extremely sinister instrument used by only the most malicious eastern practitioners of the dark arts in ancient times.

Upon impaling a head nail into one's head, not only would that person be physically killed, their soul would be eternally imprisoned, unable to ever pass on.

Of course, a head nail may not have the same effect in the psychic world, but it was clearly going to be an extremely painful torture instrument nonetheless.

Hebi no Miko plunged the nail viciously into Adam's head, and the nail pierced through his brain before reaching into his spine, then began to release poison into his body.

Adam was someone who had endured countless hardships in the past, and he knew that there was a limit to how much pain one's physical body could withstand.

Upon having one's pain threshold breached, one would fall unconscious, or if they couldn't do that, then the pain would turn into pleasure.

However, the pain threshold of a psychic body was virtually limitless, and Adam was forced to endure the worst of pain of his life without any relief in sight.

First, he turned into a little girl. A strange anomaly was holding onto her hand, taking her into a human farm, and as she saw the countless infants in the human farm being pulverized like male chicks, she suffered a complete mental breakdown...

After that, he turned into a middle-aged man whose entire life consisted of working or staying behind for overtime. He was sucked dry by this never-ending, torturous routine, and he gave all of his money to his wife, only to return home one day to see his wife in bed with another man.

That man was a childhood friend of his, and he had always been lazy and relied on the goodwill of others. In that instant, the man felt as if everything that he had worked for was for nothing, and his world came crashing down all around him...

Adam then turned into a little boy with an extremely strict and controlling mother. Every time he made even the slightest mistake, or when his mother was simply in a bad mood, he would be locked in a dark isolation room. As time passed, a terrifying nun appeared in the isolation room, telling him that he was a burden to this world...

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All of the psychological hardships that Adam had witnessed in his past patients completely inundated him, and right as he was at the height of his despair, he found himself in a space that was filled with nothingness. There was no sky, no earth, no sound, absolutely nothing, and he remained in that space for what seemed like an eternity.

As he reopened his eyes, he was greeted by the sight of Armadillo's face.

"Adam! Are you still alive?"

Adam was still completely immersed in endless pain and nothingness, and he had no idea where he was. In fact, he could barely even remember who he was.

"Did you turn stupid?" Mole also rushed onto the scene. "How are you going to be in our brotherhood if you've turned stupid? Hurry up and help us! The black dragon's about to die!"

Only now did Adam return to his senses slightly, and he recalled that something seemed to have been driven into his head. A series of memories then came flooding back into his mind, and he watched in a slightly dazed manner as Armadillo tossed the head nail aside before rushing back into the fray.

A brief moment later, Adam finally fully returned to his senses, and he realized what had to have happened.

He had only been separated from the three psychic mutants by a glass shopfront window, so it wouldn't have taken them long to spot him and realize that something was wrong.

Diana was the most powerful one out of their group, so she had most likely immediately detected that something was wrong with her superior telegnosis.

It was thanks to the four of them that he had been saved.

After making sense of the situation, Adam looked up to find that the three psychic mutants had also been beaten to the brink of death, and he immediately tried to get up to help them, but as soon as he attempted to move, he instantly collapsed back onto the ground amid the sound of cracking bones.

In his haste to re-enter the battle, he had forgotten that his body was still in horrendous condition.