Chapter 305: Strengths and Weaknesses

From the very beginning, this battle had never been about killing Hebi no Miko.

Prior to coming here, Wax Figure had already established the premise that Hebi no Miko was one of the most powerful adapters in the world, so killing her in the psychic world was virtually impossible.

If it weren't for the fact that she was a complete psychic mutant, it would've been even more difficult to kill her.

After all, a normal person wouldn't have fallen into such a simple trap, and if she were of sound mind and hadn't made enemies out of everyone, there was no way that someone as powerful as her wouldn't have had any allies.

Apparently, following World War III, Japan had escaped from North America's control, and Hebi no Miko had served as an official in their reformed Department of Intelligence for a while.

However, she fled that role not long thereafter.

During her time in the Department of Intelligence, she had killed too many people, including her allies, who had been killed by her brainless plans and violent personality.

Officially, she was said to have fled her role, but in reality, she simply left, and no one dared to go after her.

Her physical body was no match for squadrons of Mechguard units, but her tremendous telegnosis always ensured that she would be able to sense danger ahead of time. The average person didn't have the power to bring her down, but those that did have the power to oppose her were either afraid of being killed or worried that a failed attempt on her life would lead to retaliation.

However, those who regularly played with fire always ran the risk of being burned, and that was exactly what had happened to Hebi no Miko here.

The damage sustained by her physical body was directly reflected upon her psychic body, and in this wounded state, Hebi no Miko became feeble yet even more deranged.

She attacked everything around her as if she had gone mad, but she was also trying to frantically escape. However, Wax Figure wasn't going to allow her to get away, and he finally revealed his full might, displaying power that was not inferior to Artemis at her peak as he invoked countless undead wax warriors to attack Yamata no Orochi from all directions.

With so many undead warriors surrounding her and sucking away her life energy, Hebi no Miko would've struggled immensely even if she had been at the height of her powers, let alone in this feeble and wounded state.

She wanted to leave the psychic world, but Wax Figure's domain prevented her from doing so.

She blasted scorching flames up at the heavens, trying to melt through the domain, but her efforts proved to be completely futile.

The more she struggled, the weaker she became, and she was slowly becoming delirious.

Looking at the struggling Yamata no Orochi, Adam was suddenly reminded of Eyeless.

During his first encounter with Eyeless, the latter had displayed astonishing power, almost killing Adam with a single attack.

At the time, Adam naively believed that powerful adapters of his caliber wouldn't die so easily.

However, that simply wasn't how the world worked. No matter how powerful one was, they could still die in a mere instant.

Just like the weak, who often perished due to their weaknesses, the strong often met their demise as a result of their strengths.

Eyeless had been able to become so powerful as his method of training had always centered around evolving through hardships. His blade had become sharper and sharper the more adversity that he endured, but his unwillingness to back down in the face of hardships ultimately resulted in his demise in the face of an insurmountable hurdle.

Hebi no Miko's story was a similar one.

Her arrogance and conceitedness had inflated her confidence to the extreme, thereby granting her enormous psychic power, but it had also led to her falling for such a simple trap.

This was by no means a well-constructed trap from Adam. All he had done was pretend to let down his guard by visiting a place that was not easily accessible to Mechguard units.

Given Hebi no Miko's tremendous telegnosis, there was no way that she wouldn't have sensed that something was amiss.

However, she was overly confident in her own abilities. She thought that killing Adam would be easy as stomping an ant.

She had only failed last time as she wanted to torture Adam, but after learning her lesson, she was confident that she would be able to kill Adam in a matter of seconds.

Never could she have imagined that Adam would become so much more powerful in such a short time. This unexpected development had thrown a wrench in her plans, but she still persisted due to her hubris.

Even the most powerful individuals can die by their own sword.

Adam heaved a long sigh of relief as he watched Hebi no Miko's dying moments.

With the threat of Hebi no Miko constantly hanging over his head, there were many plans that he was unable to initiate.

Aside from the southern congress, Hebi no Miko was the biggest obstacle to his operations.

There were many places that he couldn't go, and many things that he couldn't do. He had be careful everywhere he went in case he met an untimely demise.

Only after eliminating this obstacle would he be able to truly put his plans into full swing.

However, right as Adam was reveling in his victory, he was suddenly struck by a sense of foreboding, following which the surrounding sky abruptly disintegrated.

It was incorrect to say that it was the sky that was disintegrating. Instead, it was the entire psychic world that was falling away, and all of the psychic modules in the distance were being reduced to countless fine particles before vanishing into nothingness.

There were only two possible scenarios that could've led to something like this, the first of which was that the host of the psychic world had suffered physical death.

The brain could only store memories for less than two minutes following one's death, and after that, the brain itself would turn into mush.

The second possibility was that the host had suffered psychic death, and neither of these scenarios should've been possible.

Due to how important this operation was, Adam had made extensive preparations before coming here, which included informing Shae of the address in advance so that she could come here and protect him and Chen Yanyan's physical body.

Furthermore, Chen Yanyan's psychic body was hidden away following Adam's invasion of his psychic world.

After entering Chen Yanyan's psychic world, Adam had plenty of time to inspect Chen Yanyan's past and hide his psychic body. In fact, he had so much time on his hands that there was a point where he thought that Hebi no Miko wasn't coming.

It doesn't matter. As long as Hebi no Miko's physical body dies, or she gets detained by Mechguard, the outcome will be all the same. On top of that, it'll take some time for this psychic world to fully disintegrate, and that's enough time for us to put an end to this!

Right as Adam was reassuring himself, a huge hole was suddenly burned into Wax Figure's domain by a burst of black energy.

Wax Figure's attention was entirely focused on dealing with Yamata no Orochi, and he was unable to simultaneously focus on keeping his domain intact from outside attacks.

Furthermore, the black energy was quite powerful, and it tore through the domain before Wax Figure had a chance to react, following which a huge black raven descended from the sky.

As soon as the raven appeared, Adam immediately felt the tentacles that had been laying dormant in his body beginning to stir and awaken again, and that reaction allowed him to immediately identify the intruder.

Raven? Isn't he a normal person? How did he become an adapter?

Raven was one of Sithu's personalities, and it was the only personality that remained in Sithu's mind after all of his other anomalies had been killed.

Raven was extremely powerful in the psychic world, but in the real world, he was just a thin and weak man who probably couldn't even beat the average grown man in a fight.

Why is he here?

Unbeknownst to Adam, Raven had obtained a new body in the form of a blank slate, but it still didn't answer the question of why he had come here.