Chapter 423: Enough Ants Can Overwhelm Even an Elephant

Adam towered over the battlefield as he lifted the roof off the building, trying to use his size advantage to seize back the initiative.

Where is he?

After spotting his opponent, he immediately swatted a giant hand at Oni-faced Dragon, but the latter was far too fast and dodged his attack with ease, then sprang onto Adam's body to try and attack his weak points.

However, in this form, Adam had no weak points, and he was able to immediately regenerate his eyes after they were injured.

"Your speed is impressive, but your offensive prowess is too weak. Once I catch you, you'll be screwed!"

Adam was just about to instruct his anomalic army to surround Oni-faced Dragon when a burst of flames suddenly flashed past down below. Even before the sense of pain had struck him, Adam's body was already beginning to topple like a massive building.

What happened?

As his upper body was falling, he looked down to find that both of his pillar-like legs had already been destroyed, so his upper body no longer had any support.

A streak of red light then flashed past his eyes, and it was none other than Oni-faced Dragon's demonic form.

The demonic being arrived before Adam in a flash, and even though it wasn't as fast as Oni-faced Dragon's human form, it possessed more than tenfold the offensive prowess.

As Adam's body toppled toward the ground, the demonic being raised its staff, and with just a single swing, it was able to completely pulverize Adam.

Boom!

A powerful shockwave swept through the entire plant, and Adam's body was smashed into countless pieces.

At the same time, a series of blue patterns appeared on the ground, and the fragments of his body began to slowly converge together.

"I'm not letting you regenerate!"

The demonic being smashed its staff into the ground upon seeing this, scattering all of the blue patterns. Immediately thereafter, it sprang up into the air before opening its mouth up wide, inhaling an enormous amount of air, causing its body to swell up like a balloon.

As it did this, the demonic patterns all over its entire body swelled, following which it blasted a mouthful of flames toward the spot where Adam was attempting to regenerate.

The flames were imbued with tremendous demonic power, allowing it to directly incinerate Adam's life force.

If these flames were allowed to spread unchecked, then Adam would be dead for sure.

However, as an invocator, Adam never fought alone. Instead, he had a complete army of anomalies to call upon, and the first ones to retaliate were the ones capable of launching long-range attacks.

Clown immediately conjured up an army of clones, blasting the demonic being with a barrage of powerful artillery that gave off strong chemical contaminants.

At the same time, Hellhound also blasted a fireball up into the sky, using its fire to counter the demonic being's flames.

Meanwhile, Nun unleashed its Fountain of Contamination, sending sewage gushing onto the ground to snuff out the flames there and buy Adam time to regenerate.

The most effective attack was Horse Face's emotion-based attack. Oni-faced Dragon was already enraged to begin with, and Horse Face took advantage of this, further fueling his fury, to the extent that he was struggling to control his emotions and was beginning to launch haphazard attacks in random directions.

In a battle between masters, losing one's poise and composure could result in dire consequences.

Thanks to the assistance from all of his anomalies, Adam was able to reform his own body. He then turned to look at the two Oni-faced Dragons, and he finally developed an understanding of how powerful they were.

As expected of the leader of the Oni Organization!

At this point in the battle, Adam had already verified that Oni-faced Dragon was indeed on the same level as May.

At the moment, Sludge was a level seven anomaly that specialized in defense. Even back when it was only a level six anomaly, it was able to endure Hebi no Miko's forbidden techniques for some time.

Right now, its defenses had become even stronger, yet its entire body had still been destroyed by just two blows from the demonic being, indicating that its single-target destructive power could already rival May's.

Furthermore, the demonic flames that it unleashed were capable of directly incinerating one's life force, thereby presenting an extremely formidable combination of abilities.

His defenses seem to be quite strong as well.

Even after Adam reformed his body, the anomalies that were attacking Oni-faced Dragon continued their assault. Before the first wave of long-range attacks had ceased, the second wave of combat units had already arrived on the scene to engage Oni-faced Dragon in battle, led by Distortion and Spider.

However, Shuten-douji possessed immense physical resistance, sustaining barely any injuries even in the face of both Distortion's distortive abilities and Spider's sharp spikes.

Offensive prowess and physical resistance were the fortes of Oni-faced Dragon's Shuten-douji form.

At the same time, his human form was also quite formidable.

Right as Adam was pondering whether he should also enter the fray, Oni-faced Dragon's human form sprang into action, charging like the wind into the army of anomalies to attack the long-range offensive units, such as Nun and Horse Face.

His offensive prowess was rather mediocre, but that was only compared with his demonic form.

The fact that he was able to partially break through Mummy's defenses indicated that he still posed quite a threat to the other more frail anomalies in Adam's army.

Thankfully, Horse Face and Nun had both developed decent defenses. Due to his lack of familiarity with Adam, Oni-faced Dragon wasn't aware that Camera was the most vulnerable target.

Which one should I target first?

According to Adam's experience, when it came to adapters of this level, their clones were also part of their true body, so if he wanted to kill Oni-faced Dragon, then he had to kill both of his forms.

Right as he was hesitating about which one to target first, an agonized howl suddenly rang out in the air. Hellhound had tried to sink its fangs into Shuten-douji's body, but it had been struck by a staff blow to the head, resulting in one of its three heads being completely pulverized, causing it to fall out of the sky with severe injuries.

I'll go after the more potent offensive threat!

Shuten-douji was able to smash Sludge into pieces with ease, so there was no way that the other anomalies would be able to withstand its power. With that in mind, Adam immediately picked up one of the water pipes that had fallen onto the ground, swinging it through the air like a baseball bat to send Shuten-douji flying.

At the same time, all of his anomalies unleashed their long-ranged attacks in unison at his behest.

This included all of the low-level anomalies in Adam's army. As long as they were capable of unleashing long-range attacks, all of them were contributing to the collective effort.

Around half of all of Adam's anomalies were capable of unleashing long-range attacks, and the most useful ones among them weren't the ones capable of using long-range offensive attacks. Instead, it was the ones with cyberhex abilities that could restrict and weaken the target.

Some of the anomalies were chanting incantations to sap the target of its strength, some were using hypnotism to whittle down the target's battle intent, and some were unleashing cyberhexes to weaken the target's body.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of abilities were unleashed in unison. Even though the majority of them only had a minor effect on Shuten-douji, the lack of quality was more than made up for by quantity. With enough ants, even an elephant could be overwhelmed.

The overall disruption caused by the army of anomalies was nothing to be scoffed at, and Shuten-douji's overall combat prowess was significantly diminished.