Chapter 453: Battling on Two Fronts

Did that brat use some type of other ability as well?

Once again, Masao Yamamoto couldn't help but wonder if he had misjudged Adam's power.

The latest appraisal of Adam's power that Masao Yamamoto had received had come from the recently captured Oni-faced Dragon. According to him, Adam had engaged him in an all-out battle, but was ultimately unable to come out on top, and even his most powerful invoked anomalies hadn't been able to withstand a single saber strike from his Shuten-douji form.

If it weren't for the security guards interfering in the real world, there was no way that Adam would've been able to defeat him.

Masao Yamamoto assessed himself to have been a more powerful adapter than Oni-faced Dragon, so he should've been able to dominate Adam in battle, yet that clearly wasn't happening here.

Just like all of Adam's other enemies, prior to making any big moves, Masao Yamamoto would always gather as much information on his targets as possible, performing an appraisal of said targets before confirming this appraisal through all possible avenues.

After that, he would devise a perfect plan that would force the target to follow the path that heh ad set out for them. He would then wait for the perfect opportunity to strike, making sure to take down his target in one fell swoop when he did decide to strike.

For this purpose, he had gathered all of the publicly available information on Adam and enquired all of the people who had fought Adam in the past and lived to tell the tale, including Herman Glenn. He had even purchased footage of Adam's battles in Shadow City from the black market and studied the footage extensively.

After making all of these meticulous preparations, he had set the battlefield as his own estate as he was more familiar with its layout than anyone else, and that would allow him to better carry out his plan.

Additionally, he had set up two ambush parties, one of which accompanied him into battle in the psychic world, while the other attacked Adam and his entourage in the real world from afar.

It was supposed to have been a foolproof plan, yet somehow it had failed to achieve the intended effect, and Masao Yamamoto was currently undergoing a process of self-reflection, wondering where he had gone wrong.

Of course, Adam wasn't going to just sit around and wait. Horse Face was drawing upon Adam's immense psychic power to expand its artwork as much as possible, and if left unchecked, the artwork was eventually going to encompass the entire estate.

It didn't take long before Masao Yamamoto realized that the ground beneath his feet was beginning to transform, and he immediately sprang into action.

A burst of light erupted forward from beneath his feet, severing the expanding artwork while also attacking Adam from afar.

Sludge raised a massive hand to oppose the attack head-on, allowing it to sever a few of its fingers, which fell onto the ground before turning into sludge and fusing back into its body. Horse Face had also sustained some minor injuries from the attack, and Adam's plan to draw Masao Yamamoto into the Lamenting Wall had been thwarted.

However, the Lamenting Wall had already expanded to a size that was sufficient to counteract Masao Yamamoto's psychic domain, and Adam immediately initiated the next phase of his plan.

All of a sudden, the artwork on the ground rose up from down below, and it was as if a modern city had suddenly descended upon the estate. There were tall skyscrapers, busy roads, and countless panicked individuals fleeing in all directions while releasing an immeasurable volume of chaotic emotions.

As Adam's psychic power became further enhanced, the Lamenting Wall was also becoming more and more realistic and vibrant.

The emotions being projected by the people in the artwork was corrupting the entire space like poison, and the dark clouds up above immediately began to churn violently, as if an acid-base reaction were taking place, with the two forces neutralizing one another.

Psychic corruption was supposed to have been Masao Yamamoto's forte, yet at this moment, he was being subjected to an attack of the same nature, and it was certainly not a good feeling.

All types of extreme negative emotions flooded into his mind, and all of the eyes on his body instantly fell shut, severely debilitating his overall power.

This ability is no less formidable than my own!

Masao Yamamoto recalled hearing mention of this ability of Adam's in the past, but according to that description, the ability wasn't supposed to have been anywhere near as fearsome as it currently was.

He knew that he had to retaliate right away, and all of the dark clouds immediately descended at his behest. The clouds were so dense that it appeared as if they had been formed from viscous ink, and they were about to completely inundate this entire area.

As a result, the psychic disruption on Adam and Shae was rapidly being exacerbated, and it was clear that being swallowed up by the dark clouds would've spelled extremely bad news for them.

Right at this moment, the Lamenting Wall unleashed its ultimate attack, and the nuclear bomb above the city exploded in a doomsday-like scene.

Light that was countless times hotter and more destructive than the sun's rays erupted in all directions, toppling buildings and bridges, pulverizing plants, and incinerating people into ashes in the blink of an eye.

Countless despairing howls rang out as all of the desperate faces looked up into the sky. The majority of the blanket of dark clouds up above was instantly eradicated, revealing the sky up above once again.

Masao Yamamoto let loose an agonized roar.

His psychic domain was directly connected to his psychic body, and as a result of its destruction, he had suffered severe backlash. Not only had most of the eyes on his body been destroyed, he had become slightly shorter in stature.

Worst of all, his psychic body was completely exposed in Adam's field of view.

At the same time, the emotional attack from the Lamenting Wall also arrived.

A forlorn sigh rang out directly within his heart, and it contained the resignation of countless people who had accepted their fate in the face of a destructive power far too immense for them to oppose.

Masao Yamamoto could feel his own willpower being rapidly stripped away.

As a top-tier adapter, his confidence was nigh unshakeable, yet nothing had gone according to plan during this battle. As such, the tiniest amount of self-doubt had set in, and that was exactly what was allowing the Lamenting Wall to have such a severe effect on him.

All of a sudden, countless cracks appeared all over Masao Yamamoto's body, and blood began to gush out of his mouth. This was the first time in his life that he had ever sustained such severe damage to his psychic body.

He immediately lashed out in retaliation, releasing a burst of light that severed the waves of emotional influence surging toward him.

Immediately thereafter, countless black creatures came flying in from the distant sky. Upon closer inspection, one would discover that it was an army of demonic creatures with sharp fangs in their mouths, and their numbers were so vast that they filled the entire sky.

Adam hurriedly withdrew Horse Face before invoking Clown, which instantly conjured up an army of clones to open fire at the swarm of demonic creatures up above.

At the same time, Diana also unleashed her draconic technomancy, conjuring up countless balls of black light around her before sending them hurtling through the air like a hailstorm.

A string of violent explosions and rapid gunshots rang out as smoke filled the entire sky, transforming the estate into an old-school battlefield.

Thanks to Sludge's immense physical resistance, Adam was able to shrug off the shrapnel and shockwaves as he observed the battlefield. He could see a large number of psychic bodies dressed in ninja attire rapidly approaching from a forest that was at least a kilometer away, accompanied by a pair of enormous beings.

The psychic army that was lying in ambush had finally entered the fray.

Meanwhile, in the pavilion in the real world, all of the Mechguard units accompanying Adam had formed a tight-knit defensive formation around Adam, Shae, and Diana.

There were dozens of snipers outside the estate firing a barrage of powerful shots at Adam and his entourage. Eight of the Mechguard units had already been destroyed, and the pavilion itself was also on the verge of collapse.

To compound their woes even further, they had lost contact with all of the nearby police stations, and even the drones that were patrolling the area in the distance seemed to have all gone blind, completely ignoring the one-sided battle that was taking place down below.

Thunderbird was hiding behind a destroyed Mechguard unit with his teeth tightly gritted in fury.

𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

"I don't care who you are, I'm gonna make you pay for this!"