Chapter 464: Scarecrow's Second Lease on Life

The Lamenting Wall ws an ability that forced Adam's enemies to experience the despair felt by countless people in the face of a man-made disaster that there was no escaping from, as well as the resentment they felt toward those who had relegated them to such a terrible fate.

Very few people were able to withstand such a ferocious barrage of negative emotions without being affected, but Hebi no Miko was going a step further as her Undead Destruction ability was one that didn't even spare the dead.

The Lamenting Wall contained the final despairing cries of those who were physically annihilated in a nuclear explosion, while Hebi no Miko's Undead Destruction was going a step further, destroying their psyches as well to put an end to their bodies and their souls.

All of the people within the Lamenting Wall were instantly stopped cold in their tracks, and even the looks on their faces had completely stiffened, as if a pause button had been pressed, but the nuclear bomb that was going to put an end to all of their lives was still flying across the sky like a shooting star. However, a glimmer of light that was threatening to devour everything had appeared directly above it.

This time, there were no howls of pain or despair, only the steady advancement of the light of destruction, and everything in its wake was shattering, burning, and disintegrating.

Devastating shockwaves swept through the entire city, and inky-black marks were all that remained of the life forms that previously existed here, while all of the psychic bodies and their emotions also wilted away.

After the light came boundless darkness. The scorched earth instantly transformed into a hellscape of flowing lava, and all of the souls were dragged into a bottomless abyss of destruction. Just this single attack alone was almost enough to kill Horse Face on the spot.

Hebi no Miko herself didn't fare much better. Her Yamata no Orochi form was acting as the vessel for the hellscape that she had created, and the majority of it was also destroyed. Essentially, she was crippling her own psychic body, and a normal person would've already fainted from the agony if they were in her place.

She wasn't completely impervious to the pain, either, and Yamata no Orochi let loose an earth-shattering roar as what remained of its body writhed violently as it rose up into the sky. At the same time, dense smoke poured out of its tail, inundating its entire body in the blink of an eye.

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Adam immediately withdrew Horse Face, and its injuries were so severe that Adam didn't know whether it would be able to make a full recovery. However, it was worth it in the end as he had managed to severely wound Hebi no Miko for a minimal cost.

The most difficult part about facing Hebi no Miko was locking onto her. In her human form, she was virtually impossible to track, and her advantage in speed alone was enough for her to defeat most opponents with ease. It had taken May and Wax Figure last time to just barely keep her in check, and in this instance, there was no one to help Adam, so he could only rely on himself.

Furthermore, he could tell that Hebi no Miko had abandoned all of the disguises and facades that she had previously been hiding behind, so the true battle was finally beginning now.

A rumbling thunderclap rang out in the sky, and the smoke around Yamata no Orochi was instantly cleared.

Under the backdrop of the dark sky, a monstrous eight-headed figure began to slowly unfurl its own body. It was only around 300 meters in length, but its necks consisted of half of that length, and each of its heads could easily swallow a truck whole. Its heads were surveying the landscape down below, and the light shooting out of its 16 eyes were capable of directly scorching psychic bodies.

Just the power of its gaze alone was already almost too much for Shae to bear, and she let loose an agonized cry. Adam immediately released a flurry of bandages to shield her while also instructing Sludge to position itself in front of her as a shield.

Right at this moment, Hebi no Miko's deranged voice rang out from above.

"You've exhausted all of your tricks now, right? Even your most powerful ability has failed to defeat me, so what are you going to do now? It's time for you to die!"

As soon as her voice trailed off, the entire psychic world began to tremble violently, as if a level eight earthquake were taking place. What remained of the skyscraper beneath Adam's feet instantly collapsed, and as the ground fell away, molten lava began to rise up alongside toxic mist and waves of scorching heat.

At the same time, countless fiery shooting stars descended from the heavens, and every single one of them had the power to destroy an entire city. There were so many of them that they obscured the entire sky, and they were crashing into the waves of scorching heat that were rising up from down below before exploding violently to form a fiery hellscape capable of destroying everything and anything.

This was another one of Yamata no Orochi's forbidden techniques, All-encompassing Furnace.

Hebi no Miko was attempting to destroy everything in a radius of several kilometers in order to put a swift end to this battle, and in the past, Adam would've been completely powerless to resist, but things had changed since then.

A huge dark cloud appeared beneath Adam's feet, and it was one that was formed by countless black bats, manifesting into a black cloak. At the center of the dark cloud was a black figure that was over 20 meters tall with an enormous scythe clutched in its hands.

The black figure swung its scythe downward in a swift and forceful motion, and a rift was instantly torn into the boundless flames to reveal the dark sky again.

Adam, Sludge, and Hellhound immediately passed through the rift while standing atop the dark cloud, thereby allowing them to escape from the fiery hellscape, much to Hebi no Miko's astonishment.

"There are still more invoked entities that you haven't used?"

"I have way more tricks up my sleeve!"

As it turned out, taking down Masao Yamamoto had brought with it an unexpected reward that was playing a crucial role here.

The scythe-wielding cloaked figure was none other than Scarecrow, which had remained largely dormant this entire time. After devouring Masao Yamamoto's anomalic power, it had evolved into a level seven anomaly, and it was certainly coming in useful here.

With Scarecrow's assistance, Adam didn't have to fear an aerial battle, and it had also been able to catch Hebi no Miko completely off guard in this instance.

"So what? This will only delay your inevitable death for a while longer!"

Hebi no Miko remained calm and collected as she lowered two of her heads and released a combination of fearsome wind and lightning attacks.

The former transformed into a ferocious tornado around Scarecrow, while the latter came crashing down toward Scarecrow from above.

All of Hebi no Miko's attacks were astonishingly fast, making it virtually impossible for successful evasion, and the tornado instantly tore most of the dark cloud apart while continuing to constrict around Scarecrow, while the lightning plunged straight through Scarecrow's chest, leaving a massive hole in its wake.

Despite this, Scarecrow didn't appear to have sustained much damage. The torn fragments of the dark cloud transformed into thousands of bats that began to fly around Scarecrow at a high speed, then suddenly gathered together to unleash a supersonic attack upward. The wind-attribute serpentine head was struck by the attack, and a large section of its scales instantly implosed, while blood came gushing out of its mouth and nostrils.

The hole in Scarecrow's body was also filled, and it swept its scythe through the air again to slice a deep gash onto Yamata no Orochi's enormous body. However, its defenses were simply far too strong, and every single one of its scales was like a super thick alloy board, making it impossible for Scarecrow to deal any substantial blows.

Of course, Adam wasn't hoping to take down Hebi no Miko with a single attack. Instead, he had a sequence of attacks prepared.

All of a sudden, Sludge shrank down to only two meters in height before launching itself through the air, crashing straight into the gash that had been inflicted by Scarecrow's scythe, plowing straight through the scale to create a huge hole that was the size of a truck and over 10 meters deep.