BXBX NOVEL Chapter 190: Clash
Chapter 190: Clash
Oni no Miko was moving very quickly for fear of letting Adam get away, and after contemplating the situation momentarily, Adam decided not to try and flee.
The battle royale was already extremely perilous, and as the zone shrank further and further, there was only going to be a greater concentration of powerful adapters in one place. He had a feeling that if this confrontation were to take place at a later stage in the battle royale, the circumstances were only going to be less favorable for him.
All of the survivors at the concluding stages of the battle royale were going to be extremely powerful, and with so many powerful adapters gathered in one place, Adam\'s chances of securing the ultimate victory were going to be extremely slim.
This was always going to happen sooner or later anyway, so let\'s put an end to this here!
Adam didn\'t dare to hold back against Oni no Miko, and he immediately invoked Clown.
He had witnessed Oni no Miko in action once before. Back then, he had been nowhere near as powerful as he currently was, but even so, he was still able to tell that Oni no Miko was more powerful than Oni no Hanzou.
In the face of an opponent who was even more powerful than Oni no Hanzou, Adam couldn\'t afford to keep any cards hidden up his sleeve.
In his current form, he was already riddled with injuries, and there was a very good chance that he could be killed in an instant by Oni no Miko. As opposed to being killed by the enemy, he would much rather allow himself to fall into insanity.
Let\'s see if you can control me this time, Raven!
Adam instantly withdrew Mummy back into his body before fusing as one with Clown.
Boundless power instantly surged into his body, alongside a sense of barely repressible insanity.
In the instant that he completed his fusion with Clown, he immediately entered that inebriated state.
After that, he leaped up onto a pile of rubble and waited patiently for Oni no Miko to arrive.
"I must commend your bravery for not running away." Oni no Miko slowed down slightly upon arriving at the realization that Adam seemed to have no intention of running away. "It\'s time for us to settle the score."
"Settle the score? Settle my ass! If you wanna fight, then let\'s fight!"
Clown sprang up into the air and performed a somersault as it drew its revolver and fired off a few shots at Oni no Miko.
Oni no Miko raised a hand to conjure up an energy shield that kept the bullets at bay.
There really wasn\'t much to be said between the two teams. The only reason for any of them to speak would be to verbally condemn the other side in order to give themselves a psychological edge.
Oni no Miko wanted to paint herself as the righteous party that was seeking vengeance for an ally, but Adam didn\'t grant her this opportunity and began firing attacks at her right away.
"You\'re pretty strong, little witch! Let\'s see if your shield can block this!"
Clown holstered its revolver before equipping the rocket launcher that it was carrying on its back and firing it at Oni no Miko.
The rocket came flying out with scorching fire trailing along behind it. In response, Oni no Miko swept a hand through the air, conjuring up an oni with a massive mouth, which devoured the rocket whole.
The rocket exploded violently in the oni\'s stomach, but that only caused it to give a loud burp.
This first exchange was really just the two of them playing around, and neither side was displaying their true power.
After that initial clash between Adam and Oni no Miko, Diamond stepped forward as he glowered intently at Adam while cracking his knuckles audibly.
"She\'s not the only one who has a bone to pick with you! You still remember my brother, Iron Man? Ever since what you did to him, he\'s become a sniveling coward! You\'ve ruined him!"
"Huh? What are you talking about?"
"I\'m talking about my brother!"
"What brother?"
"Iron Man!"
"Who\'s Iron Man? I don\'t know him."
"You wanna fucking play dumb with me?"
Diamond was infuriated as he clenched his hands into tight fists and launched himself at Adam.
Meanwhile, Adam had just loaded another rocket into his launcher, and he immediately fired the projectile at the oncoming Diamond.
A resounding explosion rang out, and after the dust settled, a man who resembled a walking diamond statue was revealed.
In this form, not only had Diamond grown in stature, his body was also resembling an impregnable fortress that was gleaming under the light of the sun.
"You think that\'s gonna be enough to break through my defenses? Die!" Diamond chortled as he launched himself forward and threw a punch at Adam.
However, Adam instantly vanished on the spot, and after missing its target, Diamond\'s fist crashed into the building beneath Adam, smashing directly through it from top to bottom with tremendous force. Upon his landing, a deep crater was also smashed into the ground.
"He seems to have an extremely high body weight."
Nie Yiyi was analyzing Diamond\'s abilities as she watched from nearby.
Even the combined weight of the four mecha brothers in their fused form hadn\'t been heavy enough to smash a crater into the ground upon landing. Of course, the giant mecha had a larger base, so there was more surface area for the force of the impact to be spread over, but in any case, Diamond\'s had to have possessed staggering body weight to accomplish such a feat.
"His other nickname is \'100-ton Man\'. I don\'t know if he actually weighs 100 tons, but it\'s definitely not far from the truth. In this form, his body is made from an extremely hard material that essentially makes him a human wrecking ball, so make sure to avoid a physical clash with him at all costs. His physical attributes make him completely unmatched in physical combat, and even those who are objectively far more powerful than him are no match for him in that department."
Nie Yiyi was a long-time resident of Shadow City, so she was naturally aware of all of the S tier combatant\'s attributes and abilities.
"What is his weakness?"
"His abilities are very limited, and he\'s very susceptible to attacks that affect the environment. For example, there was one battle where he was up against an A tier combatant who was capable of manipulating the environment. That combatant manipulated the flow of water to transform the earth around Diamond into a swamp. Even though there was a vast disparity in power between the two, that battle ultimately ended in a tie."
"I see." Nie Yiyi\'s brows furrowed slightly as she considered what she had just been told. "I don\'t think any of us possess abilities of that nature. Do you?"
"I\'m afraid not..." King Arthur was just about to say something further when he was struck by a sense of foreboding that stemmed from his telegnosis, and he hurriedly swung his sword behind himself, upon which the blade struck a technomancer\'s hat.
The technomancer flew back in retreat as he chuckled, "There\'s no need for you to analyze Diamond\'s abilities because you\'ll be facing the two of us instead."
As the technomaner was speaking, a man with a turtle\'s shell on his back appeared beside him.
"I haven\'t heard such a hilarious joke in years!" King Arthur scoffed as he leaped onto his dragon steed, which immediately rose up into the air before blasting a pillar of flames at the two assailants before them.
The pillar of fire filled the entire street, and after locking his gaze onto the figures within the flames, King Arthur leaped up from his dragon\'s back, using the momentum generated by his descent to swing his giant golden sword down upon his opponents.
However, his sword failed to strike its target, and right as he was trying to figure out what had happened, the technomancer\'s voice rang out from behind him.
"It looks like we\'re being underestimated!"
With a tap of the technomancer\'s staff, the entire world around King Arthur began to undergo a change.
Instead of the dilapidated town that they had been in just a moment ago, they were transported into a beautiful setting with lush greenery and a small, flowing creek. Butterflies and dragonflies were flying around incessantly above the creek and over the flowers, and even the sounds of battle in the area had been replaced with birdsongs and insect chirps.
As a seasoned adapter, King Arthur was naturally immediately able to identify the surrounding scene as nothing more than an illusion.
However, this was the problem with powerful illusions. Even if the subject were aware that they were in an illusion, their senses were still going to be affected nonetheless.