Hunter of Immortals-Chapter 389: Moving Turret

"Let's go one at a time." Adam didn't know how powerful his opponents were, so he decided to play it safe, pointing at the largest of the three mechas as he declared, "You can go first!"

The mecha immediately responded to Adam's instruction, firing a blast out of the heavy cannon on its chest.

The barrel of the cannon was several meters thick, and the projectile that flew out from within was as massive as a boulder.

Just the diameter of the projectile alone was a terrifying sight to behold.

Of course, the offensive prowess of an adapter's psychic body was directly correlated to their psychic power, so some attacks appeared quite intimidating, but weren't all that powerful. In contrast, some people could topple mountains with a casual punch. An example of this was Hebi no Miko, who was able to unleash tremendous power with the most casual of strikes.

Hence, there was only one way to find out if an attack from an adapter was truly powerful or not.

In the face of the oncoming giant projectile, Adam crossed his arms to defend himself, and in the blink of an eye, the projectile crashed into him with a resounding boom.

A massive eruption of flames ensued as the projectile exploded against Adam's arms of stone.

Adam's huge feet plunged into the ground, but he was still sent flying back several dozen meters by the force of the impact, then blown back several dozen more meters by the violent explosion.

After being sent flying by the attack, Adam wanted to clamber to his feet, but he was unable to do so as he no longer had any arms to support himself with.

"That was an exceptional attack!"

Adam was ecstatic to see this, and only after his arms slowly reformed did he return to his feet.

Judging from the power of this attack alone, Adam's assessment was that his opponent's offensive prowess was at least comparable with that of a level seven anomaly, and perhaps it was even of the same caliber as a level eight anomaly.

It was important to realize that when fused with Sludge, Adam was a purely defensive-type level six anomaly.

In other areas, he was lacking compared with the average level six anomaly, but in terms of defensive prowess, he was on the same level as a level seven or level eight anomaly, so the fact that his opponent was able to destroy his arms with a single attack was very commendable.

"Did you have to charge up power for that attack, or was it just an ordinary attack?" Adam asked after regrowing his arms.

"It was just an ordinary attack."

"How many times can you unleash an attack of that caliber in a row?"

"I can do it indefinitely."

"Show me!"

Adam began to charge at his opponent once again as he spoke, and as he did so, he unleashed his elementary domain ability, extending the psychic patterns on his body onto the ground beneath his feet.

It was clear that the three soldiers had been informed of Adam's abilities prior to coming here, and his opponent didn't hold back.

After undergoing a transformation, countless cannon barrels extended out of the mecha's body, coupled with missile launchers and laser blasters.

His entire 15-meter-tall body had transformed into a walking turret, and following this transformation, he fired all of his weapons in unison, instantly inundating the entire area with his devastating firepower output.

"I know who you are, you're Flame!" Adam declared as he crouched down before raising both hands, instantly lifting up the ground beneath him.

The ground had consisted of nothing more than ordinary sandstone just a moment ago, yet now that it was enhanced by his domain, it had become just as hard as his body.

The wall of reinforced earth appeared in the path of the oncoming projectiles to shield Adam from the ferocious barrage, and a string of explosions instantly rang out.

Flame's firepower output was tremendous, and the wall of reinforced earth was several meters thick, it was destroyed in no more than half a second, following which Adam's body was exposed to the oncoming attacks.

As it turned out, he didn't fare much better than the wall, and in just a single second, his entire body was riddled with countless holes.

He attempted to use his domain to draw upon the surrounding sandstone in order to repair his own body, but the rate of regeneration was nowhere near as fast as the rate of destruction. Before long, he was unable to withstand the fierce barrage any longer, and his entire body was blown up into pieces.

However, Flame didn't cease his attacks there, continuing to blast the pieces of Adam's body relentlessly.

"Surely that's enough, Flame," one of his companions couldn't help but interject. "If you keep this up, he's going to die!"

"If he dies this easily, then there's no chance that he could become the mayor or deal with those killers. According to the information that we've gathered, the most powerful members among those killers are even more powerful than us."

Before Flame had a chance to finish, his voice suddenly trailed off. Something had hooked onto his body, and even his soul had faltered for a moment.

Immediately thereafter, a creature that was riddled with hooks appeared on his body, and as the creature spun around, many of the cannon barrels on Flame's body were damaged by the creature's sharp hooks, resulting in projectiles exploding while still in their chambers.

After that, the entire area around him suddenly went dark, and by the time he could see again, he found himself surrounded by countless clowns, which were retaliating against him using all types of old weapons from the World War II era.

These weapons weren't very powerful, but all of them had corrosive abilities that were damaging a large number of the weapons on Flame's body.

Right after that, a bunch of anomalies jumped onto him.

There was a blade-wielding mummy, a nun that was releasing extremely corrosive black liquid out of its entire body, and a strange anomaly with a camera for a head that was able to easily slice through his fortress-like body with its scythe arms.

He was just about to retaliate when a horse-faced anomaly appeared, and a series of negative emotions instantly began to well up in his heart. The horse-faced anomaly was constantly painting onto his body as if it were an artist, and with each artwork that it created, a monstrous creature would emerge, and with the emergence of each monster, a new negative emotion would arise in Flame's heart.

More and more negative emotions began to accumulate in Flame, and his will to resist was slowly being whittled down.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Adam was able to regenerate his body.

He could see that Flame's psychic body was a defensive tank, and he knew that aside from Sludge, all of his other anomalies were far too small to be able to inflict much meaningful damage onto Flame.

Hence, after making his recovery, Adam immediately charged toward his opponent, tearing forcefully into the gashes inflicted onto Flame's body by his other anomalies to rip away chunks of his body.

At this point, Flame's comrades finally interjected.

"I think we should stop there, sir."

The fact that they were now referring to Adam as "sir" rather than "Mr. Adam" was a clear sign that they were acknowledging his power.

Both soldiers and adapters respected those who were more powerful than them, so perhaps they wouldn't have been willing to follow Adam's orders had he not displayed superior power to theirs.

"He doesn't have your self-regenerative ability, so if you keep going, it's going to take him quite a few days to recover his psychic body. Weren't you saying that there's going to be a battle later tonight?"

Adam's intention wasn't to inflict excessively severe damage onto his opponent anyway, so he immediately ceased his attacks after hearing what the other two mechas had to say.

Through that battle, he was able to determine that Flame possessed possessed power equivalent to an upper-mid-tier level seven anomaly, and that he was approaching a level eight anomaly.

He was a very formidable adapter, but even a tiger couldn't fight off a pack of wolves, so it only made sense that he would struggle against a small army of level five and level six anomalies.

Furthermore, Adam had become even more powerful following the recent pivotal choice that he had made in the face of Mr. One's offer.