Hunter of Immortals

Chapter 79: Holy Light

A crisp clang rang out as the claws clashed with Nie Yiyi's blades.

As soon as the two clashed, Nie Yiyi immediately developed an idea of her opponent's power.

In a contest of pure power, she was no match for her opponent.

However, Nie Yiyi had always been an extremely technical fighter. As a matter of fact, this was the case for the majority of adapters. Someone like Adam, who relied on his body to directly combat anomalies, was the exception rather than the norm.

After the brief clash, Nie Yiyi borrowed the power of the nun anomaly's strike to rise up into the air. While suspended in mid-air, her twin blades flashed rapidly through the air, attacking the anomaly from all directions like the spikes of a hedgehog.

In contrast, the nun anomaly didn't put any fancy techniques on display, relying on its strength, speed, and instincts to defend and retaliate erratically. It clearly held the advantage over Nie Yiyi in both speed and strength, but Nie Yiyi's superior technical skills were suppressing it to the point that it was only able to passively defend and unable to strike back effectively.

"She's really strong!" Shae exclaimed.

"She is. She's taken on an even more powerful anomaly on her own before, but she lost that time." Even though not much time had passed since Adam had last seen Nie Yiyi, he felt like her combat prowess seemed to have improved again. "Let's cut the chit-chat and give her a hand. She's not going to be able to beat that thing on her own."

Adam knew Nie Yiyi's fighting style very well. She possessed explosive offensive capabilities and a high level of agility, but her defenses were sorely lacking, as was her stamina. At the moment, she held the upper hand over the nun anomaly, but she was only going to be able to keep this up for a limited period of time, and it wouldn't take long before the anomaly turned the tables on her.

What was most damning of all was that even when she landed a solid blow on the anomaly with her blades, only a slight injury would be inflicted, but if she were to take a direct hit from the anomaly's claws, then she would've immediately been out for the count.

Hence, Adam entered the fray before Nie Yiyi ran out of steam, using his burly and muscular body to withstand most of the anomaly's attacks.

With the experience of fighting against the armored warrior among the Golden Iron Triangle under his belt, Adam had become very adept at using his huge frame and physical advantages to shield his allies from damage. As soon as he entered the fray, the nun anomaly was immediately severely restricted. Even though it was occasionally able to inflict injuries upon Adam's body with its claws, the injuries were far from severe.

In addition to that, Shae was also striking opportunistically from afar, occasionally lashing out at the anomaly with her fiery claws, and it didn't take long before the anomaly was completely forced onto the back foot.

"You're pretty strong as well." With Adam and Shae offloading the pressure on her, Nie Yiyi was able to chat with Shae mid-battle, and after landing a blow on the anomaly with her blades, she asked, "What's your relationship with Adam?"

"We... We're really close friends."

After some contemplation, Shae decided to refrain from revealing the fact that she was Adam's sister.

"I see."

Nie Yiyi was clearly unconvinced.

Just as the three of them were beginning to think that the battle was going to become a one-sided beating, the nun anomaly put its power as a level three anomaly on full display.

Not only did high-level anomalies possess fearsome combat prowess, their abilities were also very formidable.

As soon as the nun anomaly realized that it was being overwhelmed, it opened its gaping mouth once again, letting loose a disorienting roar. At the same time, a vast burst of black light erupted out of her mouth.

The battlefield was already enshrouded in darkness, and with the addition of this black light, visibility immediately plummeted to zero.

Even with his eyes wide open, Adam was unable to see anything, and Nie Yiyi and Shae, who possessed far inferior defenses to Adam, hurriedly retreated in order to open up some distance between themselves and the anomaly. At the same time, Nie Yiyi conjured up a series of glowing cyberglyphs, while Shae gathered flames on her claws as both of them attempted to illuminate the darkness.

However, the surrounding darkness resembled a dense mist that was suffocating to all light. As a result, they were only able to illuminate an area roughly a meter or two in size around themselves, and no one was able to see what was happening.

"Is everyone alright?" Adam yelled.

"We're all fine!"

"Why isn't she taking advantage of this black light to sneak attack us?"

"Who knows? Maybe this black light can only linger for a short time, and it's not confident that it can take one of us down during that time," Nie Yiyi replied from within the darkness.

"Even so, it should still be trying to at least injure one of us. Unless it has some other target..."

While Adam was speculating about the anomaly's objectives, an agonized scream rang out from Li Qi in the distance, and immediately following that scream came another loud cry.

"Don't hurt him!"

As Lina's voice rang out, dazzling light swept over the entire scene, and not only was the darkness instantly dispelled, the entire area had become as bright as day.

With the entire area illuminated, Adam could see into the distance, where Li Qi had already been possessed by the anomaly. He was originally standing at around 160 centimeters tall, but his height had swelled to around two meters. In addition to that, his thin and frail body had also become withered yet powerful, and there was an unsettling, sinister look on his face.

Following his transformation, Li Qi was in clear discomfort from being basked in the holy light, and even the anomalic power around his body had faded somewhat.

In the next instant, he charged directly toward Lina, clearly aiming to eradicate the source of the holy light.

Thankfully, Lina had always remained quite close to Adam, and as soon as Adam realized that she had become the anomaly's target, he immediately positioned himself in front of her as a meat shield.

A dull thump rang out as Adam took the anomaly's first attack head-on.

It seems to be a little weaker than before.

He quickly took a couple of steps backward, then turned around before enveloping Lina in his bandages.

In his current form, he was a hulking figure standing at three meters in height. Wrapped up in his bandages, Lina resembled nothing more than a small lump on his body, so carrying her wasn't hindering him in the slightest.

After Lina was secured, Adam's companions rushed over to the scene, and the anomaly was once again surrounded by its three opponents.

Even before the holy light appeared, the nun anomaly was already no match for the trio, and after the emergence of the holy light, it had become even weaker. However, the situation had actually worsened from the perspective of Adam and his friends.

Adam raised his carving knife and swung down with immense power, but not only was the anomaly not bothering to take any evasive action, it stuck out its neck to take the attack instead. This was Li Qi's psychic body, so Adam naturally didn't dare to go through with the attack.

Shae and Nie Yiyi were also having to contend with the same problem, so the battle had taken a very frustrating turn for them.

Their opponent had clearly become weaker, but at the same time, it was untouchable.

If the host were killed, the anomaly would still be able to escape, but the host's psychic body would sustain irreversible damage, potentially even resulting in complete brain death. Ongoing footage of the entire mission was being captured, so if such an incident were to take place, then Adam and his companions would've been liable to legal consequences.

If they couldn't get the job done, then they could abandon the treatment, but harming the host was strictly prohibited.

With this problem hanging over their heads, Adam and his friends were powerless to do anything, and they could only request assistance from Lina.

"Lina, you said you can scare away that bad nun, right? Can you give it a try now?"

"Ok!"

In reality, Lina didn't know exactly what abilities she possessed. The holy light that she had just released was only an instinctive outburst arising from her sense of urgency after hearing her friend being harmed by the anomaly, so she had no idea how to actually use her powers.

Under Adam's instructions, she poked her head out of the bandages, then began yelling loudly at the anomaly.

"Leave my friend's body! Don't hurt my friend! Don't hurt Li Qi! He's my friend!"

Lina was repeating the same thing over and over again, and her cries of condemnation really were having an effect on the anomaly. As she continued to yell at Li Qi, the anomaly seemed to be on the verge of being expelled from Li Qi's body.

The black mist around him began to warp, and other limbs and heads began to occasionally emerge from his body.