Hunter of Immortals

Chapter 98: Abrupt Arrival

"What else can we do aside from stall for time? At the very least, time is on our side."

Nie Yiyi was holding her blades as she stood at the edge of the protective barrier, casting her gaze out toward Adam, who was still trying to struggle to his feet.

Looks like the heightened gravity can only be maintained for a short period of time.

Having been freed from the effects of the heightened gravitational force, Adam twisted his own body vigorously from side to side, using his carving knife to slice through the restrictive substance around him.

By the time he emerged out into the open, the leech monster was already beginning to attack the protective barrier again.

It was using its tongue to punch one hole after another into the barrier, then slamming its enormous body into it over and over again, and before long, the entire barrier was on the verge of collapse.

The remaining adapters were unable to seize the initiative and attack the leech monster, nor were they able to defend their territory. After witnessing the battle that had just taken place, all of the students were screaming and crying, and not only were the teachers unable to maintain order, they were also terrified themselves.

The fear that arose in the hearts of the students was mostly instinctive. They were scared of the horrific monster outside the barrier.

As for the teachers and school administrators, they were afraid of death. They knew that dying here would equate to death in the real world, and the panicked screaming and bawling of tens of thousands of people culminated in a deafening crescendo.

They're all so noisy!

Situated right in the midst of the chaos, Nie Yiyi was suddenly struck by a sense of peace. In this perilous situation of life and death, she had become extraordinarily calm. She swept her gaze over the scene unfolding around her, and after taking everyone into consideration, including Adam, the psychic mutants, the students, and her teammates, she arrived at a conclusion.

If we want to survive, it seems like there's only one option we can pursue.

All of a sudden, Nie Yiyi vanished on the spot.

Her objective wasn't to attack the psychic mutant. By the time she reappeared, she had already arrived at the edge of the protective barrier, and she swung her blade viciously at Prince's neck.

Her attack was blocked by Prince, but it showed everyone what needed to be done.

Not only did the leech monster possess an enormous body, it also had exceptional regenerative abilities, making it extremely difficult to kill. However, the same didn't apply to Prince. His gravitational control was very troublesome to deal with, but he was just a normal adapter, and all it would take would be a single up from him for him to be killed.

Most importantly, his presence on the battlefield made things several times more perilous for everyone else.

His abilities were far too annoying to deal with. The leech monster was a very formidable foe, but the accuracy of its attacks was very lackluster, and only when paired up with Prince did it truly become a massive threat.

In fact, Nie Yiyi even had a feeling that the enemy had intentionally set up this combination and specifically sent Prince to this school in order to help the leech monster complete its mission.

"Die!"

After her first attack was thwarted, Nie Yiyi lashed out once again, but the gravity acting on her body suddenly increased, causing her to slow down drastically, and Prince took advantage of this opportunity to open up some distance between them.

However, he had only just managed to distance himself from Nie Yiyi when an Explosive Fireball came flying directly at him. His gravitational field had a very minimal effect on energy attacks, so he had no choice but to take evasive measures.

Boom!

The shockwaves from the explosion swept over his entire body, sending him flying for close to 20 meters, but he remained virtually completely unscathed.

Among all of the adapters present, no one possessed this level of physical resistance aside from Adam, so it had to be said that Prince's overall prowess was very impressive.

However, it was still a struggle for him to deal with so many assailants at once, particularly when one of those assailants wasn't necessarily inferior to him when it came to absolute power.

Prince had only just steadied himself after being knocked away by the explosion when he felt a gust of cold wind sweep toward him from behind. He immediately took evasive measures, but the oncoming blade was too quick, so he had no choice but to activate his gravitational field, and he was only just barely able to dodge the attack after slowing down his assailant with heightened gravity.

The attacker on this occasion was naturally none other than Adam.

After escaping from his restrictions, Adam's initial plan was to stop the leech monster from destroying the protective barrier, but he had drawn inspiration from Nie Yiyi's actions. As her teammate, he immediately understood what she was trying to do, and he had almost managed to strike down Prince with that surprise attack from behind.

"What the hell are you all doing? Attacking a congressman is a serious crime!"

"You're still pretending even now?"

Compared with his allies, Adam possessed superior strength and speed, and the gravitational field was unable to completely constrain him. He struggled to his feet, then rose up to lash out with his carving knife again.

Prince was able to block the attack, but he could clearly sense that this "student" was far more powerful than he imagined. Every single time, he was forced to unleash his super gravitational field to slow down Adam and contain him.

This was very taxing for him, and in addition to that, he also had to deal with Nie Yiyi, who was a more skillful attacker with a more diverse repertoire of attacks. She was like a spitting viper lurking off to the side, constantly attacking the holes in his defense.

After just a few exchanges, Prince was already feeling quite physically drained.

"The courts will pass judgment on your actions!" Prince condemned while fleeing to the side with Adam and Nie Yiyi hot on his trail.

However, right at this moment, a loud thump rang out, and the protective barrier finally completely shattered in the face of the relentless barrage of attacks unleashed by the leech monster.

Looking at the specks of light that were the remnants of the protective barrier falling from the sky, Adam heaved a sigh of despair.

"It's all over..."

Not only were they not going to be able to kill Prince in a short time, it wasn't going to matter even if they could. At this point, the leech monster had begun blasting miniature leeches into the sky again, and without the protective barrier above them, the students were completely defenseless. It was only going to take a few minutes before all of these miniature leech monsters became fully developed, by which point all of the students would be dead.

In the face of these monsters, the children were completely powerless to resist, and they couldn't even run away. They were like lambs to the slaughter, unable to do anything but accept the terrible fate that awaited them.

A nauseating vomiting sound rang out, and the leech monster released another massive batch of miniature leeches. These leeches fell onto the students down below without encountering any resistance, and they immediately opened their mouths to devour the blood of their victims.

The leech monster still wasn't done there, and it fired off several massive acid bombs at the areas that were most densely packed with children.

The acid bombs exploded in the sky, and right when the entire area was about to be completely smothered in acid, the leech monster suddenly let loose a bloodcurdling screech before vanishing on the spot.

The miniature leeches and the acid in the sky also disappeared along with it.

Having just brushed shoulders with death, all of the students and teachers still had horrified looks on their faces, but their horror quickly gave way to surprise, and they had no idea how they had been saved.

However, the adapters knew what had to have happened, and Prince's expression changed slightly before he quickly put on an elated fa?ade.

As for Adam and the others, they were truly elated. They knew that the abrupt disappearance of the psychic mutant could only mean one thing: their physical body had perished!

Sure enough, in the next instant, the psychic world that had been given rise to by the psychic mutant began to shatter, and in the blink of an eye, Adam found himself back on the fourth floor of the school building.

All of the students also reappeared in the classrooms, and this was the first time that they had experienced this jarring transition from the psychic world back to the real world, so all of the them instantly erupted into panic and chaos as soon as they awakened.

Some of them were still immersed in the fear they were experiencing in the psychic world, and they were blindly trying to run away. Others were bawling their eyes out, and there were also some particularly brave ones among them who were discussing what had just happened with the students around them.

The teachers also had lingering fear in their hearts, but they were frantically yelling to restore order, and meanwhile, Adam was waiting for the Mechguard officers to arrive on the scene.