BXBX NOVEL Chapter 126: Fighter
Chapter 126: Fighter
The F tier arena was rather quiet with very few spectators, but there were many rings.
Each ring was around the size of a boxing ring, so it was rather cramped as some contestants were wheeled on with machines attached to their bodies.
Adam made his way inside and inspected his surroundings to find that there was more professional personnel among the spectators than pure spectators. These professional personnel included managers, talent scouts, and other contestants. Everyone was searching for valuable partners and opponents.
In order to avoid exposing themselves as outsiders, Adam and his friends remained completely silent, leaving all of the logistics to Hailey.
Around 15 minutes later, they were approached by a worker who appeared to be a referee.
"You're contestant Lean Mean Killing Machine, right?"
"Huh?" Adam turned to Hailey, who nodded in response.
"Alright, that's me I guess."
"Ok, you can go in for your match now."
Adam followed the referee to one of the rings, and on the way there, he gave Hailey a reprimanding tap on the forehead. "What the hell is this name?"
"It's so badass!" Hailey was a very professional manager, but she was still a young girl at heart, and she was a big fan of flashy names like this. "Very contestant needs to register a nickname anyway. If you don't like it, you can spend money to have it changed later."
"Forget it, it doesn't matter anyway."
Adam jumped onto the ring, and at the same time, an artificial adapter who resembled a skeleton in a sack of skin was wheeled onto the ring by his manager.
Not much time was wasted on words, and the referee gave a brief introduction of the almost non-existent rules before declaring the commencement of the match.
Essentially, the rules were that there were no rules. All one had to do to secure victory was to beat their opponent to the extent that they no longer had the ability to continue fighting. All F tier matches were held in the warehouse setting, and deaths were to avoided if at all possible. Otherwise, a fine would have to be paid. That was the extent of the rules.
Adam was connected to his opponent's machine, and before entering the psychic world, the man stared intently into Adam's eyes as he said in a determined voice, "I'm definitely going to beat you."
"Try me!"
In the next instant, Adam arrived in the familiar warehouse setting.
Immediately thereafter, he invoked Nun before fusing as one with it, and his face instantly turned pitch-black, while black smoke began to rise up from his body, making him appear as if he had been possessed by a malicious spirit.
It's definitely become a lot more powerful than before...
Adam swiped his arms through the air, and his fingernails produced a sharp whistling sound as he did so.
After fusing with Nun, he began to search for his target, but this time, his opponent was very open and aboveboard, calling out to him from the other side of the warehouse.
"Come out and face me!"
Oh? He seems very confident.
Adam was worried that this was a trap, so he snuck over to the spot where the voice had come from, and he discovered that his opponent really was standing on a patch of open space without any cover in the surrounding area, looking as if he wanted to engage Adam in a direct showdown.
After confirming that this wasn't a trap, Adam also emerged from his hiding spot while thinking back to the file that he had read on his opponent.
His file was very concise. Prior to entering this F tier match, he had only participated in two extraneous matches, both of which he had won with ease. The descriptions of his two previous battles were extremely simple and concise, so there was barely any information on him at all.
However, his bold confidence was rather intriguing to Adam.
"You're exposing yourself out in the open without any fear of a sneak attack. It seems like you're very confident in your own ability to win."
"Confidence is a part of the power of one's persona. My confidence brings me strength."
In the psychic world, Adam's opponent was presented with the appearance of a poverty-stricken oriental hero with a muscular build, wearing coarse linen garments and a conical hat on his head.
Unlike Adam's previous opponents, he didn't try to taunt or provoke Adam at all. Instead, he asked, "Are you ready?"
"Ready as ever." Adam was becoming more and more interested in his opponent, and he raised his guard as he waited for his opponent to make a move.
After receiving the go-ahead, Adam's opponent sprang up into the air, displaying an ability similar to qinggong. Despite his muscular build, he was as light as a feather as he sprang up into the air.
After springing up into the air, Adam's opponent thrust his palms toward him several times from afar, releasing several bursts of palm pressure. Adam reflexively dodged to evade the attack, then heard a string of resounding booms ring out behind him. He then turned to find that a palm indentation had appeared on the concrete ground.
"That's some impressive attacking power!" Adam praised while retaliating with Nun's specialty ability, Fountain of Contamination.
He opened his mouth, and a torrent of sewage erupted forth before sweeping toward his opponent from all directions.
After evolving into a level two demon, Nun's Fountain of Contamination had finally regained some of its former glory, and it was no longer solely gushing out of just Adam's mouth.
In the face of the oncoming wave of sewage, Adam's opponent took evasive measures by springing up into the air again.
His body was as light as a feather, and each time he propelled himself off a container, he was able to spring up several meters, allowing him to avoid the wave of sewage.
Thus, Adam had no choice but to enter the fray himself, closing in on his opponent and using his sharp claws to cut off all avenues for retreat, thereby making it impossible for his opponent to continue taking evasive measures.
Having been forced into a corner, Adam's opponent let loose a loud roar, and golden light erupted from his entire body as a dazzling golden bell emerged around him, shielding him from all of Adam's oncoming attacks.
That's a very impressive defensive ability!
Adam's nails scratched against the golden bell to raise a flurry of sparks, while the wave of sewage also crashed into the golden bell, but it was only able to contaminate part of the bell and failed to break through its defenses.
Thankfully, this ability seemed to be very taxing to use, and Adam's opponent was only able to maintain the golden bell for several seconds before withdrawing it due to excessive psychic power exertion, then hurriedly lashed out to knock back Adam and open up some space between them.
"You're very strong," Adam praised in an earnest voice. "You're the most powerful artificial adapter I've ever seen."
"Our neural aptitude is inferior to yours, but there will always be people out there with immense conviction and willpower, so we're not to be underestimated. Every single artificial adapter is fighting while prepared to die at any moment!" Adam's opponent took a moment to catch his breath as he spoke, then quickly returned to action. "Keep your guard up! Here I come!"
He seemed to have identified that Adam's sewage attack was going to be very troublesome to deal with, so he chose to engage Adam in close-quarters combat.
Using his advantage in speed and agility, he evaded two of Adam's attacks in quick succession before engaging him in direct battle.
Melee combat wasn't Nun's forte, but it definitely wasn't weak in this area, either, and Adam raised his claws to retaliate without any hesitation. Nun's claws were capable of directly opposing Nie Yiyi's blades, so they were extremely hard. However, his opponent was able to evade all of his claw swipes.
His absolute speed wasn't all that remarkable, but he was extremely adept at evasion, and he was always able to retaliate while dodging Adam's attacks, unleashing a diverse range of attacks such as finger strikes, palm strikes, punches, and claw swipes.
Every single one of his attacks was able to strike Adam in a vital region, such as his ribs, throat, and knees, and after just two minutes of melee combat, Adam had already been dealt around a dozen heavy blows. If it weren't for the fact that he currently possessed the body of a level two anomaly, he would've most likely already fainted and been ruled as unfit to continue.
1. Qinggong is a staple in Chinese fantasy martial arts novels and films, essentially making the practitioner's body extremely light, thereby allowing them to fly, run over water, etc.