Chapter: 133. The End of the Battle
“Mr. Adam!”
The secretary shouted as she rushed into the office.
After Zuo and Niguang broke through the window and joined the distant battlefield, only Adam was left alone in the office on the top floor of the administration building.
“I’m fine. Have you evacuated everyone to a safe place?” Adam turned his head at the sound but was interrupted before he could finish.
“Mr. Adam, you’re too reckless! I told you not to come to the Infinite Academy, and now you’ve even met with the candidate for the protagonist…” The secretary chattered away, reproaching him, “If this matter is reported to the board…”
“—I will take full responsibility. Don’t worry, and through this matter, I have confirmed it.”
“…Confirmed?” The secretary repeated like a parrot.
“Tsukimi Kanade, he is the protagonist we are looking for.” As Adam spoke, he gazed into the distance of the campus, which was in the direction of Nyarlathotep, where Kanade was located.
The Infinite Domain was gradually collapsing centered around that location, so in the eyes of Adam and the others, Kanade’s existence was like a savior bringing color to this gray world.
“But, but the protagonist won’t meet with the top leaders of the special ring SEMA and the three major academies until he truly awakens—” The secretary tried to retort.
“There is a misunderstanding in the deciphering of the Book of the Future. Perhaps we need to go back and re-decipher this part…” After pondering for a moment, Adam continued, “…No, perhaps all the parts that were previously deciphered with the assistance of the Elemental Sovereign need to be re-deciphered.”
“What? You need to know that more than 90% of the content in the Book of the Future we have is assisted by the Elemental Sovereign. To re-decipher this part would be equivalent to overturning…”
Before the secretary could finish, a sudden wave of magic surged up from outside the wall and climbed to the rooftop of the administration building.
“Adam Solgrim Yalhaid, current chairman of the SEMA board.” A low and hoarse voice echoed in the air. The visitor was a half-transparent phantom beast resembling a werewolf, but without a physical body, it floated in the air in the form of a spirit.
“Hahaha, I didn’t expect such a figure to appear here!” The phantom werewolf laughed arrogantly.
The secretary, on the other hand, was instinctively intimidated by the magical fluctuations emanating from this phantom beast and slowly began to retreat.
Based on years of experience, the secretary judged that this phantom beast was at least a powerful existence of threat level 7 or above.
“I’m really lucky. As long as I can take your head, the phantom beasts will be—”
“—Ah, excuse me, but I have a bit of business to attend to. Can you please stop with the opening remarks?” Adam politely interrupted the boastful words of the phantom beast.
As soon as he said this, a magical light shone in Adam’s eyes, and in an instant, his already large, bear-like body became even more powerful, almost like a tightly wound mountain.
Seeing this, the phantom beast couldn’t help but laugh: “So it’s a power enhancement ability? What a pity. If I’m your opponent, it’s the worst compatibility; as a spirit, I’m not susceptible to any physical attacks—”
Upon hearing this, Adam did not show much emotional fluctuation. He simply walked toward the phantom werewolf and asked, “Is that so? Then, will your health bar be affected?”
“Health bar?”
“What? Haven’t you played fighting games? There’s always a health bar above the opponent’s head; once the health bar is depleted, they’re declared defeated.”
From Adam’s perspective, a long green health bar appeared above the head of the phantom beast.
Not only the phantom beast but even the secretary beside him and his own head also showed a green health bar.
“Huh? A game? Are you already planning to use games to escape reality?” The phantom werewolf sneered mockingly. “Any game! It’s common knowledge that physical attacks can’t affect a being without a physical form!”
“No, in a fighting game, every attack can inflict damage on the opponent.” Adam said as he raised his hand, where the ring erupted with brilliant magical radiance, “And unfortunately for you, my attack has a one-hit kill effect.”
Before the phantom werewolf could react, Adam suddenly flashed in front of it and then threw a punch at its spiritual form—
A light punch instantly emptied the green health bar above its head.
The phantom beast could barely understand what had happened before it turned to ash under Adam’s fist.
A threat level 7 or above phantom beast was killed in one punch.
This was the power of the chairman of the SEMA board, capable of making all existences understand the concept of a “health bar,” and all attacks could ignore the physical laws and common sense of the extraordinary.
“You stay here, maintain contact with ACE, and let them quickly find Hoshimiya Nagisa and protect her. She is the female protagonist of Tsukimi Kanade.” Adam ordered the secretary without turning back.
After saying that, he leaped through the shattered floor-to-ceiling window, his entire being shot toward the distant battlefield like a launched cannonball.
“……Hey, have you found Hoshimiya Nagisa?” The secretary watched Adam’s departing figure and took out his phone.
After the collapse of the Infinite Domain, everyone’s communication devices returned to normal.
“Yes, Hoshimiya Nagisa. She is the female protagonist in the heart of the new protagonist… Find her and transfer her at the first opportunity. Do not wait for the protagonist…” The secretary coldly ordered, “Do not let her meet the protagonist. Take her away to a place where no one can find her… Mr. Adam has given me full authority over this matter, so do as I say!”
“Since she is the female protagonist, then she is our bargaining chip against this new protagonist…”
As the secretary spoke, he reached up to touch his neck, where he had just been pressed by a blade.
…
“……As long as we control the female protagonist, we can control the protagonist.”
The secretary’s words clearly echoed in Kanade’s ears.
After being rewritten into the Infinite’s nemesis, he gained part of the Infinite’s abilities, such as allowing some of his senses to transcend time.
Not long ago, he had been in the office on the top floor of the administration building, so he could clearly hear the words from that room.
For a moment, a strong killing intent surged in Kanade’s heart, wishing to tear apart the secretary who planned to abduct Nagisa.
But he quickly calmed down, for doing so would be tantamount to declaring war on SEMA.
Even if he managed to shed the identity of the protagonist candidate, he would still be hunted down by SEMA and the extraordinary beings led by the three major academies…
—It’s all my fault… Little Nagisa has been dragged into this because of me.
Thinking of that angelic girl being imprisoned in a birdcage because of himself, Kanade felt as if his heart were being torn apart, and at the same time, the advice of the “Elemental Sovereign,” Niguang, echoed again in his mind.
(“Run away, take your female protagonist, and escape to a place where SEMA and the phantom beasts cannot find you.”)
“Little Nagisa… Would she be willing to… run away with me?” Just as Kanade hesitated, the battle at the Infinite Academy seemed to be nearing its end.
The group of phantom beasts was already at a stalemate thanks to the efforts of the ACE-level extraordinary beings and students on the island, but after Adam entered the battlefield, all the characteristic phantom beasts were marked with health bars and defeated one by one by his immense power, making the situation tilt overwhelmingly in favor of the defenders.
Meanwhile, the white mist entangled around Nyarlathotep was also disrupted by Niguang’s intervention, and Nyarlathotep’s strength was gradually recovering while the opponent’s magical response weakened more and more.
As if signaling the collapse of the Infinite Domain, this attack by the phantom beasts was leading to defeat.
“Little Nagisa, where are you—” Knowing that SEMA’s extraordinary beings were not on his side, Kanade this time did not heed Niguang’s advice.
He allowed his consciousness to once again enter the white space and activated his “Rewind” ability.
Ding ding.
The crisp sound of a bell rang out, and a thick mist enveloped Kanade’s body—
