Chapter 395 CH 381: JUST A LITTLE MORE



Three days later, Adam used the water of a fresh river that he had found to wash the wounds on his body and rest his spirit and renew his vigor for the next adversaries that would surely find him soon.

Standing naked under the waterfall, it was hard to recognize his body any longer. He became a little taller, and he could also feel himself becoming stronger— his muscles were tightly strung, bigger but not by too much, and were very well formed.

'I didn't think I could grow muscles. It's a novel feeling...'

On Earth, he had already reached the level where muscles were useless for him so it was kinda new and exciting to see him growing these bad boys on his body. It seemed like proof that his soul was growing stronger by the second.

Many scars were covering his body but Adam simply used his accumulated Dreamforce to heal the most important wounds. Healing consumed more energy than even creating new things out of his powers.

Adam summarized that this was because the body here was the soul and as such was simultaneously the baseline of everything that tied his existence to this world. So affecting it needed much more power than affecting the world.

Right now though, it didn't matter. He felt bloated and simply wished to relax his mind for some time.

'Just a little more. I just need a little more push.'

Something was constantly whispering in his mind that he simply needed one more step to enter a completely new world. He needed a challenge and he knew where he was going to find it.

He just needed to wait for the right time and something was telling him that the opportune moment was about to arrive before him... soon...

'Report.'

One of the shadows appeared right next to him and after Adam put his hand on top of its shadowy exterior, pictures and sounds flowed freely into his mind, letting him witness the scenes that the shadow witnessed like a video.

This was a little technique that he had developed recently and this handy trick allowed him to keep his mind freer without wasting any energy.

He could send the shadows out with a set of instructions to scout out the area or do an individual task and then simply read their memories, later on, to see how they fared. They could even send a warning to him if it instructed them well beforehand.

It was truly a useful skill. As useful as anything could get for him...

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When Adam reached the entrance of the beehive, he recognized that... similar to the video footage that he saw in his mind through the shadow's memories, there were no more guards in the surroundings, taking care of the security of the hive and the Queen.

This could only mean two things at best.

Either they had all fled or the one who needed protection had no need for it anymore. Both were cumbersome for him, but it only served to excite him further.

"I feel like I am about to enter the ring for a boss fight of one of those Soulsborne games."

Adam twirled his shoulders slightly and looked at his shadow. His two fateful partners had taken a few hostages along the way. For Adam, they were an emergency resource of energy if the fight prolonged for too long and went above his weight league.

"Come~!"

An alluring and adult woman's voice entered his ears, he felt as if someone was trying to put him into a dazed fog. To make him lose all understanding of what was happening and make him fall into an illusion.

Sadly for whoever this voice belonged to— illusions were completely useless against him.

Still, he did not show it and put on a vacant expression as he started to walk in the direction of the voice.

Whoever it would be, he would fight it with everything he had even if it was the last thing he did in this world before coming back for vengeance once more a few days later.

Grabbing hold of the daggers with greater strength in his arms, Adam entered the beehive deeper, ignoring the sticky honey all around him as well as the corpse of the bees strewn around all over— almost akin to a child who didn't like the meal he was given and had splattered it all over.

Finally, at the end of the tunnel, he was able to find his enemy. He had to admit, what he saw was not what he had expected in the least.

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(AN: The fight arc won't be too long. I think fights shouldn't be too long as the hype slowly dies. So only two or three. Grand max would be four.)n0ve(l)bi(n.)co/m