Superhumans of the Dome City

The basic nature of the dissociated demonic body could be glimpsed from the injuries of the agent White.

Even if struck only once by the mutated flesh, the enemy would essentially lose the ability to fight, and a hit to a vital spot meant instant death. But what was more troublesome was that the characteristics of the Impermanence Skill didn't end with "one hit, one kill"...

Swoosh! A blood needle flew out of the darkness and was crushed by the telekinetic barrier of Gongsun Ce. Yet immediately after, the blood drops that fell to the ground transformed into little snakes, and two foul-smelling spears of flesh attacked from behind Gongsun Ce, in coordination with them!

"The margin of error is really low..."

Gongsun Ce snapped his fingers, an invisible force surged out instantaneously, and the violent storm tore the blood beads and flesh spears apart. He narrowed his eyes, carefully observing the results of his actions.

As expected, the tissue that launched the spines had been crushed by his power. However, the flesh itself was not obliterated; it resorted to its old trick and flew off just like it did during the explosion, leaving behind only a small cluster of tissue that took the shape of lips and taunted, "Waste of effort! Waste of strength!"

This was indeed the most troublesome part.

The flesh of the dissociated demonic body seemed indestructible by "conventional" means. Even if cut into pieces, it could reunite; even if ground to a pulp, it could maintain its activity. This was akin to a certain degree of immortality, which caused Gongsun Ce some trouble.

"It's a bit troublesome."

Gongsun Ce idly crushed the babbling chunk of flesh with telekinesis. He tightly sealed the mass of flesh with telekinetic force, compressing it into a small red cube.

Within the transparent cube, the flesh was struggling angrily. Gongsun Ce reached out and grabbed it, beginning to run through the mountain of shipping containers stacked around him.

Boosted by telekinesis, the young man moved as swiftly as the wind, with red blood needles shooting from all directions, melting away the concrete floor and steel supports, but not a single one could touch the Superpower User's body. He continued to flip containers with telekinesis but didn't find any clues related to Tierlos's main body—only misshapen clumps of flesh waiting for him in the shadows.

"What a sorry sight, oaf!" Jeered the deformed lips, "You're like a headless fly! Have you discovered that you can't do anything to me? What a huge joke! With such poor ability, you still have the nerve to call yourself a Superpower User!"

"Mr. Gongsun, I'm rather helpless myself, I can't just smash this dock area to pieces, the damage would be too extensive." Gongsun Ce said casually, "By the way, I think bragging without causing any real harm is quite... meaningless. After all, if you haven't achieved anything in reality, no matter how much you say, you'll only appear incompetent, like a minor character vying for attention."

Gongsun Ce's response received a clear reaction; Tierlos's mouth turned blue with fury, shuddering with rage. Gongsun Ce noticed there was another ugly little hole next to this mass, looking much like an ear, which prompted a nauseating feeling in his stomach.

"You stupid goat! Brain-dead donkey! Shameful booger! Damned rat!!"

Gongsun Ce always felt that one should concentrate fully during combat, but that didn't prevent him from throwing back a quip while on the run.

"How eloquent, you prattling sissy."

"—I'm going to have your carcass filled with maggots in the sewer!!!"

The enraged flesh jumped madly, exploding in front of Gongsun Ce like a grenade. Prepared, Gongsun Ce defended with telekinesis and continued to move according to plan. He had now reached the edge of the dock area, and another ten meters forward would take him to the giant rail elevator used for transporting goods from the ground.

Gongsun Ce knew that unfolding a battle ahead would cause tremendous destruction, and he had no intention of simply running on. Planting his feet, he leaped up, propelled into the air by telekinesis!

Hidden in the shadows, Tierlos watched this movement and immediately guessed: Gongsun Ce had been scrambling around this container port, seeking Tierlos's main body amidst the chaos. But now, realizing that blundering around was not going to work, he thought to take to the air to evade attacks and to look down from a high vantage point for anomalies.

Too bad, the Superpower User had overlooked one thing.

This was the battlefield chosen by Tierlos himself...

"You fell into the trap, trash! Did you think I hadn't considered the possibility of the enemy flying!"

Above the sky, a flash of blood. Five blood spears descended bizarrely from the heavens, striking viciously at various parts of Gongsun Ce's body with the aid of gravity!

The attack from the sky was too fast; Gongsun Ce managed only to produce a shield of white mass in haste. And at this moment, Tierlos changed his tactics once more, the five blood spears exploding simultaneously, turning into countless blood pellets and pounding upon the white mass shield like torrential rain. The constant barrage pressed the shield back, eventually knocking the Superpower User himself down.

Gongsun Ce tumbled into the containers. Tierlos's third trap was triggered at this moment. He had cautiously maneuvered the nearby flesh, filling the gaps between the large shipping containers with pulp. Now was the time for the trap to close, the long-hidden flesh flew out, numerous chunks of meat spewing blood, connecting with each other with strands of blood as silk to form a red net right below Gongsun Ce!

Countless needles shot out from the red web, attacking Gongsun Ce's unguarded back. Tierlos's lips let out a loud, piercing laugh from the shadows, "Ha ha ha ha! You're finished, kid. Let me tell you one last thing, everything you've done has been meaningless... because I don't have a physical body at all!"

Tierlos had every reason to believe he had won. Human reaction times have their limits, and Gongsun Ce, focusing all his energy on the attacks from above, was bound to neglect his defense from behind. Even if, by chance, he managed to withstand these two rounds of attacks with telekinesis, the blood web that followed would leave him with no options.

Battles involving supernatural powers were always like this, one wrong step led to another. The previous federal agent was equally strong, but hadn't he also been easily defeated after Tierlos executed a simple trick? Now it was the same, even if you were a Superpower User, when it's your time to die, you die all the same!

Tierlos eagerly observed Gongsun Ce's face, wanting to savor the look of despair on his enemy's face before death. However, the young man's expression shocked him because this Superpower User did not show a hint of panic. Instead, he simply raised his idle right arm downwards!

"Subdue."

In an instant, the red web shattered, and the poison needles exploded. A wild force swept through all the space within ten meters, Terrain's traps disassembled by brute force devoid of any technical skill, whether it was meat paste or blood needles, everything was crushed by the overwhelming power, ground to dust by an invisible stance, flowing together with dissolving metal on the multicolored container walls.

Tierlos found himself unable to make a sound, and Gongsun Ce casually dispelled the white matter barrier and stood firm in the melting metal container.

"You've made two mistakes, Tierlos," Gongsun Ce said evenly, "The first is that my strength and reaction speed are higher than you imagined. The second is that I never intended to find your physical body..."

Gongsun Ce opened his fist, and a red cube lay in his palm.

Gongsun Ce released the cube from his power's constraint, letting the ball of flesh fall at his feet. It did not move, as if it were literally a piece of dead meat.

"I was just, testing the maximum range of your ability."

Gongsun Ce pushed up his glasses, "You're not going to control it to morph into some strange weapon to stab me? Even just to gross me out would've been fine. You were so close; it seems that it's not that you didn't want to, but that you couldn't."

Tierlos's mouth floated half a meter away from him, silent. Gongsun Ce knew his judgment was correct.

"So, at last, let me ask you a question..."

Gongsun Ce reached into his pocket, touching the small blue Orchid.

It was the object Hunter had entrusted him before the battle, the Shadow Orchid that could only bloom in the absence of light. The lightless pocket naturally met the conditions for activating the Impermanence Skill.

"I'm waiting for my teammate to pick me up; what are you waiting for?" Gongsun Ce smiled slightly, reciting the passphrase Hunter had taught him, "Shadow Orchid."

In that instant, Gongsun Ce disappeared from the spot. Darkness enveloped him, and he felt an inexplicable discomfort as if the elements comprising his existence had thinned. It wasn't a sensation of dissolving he had experienced before, but more like being scattered by some immense force, turned into a pattern on paper.

The discomfort was fleeting, and the scene he saw transformed from darkness into a real image, covered with a gloomy filter. Alice Adar stood before him, standing atop the container, waiting.

Gongsun Ce pictured himself emerging from a flat surface, like a diver breaking through the water's surface. The gloomy filter faded, and Gongsun Ce realized he was standing on Alice's shadow, with a small Orchid underneath his feet.

Gongsun Ce rubbed his temples, "Wow, that feeling... You can use it multiple times, that's really impressive. How's Agent White doing?"

"I sent him to the hospital for emergency care. How's your situation?"

"It's clear now. His physical body is in a concealed location with a small range of mobility, likely somewhere high up. Do you need any more hints?"

Alice chuckled with pleasure.

"Thanks a lot, if I can't figure out his location from that, I might as well not call myself a Hunter~"

Amidst the conversation, a massive mass of flesh shot out from between the containers, transforming into a blood claw hurtling towards the Hunter. Tierlos's roar came from within the blood claw, infused with almost vindictive madness, "Alice Adar! You damned—"

Alice tossed a short arrow without even looking back. In mid-air, the arrow became a jet-black streak of light, and the blood claw exploded into fragments on contact, its core mass nailed firmly to the ground, becoming a piece of dead meat devoid of any supernatural presence!

Blood rained down behind Alice, who wore an expression of callous composure vastly different from the alarmed young woman she had been moments before.

"Get ready to die, Tierlos K."