The shadows possessed tremendous power, and Adam tried tugging on them a few times, but they refused to budge, and even more shadows were beginning to wrap themselves around him.

"You're very strong," Adam remarked. "It's no wonder you're so confident, but this isn't going to be enough to beat me."

Adam was trying to use the echo from his own voice to search for his opponent in the darkness, but to no avail.

Thus, all he could do for now was struggle free from his bindings.

Sludge was quite heavy and cumbersome, but its power was no joke. Not only did its strength stand at the pinnacle of level six anomalies, even level seven anomalies weren't guaranteed to possess superior strength.

Even so, Adam had to exert around 70% to 80% of his full strength to tear through all of the shadows, indicating that...