Chapter 424: Confrontation × Bargaining × Gathering
The battle erupted with startling speed and reached fever pitch in an instant.
Compared with the varied abilities of Nurarihyon's subordinates, his fight with the Town Chief looked more like a clash between two Enhancement Nen users.
But anyone who truly thought that would have been gravely mistaken.
Every time their fists collided, the Town Chief appeared somewhere else, where Nurarihyon's other fist, already charged with power, or a flying kick awaited him.
Yet each time, Nurarihyon's attacks struck not the Town Chief's body, but shields that appeared without a sound.
These shields looked like products of Conjuration, but a closer look revealed that they were all formed from Nen patterned with God Script.
Although they could block Nurarihyon's attacks, they shattered and dissipated after just one hit.
Yet this succession of shields left Nurarihyon's attacks utterly unable to harm the Town Chief.
The two traded attacks like this, while the subordinates they had brought suffered the consequences. But a closer look revealed that the townspeople's deaths were nowhere near proportional to the Hundred Ghosts' casualties.
It took the lives of more than a dozen monsters just to barely wound a single townsperson.
And the wounded townspeople gave their opponents no chance to finish them off, disappearing the instant they took out a Jade Token and crushed it.
This disappearance was only a short-range relocation, but townspeople in white coats were already waiting at their destination.
They moved extremely quickly, their coordination flawless: cleaning wounds, bandaging them, setting up IV drips, allowing a brief rest, removing the drips, taking off the gauze, then giving the teleported townsperson a push. An uninjured townsperson in perfect condition appeared once again and rejoined the battlefield.
The entire process took no more than three minutes. It was