novelraw Chapter 226-1: Slaying Asura, An Invitation from Iya Palace (1)
Chapter 226-1: Slaying Asura, An Invitation from Iya Palace (1)
[You hid among the fleeing crowd, glancing back at the charging formation…]
[Hundreds of samurai had formed a torrent of blades, already closing in on the monster. The mounted samurai charged at the very front, some wielding long spears, others hefting great tachi, becoming the spearhead of the assault.]
[Behind them came the samurai on foot. Though their charge lacked the cavalry’s momentum, each one roared defiantly, fearless of death.]
[At the rear were several dozen onmyoji, who advanced alongside the samurai for a short distance. Once the monster was within the range of their spells, they all halted as one, brandishing ritual implements and chanting incantations.]
[Before long, numerous shikigami of varying forms appeared, their claws bared. Bathed in the glow of ofuda charms, the shikigami lunged forward to join the charge.]
[You looked toward the colossal monster, Extreme Evil Asura…]
[Its joyous and wrathful faces, the four eyes, bored through the masses to fix upon you. Those pitch-black eyes, brimming with malice, made your spine prickle. It paid no heed to the charging samurai at its feet, its gaze locked unerringly on you.]
[At some point, the bannerman samurai carrying the massive spear had reached the front lines. He and several other burly warriors accelerated together, black karmic fire igniting from the spear’s butt and blazing up to the tip!]
[The spearhead gleamed coldly as it pierced the black flames, galloping forward with unstoppable momentum to strike at the monster’s huge foot…]
[Asura’s twin heads let out pained howls. Its foot was riddled with countless bloody holes. With a furious roar, the wrathful face raised one foot, about to crush the tiny, insect-like warriors beneath it.][From the rear ranks, the onmyoji all chanted the final syllable of their spell. A massive arched barrier manifested from thin air, bracing against the monster’s descending foot.]
[The elite samurai launched a relentless assault against the monster’s other foot. Soon, both feet were riddled with wounds, and it could no longer stay upright. The colossal body crashed to the ground…]
[The monster’s fall flattened countless houses and crushed several unlucky mounted samurai beneath it. An immense cloud of dust billowed up with the impact.]
[The swirling haze obscured the creature’s form, and many samurai, seeing this, began to shout in triumph…]
Lin Xun frowned, sensing something was wrong.
The Asura boss was unimaginably strong, how could it be unable to withstand even the first wave of attacks?
[From the dim gray dust came the monster’s guttural roars. A gigantic blade shrouded in black radiance swept out of the haze, scything across the battlefield!]
[Countless buildings were pulverized in that horrifying strike. Nearly a hundred samurai, horses and all, were shredded into a slurry of blood and flesh!]
[Extreme Evil Asura’s massive body emerged from the dust, shaking its bell. The wounds on its feet began knitting shut at visible speed.]
[Its four eyes, seething with malice, glanced at you for a moment before turning away to glare coldly at the swarming ants beneath it.]
[The joyous face began chanting an unknown spell. The enormous cypress fan drifted and fluttered, while the other three huge arms rose high overhead…]
[A point of black radiance gathered above the three giant palms, swelling rapidly.]
[With the fan’s rhythmic swaying, the black gleam expanded into an enormous dark sphere.]
[The monster ignored every attack at its feet, steadily lifting the growing black sphere higher…]
“Shit… the boss is about to use an ultimate!”
Right now, the samurai and onmyoji counted as allies. Lin Xun couldn’t just stand by and watch this entire fighting force be annihilated.
If every samurai and onmyoji perished, he would have to face this terrifying boss alone.
He no longer cared about hiding and immediately switched shells!
[You possessed the shell of the Knowledge-Seeking President of the Direct Vision Association!]
[You opened a single pink eye…]
[Special Skill Pleasure-Hazed Sight activated!]
[Just as the monster was about to hurl the black sphere, its expression froze. The vast sphere ceased expanding, then suddenly detonated out of control!]
[A surging blast of black energy swept out, the violent shockwave spreading like a cataclysmic hurricane!]
[The samurai and shikigami nearest the monster were flung away by the impact. All around, buildings exploded into flying rubble under the battering shockwave.]
[Even the incomplete backlash of the attack slew dozens more samurai and onmyoji shikigami outright.]
[At the epicenter of the explosion, the monster took the full brunt of its own attack!]
[Its colossal body was rent with ghastly wounds. The wrathful head was blown clean off at the neck. The massive blade-wielding arm was obliterated at the shoulder, and the remaining three arms were maimed to varying degrees.]
Seeing this, Lin Xun didn’t hesitate, he summoned the Valkyrie to unleash her strongest skill!
[You pulled out the Refined Copper Sand Maraca and shook it…]
[Battle Angel – Valkyrie stepped forth from the void…]
[Before the astonished eyes of all present, she spread her wings and ascended, drawing her golden longbow…]
[You raised a long and short staff, chanting a complex incantation…]
[Such a spectacle made the fleeing civilians around you scatter even farther. Even several onmyoji at the rear took notice…]
[At their leader’s command, the onmyoji once again brandished their charms and began weaving seals and incantations…]
[The bannerman samurai, though his armor was shattered and his body covered in wounds, still led the charge, rallying the remaining warriors in an all-out assault on the monster!]
[Extreme Evil Asura shook its bell again. Black radiance surged over its body, and its wounds began to close at visible speed.]
[At the same time, it swung its spear to attack the samurai and shikigami below.]
[Under the black radiance’s healing, the monster’s wounds closed rapidly, even the arm that had been severed at the root slowly regrowing.]
[However, the regeneration of the wrathful head was extremely slow, and the healing light was strikingly ineffective on it.]
[Without the wrathful head, the arm that held the spear swung with grotesque awkwardness. Attacks that should have swept away scores of samurai and shikigami instead repeatedly struck empty air.]
[The newly grown giant arm had no weapon and swung as clumsily as the spear arm.]
A spark of understanding flashed through Lin Xun’s mind, he instantly grasped the boss’s mechanics.