I Save The World In A Doomsday Text Game

Chapter 244-2: True Form of the Calamity Mage, Filth Purification Rebirth (2)

[The Fire-Worshipping Palace Master asked again if you two were willing to submit to him.]

[In response came only the Ninja Master’s even colder, more biting sword light.]

[The Palace Master slowly shook his head, a look of regret on his face, as he drew out a talisman paper covered in bright yellow incantations.]

[The Iya Palace Master formed seals and chanted. Jet-black karmic fire ignited, burning the talisman to ash. The blood-red runes upon it surged into the Karasu Tengu…]

Lin Xun knew at once, the big boss was about to get serious!

Onmyoji possessed techniques for strengthening their shikigami.

The Ninja Master was already barely holding out under the assault of two powerful shikigami, if their power were further enhanced, the outcome was unthinkable.

The Ninja Master would die!

In an instant, countless thoughts flashed through Lin Xun’s mind. Without hesitation, he opened his inventory.

He selected an item, Worn Wooden Board![Worn Wooden Board (Epic+ Item): A rotting plank torn from an old wooden basin, soaked in seawater until it has decayed beyond recognition. Using this item will summon the true body of a powerful yokai known as the Calamity Mage to fight at your side.]

[You interrupted the casting of Falling Starlight, feeling a sweet taste rise in your throat as your brain stabbed with excruciating pain.]

[You have suffered minor injuries!]

[Clenching your teeth against the agony, you drew out the Worn Wooden Board and activated it, summoning the yokai’s true form…]

[The damp, decayed plank dissolved into countless motes of light and vanished.]

[A salty, briny tang filled the air of the palace grounds. From nowhere came the sound of waves crashing against reefs, echoing in your ears…]

[Along with a tide of seawater appearing out of nothing, a colossal shadow silently descended!]

[The towering yokai’s upper body resembled a sky-piercing sea giant, its massive, ancient form exuding an indescribable terror.]

[Its lower body was no longer human, but the undulating foot of some enormous mollusk, like a sea slug. As it writhed forward, endless seawater gushed forth.]

[The Calamity Mage looked down upon your tiny figure, understanding at once that your appearance was the result of a Transformation Art.]

[It had just opened its mouth to ask why a descendant of the Dragon God was here, when it saw you begin gesturing in elaborate seals and shouting in your most solemn voice, “Onmyo Art – Exorcism Decree! Shikigami Calamity Mage, attack!”]

[The Calamity Mage paused, glancing around at the three glowering shikigami, immediately comprehending your intentions.]

[Seawater churned beneath its body as it surged toward the now-empowered Karasu Tengu!]

[Already formidable, the Karasu Tengu had become even faster and stronger under the talisman’s blessing!]

[Instead of retreating, the Karasu Tengu charged, raptor-like claws slashing for the Calamity Mage…]

[But indigo-black energy began to coil around the giant’s form. Dark clouds thickened overhead, wind howled, and the sky seemed torn open by an invisible hand, endless seawater poured down in a world-shaking torrent!]

[In an instant, the Karasu Tengu was engulfed by the flood. The raging deluge did not stop there, sweeping up the Jorogumo spider as well!]

[In the roaring waves, a yawning black maw seemed to form, a fathomless abyssal whirlpool. The two massive yokai shrieked and struggled, but could do nothing as they were drawn inexorably into the deep…]

[At last, the indigo-black Dragon Embryo energy dissipated. The vast ocean vanished without a trace, leaving only ruined wreckage to tell of the cataclysm that had unfolded.]

[The Karasu Tengu and the Jorogumo were covered in ghastly wounds, clearly having taken severe damage!]

[The Calamity Mage’s draconic aura had faded by more than half. It drew ragged breaths, unleashing such a cataclysmic yokai art had cost it dearly.]

Lin Xun was struck dumb with awe.

“So this is yokai art… this is true yokai art!”

Compared to the Calamity Mage’s apocalyptic technique, the yokai spells he had learned were no better than children’s play.

Even his strongest shell skill, Falling Starlight, could not match the terrifying might of this single attack!

[Just then, a snow-bright sword light bloomed, a tragic, beautiful explosion of cherry blossoms.]

[It felt as though you stood beneath a grove of cherry trees, the desolate cold wind sweeping countless pale petals to the ground.]

[When the petals touched earth, it was the moment the blade dipped in blood to paint its final masterpiece.]

[The Iya Palace Master’s smile froze. From left shoulder to right hip, a thin red line appeared, then his body split cleanly in two, falling as twin halves of a ruined corpse.]

[Behind it, a short figure landed silently, exhaling a deep breath. The dark green jade set into the hilt flashed with a stream of light as the divine Dragon Sword was smoothly sheathed again.]

“Come on, seriously, big bro, could you at least leave me a corpse in one piece?”

Lin Xun was almost in tears. Why was the Ninja Master even more brutal than the Earth Giant?

The Earth Giant might love smashing enemies’ heads, but when it came to bosses, it still usually left an intact body.

But whenever it was the Ninja Master, no boss ever remained in one piece under that blade.

[The Ninja Master suddenly turned back, staring at the Iya Palace Master’s corpse with tightly furrowed brows. He could not help but fall into another fit of violent coughing, spitting up a large mouthful of black blood.]

[He saw that the two halves of the corpse did not gush blood but instead transformed into two thin slices of white paper figures. In the searing black karmic fire, they burned to ash.]

[From afar came the Iya Palace Master’s laughter. He clapped his hands and praised, “such swordsmanship, such ninja ways!”]

[If he hadn’t kept a life-preserving secret art in reserve, today he really would have been sent down to Yomi by the Heartless Flow Ninja Master.]

[T/N: Yomi is the underworld in Shinto mythology.]

[The Iya Palace Master looked toward the terrifying great yokai, the Calamity Mage. A glint of fervor flashed in his eyes as he murmured, “Such a powerful yokai, if I can’t subdue it as my shikigami, what sort of onmyoji would I be?”]

[He drew out a bright yellow talisman paper, began chanting, and summoned a small-scale Guardian Absolute Barrier of the Ten Directions, which locked tightly around him.]

[The Iya Palace Master, seemingly deranged, his expression twisted with madness, produced three more yellow talismans. As he chanted, the talismans spontaneously combusted. From the black karmic flames, tadpole-script runes surged toward the three shikigami.]

[You instantly recognized the jet-black karmic flame runes. It was the self-destructive forbidden art that drained a shikigami’s life force, Onmyo Talisman: Filth Purification Rebirth!]

[As the runes poured into the three shikigami, their bodies rapidly swelled. Their pitch-black eyes turned blood-red, and a savage aura erupted from them.]

[In the blink of an eye, the two yokai shikigami, which had been covered in terrible wounds, had not only returned to their full strength but become even more powerful than before.]

Lin Xun couldn’t help but recall the way Ao-Bozu Mehitotsu-Bo had looked when strengthened by this forbidden technique.

The three shikigami monsters had already been unimaginably strong. Now, empowered by this life-draining art, their power was beyond anything human could resist.

Summoning the Calamity Mage had already tilted the scales toward victory, but the Iya Palace Master had forcibly weighed the battle down again, making the outcome uncertain.

If any one of his allied story characters were lost in this fight, the consequences would be devastating.

Lin Xun narrowed his eyes, lips pressed into a tight line.

“Now… how am I supposed to break this stalemate?”