章 329: Spirit Disaster
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Through the eyes of the puppet, Edward looked at the seal and analyzed the situation. An idea came to mind, so he controlled the puppet to write a talisman in the air. However, a strange wave emanated from the door before he finished, and the puppet disappeared.
"This is…outside of the Academy," he muttered as he looked around through the puppet's eyes. "One of the defensive mechanisms of the door is to exile people it deems dangerous?"
Edward retrieved the puppet and decided to try again, but not tonight as he guessed many influential people like the headmaster, the Shogun, and even the Emperor would be alerted by tonight's attempt.
And as expected, Edward detected many powerful mages coming to the library for the next few days. And even the students could feel a strange tension throughout the school.
Then, after these people left, he created another talisman puppet, and this time, he instilled 90% of his mana in this one. After infiltrating the basement again, Edward saw two Onmyou Mages guarding the door, so he made them faint with the Sleeping Mantra.
After that, he approached the door intending to use his overwhelming power to open the seal. Unfortunately for him, he discovered this door could react faster than him because of the slight power of the Universe Will.
So, the puppet once again disappeared.
Inside his bedroom, Edward frowned as he could not see through the puppet's eyes. He could feel the connection, but it was vague and seemed far away. So, he closed his eyes to locate the thing.
He opened his eyes more than half an hour later with a strange look.
'The puppet was exiled to another parallel dimension?'
In his last voyage, he developed a spell to travel the multiverse. So, he had some knowledge of parallel dimensions or timelines. So, he could sense that the puppet was not in the same space-time continuum as the main body.
"Well, I can at least use the puppet to get the coordination of that parallel dimension."
Edward planned to travel to parallel universes to gather the resources needed to rebuild the World Gate. So, he could start with where the puppet was.
'Nevertheless, this is one of the situations where overwhelming strength cannot deal with the problem. So, I need other methods.'
Numerous thoughts flashed across his mind. Then, he remembered the information Princess Matsumoto gave him. Three months from now, the school will organize a Spirit Disaster Purification.
'I can use this opportunity to get to Zuriel and gather some more information about Elysium.'
Edward knew Zuriel never left the school ground after monitoring him since school started. However, the Spirit Disaster was the perfect opportunity to get his hand on him.
For the next few days, Edward went to school as usual while ignoring the increased security in the Academy and pretending the chaos had nothing to do with him.
A month later, when the situation calmed down, he went to see headmaster Hirano as an excuse to thank her for giving her access to the library. His real purpose was to hypnotize her to assign Zuriel as one of the teachers responsible for the Spirit Disaster outing; he did not want to take the chance that other teachers would be assigned.
While leaving the headmaster's office, she warned him to be careful during the outing, and Edward smiled at her. For the remaining two months, he acted normally while removing the contractual restraints from reading all the books in the library.
The Yamato Dynasty has strict control of knowledge. So, any book related to magic read in the library required signing a contract, which also contained the power of Universe Will.
Edward wanted to learn this level of contracts to use back in the Empire since it is much better than Soul Contracts. Additionally, he felt understanding more about the Universe Will would benefit him and the Empire besides allowing him to use Conceptual Magic.
Then, the day of the outing arrived. Edward stood as the leader of the commoner students, which displayed a level of confidence never seen since the inception of the Academy.
Usually, during these outings, the commoners were usually scared and worried they would perform poorly. But, after three months of training, the weakest of them had caught up with some middle noble households.
Furthermore, their senpai taught them how to work together to fill the gap between high nobles and royals.
Three teachers were leading the students: Kisuke-sensei, Kuruna-sensei, and Zuriel.
"Is everyone here?" asked Kisuke. After the students nodded, he looked at one student and said: "Prince Yuji, if you don't mind."
"It's my pleasure," said the prince before taking out a talisman.
"Order."
The talisman floated in the air before shining brightly. Then, a portal appeared in front of everyone. The teachers then instructed the students to enter one by one.
Everyone soon found themselves in front of a small village where the clouds above were utterly dark. Additionally, an eerie aura could be felt just by looking at the village.
"Go deal with the Spirit Disaster," said Kisuke calmly. The students waited for further explanation, but the middle-aged man ignored him. So, they realized they were on their own for this outing.
Edward led his group closer to the village, and the nobles–led by Princess Matsumoto–followed him. A few meters away, he looked at the village and saw a bunch of deformed creatures with horns and black spots covering all their bodies.
He observed for a moment with a frown. "Don't kill the creatures," he said to the commoners before looking at the nobles. "That goes for all of you as well."
"Why?" asked the princess.
"Because these creatures are the villagers."
Everyone frowned as they realized the seriousness of the situation. With a little determination, they can kill these creatures. But knowing they were once humans made things more complicated.
"But these villagers are already contaminated by the energy from the Spiritual World," said Gojo Tsuchimikado.
"I know, but I can revert then back to normal."
"Impossible. No one can do such a thing. Even if you purify them, their soul can only enter the Wheel of Reincarnation and not suffer."
"Because others cannot do it does not mean I cannot."
Everyone became quiet for a moment before some noble yelled: "Why should we listen to you?"
"Because I'm stronger than you," replied Edward casually before looking at the person who spoke, almost making the person pee his pants as he remembered how Edward was undefeated in all the Combat Practices in the past three months.
"Do you have a plan?" asked Princess Matsumoto, and Edward told the group their plan. Without any choice, the group had to follow his order.
Most of the students divided into four groups before positioning themselves in the village's four corners.
Then, they began to chant a long mantra, creating a transparent rectangular barrier to surround the village. With this barrier, the contaminated energy from the Spiritual World will no longer spread.
The second group of student of students began to confront the demonized villagers. The samurai were responsible for containing the villagers, while the Onmyou Mages used Binding Talismans to capture and immobilize these villagers.
Miko led a third group consisting of all the royal clan heirs. Her familiar–the Three-eyes Raven–rested on her shoulder as she searched different houses while the rest immobilized the attacking demonized villagers.
Soon, she stopped before one of the houses and pointed at it.
"Thank you for your hard work," said Princess Matsumoto as she appeared genuinely excited. "It's always great to have a Seer in our midst. Otherwise, there would be great casualties if the Yokai attacked us when we were unprepared."
Miko bowed and smiled politely, despite being on guard. In the past three months, too many nobles have tried to get on her good grace. And with Akimitsu-senpai telling her all the strategies they were using, she was always on guard when one of them was polite to her.
"Yokai, there is no need to hide. We know you're in here," yelled Yuji before looking at Miko. "Miss Satoru, stay behind us to not get hurt."
She nodded to him before moving a little far away from the house. Not long after she did that, the house began to tremble before an enormous creature with red skin, horns, and holding a gigantic mace appeared from the rumbles of this house.
He looked at these children with his red eyes before saying: "Humans, do not stand in my way or suffer my wrath."
As the royal children looked at this enormous creature, their legs trembled for a few seconds. Nevertheless, they were all well-trained by their clans, so they composed themselves before preparing for battle.
Meanwhile, Edward floated above the village, looking at everything calmly, waiting for his opportunity.
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I will say, much of the criticism about this arc is valid. For example, the bad time skips, leaving many unexplained aspects. And most importantly was the nerf. I regretted making Edward return to his peak so quickly. Otherwise, the story would have made more sense logic-wise.
I understand why some people might find it vexing reading him going through so much trouble when he could logically bully the entire world with his strength. I tried to justify the reason he could not do this, but it appeared it was not good enough. I will take this as a learning experience.
Finally, in a few chapters, I decided to change the story and focus on the other group that went to the Konosuba Universe. If this world is not to your liking, maybe you will find that one more enjoyable.
章 330: Zuriel
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"Kinji," yelled the princess.
"Got it," replied Kenji Musashi. "Equip." A black samurai armor appeared on his body, then he rushed toward the enormous Yokai, leaving after image behind him.
The Yokai raised its massive club to smash its attacker, but Kinji reacted in time by jumping on his arm. He took his all-black katana and slashed the Yokai's arm.
Unfortunately, he could not even scratch the latter's red skin. So, Kinji held the blade with two arms to try to pierce the latter's skin. He mobilized all his strength and a great deal of his spirit energy.
As a result, he managed to make a small cut, but that was all he needed. Or so he thought. A black mark appeared where he injured the creature, but nothing else.
The curse from his blade activated, but it was drastically weakened by the overwhelming amount of spirit energy the Yokai possessed. Suddenly, Kinji raised his head as he sensed a shadow looming over him.
Then, he saw the Yokai's finger flicking toward him with absolute speed, and he knew he could not react in time.
Luckily for him, Gojo's black tortoise appeared before him to create a black and white shield that blocked the attack. Then, Yuji used a talisman to teleport them to the ground.
"In the name of Kagutsuchi, the Heavenly ruler of all flame, I call upon the raging fire of the north to eliminate all my enemies," chanted Princess Matsumoto.
Then, a giant fire tornado manifested to burn the Yokai, but the latter used his club to smash the tornado.
"Fire dries Earth," she said, and her fire tornado turned into ashes, and from the ashes, a gigantic arm made of Earth came from the ground to punch the Yokai, forcing him to take a few steps backward, causing a small Earthquake in the village. Unfortunately, the demon was still unarmed.
"Earth refines metal."
The Earth Arm scatted into numerous motes of lights which recondensed into thousands of swords. This transformation was fast and smooth, and the swords plunged into its body before the Yokai could react or gain his bearing.
Matsumoto focused a lot of swords on one spot to pierce the demon's defense, a very successful tactic. And as blood dripped down from a few parts of the Yokai's body, the princess continued.
"Metal enriches water."
The Yokai's blood began to draw out of its body at an alarming rate before dividing into two parts. One part formed a blood river in the sky, while the princess took the smaller part and gave it to Kinji, who process to have his sword swallowed in the blood.
Then, countless black flower curse marks appeared on the Yokai's body, drastically weakening him. Then, the princess controlled the blood river to enter the Yokai's body through its nose and bleeding spots.
"Water nurtures wood."
Then, more than a dozen blood-red trees grew from inside of the Yokai, turning him into some twisted artistic statue of a forest.
"Is that it?" asked Yuji, standing behind Gojo's barrier and preparing to move the entire team in case something went wrong.
"It should be," replied the princess standing next to him.
Edward watched the battle in the sky before gazing at the princess.
'This was a perfect application of the Five Element Mutual Generation Technique. There is no way for her to reach such a level after only three months of training–even with private tutors.'
Edward knew these nobles had private tutors in the Academy besides the school professors from their clans. But even then, even with the princess's talent, she should not be able to use such a level of technique after only three months.
Especially how she used blood as the water element, such tactics require years of experience to think, let alone execute; this was not something an average student could think of or achieve. So, something was wrong with her.
'I guess we will know soon.'
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaa," screamed the Yokai as a malevolent aura emanated from his body and destroying the trees in his body in the process. Then, he suddenly shrunk to a size of slightly over 2.5 meters. His skin turned purple, and a strange red-smiling mask appeared over his face.
Everyone became shocked by this sudden change–except for Edward. He already detected someone tempered with the Yokai to elevate its power to that of a low-level demon through its mask.
So, he secretly injected more spirit energy into the mask to give this Yokai the power of a mid-level devil. Then, he looked at the princess.
'Let's see what you're hiding.'
In the distance from the village, the faces of the three teachers suddenly changed when they sensed the power of the Yokai.
"A level 5 Spiritual Disaster? How is that possible?" said Kuruna-sensei. A Level 4 Spiritual Disaster would require the Shogun and dozens of Onmyou Mages and Samurai to deal with.
As for Level 5, this is the kind of threat that could potentially destroy the Yamato Dynasty. This would not be a problem if it were the old time when the Emperor was here. But in the current era, this was an absolute worldwide disaster.
"No matter what, we must do something," said Zuriel before the three rushed to the student's aid. Unfortunately, they did not go far before a bunch of ninjas surrounded and erected a barrier to prevent them from intervening.
"Chief, something has gone awry with the plan," said one of the ninjas as he knelt on one knee with his head down. Oddly though, no one was in front of them before a voice responded to him.
"I can see that."
"So, what should we do? The princess is in danger."
"So be it. Our goal has only been Kozuki Akimitsu."
"But, what about the Level 5 Yokai? This could be catastrophic for the dynasty."
"As long as we can control Kozuki, everything will be fine."
At the same time the teachers were sealed, a barrier also appeared to surround Edward. And unlike the teacher's barrier, his was all black to prevent the outside from seeing the inside.
Edward looked at the people that appeared in front of him. Twenty Samurais, 10 Onmyou Mages, and over 30 Shinobis.
One of the Onmyou Mage bowed to him. "Kozuki-san, pardon us for meeting in such a way."
"There is no need to be polite. All of you will die anyway."
"Kozuki-san, this barrier is designed to block your connection to Hokuto and seal your spirit energy. So, please do not make things difficult and push us to use force against you."
Edward did not care about these people; it did not matter whether they were from the Yamato Clan, the Shogun, or some other royal clan. He had other purposes.
So, he clapped his hand together, generating a lightning storm that incapacitated all these people instantly. Then, he looked in the distance.
Zuriel looked at the young man who suddenly appeared in front of him.
"Teacher Kakashi, no, I should call you Zuriel," said Edward.
"I don't know what you're talking about. More importantly, if you can break this barrier, you should find a way to help the other teachers and students."
"You don't have to continue your persona. I have placed a barrier inside the Shinobi's barrier. From the outside, everything looked normal, so our conversation will not be heard by anyone else."
Zuriel looked at him without saying anything.
"Don't be like this. I've come all the way from the Western Continent to meet you. Oh, your wife and child said their hellos."
Edward moved his head slightly as a golden light slash passed by him. With a smirk on his face, he looked at the Western Sword in Zuriel's sword and the Grimoire floating in front of him.
Additionally, a pair of beautiful white wings grew out of his body. His original dark hair and eyes turned into golden hair with blue eyes.
"You are indeed an angel, and it seems to be a unique one as that," muttered Edward as he looked at his opponent calmly.
"How do you know about me?" asked Zuriel. "And what do you mean, my wife and child?"
"Lichita is not dead."
"Impossible. Lucifero should have found her, and there is no way he would leave her alive."
"Unfortunately, your God calculated everything–except for my existence," replied Edward.
"You saved her? Wait, how do you know so much?"
"I do know a lot, but not enough. So, you will give me the answers I seek."
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