Spell Return: The Wheel of Time

Chapter 352 Mystical Magician
Yuji retracted his fist while panting. His hands and cheeks were covered with blood. He looked at the corpse lying in front of him for a moment, then looked away.

This was his first time killing someone, and even if he was executing a criminal as a law enforcer, his authorized behavior would not only not receive any punishment, but would be rewarded and encouraged.

But Yuji still felt a very strong discomfort. This was not killing a cursed spirit or a beast, but actually killing his own kind with his own hands, even if the other party was a criminal.

Yuji was not feeling guilty for killing a criminal, but rather feeling... sad for killing a fellow criminal.

When he saw the curse master cast the curse, causing the cursed spirits to break out of the hostages' bodies and kill more people, Yuji had already made up his mind.

Then, he beat the curser to death with his fists. With his extraordinary speed, pure strength, and a body as strong as a cursed spirit, his opponent could not believe until his death that he died at the hands of a curser without any spells.

However, Yuji didn't have much time to care about the regret of a dead person. The unexpected situation that Hui suffered made him worried, and he immediately rushed over to check the situation.

The enemies have been almost cleared out, and Senior Otsukotsuki is dealing with the remaining few troublesome guys alone. Itadori ran towards Zenin Kei without any hindrance. The crowd was very chaotic, but the people next to him saw his anxious direction, and most of them made way for the young man who saved their lives.

"Big snake!"

Yuji heard Hui's roar through the crowd. This kind of anger was rarely seen in the latter, which could only mean that the situation over there had undergone some unexpected deterioration.

The crowd rushed to the lower level in panic, but there was a blank space in the center, just like water hitting a reef and then naturally dispersed.

Yuji saw a black shadow rising into the sky, turning into a winding giant that circled and raised its ferocious head. He recognized that shikigami, it was the Ten Shadow Shikigami named Orochi summoned by Kei's ritual.

What about the enemy?

The only curse masters in the hall were dealt with and stopped at the first opportunity. After the barrier was deployed, those curse masters who did not stay with the hostages as planned were also unable to arrive at the scene in the first opportunity.

Although he didn't know how they temporarily broke a gap in the barrier, allowing those curse masters to join the battlefield, Yuji could be sure that no one had bypassed Senior Otsutsuki and then bypassed himself to attack most of the hostages who had already reached the lower level.

Then why did Hui suddenly summon the Shikigami and let out such an angry shout? Those cursed spirits that were parasitic on the hostages were so weak that he could probably kill them with just one punch. What exactly happened?
Pushing aside the last of the crowd, in the evacuated open space, Yuji saw the enemy who was fighting with Zenin Kei.

"how is this possible?"

He was an ordinary middle-aged man. Of course, considering his background as a beneficiary on this cruise ship, he might not be called ordinary. But judging from the current chaotic situation here, no matter how rich or how high their status, they are just ordinary people here.

But this middle-aged man, who probably suffered from some minor illnesses due to his overly affluent life and could only be considered healthy overall, and was not strong or aggressive, was now fighting back and forth with Zenin Kei and the giant snake shikigami he summoned.

Yuji also saw a pool of blood behind Hui, which seemed to be caused by a sneak attack from the middle-aged man who was supposed to be the hostage. Seeing that the situation was not good, Yuji didn't bother to think whether this guy was a curse master hiding among the hostages or something else, he immediately intervened in the battlefield.

The middle-aged man with a cold face suddenly jumped to avoid a punch from Yuji behind. He glanced at the new kid and didn't take him seriously. Instead, he shifted his gaze to the big snake shikigami hovering around the black-haired kid.

"What's your name, kid?"

Zenin Kei felt the pain in his lower back. The sorcerer's body, strengthened with cursed power, allowed him to maintain the ability to fight, otherwise the previous attack would have made him unable to move on the spot.

Thinking of this, Zenin Hui's face became even uglier, and the previous scene couldn't help but emerge in his mind: when he was speeding up the evacuation of the crowd, he remained vigilant, but he did not have any defense against these hostages, and suddenly he felt a pain in his back.

Hui, who realized that he was attacked, immediately fought back, and then found that a middle-aged man who was supposed to be the hostage had an aura of cursed energy that should not be underestimated. He used the power of Yuanlu to the maximum extent to disperse those low-level cursed spirits. As his cursed energy had not yet fully recovered, he immediately summoned a shadow-like giant snake and used its body to protect himself.

The middle-aged man then launched a fierce attack. His punches and kicks showed that of a fighter with rich fighting experience. He seemed to be able to deal with the attacks of Zenin Hui and Orochi with ease.

Zenin Huike was in no mood to answer the enemy's questions. He had very little spell power left. If he summoned Yuanlu for treatment now, the next battle might become much more tense and the expansion of the technique would be very difficult to complete. He had to make a decision.

Seeing that Zenyuan Hui did not answer, the middle-aged man smiled lightly, and then said something that made the former suddenly change color: "Ten kinds of shadow magic, even if you don't tell me, I can guess where you are from. How come the current sorcerers would let a seedling like you show up casually, or are your elders around?"

The man glanced around and did not find any hidden magicians. Of course, he did not rule out the possibility that someone had extraordinary skills and could deceive his eyes that had just awakened.

"Then... just die!"

The words that burst out of his mouth were torn into a line in the air, and the middle-aged man's fist pierced through the air and hit him in the face the next moment. The sudden speed of the explosion made Zenyuan Hui unable to react in the first time, and the big snake hovering around him twisted its body to block the attack.

The big snake let out a violent hissing sound, and its tall body was swaying and about to collapse. A terrifying big hole had been created in its huge body by that punch. If it had not been in a shadow state, it would have exploded on the spot and passed its power to the remaining Shikigami according to the rules of the technique.

Hui is now more and more confused about this person's identity. Knowing and recognizing the ten shadow spells are not the same concept. People like Itadori know this spell because he told them on his own initiative. In fact, most other people would not understand the meaning of this spell.

It is even more difficult to recognize the ten shadow spells. Apart from the Zenin family, there are only a few people in the world of spells who can recognize this spell. The reason is very simple. This spell has not appeared for a long time. Others cannot take away the family heirlooms of the Zenin family, so how can they recognize this spell and know its true appearance?
But from the Zenin Hui mentioned by this person, he could feel that he knew his technique, and maybe this guy had seen the Ten Shadows besides himself, but how could this be possible? The last Ten Shadows recorded in the Zenin family was hundreds of years ago!
Obviously, this mysterious sorcerer would not answer the questions in Zenin Kei's mind. At this moment, he seemed to be serious and launched an offensive that instantly put the former at a disadvantage, even with Yuji joining the battle.

"what is this?"

Yuji threw a punch, but found that he seemed to have hit an iron wall. The punch had clearly not hit the enemy, but just stayed in the air, but the feeling on his fist told him that there was indeed something invisible blocking his attack.

"In the way!"

The middle-aged man punched Yuji in the air. Feeling something was wrong, Yuji immediately raised his arms for defense. The next moment, it was as if an invisible wall hit Yuji's body, and the irresistible force knocked him away immediately.

After throwing a punch, the middle-aged man turned around and came to the big snake. Facing the latter's attack and bite, he made an amazing move: he raised his right hand to block in front of him.

Zenin Kei also saw the fight between Yuji and this man. The inexplicable defense and attack methods, coupled with the opponent's seemingly "stupid" behavior at the moment, all told him that the enemy's technique was the reason for all this.

Summon an invisible spellcasting creature to defend and attack?

Hui stared closely at the collision between the middle-aged man and the giant snake in the next moment. She saw the giant snake's terrifying fangs wrapping towards the man like two rows of guillotines, but then the snake's bloody mouth encountered the same situation as Tiger Stick. It seemed that there was something invisible in front of the middle-aged man's arm that blocked the snake's attack.

Looking intently, Chanyuan Hui seemed to see a ray of abnormality, that was... the folds of the air! Just like observing the air around a flame, if you look intently, you can easily find that abnormality, but this scene is too inconspicuous in the battle, so it was not discovered immediately when it suddenly happened.

click-

The snake's bite only lasted for a moment. After Zenin Hui launched the expansion technique, Nue's power was integrated into the snake. The snake, with its power suddenly increased, could no longer be stopped by the invisible unknown defense.

With a sharp explosion, the big snake seemed to have bitten the invisible thing into pieces, and then bit the middle-aged man with its bloody mouth.

But the middle-aged man did not show any sign of panic. Amid the solemn expressions of Zenin Kei and Yuji, he still raised his right hand and was still bitten by the big snake that was big enough to swallow him in one bite.

"This guy……"

Yuji watched in shock as the middle-aged man supported himself with one hand, slightly bent his body and used all his strength. He actually used his body to block the bite of the big snake. The sharp fangs and terrifying power were unable to destroy the opponent's body. At this moment, he was like a body of steel!
There is no doubt that this is the effect of the opponent's technique, but no matter how hard Yuji and Kei rack their brains, based on the current clues, they cannot guess what the opponent's technique is.

Defend and attack from a distance, and make your body strong enough to block the attack of the big snake...

"Ten Shadow Imp, is this all you have? Is this all that sorcerers are nowadays?"

Judging from the lonely and unwilling tone and the content of his words, could it be that the other party was a magician who had been in seclusion for many years and then joined the team of curse masters? But this didn't explain why he pretended to be a hostage and was able to hide so perfectly until the moment he took action.

The reason why he and others were able to get in without being noticed by the curse masters was because Senior Otsutsukoshi's technique was special. It couldn't be that this person's technique was so varied, right?
No, there must be something wrong. With his strength, he could have interrupted all this earlier. Why did he have to wait until he evacuated the hostages to launch a sneak attack? He could have just interrupted Otsutsuki's actions of clearing out the cursers, or his own actions of setting up the barrier at the very beginning.

If any of them succeeded, the hostages would not be able to evacuate properly, which would force them to use the backup, and more dangerous, backup plan.

He knows ten kinds of shadow spells and doesn't seem to be a newbie. His strength and spells are unfathomable. Why don't we have any information or impression of such a guy?

Itadori on the side has completely met someone who can restrain him. Due to some special reasons of his own, Itadori has an attack method of his physical body which he named "Neitai Fist". Simply put, because there is a certain delay between the impact of the cursed power and the impact of the fist, one of his attacks will cause two impacts.

This would give him a certain advantage in close combat, but in the current battle, he couldn't make full use of this advantage because he couldn't hit that guy at all, or even if he hit him it was as if nothing happened.

After discovering that the invisible barrier in the air could be broken, Yuji also tried to increase his strength, but just like Tengshe's attack, the middle-aged man's physical defense was ridiculously high. Their attacks failed to break through the opponent's upper limit. Simply put - they couldn't break the defense.

"No, we must at least hold this guy back before Otsutsuki comes over. His defense is not absolutely invincible. Since that invisible defense can be broken, then his body's abnormal defense ability can naturally be broken. We just need more powerful force..."

Technique expansion: Ushio!

The shadows were boiling, and it seemed as if some huge monster was struggling out from under the Teng Snake, breaking all obstacles. The winding giant snake had quietly sunk into it, leaving only its twisting body floating in the waves of shadows.

"Roar--"

A roar shattered the shadow wave, and the exploding air even forced the middle-aged man who was rushing towards him back several steps. A ferocious head with twisted horns poked out from the dancing snake body.

"This is... the ten kinds of shadow magic!"

(End of this chapter)