Help! I changed the gender of the male protagonist in the yandere game.

Chapter 20 Curse Return Barrier
"Boss, if you come any later, you'll only be able to collect my body..."

He complained unhappily.

"Okay, I know I was wrong."

Cai Zang couldn't help but smile bitterly and patted his shoulder hard.

"Then let me handle the rest!"

Bai Jie also calmed down at this time. He knew how weak he was, so naturally he would not have the idea of ​​being a hero.

He and Saizang have been working together for many years and have developed a tacit understanding. In fact, compared to himself, the experienced Saizang should also have some doubts about the situation in Shantong's lair.

As mentioned before, mountain boys generally do not eat humans. They specialize in robbing travelers, and the fact that they use human flesh as food is itself strange.

Furthermore, Inamori Village is nearby, so why don’t the mountain boys come to attack the village?

With Cai Zang's shrewd character, it was impossible for him not to have doubts about these issues.

Baijie found an opportunity and discussed it secretly with Saizo. They decided to find out the situation in Inamori Village.

"I'll be the bait to lure the other party out."

This is the plan proposed by Baijie.

"The mountain boy must have moved the looted property to another place. If we use the tracking talisman to search, we might be able to find the location where the property is hidden, and then find a chance to lure the person out."

"Are you sure that the servant named Kozaburo is suspicious?"

Cai Zang asked back.

"Kozaburo is a psychic. He also has the ability to see ghosts. I find it strange that if Ye Ya really had contact with Shan Tong, he should have discovered something... However, he hasn't said anything."

This is Baijie's guess.

"But it's still too dangerous."

Saizo was initially opposed to this plan because the risk of luring out the culprit, Kozaburo, would be considerable.

"I consider a sorcerer who robs ordinary people, such as travelers and peddlers, to be nothing more than a second- or third-rate character."

Bai Jie continued, "Real powerful magicians, those powerful masters, have too many ways to make money. Those who deliberately do this kind of thing can't be that powerful... I don't think the danger I pose is too high."

he added.

"The key is that you arrive in time."

In order to ensure the smooth implementation of their plan, they even staged a play. They considered that if the opponent was a "Servant" who could command Yamaguchi and Yamaguchi, then it would not be difficult to use Shikigami to monitor their actions.

Baijie also gave the illusion talisman to Saizang, and asked him to ride a horse and use the talisman to create an illusion, while his real body used invisibility to secretly chase him all the way.

"you!!!"

An angry voice sounded.

"—how dare you tease me!"

Kozaburo was not killed by the explosion. The thick smoke and flames gathered in a vortex like a video being rewound, and finally disappeared in one breath.

Baijie looked in that direction in astonishment, and a glowing sphere appeared in the center of the explosion.

The smoke and flames were blown away as if to avoid this hemispherical barrier and disappeared before they could be seen clearly.

The old man was inside the barrier, and the fire attack did not hurt him.

"...A curse-returning barrier?"

Saizo, a Chunin, was also quite surprised.

"This is the power that only immortal Buddhas, Rakshasa, evil dragons, rare great fox demons, and high-ranking ghosts, these top-level demons can possess."

Among the spells and rituals that have been passed down since ancient times, there is a concept called "returning wind". A powerful spellsman can bounce the opponent's spell back to the opponent through the air.

This phenomenon also exists in beings such as gods, Buddhas, rakshasas, evil dragons, giant fox demons, and ghosts.

Gods and Buddhas, high-level entities that transcend ordinary life, can avoid any harm from curses and spells by emitting pure energy... Rakshasas, evil dragons, giant fox demons, and ghosts can also penetrate the high-density demonic energy and set up powerful defensive barriers.

This barrier can weaken the power of any spell, even counteracting the spells of enemies with less power than oneself. This is a barrier that negates supernatural forces and has been known since ancient times as a "curse-returning barrier."

"The original game didn't mention that using the Curse Blessing Orb could open a Curse Return Barrier. That's something you'll only encounter later when fighting bosses like the Evil Dragon, the Hungry God, the Eight-Faced King, and the Embryo of Evernight. Why is it showing up now?"

This "Curse-Returning Barrier" is extremely disgusting in the game, because when magic professions encounter this barrier, all their skills will be greatly reduced. Only exorcists who focus on physical professions can ignore the effect of the barrier and attack the enemy.

Unfortunately, in the early stages of the game, spell attacks have extremely high damage, so everyone flocks to cultivate Onmyojis and Warlocks.

Few people use characters that are more inclined towards physical attacks, such as the Demon Swordsman and the Archer.

Later in the game, this flaw surfaced. Players, enraged by this utterly awful design, flocked to the official website to lash out at the developer. Based on the intensity of the trolls in the official comment section, the game director's mother was supposed to have taken a rocket from low-Earth orbit to the center of the Milky Way at superluminal speed that very same day.

"Don't think it's so easy to go back alive."

Kozaburo was not in a good condition. He had forcibly used his vitality, and his brain and nervous system were overloaded, causing blood to spurt from his eye sockets, nose, and lips.

"I'm not that easy to fool!!!"

In an instant, a violent wave of spiritual power erupted from the old man's body.

The ground rumbled, as if something had sunk into the earth, and the ground beneath my feet began to feel unstable. It felt like an earthquake, but it wasn't the vibrations of an earthquake that were transmitted.

"not good!!"

Almost at the same time, Cai Zang and Bai Jie sensed something intuitively, and spiritual power burst out from under their feet. While strengthening their bodies, they quickly leaped backwards.

"Come out!"

Tears of blood streamed from Kozaburo's eyes. The ground beneath his feet exploded, and the earth seemed to split open, spewing out a large amount of demonic energy. Then, from the cracked hole, a monster with a yellowish-brown color and covered in thick mud, shaped like a giant earthworm, emerged.

"A demon-level Oono Tsuchigumi?"

Saizo stared at the big hammer intently. It was a monster transformed from the essence of earth. It was just an ordinary monster, but if it was a monster, it would be more troublesome than the mountain man.

His ability, "Burning Body," generates high-temperature "curse flames" capable of burning through even ordinary barriers, belonging to the Fire element of the Five Elements. However, encountering a monster with the essence of Earth will somewhat restrain it.

"Mountain boys, obey my orders and kill them all!!!"

Kozaburo shouted loudly, raised the orb in his hand, and activated the mind control technique. The mountain boys who were originally fleeing were also controlled and rushed in this direction again.

"Go away!"

Cai Zang spewed out flames from the palms of his hands, burning the approaching mountain boys into charcoal. However, this could not stop the mountain boys.

Kozaburo dedicated his entire life to the Cursed Orb. The powerful mental control made the mountain children move forward uncontrollably. Although they were burning in the flames, they continued to move forward.

The fierce flames made it impossible to breathe and their eyeballs were burned dry, but the mountain boys still walked like drunks, holding swords and axes tightly in their hands, their fingers almost carbonized and falling off.

"Very good, kill them, stop them..."

Kozaburo let out a dark laugh that sounded like boiling mud.

"Go away."

Bai Jie swept the spear in his hand across, and with a whistling sound, he directly knocked several mountain boys away.

At this moment, Ohno Tsuchi spewed out a corrosive liquid, which sprayed towards him like a turbulent stream of acid.

"Walk."

Saizo grabbed his collar with his right hand and suddenly jumped several meters away. The monster spit out a torrent of acid, making the ground boil.

Bai Jie escaped the disaster when he landed on the ground, but his feet and hands were stained with acid droplets, his clothes were burned through, and his skin also felt severe corrosive pain.

"Split up."

Saizo gave the order in a cold voice.

"I'll stop this big wild hammer, and you go after that old guy."

"Chase?"

Baijie raised his head and found that Kozaburo was running away in panic.

"The Curse-Returning Barrier is just a trick using that cursed tool... This old fellow isn't very powerful."

Cai Zang said in a deep voice, "We must catch him, or else we must seize the orb. It is very important to us."

"I see."

Baijie had the same idea, but he was thinking about the villain organization "Yafukukai".

"Then let's split up."

He pulled out a smoke bomb from his belt and threw it at his feet. Thick smoke and strong light exploded, and two figures immediately took action.

Saizo's hands shot out flames that condensed into a ball, and a blazing light burst out along with the fireball.

boom!
Amid the explosion, Cai Zang yelled and attracted Cheng Yao's attention.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Baijie cast the invisibility amulet and moved quickly in the thick smoke. He used a circuitous body to avoid Ono Tsuchigumi in the large hole in the ground and chased after Kozaburo's figure who had left.

　The Curse Reversal Barrier, in the game, is a powerful barrier based on the concept of "Reversal Wind," capable of completely negating low-level spells. Its principle is based on the real-life Izanagi-ryu, a curse-reversing style practiced in the island province of Kotosa. During the Reversal, the seasonal plants "Baltha grandiflora, Shochu, Tsubaki, and Photinia" are recited in reverse order, effectively reversing summer back to spring and reversing the curse's nature...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)