A Bizarre Adventure That Begins in Jujutsu Kaisen

After completing the summoning of Makura, Amakusa Shiro crossed his hands inward, then interlaced his fingers into fists, raising only the middle fingers of both hands straight up, so that the fingertips, which were an inch apart, faced each other from a distance, forming the fundamental mudra of Jizo Bodhisattva.

"Domain Deployment: Fallen Shadow Underworld!"

The enclosed area with a radius of fifty meters spread out instantly like ink splashed on rice paper, completely engulfing the entire villa.

His heart was like a landscape on a night of lunar eclipse, where all color vanished except for eternal leaden gray and darkness.

Beneath their feet lay a smooth, mirror-like, pitch-black lake. Countless unformed shadow shikigami floated slowly on the surface like fetuses, and the faint wails of dead souls could be heard from the water.

After chanting the incantation to expand his domain, Amakusa swiftly sank into the boundless shadows of his own domain, disappearing without a trace, like a drop of water falling into the sea.

A giant burst through the boiling lake of shadows and rose into the air.

Its head has no eyes, four wings extend from the sides of its face, a tail is attached to the back of its head, a demon-slaying sword is wrapped around its right arm, and a rudder-like wheel is attached to the top of its head and back.

As soon as the giant appeared, a very "healthy" grin appeared on his featureless face.

The newcomer was none other than "Eight-Handed Sword, Divine General - Demon Void Luo".

Even if the subjugation is not completed beforehand, the "Ten Shadow Spells" can be forcibly used by dragging the opponent into the "subjugation ritual" during battle.

Its purpose is to eliminate all participants, including the summoner himself.

Amakusa's thoughts raced rapidly in the shadows.

Over the years, he had come up with a clever trick, and now was the time to put it into practice.

After the summoning is completed, the spell power of the "Ten Shadow Puppets" is intermittently linked with the spell's energy, causing them to enter an intermittent standby state of apparent death. The existence of the domain is then maintained through a delicate balance of "spell interruption and resumption"...

In this way, Moxuluo's "priority attack target" will be locked onto the enemies present!

Although the most important "main body" has escaped danger, the second most important "teleportation puppet" has been torn apart, and the third most important "Ten Shadow Puppet" is also unlikely to escape...

But besides that, he also has a group of sorcerer puppets with family-inherited techniques such as "incantation" and "red blood manipulation".

For the sake of "sustainable development," he generally only targets elderly and frail sorcerers for capture.

However, if too many people are arrested, the Kamo family, being large and powerful, is better off, but a small family like the Inu-maki family cannot afford it.

So much so that they later regarded it as a family curse, preferring to reduce the number of sorcerers, or even become non-sorcerers, in order to avoid this strange "curse of old age".

"Jugen Shiro" is almost a non-renewable resource, with each death reducing the number of his followers.

Some of these puppets are scattered in various locations on standby, while the rest exist in the shadow space and are still worth saving.

Now that the Demon Lord has drawn attention, Amakusa Shiro, as the master of the domain, can send the remaining puppets directly to the location outside the domain where the spatial coordinates have been temporarily changed. They can then quickly disperse and hide within Shimabara City, entering a low-level, near-normal standby state of magical power.

Because puppets are made from human corpses.

Unless the Six-Eyed Sorcerer examines each one carefully and only glances at them, it is difficult to distinguish whether they are real humans resting or puppets that have lost their vitality.

At the very moment that Amakusa used the spatial properties of his domain to "expel" all the other puppets from the Shadow Lake to a safe location fifty meters away, Dio swiftly opened his simplified domain and made a step forward.

Within the Shadow Lake, hundreds of shikigami "toads" suddenly took shape, sticking out their slimy long tongues, like a writhing forest of tentacles, sweeping in from all directions.

At the same time, a "cursed one" who should have fled but instead did so suddenly emerged from the shadowy lake at Dio's feet, his throat throbbing, and he hissed at Dio, who was standing close by:

"Don't move!"

Despite the force of the curse, Dio suddenly swung his arm.

The backlash was like a thunderous strike; the puppet's throat exploded, and it died instantly, sinking back into the dark lake.

Those repulsive tongues were firmly blocked by the "inviolability" that Dio spread out around him, futilely pounding against the invisible barrier.

Although this series of actions had no effect whatsoever, he was successfully disgusted.

Without further hesitation, Dio raised his right hand, his index and middle fingers joined together, and inhaled fifteen words of divine incantation in half a second:

"One word, ten thousand laws, subjugation—'Incantation Technique: Ultimate Form, Heavenly Decree'!"

After completing the incantation, he took a deep breath and exhaled the spell: "Break! Shatter!"

A normal spellcaster would never issue a direct decree to a "domain"—that would be tantamount to ordering a mountain to collapse with the tongue of a mortal.

However, Theo's power output and utilization efficiency are overwhelmingly powerful, and his actual output is several times greater than that of Amakusa Shiro.

When the power gap reaches this level, there are many ways to forcibly dismantle a closed domain, and incantations are just the most convenient one.

Centered on Dio's feet, the dark, smooth surface of the shadowy lake, like ice being struck by a giant hammer, burst open with countless spiderweb-like cracks and collapsed with a roar, revealing the real scene!

Fragments of the cursed power danced wildly in the sky like black snowflakes flying in reverse, while the disgusting "toad" shikigami silently vaporized as the spell melted away, disappearing without a trace.

In that brief moment when his vision was obscured, the demonic Void, unaffected by the spell's melting effect, had already transformed into a blurry afterimage that tore through the air and pounced in front of Dio!

It swung the demon-slaying sword wrapped around its right arm in mid-air.

The image of "The World" overlapped and appeared on Dio's body like armor, his right arm blocking upwards.

The clang of metal clashing exploded, and a visible shockwave rippled outwards in a ring. The ground beneath Theo's feet collapsed, sending rubble flying everywhere.

However, he maintains his levitation by manipulating distance, and is not affected by the terrain.

Meanwhile, Mo Xuluo's body sank slightly due to gravity and began to fall.

It twisted its massive body horizontally, and with its left arm it pressed down on the still relatively intact ground in the distance, pulling and tugging, sweeping its entire body out like a giant battering ram.

Dio drew his sword and slashed, severing the thigh that Moxu Luo had kicked out with a clean cut at the root.

With precise control of canceling the summoning and then reappearing, "The World" appeared in mid-air below Moxuro's body, twisted its waist, lifted its leg, and kicked Moxuro's waist and abdomen with the back of its foot, sending its massive body flying upwards!

Then, before Moxuluo could complete his adaptation and regeneration, Dio used distance manipulation to teleport upwards a short distance.

He suddenly leaned back, raised his leg, and did a near-vertical split, placing his toes on the center of Mo Xuluo's abdomen once again!

Like a rocket that has been accelerated twice, Mo Xuluo was blasted into the sky at an even faster speed.

Having tried it before when subduing his own Ten Shadows, Dio knew that a single, unrestricted "Zi" at close range could instantly kill Demon Xuluo.

However, the aftershocks of such an explosion would be enough to turn all the nearby "Shiro" puppets into ashes.

What he wanted more was to leave survivors to gather intelligence, or at least to collect complete remains for analysis and use, thus gaining an advantage for the next confrontation.

If the straight-line "Zi" is used normally, the collision volume of the spell is not very large, making it difficult to ensure that the attack can completely devour the Demon Void without leaving any remains. After all, it is a living creature with combat instincts, capable of dodging and adapting.

However, as long as you hit a "stationary target" during the paused time, all problems will be solved.

The duration of time stop is not infinite, nor can it be used continuously without interruption.

Just like holding your breath, you can either exhaust it all at once and then need a long time to recover, or you can take several short breaths to quickly breathe.

From sensing the fluctuations of magical power to flying across mountains and seas to find this place and shattering "Teleporting Shiro," Dio's time-stopping time consumed a total of 9 seconds, leaving 3 seconds remaining.

After this brief exchange and recovery, he still had the energy to maintain the time-stop state for about 4 seconds.

That's enough!