Transformed into the leader of an esoteric sect in Japan

Without hesitation, she raised her hand, her blood boiling. Kurosawa Shizuki's left hand transformed into a hand blade, cleaving through the air. She once again used the Kyoka Suigetsu technique of the Kyoto-ryu style as an escape technique, narrowly dodging the slash. A section of her long hair at the back of her head was cut off, leaving her with short hair.

Just as she used the illusion of a mirage to teleport, the centipede sage's cold laughter rang out behind her, and the tearing wind howled again, as the despairing shadow of death loomed closer.

The Centipede Sage unleashed another golden branch with a speed no less than that of the Mirror Flower Water Moon. If the golden branch hits this time, it will cut Kurosawa Shizuki in half!

Like a drowning person grasping at a last straw, Kurosawa Shizuki threw the broken spear of the Falconer into the air. The moment the spear was thrown, it tore through Kurosawa Shizuki's wrist, and her blood flowed out recklessly.

A path of blood formed between her and the broken spear of destiny! Her body was pulled by that immense force, feeling as if her whole body was being torn apart, and the world spun before her eyes.

The Fate-Broken Spear Special Skill: Blood Gate! The sacred weapon that Kurosawa Shizuki obtained once again proved its effectiveness. Through this blood pathway, Kurosawa Shizuki was pulled into the air by the power of the Fate-Broken Spear, and once again dodged the centipede sage's fatal strike.

This time, it was Kurosawa Shizuki's turn to ascend into the air and passively take the hits. The Centipede Sage, however, was already leisurely aiming at her to unleash the third golden branch. Kurosawa Shizuki was almost completely desperate and could only futilely summon black matter to form a barrier in front of her to protect her body. But she had no confidence in the black matter's barrier. Could a barrier that many winged creatures could tear apart really withstand a single blow from this incomparably powerful golden branch?

However, this time, the Centipede Sage did not swing his blade, because behind him, Yuki Asakura, who had caught her breath, finally made another move. However, this time, Yuki Asakura's target was not the Centipede Sage's almost invincible true form.

Asakura Yuki's glare spread and rose in all directions without regard to cost. Asakura Yuki pressed her hands to the ground, and behind her, distorted light spun and danced, actually turning into a mist with no offensive power. Just as Kurosawa Shizuki dodged the centipede sage's attacks twice, the glare mist completely enveloped half of Dust Town.

The glare distorted the light, creating various illusions. For a moment, dozens of Kurosawa Shizuki's projections appeared in the sky, as ethereal and uncertain as a mirage. The centipede sage frowned slightly, and finally hesitated for a moment when waving the golden branch.

He swung the golden branch again, but only shattered dozens of illusions created by Asakura. Kurosawa Shizuki's true form finally fell into Asakura's blazing mist without any danger, and once again had a chance to recover her strength. The whole world turned into a warm gold in the pervasive mist, with all sorts of chaotic illusions and goldfish shadows swimming around haphazardly. The visibility was extremely low. Not to mention the centipede sage, even Kurosawa Shizuki couldn't see her own five fingers when she looked down.

In the mist, Asakura grabbed Kurosawa Shizuki's hand. Kurosawa Shizuki wanted to speak, but Asakura pressed his finger to her lips and shook his head.

Kurosawa Shizuki immediately realized that the enemy was now trapped in Asakura's fog and could see almost nothing. The Centipede Sage would likely track them by sound.

However, Kurosawa Shizuki and Asakura, as Sun Apostles of the Black Sun Cult, were still able to transmit their thought fluctuations through the black matter, and soon another black matter thread connected their consciousness.

"With the Centipede Sage and that terrifying Golden Branch, he would be virtually invincible below the level of an immortal in a direct confrontation," Yuki Asakura transmitted such a mental fluctuation. "What exactly are those madmen from the Age of Gods plotting to place such a divine artifact as the Golden Branch in the forest?"

“We absolutely cannot confront the Centipede Sage head-on; we have no chance of winning. Fortunately, your Yang Flame can create illusions, allowing us to re-enter concealment and regain the initiative in the battle. Why is it that even though we are both fourth-tier black matter, your power is so much more useful than mine?” Kurosawa Shizuki was becoming increasingly envious of Asakura’s Yang Flame power.

“You’ve only just entered the fourth tier, and your dark matter hasn’t awakened its own ‘mark’ yet,” Asakura lifted the sleeve of his white jade-like left arm, and Kurosawa Shizuki saw that Asakura’s arm also had strange patterns like goldfish. “The process of awakening the ‘mark’ of the dark matter is extremely dangerous. We need to hold a specific ceremony at headquarters to obtain the mark. Only then will you be considered a complete Sun Apostle.”

"Two little girls, what are you running away from?!" From the depths of the fog, the centipede sage's gloomy voice rang out, "You came to steal the golden branch from my hand, not to be two little mice hiding in the dark."

He kept waving the golden branch in the mist of blazing sunlight. Kurosawa Shizuki saw breathtaking golden rays flash by, but thankfully, the centipede sage, who had just reappeared in his avatar, did not seem to have a way to locate them for the time being. Although the power of the golden branch was unparalleled, if he could not determine where to swing the blade, he could not kill Kurosawa Shizuki and Asakura Yuki.

"Let's talk about the Awakening Mark later. We need to escape the forest alive first," Kurosawa Shizuki said, suppressing her rapid breathing, afraid that the Centipede Sage would hear her heavy breathing. "What do we do next? Should we sneak up on him and try to assassinate him?"

“The Centipede Sage possesses close-combat skills approaching those of a Sword Saint. With our current level, if we reveal any killing intent at close range, he will likely sense it immediately,” Asakura Yuki shook her head with lingering fear. “My Yangyan Mist is not without its countermeasures. All we can do now is stall for time. If we don’t remove the golden branch from his hand, defeating him will be extremely difficult.”

"Or, tell me his current location, and I'll snipe him again?" Kurosawa Shizuki's broken spear of destiny transformed back into a rifle.

“You can try, but I don’t think there’s much hope…” Asakura said with a wry smile.

Just as Kurosawa Shizuki confirmed the location of the Centipede Sage through Asakura's shared perception and was preparing to snipe him once again in Dust Town shrouded in mist, another incredible turn of events occurred on the Centipede Sage's side.

The centipede sage, whose original size was still human, suddenly trembled in the mist. He let out a strange growl and tore at his skin with his hands. He once again used the metamorphosis power of the Divine Generation.

This time, he did not grow taller. Instead, his body began to shrink, transforming into another kind of small, black creature with a dark brown body, a long, pointed snout, outward-facing feet, and curved, sharp claws. The transformed beast emitted a chilling, eerie laugh. It raised its small head, its mouth growing to an unbelievable size, and it actually swallowed the golden branch whole.

Kurosawa Shizuki and Asakura Yuki both recognized the creature that the centipede sage had transformed into, but they never expected to see it here.

One half still vaguely resembles a human, while the other half looks exactly like a mole.

"Two little girls, you want to play hide-and-seek? Very well, I'll play with you. Moles are best at listening and gathering secrets. Let me see if you can hide yourselves while being chased by a mole." The black mole's eerie chuckle echoed in the mist, and then it easily lowered its head, waved its claws, dug through the ground, and burrowed inside.

Kurosawa Shizuki and Asakura Yuki exchanged a glance, both seeing panic in each other's eyes. The Centipede Sage, who held the secret to transformation, had actually managed to escape Asakura's Sunfire Mist through this method. If he had simply burrowed underground, he would certainly have been completely unaffected by the mist. Now, both sides were in a state of concealment, but the Centipede Sage, hidden underground, clearly had more initiative in the battle than Asakura Yuki and Kurosawa Shizuki...

P.S., it's taken me so long to fight the Centipede Sage, and the battle keeps changing stages. If we were to face off against Wuquanzi head-on, it would probably take more than ten chapters.

Chapter 112, Section 113: Black Mimicry - Young Maiden

The mole lurked in the darkness, its eyes gleaming with a cunning golden light. Sensing the slightest tremor in the earth, it revealed a ferocious smile and slowly approached its prey.

Within the suffocating red mist, an utterly absurd pantomime was unfolding. The centipede sage had transformed into a mole and was hiding underground. To avoid being detected by the centipede sage through the vibrations of the soil, Asakura and Kurosawa Shizuki climbed to the rooftops of the two- or three-story commoner houses in Dust Town, anxiously sensing every movement below through the glare mist released by Asakura.

However, escaping to the roof of the house could only temporarily delay the enemy's offensive. Both of them heard muffled sounds coming from the foundation of the house beneath their feet with great fear. The terrifying creature was digging underground at an incredible speed. Terrifying cracks continued to extend in the ground of Dust Town. Even though it was just a mole that had burrowed underground, why did it feel like an earthquake was about to happen?

Kurosawa Shizuki and Asakura Yuki had no choice but to constantly change the houses they were hiding in. As they watched the buildings of Dust Town crumble under the threat of the moles, a chill ran down their spines. Were all the flesh-shedders of the Age of Gods this terrifying? Just how many more extraordinary creatures could this centipede sage transform into?

In the central square of the town, the road surface even collapsed, revealing a huge black hole. Numerous houses, corpses, and garbage slid into the black hole. Did the Centipede Sage really want to dig up the entire Dust Town and bury them along with the town? If the collapse of Dust Town continues at this rate, perhaps Kurosawa Shizuki's outrageous idea will actually become a reality.

"Are we just going to keep running like this? Let him bury the entire Dust Town?" Kurosawa Shizuki felt that the Centipede Sage probably wouldn't reappear unless they were absolutely certain of killing him. They came to snatch the Golden Branch from the Centipede Sage. If the Centipede Sage completely hid underground and just kept digging, they would have no way to deal with him and could only flee the town in a sorry state. Sand and Yongzi ran away immediately after they started fighting the Centipede Sage. Did they expect this to happen?

“No, if we can’t deal with the Centipede Sage, even if we escape Dust Town, we will continue to be attacked by him. If this goes on for too long, we will surely die. We must take the initiative. Kurosawa, it’s up to you now—” Asakura Yuki looked at Kurosawa Shizuki, “Based on my observation, your black essence seems to have many forms, right? Beast, blade, barrier, thorns, just from what I’ve seen, there are already four types.”

The two rapidly shifted positions between the houses in Dust Town using the tentacles formed from the glare and black matter. Behind them, the massive collapsing black hole followed like a shadow, creating a scene resembling the end of the world. Beneath the torn forest, the ghostly figure of the centipede sage transformed into a mole appeared and disappeared intermittently. The mist that Asakura had released earlier seemed like a joke under the collapse of this scale, and even the mist of the glare was swallowed up by the black hole dug by the mole.

The two could only continue their escape towards the outskirts of Dust Town, not daring to stop for even a second. They were well aware that the Centipede Sage was relentlessly pursuing them like a leech, and if they relaxed even slightly, they would likely be met with the Golden Branch's slash. They did not believe that the Centipede Sage would not use the Golden Branch's power after swallowing it.

“That’s right, but I thought everyone else in the Order possessed the same power as me.” Kurosawa Shizuki was already somewhat exhausted, and her voice sounded increasingly weak.

“No, while we can also use black matter to transform, we only change the external form; the internal essence remains unchanged. And if my perception is correct, what your black matter can do is actually close to the metamorphosis power of the Age of Gods. You are using black matter to simulate the essence of things that once existed in reality, only unlike the Age of Gods who transform into various extraordinary beings through physical transformation, you are simulating black matter into various extraordinary beings.” In Asakura Yuki’s eyes, Kurosawa Shizuki’s ability seemed to be more complex than she had imagined.

"So what? I can't think of any way I can use the black matter to deal with the centipede sage..." Kurosawa Shizuki was very confused.

"Didn't you use the black matter to simulate various wild beasts before? Try to simulate the black matter as a specific wild beast, at least one that can burrow underground to track and restrain the centipede sage. We'd better hurry, we don't have much time left." Asakura Yuki looked anxiously at the still land in the thick fog around them.

Kurosawa Shizuki anxiously considered how to proceed with the upcoming battle. Currently, her method of controlling the Black Matter was simply to "imagine" how it should change in her mind. After using it for some time, she had gained some experience in controlling the Black Matter. Most of the time, the ever-changing Black Matter could be completely transformed into whatever she wanted to become. However, she also discovered that the Black Matter had limitations.

First, a small amount of black matter can be appropriately expanded and extended, but there is a limit. A drop of black matter cannot become a great river. A large amount of black matter can be forcibly compressed into some high-density things such as weapons, but things with too high intensity are difficult to maintain for a long time. Although black matter that can be changed and condensed simply by relying on imagination can change anything, as Asakura said, it is only a superficial change in appearance and lacks practical effectiveness in actual combat.

Therefore, Kurosawa Shizuki needs to master various types of black matter techniques to make deeper use of black matter. For example, the black matter forms she initially mastered can be considered as the second stage of black matter transformation, such as the blade form, the wall form, and the beast form. However, the black matter at this stage is only a superficial transformation in concept. The blade form can become most weapons, and the beast form can become most wild beasts that Kurosawa Shizuki knows. But such transformations are still all within the realm of mortals. The black matter in the blade form cannot become the Xuanyuan Sword or the Curry Stick, and the black matter in the beast form cannot conjure up Sun Wukong or Godzilla out of thin air.

However, this doesn't mean that dark matter can't conjure Godzilla. If one masters the third stage of dark matter transformation and comprehends "mimicry" of a specific object, dark matter can theoretically simulate any objectively existing thing in reality. Just like the Dream Shadow Cutter that Yuki Asakura conjured, or those strange goldfish that can devour enemies, in a sense, Shadow Servants also belong to this type of transformation. However, Shadow Servants are almost a complete reproduction of a specific dead person. In addition to the use of dark matter itself, there are more complex rules behind it.

Kurosawa Shizuki organized the third-stage mimicry she currently possessed: the thorns shared by Nakamura Yukise, the two ghouls, and the human-faced spider she had recently devoured. Perhaps the original owner had mastered more dark matter techniques, but Kurosawa Shizuki had not inherited the original owner's memories... As it stands, these dark matter mimicry forms probably do not possess the ability to directly confront the Centipede Sage underground.

Kurosawa Shizuki had no choice but to resort to last-minute cramming and found the system she hadn't seen in a long time. This system was like a silent gourd, becoming less and less active since she entered the forest. Unlike other systems that would forcibly issue outrageous tasks to force their hosts to complete them, and then kill them without a second thought if they didn't, her system was completely Zen. After issuing a task, it would ignore you and leave you to your own devices.

Fortunately, even in the woods, the system could still be used as a portable shop. Kurosawa Shizuki had accumulated over 6,500 Nightmare Points and originally planned to upgrade the Void Blade Style to level two once she reached 7,000 points. However, it seemed that she had no choice but to use it to deal with the Centipede Sage. When Kurosawa Shizuki activated the system, the surrounding area entered a state of near-time stop. Kurosawa Shizuki was somewhat surprised to find that the system had this kind of power. In the future, could she open the system menu at any time and use the system as "bullet time" or "time zero"?

The convenient skill shop had several filtering criteria: "costing less than 6000 Nightmare Points," "Dark Matter Technique," "Third Stage," and "Adaptation to Complex Terrain." After searching, she surprisingly found five Dark Matter Techniques. Without much time to examine them carefully, in a moment of desperation, Kurosawa Shizuki found a Dark Matter Mimicry Technique called "Young Girl," costing 5500 points. This technique roughly best met her expectations. Without wasting any more time, she immediately chose to exchange for it.

[Dark Technique - Young Maiden, Blue-purple. The snake is an unrefusable visitor, and Young Maiden is one of her countless offspring. It thirsts to unlock all that is sealed. Abilities: Scarred Traveler, Unseen Being, Devouring Beast, Subterranean Creature, Petrifier]

In the game, the Young Maiden is a creature that almost only exists in legends, but here in the system, it can also be exchanged. Because it is the most basic Black Essence Technique, Kurosawa Shizuki can only maintain one Young Maiden at a time, and with her current Black Essence reserves, this Young Maiden can probably only exist for an hour at most. As for those advanced creatures above the Young Maiden, they cannot be projected at all.

But this was enough for Kurosawa Shizuki, because the "mole" that the centipede sage had mimicked was also a supernatural being of the same class. Within the forest, the mole guarded and collected secrets, while the young girls yearned to uncover everything that was sealed away. The two were natural enemies, and the young girls were the best choice to deal with the mole.

As Kurosawa Shizuki reluctantly exchanged for this black-material technique, the black material surrounding her began to boil. To Asakura Yuki's surprise, a huge figure suddenly emerged from the black material behind Kurosawa Shizuki.

A giant, deep black snake, over ten meters long, with eyes like gas lamps and scales like black jade, gracefully stretched its body. Every inch of it, from head to tail, was lifelike, showing no sign of being a creature created from black material. It had long, bright red horns on its head and a strange crown-like structure behind its head. Its gray-white eyes shone with a strange light that was hard to look directly at.

"Kurosawa Shizuki, I underestimated you. I didn't expect you to have this trick up your sleeve," Asakura Yuki exclaimed, looking at the young girl mimic that Kurosawa Shizuki had temporarily conjured. "There are very few people in the entire cult who can mimic a superhuman being of this level. Where did you devour the young girl? As far as I know, such beings have long been extinct in the human world."

"I dreamt about it in my dream..." Kurosawa Shizuki rolled her eyes. She had no time to make up any explanations now; Asakura absolutely could not know about the system.

“If that’s the case, then it does make sense…” Asakura actually believed Kurosawa Shizuki’s expression. “With it, at least we won’t be so passive in the upcoming battles. You should have summoned it sooner!”

As Kurosawa Shizuki gave the command, the giant serpent hissed and used its sharp horns to dig through the soil. The heavy earth was like a fish swimming freely in a lake or sea to it. A part of Kurosawa Shizuki's consciousness attached itself to the young girl's body.

You Shu cannot see with normal eyes, but she is very sensitive to any heat. Underground, this ability is far more useful than normal vision, and she can easily determine the location of the mole. Underground, it looks like a burning flame, but it is not the temperature of the mole itself, but the energy fluctuations emitted by the golden branch hidden in the mole's body.

Spitting out a long, bright red tongue, the black baby girl darted swiftly toward the mole. The mole, clearly sensing the approaching threat, halted its destruction of Dust Town. From underground came the mole's somewhat fierce but cowardly shriek.

Beneath the cracked earth, giant serpents and beasts born of darkness are entangled in a primal and brutal battle, which is about to erupt.

P.S. While writing this part, all I could think about was Sun Wukong and Erlang Shen constantly transforming and battling each other, hahaha.

Chapter 113, Section 114: That damned worm!

Kurosawa Shizuki and Asakura Yuki stood on the edge of the huge hole that had split open above Dust Town, as if facing a bottomless abyss. They watched the fierce battle unfold between the mole, which was transformed from the centipede sage, and the young girl that Kurosawa Shizuki had mimicked.

In the shattered abyss, the black crowned serpent, with a pair of fan-like bone wings spread from the crown behind its head, could not fly, but could at least glide a short distance. It glided down from the air, its long tail piercing into the soil like lightning. The next moment, the shrieking mole was caught by its tail and pulled directly out of the soil.

The mole's eyes flashed with a sharp light. It bit off the giant snake's tail and nimbly climbed up the snake's back with its claws, crawling towards the back of the snake's head. Its pair of black claws gleamed with a cold light.

Under Kurosawa Shizuki's control, the giant snake rolled and tumbled in the air, trying to throw the mole off. The mole, however, clung tightly to the giant snake's scaly body with its claws. Its claws were filled with sealed power, tearing through the thick scales, trying to destroy the young girl's body through the black structure. Kurosawa Shizuki could see rust-like patterns spreading across the young girl's body as the mole's claws tore through it, causing her to hiss in pain.

You Shu turned her head towards the mole. Her gray-white eyes, which had no distinction between pupils and sclera, shone with a peculiar light. Like her mother, You Shu could use a powerful petrifying force to dismantle and seal away the power of destruction!

The mole's claws, which had dug into the young girl's body, became its shackles. The young girl used her scales to clamp down on the mole's claws, forcing the mole to face the young girl's petrified eyes. Under the grayish-white light, although the mole did not turn completely into a stone statue as in the myth, its body still fell into a brief state of stiffness, and a fragile layer of stone skin appeared on its surface. However, in such close combat, such stiffness was fatal.

You Shu bit down hard on the mole's neck, wrapping her body tightly around it. The mole let out a sharp roar, not trying to break free, but instead digging its claws into You Shu's body, attempting to inject the sealing power directly through the wounds it had opened, causing the simulated You Shu to collapse!

The two intertwined beasts continued to roll down the excavated cave walls. Their battle seemed to have entered a fierce, all-out war from the very beginning, with intense sealing and dismantling forces constantly clashing between them. Yuki Asakura and Shizuki Kurosawa couldn't tell who had the upper hand or the lower hand for the time being.

"It's unbelievable. It seems that your 'mark' power is indeed related to mimicry. I'm afraid there's no one in the entire cult who is more skilled at mimicking supernatural beings than you. Perhaps I can recommend you to the Holy Lord in the future to deal with the supernatural beings that the Black Sun Cult has taken in..." Asakura Yuki watched the battle below with great interest.

"I find this absurd. The creature I mimicked is actually this strong? I feel like Yushu's attack is even stronger than the two of us combined." Kurosawa Shizuki felt it was utterly ridiculous. Could it be that she and Asakura combined were not as powerful as a snake?

“I think this is a clash of sexual orientations. The mole has mastered the way of sealing Qi, while the young girl knows the way of opening Qi, which is why the young girl can pose such a threat to the mole,” Yuki Asakura guessed.

"However, what worries me the most is, where is the golden branch of the Centipede Sage? Why doesn't he use the golden branch even after fighting like this?" Kurosawa Shizuki felt a chill run down her spine. The reason why the Centipede Sage had almost unilaterally suppressed them before was because of the golden branch he held. They had watched the mole swallow the golden branch, but why couldn't they see any trace of it now?

“There are several possibilities—perhaps the Golden Bough is completely ineffective against creatures that mimic black matter, perhaps the Golden Bough is an extremely heavy burden for him, perhaps…” Asakura Yuki gasped, “the one below isn’t him at all.”

Without any warning, another unexpected change occurred.

"Surprise!" A pale hand, holding a golden branch, suddenly thrust out from under Asakura's body, right before Kurosawa Shizuki's eyes, piercing between Asakura's legs, then penetrating all over Asakura's body, and finally piercing out from the top of Asakura's head.

Kurosawa Shizuki touched the blood splattered on her cheek and stared blankly at Asakura's suddenly frozen face. "Eh?" She was completely stunned.

Before Asakura could utter a single word, she stared blankly at Kurosawa Shizuki's face, a strange sound escaping her throat. Her entire body trembled, and wisps of yang heat flowed continuously from her body at a visible speed. Asakura, who should have possessed immortality similar to Kurosawa Shizuki, rapidly withered and decayed. The once delicate face of a young girl was now as withered as an old woman in an instant, until only a human skin hanging on a golden branch remained.

Asakura's human skin, still draped in the magnificent robes of the Prince of the Sun, floated in mid-air, hanging on a golden branch, like a banner summoning souls.

"You guessed wrong, my two little darlings. The one below is me, and the one above is me too." The centipede sage's body slowly rose from the soil, revealing only his jade-like upper body. He scooped up a handful of dust formed from Asakura's flesh, blew it gently, and the scattered dust fell on Kurosawa Shizuki's face. He gracefully peeled off the human skin and gorgeous clothes hanging on the golden branch, and he gently stroked Asakura's human skin.

"What a beautiful skin! Perhaps I can wear it someday and try to play the role of the Black Sun Cult's prince. It would be a very interesting experience." The centipede sage's mouth split open to an angle impossible for an ordinary person, and he swallowed Asakura's human skin and gorgeous clothes into his belly in one gulp.

Kurosawa Shizuki stared in horror at the black spine protruding from the centipede sage's body, which was actually growing segments of legs like a centipede. With the upper body of a human and the lower body of a centipede, what kind of life form had he become? How could he split himself into two halves and fight at the same time so easily?

"Have you given up already? Then go join your friends~ Don't worry, everything will be quick, very quick, without any pain." The grinning centipede sage held a seven-sectioned golden branch in his right hand, a golden branch sharper than a blade, pointing directly at Kurosawa Shizuki's heart. Kurosawa Shizuki knew she should run now, but her whole body was completely frozen, and bone-chilling fear gripped her heart.

"Death is but a brief slumber. Sooner or later we will meet again in the woods, sharing a tender kiss. At that time, we will all grow beautiful wings and our eyes will shine like obsidian."

Asakura's sweet breath, warm eyes, and beautiful figure from not long ago still seemed vivid in his mind. One moment she was calmly and composedly talking to him, and the next moment, death came suddenly. Asakura was killed by Jinzhi so casually.

What a joke! There was absolutely no warning! While Kurosawa Shizuki wouldn't say she liked Asakura, after their life-or-death journey together in the woods, her dislike for Asakura had mostly faded. She had thought that Asakura Yuki would continue to occupy a very important place in her life for a long time to come, but now…

Now she's going to die along with Asakura Yuki.

With a casual flick, the broken spear of destiny that Kurosawa Shizuki had been blocking in front of her was knocked away without any suspense. After just one clash with the golden branch, cracks appeared all over the broken spear, and its light dimmed.

The battle between the mole and the young girl below seemed to have ended. The young girl, covered in wounds, swallowed the entire mole whole and was flapping her fleshy wings in her direction, but the victory was meaningless. At such a distance, it was impossible to rescue her.

The Centipede Sage had already gently waved that incredibly terrifying golden branch towards Kurosawa Shizuki. The little black matter remaining behind Kurosawa Shizuki burst into flames under the radiance of the golden branch. The shadows had nowhere to hide under the light of the punishment, and Kurosawa Shizuki couldn't even put up a decent counterattack. This time, even the Shadow Girl couldn't save her.