Curse Returns: Eight Extraordinary Skills? I lack nothing.

He thought that as long as he stayed in the city and set up defenses, he could stop anyone.

He had never met Gojo Satoru before, but now he had.

Then he realized he was terribly wrong...

Tengen is the reason why the Japanese sorcery world is so prosperous.

The giant barrier it creates covers the entire Japan, not only sealing off the magic power within Japan itself, but also continuously drawing magic power from the outside world into Japan.

This is why there are so few sorcerers and spirits outside of Japan.

However, in this day and age, this barrier is only bad for Japan.

The power of the curse grew stronger and stronger, even beyond control, posing a threat to overturn everything.

Tianyuan's birth technique is an immortal technique, which prevents natural death, but it will gradually become dehumanized. It must assimilate with the astral body about every 500 years to reset the physical body and delay the evolution into a pure cursed spirit.

She has complete control over the giant barrier network covering Japan. Her thousand years of experience and barrier perception have enabled her to understand almost all the secret history and origins of spells in the world of sorcery.

Therefore, she was extremely clear about all the information about the plague, but she was unwilling to tell the people in the sorcery world in advance.

He even harbored more and more thoughts each day, gradually becoming estranged from the world of sorcery.

He merely observed everything indifferently, silently compiling his own internal reports:

"The plague was overconfident and cautious. It lay in wait for half a month, chose the remote Songjiang, and set up layers of defenses, thinking that it had done a good job."

"He forgot one thing. He had never seen the real pinnacle, and he didn't know that there was someone in this world who could kill him in an instant."

"His caution was nothing more than that of an ant repeatedly checking whether there was anyone at the entrance of its burrow before crawling out."

“And standing outside the cave entrance are elephants.”

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"Get out of here! All Kabane sorcerers, attack! Stop guarding this place and kill them!"

Looking at the Kabane whose numbers were dwindling, the plague, its eyes already bloodshot, shouted loudly.

Deep within the underground lair, twenty-one dark silver figures simultaneously opened their eyes.

They were all sorcerers, albeit of low rank, but they were already considered the plague's trump card.

These sorcerers were not meant to fight alone, but rather for other purposes.

He closed his eyes, and the power of the curse surged from his body, spreading throughout the city like a tide.

This is one of his two main characteristics.

He possesses an almost massive amount of magical power, but he finds it difficult to use for his own purposes and can only attach himself to the Kabane.

The second characteristic is the contagiousness that has already been used.

As for his own combat strength, it is extremely weak.

Although it is defined as a calamity-level cursed spirit, its combat strength is at most equivalent to those ordinary special-grade cursed spirits without intelligence.

It is far less severe than the four major natural disasters.

As the plague's magical power flowed out in large quantities, the ground began to shake, and the Kabane began to stir.

He wants to integrate.

This was his last resort.

Centered around the Kabane, sorcerers who can manipulate magical power, a large number of Kabane are fused together to form a giant monster, overwhelming opponents with sheer numbers and quality.

On the street, the Kabane began to converge in the same direction.

They were like iron filings attracted by a magnet, stacked one on top of another, melting one into another.

Centered around the twenty-one Kabane sorcerers, thousands of Kabane bodies were stacked on top of each other, growing higher and higher, larger and larger.

Finally, giant Kabane rose from the ruins, each with a different shape; some were hunched over with arms dragging on the ground, while others had multiple arms that spread out like spiders…

Each one is over 60 meters tall, and each arm is 10 meters long. With a single swing, it can flatten a building.

The plague watched the twenty-one giants of various shapes through the surveillance system, its expression twisted in disgust.

"Come on, come and kill! Let's see how many you can kill!"

He roared at the top of his lungs.

Meanwhile, on the other side of the city, an unexpected encounter is taking place.

Louhu and Huayu followed the scent of the plague curse, intending to see their companions, but instead they ran into Xiayoujie, who was frantically harvesting in the Kabane group.

He stopped, looking at the two cursed spirits before him, his eyes narrowing slightly. The subdued top-tier cursed spirits appeared one after another behind him:

"Interesting, a top-tier cursed spirit, and it's even intelligent."

"I've never had a collection like this before, so I'll update it today."

Before he finished speaking, a cursed spirit spat out the top-grade cursed artifact, Youyun.

Xia Youjie reached out and took it, getting into position to start.

Upon hearing Xia Youjie's words, Lou Hu's volcanic face contorted with rage, and flames erupted from his head.

"How dare a human being say such a thing?"

Before he finished speaking, a wave of heat had already surged from his body.

The group of cursed spirits behind Xia Youjie simultaneously became agitated, emitting sharp hisses.

Chapter 53 Giants (Please continue reading)

The ground shook from a distance, as if something heavy was moving.

Yuuto immediately opened his eyes upon sensing the commotion. Otsuko was a beat slower, but he had already stood up, his right hand on the hilt of his sword, his gaze fixed on the source of the shock.

The two exchanged a glance, both seeing shock in each other's eyes.

Yuuto closed his eyes again, activated his ability to sense magical power through the Spirit Binding Technique, and simultaneously shared his discovery with Yigu:

"Across the city, giant Kabane, about 100 meters tall, has appeared. They are formed by the fusion of hundreds or thousands of ordinary Kabane."

"However, it seems that the number that can be fused is limited; not all ordinary Kabane can be fused into a giant..."

Upon hearing Yuuto's account, Otsuko remained silent, only gripping his knife tighter.

Not far from them, a huge silhouette was rising.

Its grayish-brown body, its hunched back almost touching the low-hanging clouds, its arms dragging on the ground, and with each step it took, the buildings beneath its feet collapsed like building blocks.

"This must be the plague's trump card; otherwise, if they had something like this, they wouldn't have waited until now to use it."

Yigu turned to Yuuto and asked, "What should I do?"

Since entering Songjiang, Yi Gu has almost lost his brain.

They simply do whatever the other person tells them to do.

Yuuto did not answer immediately, but instead released three speed-type spirits, sending them flying in different directions.

A few seconds later, a sensory feedback came in, indicating that the one closest to them in the East District was: "There is a giant Kabane very close to us. Let's deal with the closest one first, and then make a decision."

Yi Gu nodded in agreement, and then the two of them leaped out of the ruins and ran towards their destination.

A minute later, they stood on the edge of a broken viaduct, looking up at the colossal structure before them.

Its sixty-meter-tall body blocked out half the sky, and its gray-brown skin was covered with countless distorted human faces, some of which were still opening and closing weakly, like drowning people struggling.

Its arms dragged on the ground, and with each step it took, the buildings beneath its feet collapsed like building blocks.

"I'll test its limits first," Yuuto said, and immediately began to act.

Tongtianlu·Wuleifu.

With fingertips, he quickly traced lines on the talisman paper, the power of the incantation condensing into pale blue patterns, which were then embedded into the paper stroke by stroke.

Numerous talismans appeared out of thin air in his palm, like fireflies scattered by the wind.

"go."

Fifteen bolts of lightning struck the giant's chest simultaneously, the blue-white electric sparks tearing through the gray-brown membrane to reveal the dark silver texture beneath.

But only the outer layer was torn open. The wound was about half a meter deep, which wouldn't even qualify as a superficial injury to a giant.

The giant lowered his head and glanced at them with his pupil-less eyes.

Then its palm slammed down, and Yuu and Yigu simultaneously dodged to the sides.

The giant hand slammed onto the viaduct, the reinforced concrete bridge surface shattered like a biscuit, and the entire viaduct broke in half and collapsed with a roar.

Yuuto flipped in mid-air and landed on a broken lamppost, while Ekikotsu stepped on the flying pebbles and leaped onto the roof of a half-collapsed building next to him.

"The defenses are thicker than expected," Yuuto exclaimed.

Yi Gu did not respond, but his sword was already drawn.

Rika emerged from behind him, her enormous body turning in mid-air before slamming a punch into the giant's arm.

The force was astonishing; a hole was instantly blasted open in the grayish-brown skin, and dark red liquid gushed out.

The giant staggered back two steps, his arm hanging limply at his sides.

But the arm wasn't broken; the muscles around the wound had begun to twitch and were slowly healing.

Yuuto frowned.

Rika's punch could easily pierce through a tank's armor, but when it hit this thing, it only injured its arm.

Moreover, that membrane... his senses told him that the concentration of curse power on this thing's chest was dozens of times that on its arm.

If your arms are this hard, how thick must the core be?

Yigu clearly realized this as well. He slashed at the giant's other arm, the blade cutting half a meter deep, but he still failed to sever it.

The two exchanged a glance, and Yuuto said to him:

"This thing is a level stronger than I expected."

“Ordinary level two sorcerers wouldn’t even be able to escape this thing.” Yi Gu’s voice was very low.

Yu Ren nodded. It wasn't just level two sorcerers; even level one sorcerers who weren't good at direct combat could barely defend themselves against this thing.