Curse Reply: After choosing Nawa, the cursed spirit cursed me for being cruel.

The nymph swooped down from low altitude, releasing the long-accumulated arcs of electricity on its wings at the same time, and the thick bolts of lightning crashed into the waters where the dragon had submerged.

The moment the lightning struck the water, it spread in all directions, and the water defenses surrounding the Tuogen became excellent conductors of electricity.

The intense paralysis caused its tentacles to twitch uncontrollably, creating a brief opening in its previously perfect defense and shattering its perfect underwater concealment.

Chapter 274 New Enemy

"Well done, kid!"

The Naobi man laughed loudly, and his figure, which had been poised to strike, vanished in an instant.

Born from the resentment of the ocean, the Torgon has extremely high resistance to pure physical attacks, but its defense against lightning is obviously far less effective than its defense against fists, feet, and blades.

The continuous electric shocks eventually paralyzed its body, which was originally hidden underwater, and it could no longer remain concealed.

The Gibi had anticipated this moment. His figure disappeared again, reappearing directly above the trajectory of the rising Tagore.

His right fist was already brimming with all his magical power; this punch would end the battle completely.

"ended."

Just then, a huge black shadow emerged from the seawater beneath Tuogen.

The outline of that thing was faintly visible in the waves, and it was dozens of times larger than the tugong itself.

Tuogen raised his eyes. "I'm the one who should say it's over. I've noticed that your course of action seems unchangeable... You've fallen for their trap."

"Come forth, Great Isopod!"

"Toad!"

Just as the Gibi man was about to be devoured by the enormous giant isopod, a thick, pinkish tongue suddenly shot out from the shadows, precisely wrapped around his waist, and yanked him back.

At the last second, Naobi's body was dragged away from the giant maw and landed heavily in the shallow water next to Fushiguro Megumi. Fushiguro Megumi lowered his hands from the hand seals, and beside him, a giant toad shikigami slowly retracted its tongue into its mouth, letting out a low gurgling sound.

More cold sweat beaded on his forehead. Damn it, this cursed spirit is too intelligent. Not only does it lure the enemy in, but it also knows how to use its own movement to set up counter-traps.

Is that really the only way? His hands once again moved up and down in the starting position to summon the Demon Void.

Summoning Demon Void once requires about a quarter of one's spell power, and this is only the basic cost of summoning it; it will require even more to enter combat mode.

Given the current situation, he really has no other choice.

"There's no other way, Burubu..."

Just as he was about to utter the incantation, a dashing figure suddenly entered his field of vision.

Tuogen also heard the sound of treading water. Since the three people in front of him were all standing still and there were no signs of their domain being invaded, how could there be anyone else...?

It turned its head, and a sharp shadow of a stick rapidly magnified in its pupils.

A woman strode towards it, her speed so fast that she was already close to it in the blink of an eye.

A huge stick slammed into its face, sending its massive body flying dozens of meters.

"What!" Tuogen scrambled to his feet, staring intently at the woman who had suddenly appeared before him.

The faint magical power was almost negligible; the only signs of magical power came from the glasses on her nose and the dark red three-section staff in her hand.

Her body itself contained no magical power whatsoever.

"Does she... not have any magical power?"

Without further thought, a yellow fish head sprouted from its abdomen, dragging a thin fleshy line as it charged forward, deciding to test this strange enemy first.

Maki grinned, grabbed Yuyun with both hands, and swung the stick hard at the charging fish head.

Youyun's power amplification ability was brought to its extreme at this moment. The fish head was actually blasted back, and the fleshy lines behind it slammed into Tuogen's body.

Before Tuogen could react, she kicked off the ground and lunged at him.

Youyun's three-section staff was like a living thing in her hands. After hundreds of headshots, Tuogen's movements finally froze.

The ferocious look in the octopus's eyes quickly faded, leaving them empty.

Its massive body began to disintegrate, turning into primordial cursed dust from the wound pierced by the wandering clouds, which mingled with the seawater and fell in a soft rustling.

The sky, the sea, the beach, the coconut trees... everything began to peel away and disappear like faded oil paintings, and they returned to the place they had been before entering the territory.

"Did it work?" Fushiguro Megumi murmured somewhat uncertainly, looking at the gradually emerging gray wall.

Logically speaking, a first-level mage should be comparable to a special-level cursed spirit, but this special-level spirit in front of them is completely different. Even with the special-level spirit in their domain and guaranteed to hit, the two experienced first-level mages working together still couldn't remove it for a long time.

Unexpectedly, Maki-nee killed the monster in just a few minutes.

"Ah, it's solved." Maki was about to casually put Yuuki back into the weapon pouch behind her.

Nanami pushed up his glasses and warily scanned his surroundings. The crisis seemed to have passed, but the unease in his heart had not dissipated.

"Be careful, I have a feeling something's not right."

As soon as the words were spoken, the four of them jumped to the side. A huge object crashed down on the spot where they had just stood, unleashing tremendous force that cracked the ground within a radius of tens of meters around the point of impact.

"Who!" Maki crouched down and helped Yuyun back up, while the other three also assumed attack stances.

As the smoke slowly dissipated, what appeared before the four of them was something that surprised everyone.

It was a tall figure with dark pupils, silently watching them.

That was a human.

The moment the Naobi saw that face clearly, he froze on the spot as if struck by lightning.

He recognized that face all too well; it was exactly the same as the man in his memory who possessed no magical power yet was abnormally strong.

His mouth moved a few times, but he couldn't utter a single word. He just stood there blankly, his eyes filled with disbelief.

Maki noticed the old man's strange behavior behind her and was about to turn her head to ask him if he knew this person when she felt a terrifying pulling force on her hand before she could even speak.

The man held Youyun's other end with one hand, his expression unchanged.

Maki snorted coldly, used the momentum to stabilize her lower body, and exerted force with both arms at the same time to try to take Yuyun back.

Over the years in the Federation, she has experienced countless close-quarters battles, and with the terrifying power bestowed upon her by the Heavenly Curse, she has never encountered an opponent in pure physical combat.

However, at this moment, Youyun remained completely still.

Even with her enhanced power, she couldn't overpower her opponent and was still at a disadvantage.

Maki gritted her teeth, her feet stomping on the ground, creating cracks, and she put even more pressure on Yuyun, but he was still firmly held in her hand.

What kind of power is this?!

Chapter 275 The Tyrant Returns

The Naobi stared at that face, frozen in place, his lips moving slightly, but he couldn't utter a sound.

Just as Maki was about to turn around and ask the old man what was going on, a tremendous force suddenly burst forth from her hand.

The other end of the cloud was held by the man with one hand, and with a strong pull, the ground beneath Maki's feet cracked into a spiderweb pattern.

She pulled back with both wrists, and the two forces clashed on the metal rod. Under the impact of the two forces, the three-section chain of Youyun let out a mournful cry of being unable to bear the weight, and broke in the middle.

Maki staggered back a few steps, clutching the last remaining section, while the other person held the other two sections.

"Tch, it's the enemy." Maki reassembled the remaining piece of the cloud, lowered her center of gravity, and charged forward again.

As the staff slammed down, her opponent simply raised the two sections of the Cloud-like Staff in her hand and lightly parried, dissipating the force. Using the recoil from the impact, she leaped backward, creating distance again, and quickly assessed her opponent's strength in her mind.

After the struggle, this person was about 10% to 20% stronger than her; every muscle in his body seemed to be designed for pure hand-to-hand combat.

Most importantly, she didn't sense any magical power from this person either.

Could it be a curse from heaven? She remembered that Teacher Duanmu had mentioned before that the last person with this constitution was someone he had personally killed.

What was it called again? I can't remember it all of a sudden.

Before she could retrieve that name from her memories, a sense of danger suddenly ran down her spine.

She instinctively held the Youyun staff horizontally in front of her, and the next second, a heavy impact that almost shattered her bones slammed into the staff.

She was thrown back and her back slammed into a stone pillar on the platform.

The other three looked at the figure that had taken Maki's place and simultaneously assumed a fighting stance.

Naobi suppressed the surging emotions in his heart and fixed his gaze on those empty black pupils.

Even the long-dead can be dragged out and used, and judging from this appearance, their consciousness is long gone, and only their shells are fighting on instinct.

Just then, a strange voice rang out in the deathly silent platform: "Are you dead too, Tuogen?"

The three turned around abruptly and saw a short, one-eyed cursed spirit that had somehow crossed their perimeter, squatting down to pick up a piece of arm that hadn't yet dissipated, its voice filled with genuine sadness.

It completely ignored the three wary sorcerers.

"What!" Nanami's pupils constricted sharply.

The sweat that had just seeped from the skin of the three people was quickly evaporated, the air almost solidified, leaving only the faint hissing sound of steam billowing from the top of the cursed spirit's head.

The Naobi narrowed his cloudy eyes to slits, judging from the other's undisguised aura alone that this guy was much stronger than the water-controlling cursed spirit from before.

The water clock lowered the severed limbs of the dragon and glanced at Shen'er beside it.

This is probably what it means to be utterly humiliated.

To stall the casters throughout Shibuya, the skeleton... [The text abruptly ends here, likely due to an incomplete sentence or a formatting error.]

It withdrew its gaze, pointed its palm at the four sorcerers in front of it, flames gathering in its palm, ready to be unleashed: "Then let's meet again in the wilderness a hundred years from now."

Just as the water clock was about to unleash its flames, a long, thin object suddenly struck it.

Fuheshen'er's Cloud Remnant struck its arm squarely, deflecting its charged flames and sending them hurtling straight toward the ceiling, where they exploded into a patch of charred cracks.

Then another heavy blow landed beside it, and it even ruthlessly cut into the water clock, its pure black eyes showing only an almost instinctive lock-on.

The spirit-summoning spells performed by the psychic granny remained effective even after her death. Her grandson, acting as a vessel, would withdraw from the spirit-summoning once the magical power within his body was exhausted.

That's how it is in theory...

However, Fuhesh'er's body itself does not consume magical power, so the spell lost its chance to end.

A series of abnormal situations caused the procedure to go out of control.

At this moment, the resurrected undead will only fight according to its body's instincts until the container is completely destroyed.