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

Nanami flicked the water droplets off his blade and fixed his gaze on the near-Special Grade dog.

He lowered his center of gravity and charged forward, his entire body skimming the sand, carving two shallow furrows into the sand with his momentum.

Haibara launched a surprise attack from the right, throwing a punch at Yusha's cheek, forcing it to veer half a step to the left. In that half step, a fleeting gap appeared between Yusha and the near-Special Grade.

Nanami dived in, hastily conjuring a water shield, but before the shield was fully formed, Nanami's blade pierced through the thin water film and plunged into its head.

The Quasi-Special Grade let out a scream as its body began to crack from the wound. Cursed power poured in along the blade, tearing its entire torso apart from the inside out.

It fell backward, crashing onto the beach and splashing up a cloud of wet sand, its remains turning into black smoke and dissipating.

Haibara forced Yusha back with a punch, and then turned around and shouted, "Well done... watch out!"

The shark's serrated jaws were already snapping down at Nanami. Nanami withdrew his sword and simultaneously pressed it down, slamming it into the shark's teeth, sending sparks flying.

The two jumped backward at the same time, creating a distance of several tens of meters between them.

Yousha glanced at the spot where the near-Special Grade monster had vanished. All of its subordinates were dead, and in the distance sat a monster whose mere glance was enough to make its fins stand on end and its soul tremble.

It can't fight that human, but it can't die here either.

The king hasn't been resurrected yet, how could it die on such an inconspicuous beach at the hands of two humans whose names it doesn't even know?

It slammed its claws on the ground, and seawater exploded from its feet, condensing into more than a dozen high-speed spinning water spears around its body.

The spearheads were aimed at Nanami and Haibara, each one wrapped with the same density of cursed power as its own body, making its attack power even stronger than its own body.

With a wave of his hand, a water spear shot out, which Haibara took head-on. He punched it, and his fist went numb from the impact. He staggered back three or four steps before stopping.

The second spear came right in front of Nanami. Nanami parried with his sword, the blade blocking the water spear, but the impact pushed him backward, leaving a long skid mark on the sand.

The third and fourth followed closely behind. Knowing they were no match for each other, the two dodged, and for a moment, the situation reached a stalemate.

Yousha turned his head and glanced around. On the beach, only two of his level one minions were still barely holding on, while the other three had been blasted into pieces by the woman in the shrine maiden's outfit.

It couldn't delay any longer; it had to take down these two humans immediately. Once the woman was free, it would have to face three at the same time.

It was genuinely afraid of being outnumbered three to one.

It opened its blood-red maw, and cursed power surged from the depths of its throat, drawing the seawater outwards and expanding it in all directions. In the blink of an eye, it condensed into a giant water sphere with a diameter of fifty meters, engulfing it, Nanami, and Haibara together.

The surface of the water sphere was covered with deep blue magical patterns that cut off external sounds and air.

It glanced at Duanmu Yan's direction when it had a moment; the monster was still sitting there, showing no intention of making a move.

The shark flicked its tail, its serrated mouth splitting open in a smile.

"So confident? Those two humans are already trapped in my water sphere. This is water, my home turf! The outcome is decided, I'm going to win!!"

Inside the water sphere, the shark's silhouette traced an arc in the water, moving several times faster than before, as if it were cutting through an ocean current.

The two were unable to keep up with its speed and struggled to parry it in the water.

Each of the sharks' attacks was accelerated by the water flow, and each of their counterattacks was slowed down by the water's resistance, making it impossible for them to mount an effective counterattack.

To make matters worse, the oxygen level was low, and the water sphere moved slowly around them, making it impossible for them to swim out of their fifty-meter cage no matter how hard they tried.

Their magical powers could sustain them underwater for a while, but oxygen was running low.

The shark didn't rush to kill them; it circled around the two of them, consuming its oxygen until they ran out.

If things continue like this, they might actually lose.

Suddenly, Duanmu Yan's voice reached Qi Hai's ears.

"Use that... it'll get us out of this predicament."

Nanami nodded in the water, raised his hand, and spread his fingers.

The water surging inside the water sphere suddenly changed direction, no longer controlled by the shark, but began to slowly rotate around his palm.

The shark froze, sensing an aura very similar to the king's emanating from the palm of this unassuming human.

"Laughing as we eat rice, the power to overwhelm the school, unite."

Blue light burst forth from Nanami's palm as he donned his armor, water-like patterns flowing across his breastplate.

The suffocating feeling of water pressing against my chest vanished instantly, replaced by an unprecedented comfort, as peaceful as lying in my own bed.

Nanami opened his arms, and the surrounding seawater seemed to hear an irresistible call, rushing wildly towards his palm.

The water sphere was drained within seconds, condensing into a crystal-clear ball of magical energy in his hand. It shrank smaller and smaller until it finally vanished with a "poof," leaving not even a trace of water behind.

The shark took a half step back, its serrated jaws opening and closing several times before it could finally utter a sound: "Impossible! How could you, a mere human, possess the power of the ocean! This is ours, this is ours! You thief!!"

Nanami withdrew his armor, and the blue light faded from his body. He gripped his spell tool tightly again, aiming it at the shark's chest.

Haibara, standing beside him, shook the water off her fist and took a step to stand shoulder to shoulder with him.

Nanami: "Say whatever you want, this is your death day."

Haibara moved first. He drew his right fist to its full extent, pushed off with his foot, and sand exploded behind him, his fist flashing out like a black lightning bolt.

"Black Flash!"

The shark crossed its claws to block, and the impact knocked it back two steps, causing several scales on the back of its claws to fly off.

Before it could even stand still, Nanami had already slashed to its side, her cursed tool flashing horizontally, the blade also wrapped in black lightning.

"Black Flash".

The shark barely managed to dodge to the side, but not completely, and the blade tore a long gash in its belly.

Haibara followed up with a second punch. He spun two and a half times in the air, then swung his left fist in a wide arc and smashed down. Black Flash exploded again, and this punch landed on Yusha's shoulder. His entire arm made a loud bang, and then it went limp and hung down.

Yusha let out a miserable howl, but before he could retaliate, Haibara's third punch came in quick succession. His right fist swung upwards from below, hitting Yusha squarely in the jaw.

The black flashes erupted continuously, the impact of which knocked the shark's head to one side.

Nanami didn't give it a chance to land; his cursed tool was already raised above his head, the blade slashing vertically.

Then came the fifth strike, a backhand horizontal slash.

Remember, these two attacks were also Black Flash.

In other words, in just a few seconds, the shark had been hit by six black flashes in a row!!

Chapter 150 Black Flash Seven-Strike Combo

Then, he gripped the knife with both hands, lowered his center of gravity, and the blade sliced ​​across the center of You Sha's chest, black lightning leaping in a line on the blade.

Nanami unleashed Black Flash four times in a row.

The shark tried to fight back, but the power of the curse, enhanced by Black Flash, had reached a terrifying level in these rounds of attacks. The shark's scales were no different from paper in the face of such force.

As the blade flashed, the shark's body was cleaved in two, its black magical energy dissipating in the air.

On the other side, the songstress removed all five level-one cursed spirits.

She stood on the beach with her hands on her hips, the hem of her shrine maiden robes soaked by the seawater, but it did nothing to diminish her imposing laugh: "You little level one cursed spirits think you can defeat the songstress? Train for another two hundred years!"

Riko ran to Nanami and Haibara's side. The wound on Nanami's arm, caused by the water spear, was still bleeding, and Haibara's back was covered in bruises.

She crouched down, her palm glowing with a soft golden light, and gently stroked the wound.

Duanmu Yan stood in front of the three of them and waited until Li Zi finished treating her wounds before speaking.

"Your strength is sufficient. What you lack is combat experience. On the beach, and against a clearly water-controlling spirit, you should have been constantly aware of changes in the environment. From the moment the water sphere formed, there was a full second to escape, but neither of you noticed. Take this as a warning for the future."

Nanami lowered her head, while Haibara clenched her fists and pressed her lips into a thin line.

Neither of them spoke, and both looked somewhat dejected, probably feeling that they had failed the Level 1 Sorcerer assessment.

“Even so,” Duanmu Yan changed the subject, saying that giving a stick followed by a sweet treat is the right way to do things.

"There is no doubt that the strength of the two of you has reached the first level. Even without what I gave you, you have already reached that level."

He turned to the songstresses still bouncing on the beach, "The same goes for the songstress over there. I will report your performance today to the higher-ups truthfully."

The songstress was so happy that she spun around on the beach, then danced a half-hearted dance barefoot along the edge of the waves: "Duanmu, you really aren't like that scumbag Wutiao, hahaha!"

"If you've fallen to the same level as Wu, then you're truly beyond saving." Duanmu Yan chuckled lightly, then clapped his hands. "Now that the mission is complete, you can all enjoy yourselves here."

Nanami immediately looked up, a rare look of ease appearing on her face.

As expected, only Senior Duanmu deserves respect; all the other sorcerers are utter garbage.

The songstress was even happier, already dreaming of a wonderful beach life.

Riko didn't move. She looked up at Duanmu Yan: "Aren't you staying?"

"I'm sorry. I have other things I need to do."

She bit her lower lip, then looked up and said, "Come back safely."

Duanmu Yan looked down at her face. The sea breeze ruffled her bangs. He reached out and tucked them behind her ear, laughing, "It's not a dangerous place. Besides, I'm the strongest."

He withdrew his fingers from behind her ear and said gently, "I'll be back soon."

A green wind rose from beneath his feet, and the armor of the Tornado vanished in the whirlwind; he had disappeared at the edge of the beach.

The songstress leaned closer and nudged Riko's arm with her elbow: "He's gone?"

Riko remained standing in the same spot, gazing in the direction where the wind had disappeared.

"I'll be back soon, I definitely will."

Duanmu Yan swept across the ground, the coastline of Osaka Bay gradually blurring behind him. His destination was clear: the Zenin family, one of the three great families of sorcery.

It's about time we went there.

……

The ancestral home of the Zen master, the residence of the clan head.

Zenji Naokijin and Zenji Hana sat facing each other across a low table. The tea on the table had long since gone cold and no one touched it.

Zenji leaned back in his chair, a sneer playing on his lips: "Brother, you'd better be sensible and hand over the position of family head. You're too weak; even that newly returned brat from the Kamo family can step on our heads."

“Our Zen family has never been at the bottom of the three royal families. Such humiliation is unheard of in thousands of years, and the family is now indignant.”

"And don't forget, two years ago you secretly transferred a huge sum of money to that good-for-nothing who was expelled. You know the consequences if you don't get that money back..."

He stood up, looked down at his still-sitting elder brother, and laughed, "Of course, if you hand over the position of family head now, I can give you a few more days, hahaha!"

Zen Temple Fan laughed loudly as he pushed open the door and left. The door slammed shut behind him.