The bearer of ghosts and gods who return the spell

Chapter 4 The little black chicken is getting bigger

The days passed day by day. During the day, there were boring shikigami summoning exercises, and at night, there was mantra flow training. Then the next day was a new beginning. Except for going out to buy groceries, Soma Josuke basically didn't go out.

Since that day, Fuyuki Miku would send her class notes every day, and Soma Josuke would also give her a ride when she went back.

Yui was not surprised that Souma Josuke took leave from school. It was not the first time that the brother and sister had done this.

But she still found something different about her brother these days.

He seems to be more distant from himself than before. Just some simple physical teasing, he will run away like an electric shock, and he no longer quarrels with her like before, letting her do everything.

These unusual circumstances made Yui wonder whether something really happened that day.

"Brother, tell me honestly, did something happen between you and Dongxue in the future? You've been a little weird lately."

"Nothing happened, why am I surprised?"

When he heard these words, Soma Josuke was really shocked, but he still looked calm on the surface.

"You've been a little distant from me lately."

Alienated?

He felt that he couldn't get any closer. Yui's physical contact was almost challenging his limits.

"Yui, I'm not alienating you. We have all grown up after all, so..."

"Eh? But we are brother and sister, what does this have to do with each other?"

"Just because we are siblings, we can't get too close." Souma Josuke couldn't help but grimace.

Seeing her brother's serious look, Yui also put away the smile on her face, and returned to the room after being silent for a while.

Dinner time ended like this, and the relationship between the two seemed to be developing into a bad situation.

The irritable mood actually made the magic power in his body more active, as if it was silently laughing at him.

That night, after making sure there was no movement in Yui's room, Soma Josuke quietly went out.

This was the first time he had gone out at night in the past few days, and he needed to find a spell spirit to conduct some experiments.

It is now past 11 o'clock in the evening, and there are far fewer people outside than during the day. Conducting experiments at this time can avoid a lot of trouble.

What happened at dinner today may have affected him a little, but it's really time for him to test his practice results over the past few days.

The speed at which he can summon shikigami has now been maintained at about 0.5 seconds. By continuously summoning shikigami, the flow of curse power in his body becomes smoother. As long as he does not encounter too strong a curse spirit, he should be able to handle it.

Coming out of the residential area, Soma Josuke looked no different from the other people who were still walking outside.After wandering around, I came to an abandoned park. This is the most likely place nearby to be haunted by cursed spirits.

This park is not completely abandoned, but another park with better facilities has been built nearby and is closer to residential areas.

Very few people come to this place.

Only people with some other special purpose come here.

Like a dare test or something.

The park is very large. There is a dim streetlight every ten meters. A few bugs fly around the light and attack the big lampshade from time to time.

After hitting the lampshade, he adjusted his broken body and prepared for the next charge.

But there are also some that can never fly again and fall to the ground with no follow-up.

Soma Josuke was lucky enough to find his target on a bench.

But because of the light problem, he couldn't see clearly what kind of curse spirit it was, but the cold feeling coming from the front was similar to the one he encountered before.

As he slowly approached, the shape of the thing on the bench was finally revealed. It looked like a rooster, normal size, all black except for the comb and eye sockets.

If we want to talk about other special features, it is that the only black eye almost occupies the entire head. If it were not for the white dividing line, it would not be possible to tell that it is an eye.

A series of beating gray numbers can be vaguely seen from the eyes.Souma Josuke looked at his watch. It was now 23:33:33, which was the same time.

From time to time, the black chicken would make sounds like "get up... get up..." with some vagueness and resentment.

This is most likely a curse spirit created by getting out of bed.

Souma Josuke, who was still a little worried at first, breathed a sigh of relief. Such a test target was just right for him.

A chicken shouldn't be that strong. He guessed that it was at most the level of a level 4 curse spirit or maybe weaker.

With a thought, Kazan of the Blade Soul appeared beside him.

At the same time, a red circular plan suddenly appeared in his mind.In this picture, a white dot is flashing some distance directly in front of the center point.

This is...Dragon Ball Radar?

No, it should be said to be a curse radar.

He quickly figured out the effect of this radar, which was centered on Kazan's location.

As long as they enter Kazan's range, people or things with magical powers will be displayed on it. However, Soma Josuke found that he was not displayed on it.

Since Kazan appeared, the numbers in the black chicken's eyes would beat faster. After he controlled Kazan to leave a certain range, the beating speed of the numbers would return to its original state.

What a shame, it actually has an effect on these curse spirits.

Although it is not sure whether the strength of the spell has been increased, but judging from this situation, there should be no other possibilities.

But it doesn't matter, he has already thought of a way to solve this problem, so he just gave it a try.

Since he can control the movements of shikigami with his thoughts, he should also be able to use his thoughts to prevent some targets from being amplified by the curse.

Letting Kazan get closer again, Souma Josuke kept thinking about excluding this curse spirit from Kazan's increase in spell power.

keep thinking......

keep thinking......

At first, the numbers would still jump quickly, but as he continued to imagine, the speed of the increase in numbers gradually began to slow down, and finally tended to the normal speed per second.

It really works!

It's just that my control was a bit slow, and this process took more than ten seconds.

You still have to rely on repetitions to increase proficiency.

This chicken-shaped curse spirit became Soma Josuke's training object.

Time passed slowly, and the speed of his control also improved significantly, but it still took 1-2 seconds to eliminate the target.

Although he has improved a lot compared to before, he still feels a little too slow.

He was so obsessed with practice that he didn't notice that the number in the chicken's eyes had reached [04:59:30].

An exercise, [04:59:45].

Another practice, [04:59:59].

next second.

"Oh~oh~oh~", "Dingle bell~dingle bell~".

The sound of chirping and the sound of an alarm clock came from the mouth of the chicken-shaped curse spirit, startling Soma Josuke.

"What's going on here?"

His answer was a sour sound like "crunch...crunch...".

The body of the curse spirit grew in size at a speed visible to the naked eye, and its original black feathers became sharp, flashing with metallic luster in the moonlight.

He could even see the densely packed fangs in the open mouth of this curse spirit.

[Start triggering task selection]

【please choose】

[1. Prevent the curse spirit from continuing to grow and kill the target curse spirit. The host is at risk of death and will be rewarded with a random shikigami*1. 】

[2. Allow the curse spirit to continue to grow and stay away from the target curse spirit. The host is at risk of death and will be rewarded with a random spell tool*1. 】

[Please choose the host within 3 seconds, and automatically select option 2 after timeout]

Chapter 5 Horse kills chicken

"System, can you directly write down the risk of death? This would be very difficult for me to handle."

Three seconds was short, so Soma Josuke chose the first one without hesitation.

Is there any choice?

Even escaping carries the risk of death, so why run? It is better to interrupt its singing when it is not strong.

He probably already understood the actions of this curse spirit, so he hung up here at night and slowly strengthened himself.

The time represented by the numbers in the eye is exactly the same as the time at the latitude and longitude position where it is located.

Because of his intervention, this black chicken completed the accumulation of mana ahead of schedule and began to transform.

However, since the system prompts to prevent it from continuing to grow, it must not have reached its strongest state yet, and there must be some restrictions.For example, you are strongest at 5 o'clock in the morning, or you cannot interrupt the transformation.

If the inference is correct, then Souma Josuke still has a lot of chances.

Even from the perspective of rewards, the new shikigami is what he needs right now.

He wanted to be a long-range mage and didn't want to fight in person.

"As expected, it has expanded. Now I'm starting to think about rewards."

Soma Josuke exhaled, and the curse power began to flow rapidly in his body. His fist wrapped in blue flames hit the chicken-shaped curse spirit hard on the abdomen.

"Oh → Oh ↗ Oh →!"

The black chicken's body, which had grown to more than 2 meters tall, stopped growing under the influence of this straight punch, and staggered to the side, but it seemed that it did not suffer much damage.

With this attack, Soma Josuke was just trying to see if he could hurt the cursed spirit when he was not using his shikigami.

The result was obviously disappointing, but his own fist ached a little.

Hard, so hard that he felt as if he was hitting a piece of iron.

Today's test has come to an end, and now it's time to fight. With a thought, Kazan of the Soul of the Blade instantly appeared 10 meters behind him.

He is still not very proficient in controlling Kazan to exclude the target of increase, so he can only use this method to prevent the big black chicken from obtaining the increase of mana.

Quickly approaching the big black chicken that was still lying on the ground, Soma Josuke aimed at its eyes and struck it hard.