Chapter 173 - Ambush! (2/2)

I didn't even know what kind of ghost it was. Was it some kind of Genderuwo? The one that had been in contract with humans, of course. Greedy and cruelty were dominant from its aura. I didn't know how many humans had it killed under the order of another sick and evil human. Since it was this terrifying, strong, and ugly, I bet it had been affected by the resentment and fear of its victims. Since what it did was not something good, it was normal for it to have this terrifying form.

I continued to watch the fight. Sanji was using mantra and enchantments to fight against them. I guessed after he got enlightenment that time, he got stronger and firmer. He looked like a very skillful exorcist like that. I also noticed that his mantra and enchantments made him able to hurt them in anyway even when he didn't use any weapon.

Tom, on the other hand, was like fighting with human. He kicked here and there, threw punches, and what was that hanging on his wrists? I squinted my eyes to have a better look at the thing around his wrists.

Wasn't it chains? How did it get there? I was sure I had not seen it before.

With how easy he utilized the chain to swing here and there, I was even surer that it was a mystic weapon obeyed only to him.

Hm? Why did I feel that those two were in a strain?

I blinked my eyes to adjust my sight, this time I didn't suppress myself. To my surprise, instead of that one nasty shadow, there were some others which probably were its underlings. It might be hundreds of them, damn!

Handling these much, I believed in Tom and Sanji. They would be able to eradicate those shadows for sure, but it would take much time. I didn't want to miss the perfect time to play in the water.

Sensing my stares to them, those unknown creatures shifted their eyes on me and started to target me. I didn't know why, but I thought the way they were looking at me was like they were looking at their prey.

Ah, I remember. They did treat us like meal. I nodded as I stood up and patted my butt from dirt.

Since they want to provoke me, let's end this quickly so that we can reach the river on time.

That's what I told myself. This was the time I got to practice what I had learned from Siji.

Smirking, I welcomed their advances towards me while ignoring the shouts of horror from Sanji and Tom. What? Are they forgetting the fact that I am the Master of White Army?

I put my hands together in front of my chest, at the same time channeling my spiritual power to my surrounding. Since my spiritual power was in the smoke form, I could manipulate the air around me to be my weapon. Well, I was still not good enough at it, but Siji said it was enough to knock down some low level shadows if I were to be ambushed like this time.

That's why I said, it was a good time to practice.

The air around me changed as soon as I started channeling my power. Before they could touch me, they were sent flying, howling, and dispersed even before they landed on the ground. I smirked again, feeling happy that it worked better than I expected.

What did I do? I used my spiritual power to change the density of the air around me, creating two fingers thick and an arm length invisible stick weapons which pierced through their bodies in one go.

Not only that, my attack came in five waves that could cover up to till ten meters after it was being released and it could only affect shadows, not human. I was working so hard on this move that I set the rule not to use to harm humans.

As a result, not only the batch of shadows that was sent to attack me was sent flying and dispersed into thin air, but also those who were fighting against Tom and Sanji.

The boss, the one who was eating meat, was the only one left. It was looking at me with shock all over its hairy face. I noticed its body trembled slightly, especially when I was approaching it. It was flinching and planning to run away, but the chain in Tom's hand caught it up first and tied it up.

”Tell me.” I started coldly. ”It is still in the very outer area of this forest. Since many people come in and out using this path, there was no way someone would let anything as dangerous as you lingered in this place. In other words, you should not be here. Then, why are you here? Who commands you?”

”And don't even try to pretend that you don't understand what I'm saying since or you're not able to talk. I won't buy it.” I added but still with my calm face.

It looked shocked that its plan was seen through by me. Under normal circ.u.mstances I might be more lenient and wait for it to talk, but obviously not today since I had another plan to do. The question had been popping in my mind for several times, but I ignored it. But now I needed to know the answer.