515 This is just like cheating! (1/2)

Yashuu's spiritual claw managed to forcefully reach into the air and block Natsuya's powerful anti-spell formation spell!

He then used his giant claw to forcefully squeeze Natsuya's gigantic spiritual blade into tiny little pieces! The spiritual blade broke up into bits of light that ended up fading.

Seiji and the others were all rendered speechless.

This was just like cheating!

That was a huge spell specialized against spell formations. A Spirit-branded Retainer was actually capable of dealing with it in such a fashion…? How were they supposed to fight against this?

Akatsuki Mitarai's ”true strength” was simply far too astonishing. Was he supposed to be the main character rather than the antagonist!?

'No, wait…' Seiji felt that there was some sort of hidden issue.

Those abnormal crystals and mysterious black pillars… had such power within them. Were there no side effects at all? Zero weaknesses?

Seiji refused to believe that a guy like Akatsuki would have the luck and plot armor of story protagonists. There would definitely be some type of hidden weakness that was difficult to spot! The critical part was how to find such a weakness.

Seiji looked towards Natsuya.

Natsuya was also looking at him. Her face was filled with confusion and blankness.

Seiji realized that she had received an impact upon seeing her expression.

”I don't believe that Akatsuki Mitarai would be so strong. There must be some type of weakness!” Seiji spoke up.

”I can't spy any weaknesses…” Natsuya replied rather weakly.

”That's because he disguised them excellently! He understands you and knows how you would try to find out his weaknesses. He must have specifically aimed for a method that would conceal any weaknesses from you!”

Natsuya felt encouraged after hearing the resolution in Seiji's words.

Still, what were they supposed to do?

”Use Cleansing!” There was a sharp glint in Seiji's eyes. ”Those two Spirit-branded Retainers obviously have something wrong with their transformation. They might be under the influence of some strange forces. I feel that attempting to Cleanse them might be the most effective method.”

Right after he finished speaking, Yashuu stepped forth and rushed towards them. With a large booming sound, Yashuu caused large cracks to appear in the ground as he pounced!

”Dodge!”

All four members of Seiji's team speedily avoided the huge spiritual claw that was swiping towards them with frightening momentum.

The next moment, Yashuu swiped with yet another gigantic claw, right at Seiji!

[Bullet Time], activate!

Seiji simultaneously dodged the huge claw while speedily creating a seal...

[Evolved Cleansing]!

A golden mystical spell formation instantly appeared on Yashuu's body and gave off a blinding light.

*Boom!!!*

Seiji saw that Yashuu collapsed as if he took a serious blow. There was even a strange, faint sound of creaking.

He'd definitely witnessed such phenomena before when facing off against the transformed Zankita Juumonji!

”Hell's Aura…”

That was the true identity of those black crystals? Or were these crystals merely something similar?

No matter what, he had been right on the mark! The Cleansing spell was super effective!!

Seiji's mouth arced upwards ever so slightly.

Meanwhile, Akatsuki's expression froze over.

'How is this possible!?'

Just now, Seiji Haruta's spell caused tremendous damage to Yashuu, leaving Akatsuki in disbelief.

Indeed, the power he'd bestowed upon Yashuu and Koogi had a weakness. However, this weakness was one which wouldn't be so easily discovered! Only extremely specialized Cleansing magic would be able to cause any damage. Most ordinary or common Cleansing spells would be ineffective!

Yet Seiji Haruta had such a precise spell that managed to deal damage on the first try… Just what was going on!?

While Akatsuki was busy being astonished, he witnessed Seiji cast another Cleansing for a second time and bring massive damage to Yashuu yet again.

'No matter what, I have to kill this bastard first!'

Such a thought popped into Akatsuki's mind. He immediately began preparing a large-scale ultimate spell, which caused all for black pillars to light up with a dark glow.