677 You think you’re cool just because you have a transformation? (2/2)

Seiji took advantage of Kanzaki's distraction to use his strongest martial arts technique.

As Seiji's sword flashed, there was a cutting sound that was as imperceptible as falling snow. The pitch-black figure's body was cut apart!

The black mist suddenly exploded, covering such a wide area of effect that Shika and all the others who had backed far away were still forced to retreat.

Was the battle… over?

Shika nervously watched until the black mist dissipated. Once again, there were two figures, with one figure standing and one collapsed.

The collapsed figure was the now headless Kanzaki.

Seiji was still standing.

”Brother…” Shika was the first to run over.

Izawa and Kanna also started running towards Seiji. Keimi who was still carrying Shigure on her back also obediently ran after them.

Seiji's hands were currently trembling.

Although he gained the advantage in the battle against Kanzaki, he was still injured.

Kanzaki was still incredibly powerful despite Seiji's right hand's power countering his black mist! Although Seiji succeeded in dodging every fatal attack with [Bullet Time] and [Emergency Flash], his personal barrier had been shattered a total of five times! This caused Seiji to receive some unavoidable damage.

Right now, his arm was rather numb and in pain. His body wasn't doing too great, either.

”Wagh…” Seiji couldn't restrain himself anymore as his legs felt soft. He kneeled on the ground and spat out some blood.

”Brother!” Shika rushed over and supported him.

”Master…” Izawa looked towards Kanna. She immediately cast a healing magic spell on Seiji.

Seiji heaved a sigh of relief as he received this healing magic. It indeed made him feel a lot better.

Shika gently wiped away the blood at his mouth. She felt pained and blamed herself for not being stronger, strong enough to protect her adopted older brother.

Seiji smiled and took her hand.

Kanna was rendered speechless.

Izawa cautiously inspected Kanzaki's condition and confirmed that he was now one hundred percent dead.

”Yuuma Saitou is the one who died. Kanzaki is probably… no, he's definitely still alive,” Seiji told him.

Only the host and not the spellcaster himself had died. Kanzaki's real body was definitely somewhere else.

After all this effort, all that Kanzaki lost was an ”incarnation”.

Just an ”incarnation” was so powerful already. Just how powerful would Kanzaki be if he fought using his real body?

Seiji had antagonized such a powerful individual who might take revenge on him in the future. How should he deal with this?

He could only talk it over with Yui.

'Well, let's think about future things later.' Seiji looked around him.

The black mist in the environment hadn't receded just because of Kanzaki's host Saitou dying. The cluster amaryllis flowers were still blooming brilliantly. The red moon in the sky was still shining.

This black mist realm still hadn't been canceled. Seiji supposed that he could only try and go looking for Yoshihara again.

Wait a moment, was that red moon growing larger?

Seiji looked carefully and determined that the red moon was indeed growing larger. The moon was also becoming brighter and a fast and visible pace.

*Whoosh… wah… ahh… hah…*

The mist suddenly started making indescribably strange sounds as it rapidly expanded. Large amounts of dark-red ghosts popped out from the mist!

The Kurosaki Family's personal combat squadron started firing their weapons that were magically buffed by the Spiritual Ability users. This was able to easily destroy the ghosts.

Yet, the ghosts rapidly started multiplying. Soon, they reached an uncountable number of thousands. This far surpassed the ability of what just one combat squadron could handle!!

Anyone who was invaded by the ghosts would go insane and begin to attack or even kill their teammates and friends! They would even ”infect” their former teammates! The Spiritual Ability users present were unable to suppress this from happening. Soon, the entire combat squadron reached nearly total collapse.

Everyone in the spectators' section for the tournament hurriedly retreated. The flying UFO-like object swiftly rose into the air in an effort to leave. However, it wouldn't be that easy to leave with a torrential flood of ghosts chasing after it.

The warship on the sea started firing its cannons at the central portion of the mist on the island!

Cannon shots enchanted with large-scale AOE spells continuously landed among the ghost hordes, creating brilliant explosions that were majestic to behold.

However, this still wasn't enough.

Although each cannon shot successfully destroyed large numbers of ghosts, many ghosts still remained. Not only that, the ghosts were constantly increasing in number!

The warship's captain sent out an emergency request for reinforcements! The situation was now far beyond the scale of what just one naval ship could handle.

Ghosts covered the skies as they flew over the sea and surrounded the warship. It was as if countless ants had surrounded an elephant. The ship was forced into retreating as it fired more cannon shots. This made it seem rather wretched.

The mist's strange sounds became even higher-pitched. Then, a tremendous black shadow slowly rose up from within the mist. The top of this figure then split up to form into something that resembled a hand.

No… that was indeed a hand!