775 Enemy attack! (1/2)
A large number of colorful lines started extending from Kaho's back. The lines then formed a tremendous pair of wings of light as a dense shadowy insect group appeared. These shadowy insects then materialized into real entities and poured everywhere.
Kazuko raised her hands as her palms started glowing a bloody red. Numerous black dimensional cracks appeared in midair and opened up into ovals. Demons wielding various weapons emerged from the dimensional cracks and headed in all directions.
Kaho's insects and Kazuko's demons were the first line of defense against the enemy. Although these units were individually weak, they were incredibly numerous.
The insects and demons were soon attacked, not long after arriving at their posts.
The attackers were pitch-black spiritual warriors that wore red masks of various types!
All of the spiritual warriors wielded strangely shaped weapons that were able to shoot out high-speed Mana Bullets. Some of their masks were shaped like demons, while others were shaped like animals, plants, insects, or abnormally strange shapes… This gave the enemy an ominous appearance.
These enemy spiritual warriors poured in from the four cardinal directions through four toriis. The enemy attacked and immediately started shooting at the insects and demons while attempting to enter the temple!
The insects and demons teamed up to fight back against the spiritual warriors.
After receiving serious injuries, the pitch-black spiritual warriors' masks started glowing a bloody red. Not only that—their bodies swiftly started evolving. All the spiritual warriors suddenly evolved from humanoids to become strangely shaped monsters! Their masks also transformed to become part of each monster itself.
After the spiritual warriors transformed into monsters, their individual abilities all rose greatly. They also seemed to be more berserk and lost all semblance of order.
Most of these spiritual monsters were blocked by the insects and demons and defeated yet again, transforming into mist, which then vanished.
However, there were a few strong monsters that managed to break through the first line of defense.
It was now time for everyone else to begin attacking.
*Shing!* Kagura unsheathed her sword with a flash and cut a monkey monster in half as it jumped through the air.
The spiritual monster's corpse transformed into mist as it hit the ground. The blue-clad Spirit-branded Retainer girl casually sheathed her sword with a calm expression.
Kaede, who saw this from nearby, clapped her hands upon witnessing this scene.
”Snow Girl” Kagura and ”Galewing” Kaede were guarding the eastern entrance to the temple.
*Boom!* A ball of light exploded against a sticky mud monster, sending out countless bolts of electricity that covered its entire body, instantly reducing it to dust.
”Nice! Hoshi-kun.” Hisashi offered his compliments.
”Same to you, Hisashi-san,” Hoshi responded with a smile.
”Thunderfist” Hisashi and ”Eagle Controller” Hoshi were guarding the western entrance of the temple.
*Smack!* Hitaka kicked down a bird monster that was flying in the air, and sliced it with her sword as it fell to the ground, easily slaying the monster.
Rana, who was sitting down on the ground not far away, yawned as if she was completely bored.
”Inugami” Hitaka and ”Cat Demon” Rana were guarding the northern entrance of the temple.
*Whizz!* Yukari let out a large amount of sticky spiderweb which tangled up two monsters resembling a turtle and a porcupine, respectively.
Mika then used her spiritual clothes to shoot out numerous black blades that pierced these two monsters' bodies, killing them.
At the same time, Mayuzumi had her summoned spirit Idelia defeat a monster with a strange shape resembling a giant fruit sundae.
”Spiderweb” Yukari, ”Spirit Clothes” Mika, and ”Doll Controller” Mayuzumi were guarding the southern entrance of the temple.
Seiji and Natsuya, the two Yin Yang Masters, remained in the center of the temple, prepared to aid any of the four groups that needed support at a moment's notice.
After many minutes, not a single side had requested reinforcements. This meant that their defense was quite solid.
However, everyone had a premonition that things wouldn't end so simply.
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The organization's ghost warriors were unable to conquer the target location.
Heikai Takagi, the leader of the organization's assault force, wasn't surprised by this one bit. The organization had explained quite clearly to him that these ghost warriors had limited power and that it would be impossible to complete the mission with them alone.
However, what surprised Takagi was that not only were there Sakura samurai demons fighting against the ghost warriors, there were even a dense amount of insects and some individuals that appeared to be human!
It was impossible to ascertain if those were real humans just from what the ghost warriors reported seeing. It was possible that the mission target had simply created spiritual creatures that resembled humans.