Not My Match at All

"Duroff!"

Watching a colossal creature fall from the sky and swallow her prey alive, Uro Sakurako flew into a rage.

Her fierce eyes locked onto the sky, staring in the direction where the giant creature had descended.

There, Duroff sat cross-legged atop a bird-shaped shikigami, completely ignoring Uro Sakurako's fury.

"I had my eye on him first, Uro."

Duroff said only that, yet it made Uro Sakurako grit her teeth.

But before Uro Sakurako could explode, the composed Duroff's expression suddenly changed dramatically.

"Bang!"

The colossal creature that had just swallowed Riezel suddenly exploded at the abdomen.

A fist clad in the Glorious Gauntlets burst out from its stomach—or rather, Riezel had punched from inside the creature, blasting its abdomen apart.

"No!"

Duroff let out a cry of utter anguish.

The last of his two powerful independent shikigami had been destroyed as well.

At once, the gigantic shikigami began turning to ash and dissipating.

Riezel emerged from within the gradually crumbling giant shikigami, reappearing before Duroff and Uro Sakurako.

"So the shikigami that attacked me at the start was yours."

Retracting his fist, Riezel raised his eyes to look at Duroff glaring down at him in fury, his expression blank.

"You took your time getting here, old man."

Though his tone carried no mockery or disdain, Duroff still felt deeply insulted.

"Who are you?" Duroff demanded, struggling to contain his anger. "You disposed of my shikigami so easily. Why have I never heard of a sorcerer as powerful as you?"

Like Uro Sakurako, Duroff was an ancient Curse User.

During Wa's era of chaos, he had accomplished the feat of suppressing the entire archipelago single-handedly. He was an exceptionally powerful sorcerer.

As for just how powerful he was, one only had to look at the fact that he possessed the