Great Wisdom King's seed-syllable mantra had the same extremely powerful knockback effect as the seed-syllable mantra of Kundali King, which Kagami Reiji favored.
The difference was that the latter was used to repel enemies, while the former was used to repel curse power.
Just as one had to use even stronger magical power to repel a familiar condensed from magical power, this seed-syllable mantra relied on its own powerful curse power to overwhelm the enemy's curse power and dispel the enemy's curse arts.
Back in the Demon Race Special Administrative Zone of Gozo, Luo Zhen had used this method to scatter the flame breath of Graun after his Divine Beast Transformation.
Now, facing the magic bullets shooting toward him in a barrage that blotted out the sky, Luo Zhen once again invoked this mantra.
"Boom—!"
A shock wave of curse power burst from Luo Zhen's body, blasting apart every incoming magic bullet without leaving a single one behind.
Seeing this, the Hōngui clearly wavered for a moment, but immediately adjusted themselves.
"Twenty hours, twenty-eight minutes, forty-two seconds—confirmed long-range attack ineffective. Switching to close combat."
The leading Hōngui repeated this, prompting the surrounding Hōngui to retract their muzzles and instead raise blades filled with magical power.
The next moment, the Hōngui pounced forward one after another.
"Bang!"
One Hōngui raised the blade protruding from its hand high, making magical power burn along its edge and transform into rolling flames before bringing it down at Luo Zhen.
That high temperature would make the tiny blade's cutting power strong enough to cleave through steel. Its principle was the same as the Heatwave Manipulation used by Loki's Archangel in the Machine-Doll world. Combined with the attack being formed from magical power, it might even have been able to split a familiar in two with