Solving the Demons; The Human Power System

They did not even have time to scream before the spiraling force shredded them, splattering them onto the ground like ink.

The Ground Spider Demons lurking underground burst from the earth at the same time.

Poisonous miasma spread through the air, while several more of their kind waited in the shadows for a chance to ambush them.

The Spiritual Power of the two young Monster Slayers maintaining the barrier was already nearly exhausted. Their faces were deathly pale, and despair filled their eyes as they faced the assault of four Ground Spider Demons.

At that critical moment.

A figure appeared silently in front of them.

His long robe did not stir in the cold wind raised by the poisonous miasma. His silver-white hair was simply tied back with a wooden hairpin, faintly gleaming in the darkness.

His back was not particularly broad, yet it stood as steady as a mountain.

Simply standing there caused the four Ground Spider Demons' charge to falter.

"Fall back."

His calm voice rang out without the slightest trace of worldly warmth.

The two Monster Slayers instinctively retreated. Only then did they clearly see the newcomer.

His face was far too young, pale-skinned and sharply defined.

Most striking of all were his eyes.

Scarlet as blood.

A single glance made them feel as though their minds were about to be drawn into them.

Kagura Ruri, watching from the other side of the barrier, was equally startled.

When had this man appeared?

She had not sensed him at all!

Even stranger, she could not detect the slightest fluctuation of Spiritual Power from him, nor the killing intent of a warrior. Yet he carried a feeling that...

Made one's blood run cold.

Like the surface of the sea before a storm, tranquil above while monstrous waves lay hidden