Dark red light exploded from the bottom of the crater.
Black Arashi stood at the center of the deep pit. His humanoid body was completely hairless, his dark gray skin like cooled lava, its surface covered in web-like cracks.
Deep within those cracks, dark red light flowed slowly, like magma beneath the earth waiting for the moment to erupt.
The Four Souls Jewel was embedded in the center of his chest. Its dark red glow brightened and dimmed with his heartbeat. With every beat, the patterns beneath his skin lit up, like blood vessels carrying power throughout his body.
Toga tightened his grip on Tetsusaiga.
"Careful."
Toga's voice was low.
"No Demonic Power is leaking from him. All his strength must be compressed within his body. That level of control..."
He did not finish.
The Black Armor King and the Gray Robed Man did not need him to.
They were both King-level beings. They had seen more than most demons would see in a lifetime.
What did it mean to face a King-level Great Demon capable of perfectly compressing its power?
It meant there would be no warning when it attacked.
No fluctuations in Demonic Power.
No change in its aura.
Nothing at all.
By the time you sensed it, the attack had already landed on you.
"Attack."
The Black Armor King streaked through the air, leaving behind a black afterimage. He drew the long blade from his waist, and the silver white blade light gathered along its edge shone in the darkness like lightning.
The blade light slashed toward Black Arashi's neck.
He opened with a killing blow.
The Gray Robed Man moved at the same time.
He spread the five fingers of his right hand. Gray light shot from his palm and condensed into a giant hand in