Watching Haku approach the mysterious figure step by step, even Shinji, watching from atop the distant cliff, couldn't help raising an eyebrow. His comrades on the battlefield were just as tense.
Shion clasped her hands together, her nerves showing.
The mysterious figure's display of power had startled her. If the people on the field hadn't been so strong and worked together so well, the mysterious figure would probably have broken through their encirclement by now.
On the battlefield.
Holding the Type Four Aging Potion, Haku slowly closed in on the mysterious figure, who stood motionless.
But just as Haku reached the mysterious figure and was about to inject the Type Four Aging Potion into him, Yakumo, standing some distance away, suddenly froze. As if sensing something, she cried out, "Get out of the way!"
Haku had already raised his hand. At her warning, his pupils contracted sharply. Without hesitation, he activated a simplified version of Demonic Mirror Ice Crystals without hand seals. With a whoosh, he drew back and slipped into a newly formed ice mirror whose surface had yet to fully gleam.
Almost as soon as Haku disappeared into the mirror, the mysterious figure—who had just endured countless vines piercing his body—suddenly swung his arm. With a sharp whistle, it slashed toward Haku.
Crack!
In an instant, the ice mirror hiding Haku was shattered by the bone blade on the mysterious figure's arm, breaking into ice shards that scattered through the air.
"Hmph!"
The mysterious figure curled his lips and snorted.
Only then was Ido's Spirit Body expelled. He looked somewhat translucent, as if he'd taken a moderate hit inside the mysterious figure's body.
After flying into the air and putting some distance between himself and the mysterious figure, Ido gritted his teeth. "Damn it! Damn it! Damn it!"