The world-destroying monster Moryo was now like a helpless girl, pinned to the ground by thick black chains and unable to move an inch. Yet even in such a hopeless situation, Moryo didn't give up. Its eyes brimmed with savagery and murderous intent, and all it wanted was to tear Fuyuki apart!!!
Moryo and the Shrine Maiden were two sides of the same coin. As long as they weren't killed at the same time, Moryo could keep coming back to life forever!
So it wasn't afraid of Fuyuki at all. Even if he killed it now, it could return in just a few years. All it had to do was memorize the face of the one humiliating it, then, once it revived, take revenge on him with every vicious method imaginable!
"What beautiful big eyes. I hope they won't be brimming with tears and going 'wuwuwu' in a minute."
Wild Summoned Beasts were dangerous. They weren't like the Elemental Spirits Fuyuki summoned with his own chakra.
When Summoners tamed wild Summoned Beasts, they had to discipline them appropriately, so the beasts understood who was boss and who was the subordinate. They had to make sure the beasts always held their summoner in awe, without becoming arrogant or complacent.
Of course, this applied to wild Summoned Beasts. It had nothing to do with creatures summoned through Forbidden Summoning.
When summoning creatures through Forbidden Summoning, the best you could hope for was that these legendary, renowned powerhouses would still respect you—and that you wouldn't end up wetting yourself.
Besides, if you summoned a mythical creature on a whim, the most likely outcome was that you'd be unable to control it, causing it to go berserk and turn on you!
"Let me properly introduce myself. I'm a Summoner from a once-wealthy family, and my current goal is to collect chakra. Of course, you can call me Eclipse, or Summoning Dominator."
Fuyuki walked up to Moryo. Compared to its mountain-like size, the Yin-Yang Spirit looked tiny.
And yet this tiny Yin-Yang Spirit had beaten Moryo to a pulp, pinning it down without giving it the slightest chance to fight back!
"As for why I'm called the Summoning Dominator, I'll show you!"
Fuyuki rolled up his black sleeves, revealing the green skin of a High-ranking Yang Spirit. A layer of black substance spread from his slender fingertips, covering his arm until it looked as though he'd used Earth Release: Hardening or Armament Haki.
"Domination Magic: Soul Domination!"
Fuyuki reached for Moryo. The arm coated in black substance wasn't stopped by its physical body; it plunged straight inside. After rummaging around for a moment, he pulled a clump of blue flame out of Moryo's body. "Tsk, that's a big one!"
Fuyuki didn't pull out Moryo's entire soul. Summoners developed Domination Magic to calm down violent Summoned Beasts that turned on their masters, not to kill them!
He only needed to pull part of its soul out. Next came the process of calming the shaking Summoned Beast.
"Now then, let's calm this Summoned Beast down!"
The Black Receiver in Fuyuki's hand softened into something like a whip. He lashed it directly across Moryo's exposed soul. The seemingly weak strike made Moryo's whole body jerk, and its big, beautiful eyes rolled upward of their own accord.
"Whip Lash!"
The second strike fell. Moryo stopped even twitching. Its big, beautiful eyes rolled back, and it passed out completely.
"Hey, hey, hey! Don't play dead! We've only just started!"
Fuyuki looked utterly baffled. The Magic Book clearly said that wild Summoned Beasts needed to take five lashes before they'd behave. The especially depraved ones sometimes even needed a kick. He'd only swung twice—how had Moryo already passed out?!
Was Moryo really that weak?
Don't scare me! I ate the candies Ancestor Kaguya gave me just to catch you, and there were only four of them—they were precious! Fuyuki immediately grew anxious, afraid he'd made a bad deal.
Fuyuki wasn't much good at business. Even the most popular local specialties ended up losing him thirty percent when he sold them, and he could barely break even. Seeing how poorly Moryo took a beating, he started to think he might lose big on this capture!
The more he thought about it, the more panicked he got. Fuyuki didn't bother with anything else. He hurriedly shoved Moryo's soul back into its body, used the chains to free its limbs from the ground, then manipulated the chakra chains still inside Moryo to control its body and make it form the Hand Seals for the Transformation Technique, shrinking its size.
Dragging the four- or five-meter-tall Moryo, Fuyuki dashed out of the cave to meet up with the Shrine Maiden Miroku. "Hey, is that Transformation Technique array ready yet? I need to pack Moryo up and take it home for an inspection. It's urgent."
Moryo's fate had indeed come to pass just as the prophecy foretold. The only difference was that Miroku wasn't wearing the look of shock she'd had in the vision of the future. Instead, she and the guards were arranging an array on the ground.
"It's ready, but you..."
To perform a ninjutsu, the caster had to form Hand Seals. With Moryo barely able to draw breath, Miroku couldn't understand how Moon Worm planned to make it disobey its own will and form a seal that looked malicious in every way.
"Just teach me the Hand Seals. I'll handle Moryo!"
Fuyuki raised two fingers, then began influencing Moryo, making it obediently crawl into the Shadow Mirror Body Transfer array. He then controlled it to form the seals in sync with him, following the hand positions the Shrine Maiden had taught him.
"Hah! Shadow Mirror Body Transfer Technique!"
At Fuyuki's shout, Moryo's body, which had been more than four meters tall, rapidly shrank and gradually became human-shaped. Long, black hair grew down to its waist. It had a girl's figure, skin as pale as if it had never seen sunlight, and blood-red eyes beneath faintly trembling eyelids.
"Hmm, why does she look so much like Hagoromo Kitsune? Oh well, this isn't the time to worry about that." Fuyuki grabbed Moryo and bolted, completely ignoring the guards who were preparing to thank him and the Shrine Maiden Miroku, who seemed to want to say something but couldn't bring herself to.
In Fuyuki's subconscious, Moryo, who was two sides of the same coin as the Shrine Maiden, should also have been female.
So when the Transformation Technique took effect, Moryo changed from a mountain-sized beast into a one-meter-seventy-three-tall girl.
As for her appearance, that was just his subconscious's fault.
Fuyuki was rushing off because he wanted to take Moryo back to his own body and use his blood to make a Summoning Contract with her.
Without blood, the contract's binding force was actually very weak. For a vicious pet like Moryo, a blood contract was obviously the way to go!
Once they signed the contract, Fuyuki could check how much chakra Moryo had and freely draw on it.
"I hope this deal doesn't lose money. I'll settle for just breaking even!" Fuyuki prayed silently.
Racing through the woods, Fuyuki also spotted people from other villages heading for the Land of Demons. Some were familiar faces, while others were no-name extras he'd never heard of. The ones who caught his eye most were a silver-haired Konoha Anbu and a middle-aged man in a red vest with waist-length white hair.
Unfortunately, Fuyuki was in a hurry. Otherwise, he would've definitely greeted Kakashi and Jiraiya, two of the Eight Colors of Konoha.
"Good thing I ran fast. If Jiraiya and the Iwagakure Explosion Corps had gotten here first, there wouldn't have been anything left for me." Fuyuki muttered in frustration.
Capturing Moryo was like gambling on a stone. At first glance, Moryo had looked strong and full of chakra.
But after cutting open a few windows, he'd found that it was all looks, and the chance of the stone being a dud was high. Now, rushing back to his own body was like cutting it open to see what was inside!
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