As Choso reeled in shock, wondering why things had progressed so quickly, Kenjaku waved his hand, and the barrier divided into countless hexagons began to turn. The surroundings around Choso and Kenjaku abruptly transformed into a movie theater.
On the theater screen played an apocalyptic scene!
Humans walking through the streets had all the matter within their bodies siphoned away in an instant, leaving behind nothing but empty clothes.
The siphoned matter and cursed energy gathered in the air, forming enormous hands and feet.
And as more and more humans and cursed energy were absorbed, those hands and feet grew ever larger!
They gradually devoured the civilization of entire cities, even whole nations!
An unprecedented cursed spirit that blotted out the sky rampaged across the screen. It resembled a human ribcage, except every rib was a massive arm or leg.
It walked across the land of Japan in an utterly bizarre and grotesque posture!
And this was Kenjaku's next plan!
His original purpose had been to see whether upgrading cursed spirits into a higher form of existence would give rise to a new form of cursed energy.
That was precisely why he had held such expectations for human-cursed spirit hybrids like the Death Painting Wombs.
But the result had disappointed him greatly, because Choso and the others were simply too weak.
So he changed his plan and set his sights on Tengen.
Years ago, Tengen had failed to merge with the Star Plasma Vessel and could no longer maintain a human existence.
This had forced him onto the path of self-evolution.
And now that Tengen had successfully evolved, he had become even closer to a cursed spirit.
Once Tengen merged with Japan's non-sorcerers, the cursed spirit nurtured by the cursed energy of a hundred million people might just be that