"Furube, yura yura, Eight-Handled Sword, Otherworldly Divine General Mahoraga!"
As Qi Wu extended both hands and recited the [Furu Mantra].
The shadows on the ground seethed wildly.
The instant his words fell silent.
The entire gray-white world trembled.
The shadow beneath Qi Wu's feet suddenly expanded.
Tenfold, a hundredfold.
Then, from the deepest reaches of the shadow, a massive silhouette slowly rose.
It was a... monster.
Over five meters tall.
His entire body was white. His eyeless head had four winglike protrusions on its sides, with a tail attached to the back. The Sword of Extermination was mounted on his right arm, and a wheel floated behind him.
At that moment, the wheel was slowly turning.
Mahoraga.
The strongest shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique.
He possessed one trait-
[Adaptation].
As long as an attack failed to kill him the first time, he would gradually adapt to it.
Physical attacks, adapted.
Cursed technique attacks, adapted.
Rule-based attacks...
He adapted to those, too.
His terrifying, eyeless face stared fixedly at Hopelessness.
Watching the enormous shikigami, Hopelessness looked grave for the first time.
"This is..."
He sensed it.
The aura emanating from that shikigami.
It was an utterly terrifying power.
"Interesting..."
A hint of excitement crept into his voice.
"Far too interesting..."
"This little bug actually summoned a monster like this..."
He raised his hand, and gray-white threads poured out wildly.
The threads, imbued with the power of despair, stabbed toward Mahoraga all at once!
Mahoraga did not dodge.
He simply stood there, letting those threads pierce his body.
Shhk, shhk, shhk, shhk-
A hundred thousand threads riddled him with holes in an instant.
But the next second.
The wheel behind him turned one notch.
The threads piercing his body began to slow.
Another notch.
The threads began to... melt.
Another notch.