No sooner had Radeus finished speaking than the ground beneath his feet shook with a thunderous rumble.
A shrine rose from the ground without warning, dust billowing as it propped up the entire battlefield in an instant.
Radeus and Rudeus sat side by side on the shrine's highest tier, leisurely overlooking everything below.
The instant the shrine appeared, Orsted's shoulders sank sharply, as though something were pressing down on him.
But to him, this degree of pressure was no different from normal and would not affect his movements.
Sensing trouble, Orsted swiftly retreated, but where could he retreat to in such a cramped space?
The next moment, countless slashes hurtled toward Orsted at once!
The effects and abilities of Radeus's Malevolent Shrine differed from Sukuna's original Malevolent Shrine.
First, the instant the shrine descended, every living creature on the field except the domain's master would be subjected to an inexplicable pressure that rendered them immobile.
The pressure radiated outward from the shrine, and the closer one was to its center, the more pronounced its suppressive effect became.
Its drawback, however, was that the stronger the opponent, the weaker its effect.
Besides that, the domain in its current state would continuously unleash five kinds of slashes.
[Dismantle], an ordinary slash, could only be blocked with the physical body and had limited power.
[Cleave], a slash imbued with mana, had to be blocked using mana or battle aura.
Meanwhile, [World-Cutting Slash], [Conceptual Slash], and [Soul Slash] were difficult to block and could only be dodged.
Under normal conditions, only three kinds of slashes were mixed together: [Dismantle], [Cleave], and [World-Cutting Slash].
What Orsted was about to face now, however, was a mixture of all five.
Among them, Conceptual Slash could confer the effect of [Weakness]. When struck by this slash, the body