Holy Grail War

[Available Skills: Isayama Style Swordsmanship, Isayama Style Magic Compendium, Mana Burst...]

[Theoretical Lifespan: 709.6 years]

[Divine Authority Jade: 2361.01]

"Sick, unstoppable!"

Luo Shu raised an eyebrow and gave a gentle smile.

With his current strength, dying in this dangerous world wasn't so easy anymore.

Outside the window, the moon hung high in the sky. It would probably be a long while before dawn.

The youth sank into thought, considering whether to kill time with a game.

"Beep beep beep—."

By his pillow, his iPhone suddenly vibrated.

"Huh? Who's messaging me in the dead of night?"

Luo Shu was a little surprised, then picked up the phone and pressed the button on the left side.

The screen lit up instantly. The social app LINE was blinking nonstop.

He clicked in curiously to take a look. The other person's avatar was a high school girl in a sailor uniform—one of the clients he'd added after a fortune-telling session that day. She'd sent him four messages in a row, and she seemed pretty frantic?

["I'm gonna die I'm gonna die I'm gonna die..."]

["Sorcerer Luo, save save save save me!!"]

["The evil spirit is about to kill me!!"]

"1 person is sharing their real-time location."

—Message source: Higurashi Kagome.

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Seeing the message, Luo Shu was dumbfounded for a moment.

Doesn't your house have that Bone-Eating Well where monsters pop out? Where'd an evil spirit come from?

...Did she just run into one by bad luck?

Without much hesitation, Luo Shu started walking while thinking, then ran toward the shared location.

He didn't mind saving a girl on the side.

But if the evil spirit was too strong, he'd ditch her and bolt.

17. Classic Scene Recreated, Eternal Bringer Holds a Beauty Under the Moon!

The sky, the moon hung low, casting a silver-white coating onto the ground.

Chiba City, central Saw Mountain Great Forest.

An evil spirit as tall as a skyscraper howled, its head and thorax bearing four pairs of long legs tipped with sharp hooks.

It resembled a sea spider, its five compound eyes on a brown back rolling as it stared ahead at the tiny figure fleeing for its life, its gaze full of greed and craving.

The beautiful light inside that body kept calling out to it.

If it devoured her, it would definitely achieve higher evolution!

"Rumble...!!"

Countless lush ancient trees fell, the shockwaves kicking up terrifying gusts of air.

This behemoth rampaged in excitement during the chase, the ground it trampled forming deep hundred-meter ravines. Every footprint was like a natural rift valley, dust and smoke spreading out, shrouding several kilometers in its wake.

Without a doubt, this was a fearsome evil spirit that had reached A-Class.

Not only did it possess immense spiritual power, it could also freely command lower-ranked evil spirits.

Whenever an evil spirit of this rank emerged, it often triggered a Ghost Disaster in human cities.

In Japan, only personnel from the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau in Tokyo had the confidence to suppress an A-Class Evil Spirit.

If nothing unexpected happened, no one in Chiba City could suppress it.

In the distance.

The tiny figure ran for her life, cursing and swearing as she went.

"Damn big spider, still chasing me!!"

As the ground kept shaking, Higurashi Kagome gritted her teeth and steadied herself to keep running.

She couldn't figure it out—she was so small she wouldn't even be enough to fill the gaps between its teeth. Why was this behemoth still tailing her? This was like those demons in Journey to the West spotting Monk Tang's flesh.

Could eating her really grant immortality or something?

This was ridiculous to the max—absurdity had come home to roost!

"Huff... huff..."

At the edge of a cliff, Kagome gasped for air. Her brain was blank from oxygen deprivation, but she couldn't stop.

Under the life-or-death crisis, adrenaline began to secrete, and blood circulation accelerated.

In this relentless predicament, her mind had already started to wander.

Would Mr. Luo come when he saw the message?

Had he even seen the message she sent?

It was so late... he was probably asleep by now, right?

As a diviner, he didn't have much combat ability, did he?

Even if he arrived in time, could he really defeat such a colossal monster?

If he could, wouldn't that make him a humanoid Ultraman!

"Boom...!"

Accompanied by the earth-shaking roar, the Sea Spider Wraith had already caught up.

"Hiss~"

This massive beast lowered its head, the five pairs of compound eyes on its back brimming with greed as it looked down at the tiny figure.

Drops of green drool dripped from its mouth, sizzling and corroding the ground upon contact. Under Kagome's horrified gaze, the hard natural granite instantly weathered into a pile of dust.

If she were swallowed into its stomach, what difference would that be from taking a bath in sulfuric acid?

Her beautiful eyes widened in fear as she stared at the monster, but the girl, knowing there was no hope of escape, forced herself to calm down in an instant. She took a deep breath, and her gaze gradually shifted from terror to determination.

"Goodbye, Grandpa..."

"Goodbye, Dad..."

"Goodbye, Mom..."

"Goodbye, Sota..."

In that instant, a violent gust of wind swept through, as if the very space was being pierced.

The A-Class Evil Spirit roared, its six terrifying, skyscraper-like pincers falling in unison.

Kagome closed her eyes with deep reluctance, pressed her hands together in front of her chest, and her feet rapidly retreated until her back faced the cliff, and she jumped.

In the biting, bone-chilling wind, she remembered being led by the hand by her grandfather to buy candied hawthorns, recalled her mother gently patting her shoulder and teasingly saying her daughter had finally grown up, and thought of Sota calling her "big sister" with such attachment...

Her ordinary yet happy life replayed like a lantern show in her mind.

Is my life...

really ending here...?

The girl's eyelashes trembled slightly as she entrusted her regrets to the wind, letting herself fall.

In a daze, it felt as if a pair of slender, warm hands had caught her in an embrace...

It felt like a candle burning in a warm room on a winter's day—so warm...

It was almost like a dream.

The girl instinctively held on tighter, clinging stubbornly, unwilling to let go.

But then, a somewhat familiar teasing voice suddenly rang in her ear.

"Hello~ Miss Higurashi, we meet again."

"Huh... wait, whaaaaat?!"

The dark clouds overhead suddenly parted, and the silvery moonlight fell, illuminating a figure clad in a moon-white Hagoromo robe, with an aura like a banished immortal, further accentuating a strange, almost demonic allure.

Higurashi Kagome opened her eyes in shock, finding herself lying in the other's arms.

The Hagoromo Boy had saved her in a princess carry, his handsome face currently wearing a gentle smile, tinged with a hint of playfulness.

It perfectly matched that beautiful line of poetry: "A gentleman on the street, jade-like and peerless in the world."

Was she... saved?

Kagome's expression was dazed, only this single thought echoing in her mind.

She stared blankly at the boy, and her blank brain deeply imprinted this stunningly gentle smile into the deepest recesses of her memory, never to be forgotten.

Then, as Luo Shu's feet rapidly moved, the two of them landed safely back on the ground.

Only after they had steadied themselves did Kagome's little head start working again. The girl's cheeks rapidly flushed red. Only now, in her clarity, did she realize the way she had been clinging to Mr. Luo like an octopus...

Wasn't that a bit too intimate?

Luo Shu paid it no mind at all. He gazed into the distance, deep in thought.

That A-Class Evil Spirit, which looked just like a sea spider, was exuding a terrifying aura from its entire body.

After he had saved Kagome, it seemed to go berserk, letting out furious roars. Its four pairs of long, tentacle-covered legs spun like little motors, moving so fast they left afterimages, crazily charging in their direction.

It was as if it had a built-in tracking device with a clear target, making it quite hard to handle!

The earth was plowed into countless furrows, and patches of dense forest collapsed instantly...

This guy was really strong~.

Luo Shu rubbed his chin with his index finger.

He could clearly sense that this monster was also a powerhouse treading into the third-order realm; its body, like a land-dominating behemoth, was the capital of its tyranny.

The moment he saw it, Luo Shu felt a chill crawl up his spine, a drenching fear spreading across his entire body, his sixth sense frantically warning him to flee.

His very genetic instincts were advising him that this was an enemy difficult to overcome...

If he were to fight it head-on, one misstep could leave him injured or dead.

Even two of himself might not be a match for this A-Class Evil Spirit.

But...

Under the premise of using his cheat ability, it was still a foe easily dealt with.

18. Sacred Jewel of Four Souls, Slaying the Evil Spirit, a Godlike Strike!

"Why did you run into the forest?"

Luo Shu smiled calmly, exuding confidence as if holding a pearl of wisdom in his grasp. He turned to look at the black-haired girl whose pretty face was flushed, and asked curiously:

"There are people from the Disaster Countermeasures Bureau in the city. If you just stalled a little longer, a Demon Exorcist would arrive. I won't say they'd slay the demon, but your personal safety would definitely be guaranteed."

"I absolutely can't do that!"

The lovestruck girl snapped awake, clenched her fists, and spoke with grave seriousness.

"I don't know why, but that thing was coming straight for me. Its target is only me. If I stayed in the city just to save my own skin, I'd end up getting a lot of innocent people killed."

"Even if it means being brutally killed by the monster yourself?"

"So what!"

Kagome was righteous and awe-inspiring, her gaze resolute and earnest.