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So here's the question: what happens when the Great Tengu, which had been sealed away for hundreds of years and was in decline, is stimulated and the sealing barrier weakens?

As the shadow soldiers moved, the sealing barrier instantly began to shake. The Great Tengu, which had recovered somewhat from its previous actions, suddenly swung its claws and wings, causing the sealing barrier to collapse rapidly.

This wasn't some coincidence that the S-class evil spirit, [Great Tengu], developed intelligence during its centuries-long sealing period. It was purely because, as an S-class evil spirit, [Great Tengu] instinctively refused to be obediently sealed away. It was simply that over hundreds of years, its intelligence was gradually eroded. Even its own survival instincts led it to attack the sister who sealed it, and this time, it actually managed to gradually destroy the sealing barrier.

Strictly speaking, the barrier sealing the Great Tengu was already quite outstanding. It hadn't allowed the Great Tengu to escape for hundreds of years. Even if the Great Tengu itself was largely responsible for this, as it lacked intelligence and didn't know how to break the seal that relied on the earth's spiritual energy, it was perfectly normal for the seal to develop some minor problems, considering the long period of several hundred years. Moreover, Li Mo had arranged for shadow soldiers to directly disrupt the key nodes of the barrier.

So, when Iizuna Kiichi and his group arrived at Hibiya Park, the [Great Tengu] underground had successfully broken through the weakened barrier. Instinctively, it began to rush upwards. It also greedily wanted to absorb the negative spiritual energy of the underground spiritual vein to restore itself. Therefore, only half of its body appeared on the ground, while the other half remained underground, absorbing the negative energy in the underground spiritual vein to restore its strength.

When Noriyuki Iitsuna and the others escaped to the edge of Hibiya Park, they looked back and saw that the entire Western-style park had been reduced to ruins, and the enormous body of the Great Tengu, which was as big as a building, appeared directly in everyone's sight!

"That, that's... a Great Tengu?!"

Upon seeing the half-bodied evil giant that appeared on the ground as the earth shattered, Noriyuki Iitsuna felt as if he were suffocating and unable to breathe. Under the intense difference in strength, he felt an extreme sense of danger. His legs were as weak as noodles and he could not straighten up. He only managed to stay upright by grabbing onto a sidewalk ornamental tree. He let out a desperate cry.

Not only was Noriyuki Izuna desperate, but the other members of the [Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office] team and the police officers were also filled with fear and despair. The [Great Tengu] had even affected ordinary people; at least the police officers had clearly seen it!

"Quickly notify the countermeasures office! We need reinforcements, or we're all doomed!"

Without a doubt, the fastest to react was Koji Iwabata, the captain of the elite mobile squad. Even though his sexual orientation was towards his male teammates in the past, his experience as a member of the Self-Defense Forces and a mercenary made him more determined than anyone else present, and he issued the wisest order without hesitation.

Just kidding. The sheer scale of the Great Tengu's appearance proves that it's no ordinary evil spirit, let alone an elite one. It's the terrifying spectacle of a super boss's entrance. In a tokusatsu show like Ultraman, it would be an alien monster that only Ultraman could defeat. Humanity's technological weapons would be completely ineffective. At most, it would only demonstrate to the audience the powerlessness against monsters and Ultraman's heroic appearance in saving everyone.

In this regard, the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office did not actually have any mandatory requirements. It was perfectly normal for their exorcists to knowingly go to their deaths when they couldn't defeat the evil spirits and needed reinforcements. Moreover, the current interim head of the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office was under immense pressure and had no intention of taking all the responsibility upon himself. He had already made it clear that he would request tactical guidance if anything went wrong.

As soon as Koji Iwabata gave the order, someone reported the message at top speed. But just as he sent out the distress call, the Great Tengu turned its gaze in this direction. The ravenous Great Tengu launched an attack without hesitation!

……

"Your Excellency, we now need your help and that of the other exorcists!"

In a room at the Dragon Leaf Shrine, Jinguji Ayame turned off her phone. Wrapped in a thin silk blanket, she occasionally revealed her graceful figure. Her skin, as beautiful as jade, glowed under the light. At this moment, the stunningly beautiful woman, exuding a languid charm, chuckled and spoke to Li Mo.

At this moment, Li Mo was standing next to Jinguji Ayame. He had just gotten up and covered the sleeping Imano Setsuna and Imano Shizuru with a thin silk blanket. Wearing only a nightgown, he still displayed his strong physique that exuded both power and beauty. Moreover, he was intimately embracing Jinguji Ayame. Just by looking at the intimate actions between the two, it was clear that it was definitely not a purely platonic relationship between a man and a woman. In fact, Jinguji Ayame was already Li Mo's bedmate.

Without a doubt, Jinguji Ayame has been using the excuse of "treating the injuries to her paralyzed legs" to resign from her position as head of the [Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office] these past few days, and has been enjoying life with her man at the [Dragon Leaf Shrine]. Even though she knows that Li Mo has set up a huge trap for the temporary head, she also knows that the temporary head and the forces behind him are planning to reap the benefits, so she naturally feels no guilt for setting someone up.

However, after her assistant transferred the call to the Japanese high-ranking official who urgently ordered her to help recruit reinforcements to Jinguji Ayame in Hibiya Park, she knew Li Mo's general thoughts and thus agreed to the request for help on behalf of her man!

"Yeah, I'll go check it out. Hopefully, there won't be too many casualties!"

Upon hearing Jinguji Ayame's words, Li Mo, while offering a perfunctory remark, completely disregarding how many unfamiliar Japanese people had died, patted Jinguji Ayame's shoulder, then leaned down to kiss her, replying with great magnanimity: "From now on, you'll prepare to resume your duties in the [Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office]. All the necessary procedures have been completed; we're just waiting for tonight to pass..."

Li Mo naturally took the arrangements for Jinguji Ayame very seriously. After all, this gentle older sister-style beauty was definitely capable. Otherwise, she wouldn't have been able to become the head of the [Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office] in the generally unfriendly Japanese workplace.

Even though Jinguji Ayame came from an extraordinary background and possessed certain extraordinary talents, she had only barely reached the passing level of an elite exorcist. Yet, she was able to take charge of the supernatural disaster countermeasures office, relying on her own abilities and skills to firmly hold the position of office head.

Li Mo naturally spared no effort in nurturing his bedmate. Jinguji Ayame, having fused with the partner version of the [Seed of the Extraordinary] and realizing the current situation, completely submitted to Li Mo. She could have proven that she had recovered completely long ago, but she had been hiding it according to her man's requirements. For example, she had now successfully shifted the blame for the [Great Tengu] incident onto that unlucky temporary head of the dormitory.

Faced with Li Mo's instructions, Jinguji Ayame naturally had no objections. She watched as her man changed his clothes, kissed her and the two sleeping beauties goodbye, and then disappeared from the spot, appearing directly on the top floor of a building not far from Hibiya Park.

But when Li Mo saw the ruins of the former Hibiya Park, while he was still wondering if the Great Tengu had gone mad with killing, he couldn't help but sigh at the sight of the human side's crushing defeat and the Great Tengu's increasingly ferocious aura:

"Wow! The Great Tengu is quite fierce!"

Chapter 28 The Ferocious Great Tengu

As it turns out, a team of elite exorcists can handle B-rank evil spirits relatively well, but they might be directly killed by A-rank evil spirits. Just like in the original anime and manga of "Ga-Rei: Zero," the corrupted Yomi Isayama almost wiped out all of his former colleagues in the "Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office" by himself.

Even if Isayama Yomi herself retained her rationality and was familiar with the general moves of her former colleagues and teammates, it was foreseeable that the strength of an A-rank evil spirit was definitely a level above that of a B-rank evil spirit. Furthermore, in ancient Japan, the appearance of a single A-rank evil spirit could gather a group of lower-ranking evil spirits, a phenomenon known to Japanese exorcists as the "Night Parade of One Hundred Demons," demonstrating the high level of power and prestige of A-rank evil spirits.

While there were very few top-tier exorcists in ancient Japan who could directly confront A-level evil spirits, elite exorcists, by employing tactical methods in conjunction with a large number of ordinary exorcists, could still manage to seal or eliminate individual A-level evil spirits.

But in the current world of Food Relic Zero, Iizuna Noriyuki and his team of five elite exorcists and a group of police officers are facing an S-class evil spirit that has broken free from its seal.

Okay, that's not even about courting death; it's practically handing over a treat to the Great Tengu. Sealed in the underground spiritual vein node for hundreds of years, the Great Tengu has long been craving the souls of humans and extraordinary beings.

In particular, the Japanese high-ranking officials were warned and, under the pretext of "possible earthquake" and "evacuating people," temporarily evacuated Hibiya Park and a large area around it. The remaining police and special police who maintained order and prevented unauthorized personnel from approaching numbered over a thousand, including a special squad of the Japanese Self-Defense Force and a group of elite exorcists led by Noriyuki Iitsuna who had just arrived.

In less than three minutes, elite exorcists including Koji Iwabata and Noriyuki Iizuna, along with thousands of police officers and special police personnel, all became food for the Great Tengu. Even if someone tried to escape, it was useless. The terror of an S-class evil spirit was beyond the imagination of ordinary people and even ordinary exorcists. Even though the Great Tengu's main focus was on absorbing the negative spiritual energy from the underground spiritual veins, it did not stop it from crushing humans like ants.

As for escaping or resisting, Koji Iwabata and the others did have such thoughts, but the Great Tengu could absorb the souls of all the ordinary people nearby with just one mouth. When facing elite exorcists such as Koji Iwabata, Noriyuki Iitsuna, and Ikki Sakuraba, their attempts to escape or resist were futile, and their souls were easily devoured by the Great Tengu.

When Li Mo appeared in the buildings surrounding the Hibiya Park ruins, he witnessed the souls of Iizuna Noriyuki and several elite exorcists being devoured by the Great Tengu. The Great Tengu, which had consumed the souls of thousands, let out a violent roar to the sky!

………………

"Roar------!!!"

On the site of the former Hibiya Park, the newly unsealed Great Tengu roared to the sky, a scene that seemed to bring the myth to life. Combined with the silent corpses of thousands of police officers, special police, and elite exorcists lying around, it created a genuine sense of horror.

It was clear that less than a few hundred meters away from the Great Tengu, the elite exorcists, including Noriyuki Iitsuna, still maintained expressions of terror and panic. Koji Iwabata, for example, was still tightly clutching a light machine gun, but he had already collapsed to the ground and become a corpse. His soulless body quickly ceased to show any vital signs, just like the other exorcists, police officers, and special police officers. He quickly became a corpse, and even a doctor could write a death report.

Even strictly according to medical principles, losing vital signs for more than 30 minutes constitutes complete death. In reality, if a human stops breathing for more than five minutes, they are basically beyond saving. Moreover, since their souls were directly devoured by the Great Tengu, even if they were still breathing, they would at most be considered walking corpses. And now, the elite team of the Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Office and a large number of police officers have become food for the Great Tengu.

When the Great Tengu finally tasted the long-awaited delicacy of souls, the souls of thousands of people and a few elite exorcists were not enough to satisfy its appetite. It roared to the sky, feeling even hungrier, especially since there were too many humans gathered around it.

Previously, the Japanese higher-ups knew that a super dangerous ancient evil spirit was sealed beneath Hibiya Park. They were unusually quick to act and evacuate the scene, even evacuating people from the area surrounding Hibiya Park. However, they couldn't possibly evacuate the entire population of Tokyo; that was neither possible nor feasible. Evacuating tens of thousands of people from the surrounding area was already an extraordinary feat by these Japanese higher-ups.

In reality, it wasn't the changes in the underground spiritual veins created by the previously arranged shadow soldiers that gave Japan an excuse for a "potential earthquake," nor was it the fact that the Japanese high-ranking officials fled first out of fear of death and then evacuated the people in the vicinity without hesitation. Under normal circumstances, Japan would have to suffer greatly and pay a bloody price to act quickly upon discovering an unexpected situation. Otherwise, it would have been a series of meetings that allowed the situation to continue to deteriorate.

Unfortunately, while the Japanese leadership responded very quickly this time, they still used previous paranormal events in the Tokyo metropolitan area to assess the "Great Tengu" sealed beneath Hibiya Park. Evacuating people from the area surrounding Hibiya Park would be considered quite good; suggesting that the entire city of Tokyo be brought to a standstill or that all citizens be evacuated would probably be seen as crazy.

Tokyo is the heart of Japan. A shutdown for even a day would cause countless losses. Japanese executives and conglomerates would never choose this option unless they were truly facing a knife to their throats, or had already taken down some of the so-called arrogant and noble Japanese executives. Otherwise, getting them to change their minds is just a pipe dream.

Now, the appearance of [Great Tengu] proves with its actions that it is a top-tier S-class evil spirit, far superior to B-class evil spirits or even weaker ones. For it, the actions just now were only the beginning!

"Ground, please answer! Ground, please answer... My Amaterasu Omikami! What is that?!"

Just as the Great Tengu roared, shaking the hearts of the Tokyo citizens who heard it, several armed helicopters flew over. The lead helicopter pilot was trying to communicate with the ground personnel, but he immediately spotted the Great Tengu that had appeared on the Hibiya Park ruins. Like the others, he was shocked by this sudden discovery of a supernatural being.

While the Great Tengu's size may not seem particularly prominent from the perspective of an armed helicopter, a comparison with the surrounding trees that resemble weeds and the relatively short buildings reveals just how enormous it is, not to mention that it is a real monster!

"Airship formation, what have you discovered? Answer me now!!"

On the other side, the communications soldier who was in contact with the armed helicopter formation via radio was being urged by his superiors and several higher-ranking officers to urgently call the armed helicopter formation. It should be noted that the Japanese high command, who were the first to receive the news and evacuate, attached great importance to Hibiya Park and the surrounding area and wanted to know the progress of their operation to eliminate the evil spirits. This pressure was naturally passed on to the commander of the specific operation, forcing him to send people to conduct reconnaissance.

"We...we saw a huge monster!"

Hearing the call from the radio channel, the lead pilot of the attack helicopter squadron finally snapped out of his daze. Looking bitterly at the Hibiya Park ruins below, and seeing the Great Tengu at its center, he involuntarily swallowed hard. While closing in and filming with the helicopter's camera, he struggled to report: "That monster is at least fifty meters tall, and our personnel seem to have lost contact… Get out of the way!!!"

Boom!

In the next instant, the lightning controlled by [Great Tengu] blasted several armed helicopters into fireballs. When the bluish-black lightning descended from the sky, the lead pilot clearly saw [Great Tengu]'s actions, but it was of no use.

At least, the reaction speed of the pilots of several armed helicopters was nowhere near that of lightning; they were instantly transformed into dazzling fireballs.

Seeing several flies being crushed to death, [Great Tengu] seemed completely unconcerned. Its mind was practically nonexistent; it was simply instinctively annoyed by anything flying close by. Like most people, when insects like mosquitoes approach, their instinct is to slap them away, and the dead insects are of no concern. Humans don't care about killing insects, just as [Great Tengu] was completely indifferent, at most absorbing the souls of those unfortunate creatures.

For the Great Tengu, the current craving for human souls, which it hasn't tasted in hundreds of years, is aroused. Eating the souls of thousands of people is merely an appetizer. The situation of the more than one million people in the surrounding Tokyo area is like placing a sumptuous feast in front of a ravenous champion. It can be said that if the Great Tengu were unwilling to give up the spiritual power of the underground veins, it would have already taken action.

Previously, the evacuation efforts of the Japanese high-ranking officials were completely useless in front of [Ootengu]. Although it seemed that the crowd around Hibiya Park was evacuated, the evacuation range was only a straight-line distance of a few thousand meters. From [Ootengu's] size, many buffets were only a few steps away.

In particular, when the Japanese leadership was evacuating the crowds around Hibiya Park, they specifically ordered all the news media to keep quiet to prevent any alarmist rumors. Having received warnings from their financial backers and bosses, and with official personnel directly supervising, those Japanese news media that used to dare to report on things like celebrities cheating, politicians visiting brothels, and problems with certain company products obediently chose to comply, and not a single reporter dared to go there.

If things go according to the Japanese leadership's plan, they could cover up any accidents at Hibiya Park by using excuses like "earthquake" or "natural gas pipeline accident." However, if reporters came, it would be easy for problems to arise. When their own interests or even safety were involved, the Japanese leadership would work together to shut up all the news media in Tokyo, so as not to let the reporters cause trouble and create new problems for themselves.

Unfortunately, the painstaking strategies of the Japanese leadership were in vain. When the Great Tengu broke free of its seal and directly demonstrated its power, their plan to block the news and eliminate evil spirits to prevent Tokyo from being greatly affected collapsed, leaving the surrounding Tokyo citizens bewildered and unaware of the danger.

Now, the Japanese high-ranking officials, knowing the situation is dire, desperately want to evacuate the surrounding civilians and call upon top exorcists for support. However, [Great Tengu] is not giving them time for remote micromanagement; he's preparing to enjoy a delicious buffet!

"Roar!!!"

When the Great Tengu easily dispatched several armed helicopters as if swatting mosquitoes, it could no longer resist the temptations around it. It directly separated its lower body, which had been absorbing negative spiritual energy from the underground spiritual veins, and with a roar, it suddenly took off and rushed towards the most bustling area of ​​Tokyo.

To be honest, the evil spirit [Great Tengu] is truly brainless. It was born to constantly crave human souls and negative spiritual energy, especially the souls of superhumans. Otherwise, it wouldn't have caused all the forces in the Japanese superhuman world to unite. It's simply because [Great Tengu] is a nightmare for the Japanese, and any superhuman force that encounters it will have its soul directly devoured. That's why the various forces in Japan have joined forces and gone to great lengths to successfully seal it away.

In the original manga and anime of "Ga-Rei," the Great Tengu was portrayed as a hidden boss, unable to defeat even the A-rank spirit beast, Byakuei, who had to revive and recharge. However, the current Great Tengu is completely different. Even though the S-rank evil spirit has weakened considerably after being sealed for hundreds of years, there is still a vast difference between him and an A-rank evil spirit, let alone dealing with the much weaker exorcists and ordinary people.

However, Li Mo has no intention of intervening immediately. The reason is that the direction chosen by [Great Tengu] is a certain famous latrine shrine in Japan. He naturally does not think he should rush to stop it. Staying and watching the show is a better option!

……

In less than ten minutes, [Ootengu] demonstrated through his actions just how destructive an S-class evil spirit could be in a modern city, and the terrifying consequences of a giant monster ravaging a human city if Ultraman hadn't intervened.

Having discovered the abundance of delicious snacks nearby and then being attacked by a squadron of armed helicopters, [Ootengu]'s instinctive thought finally shifted to eating the delicious snacks first. It then extracted the half of its body that had absorbed the negative spiritual energy of the earth's veins, and its entire massive body, like a giant alien monster invading a human city, rampaged recklessly, instantly destroying all the buildings and public facilities along the way.

As a result, the nearest buildings, including the Imperial Palace, the Budokan, and the Toilet Shrine, became the first to suffer damage. The giant body of the Great Tengu, which was over a hundred meters tall, easily destroyed the buildings along the way. Landmark buildings such as the Imperial Palace, the Budokan, and the Toilet Shrine were reduced to unrecognizable ruins. Moreover, the Great Tengu, which rushed out of the area in just a few steps, began to prey on the unsuspecting ordinary citizens.

Suddenly, the Tokyo citizens who were chatting about whether an earthquake would occur suddenly found themselves surrounded by an alien monster that rushed towards them. Before they could even dodge, the Great Tengu harvested their souls. The exorcist, with his Spirit Vision, saw hundreds of citizens' souls being extracted and devoured by the Great Tengu, leaving behind corpses filled with terror.

At this moment, the Japanese government reacted very quickly. The moment the armed helicopter squadron was wiped out, fighter jet formations took off from the surrounding military bases. Even the American garrison stationed at Yokosuka Naval Base dispatched fighter jet formations to see what kind of alien monster it was.

The result was that when the Great Tengu, who was happily enjoying the buffet, had his meal interrupted by a dozen fighter jets, he retaliated by summoning lightning, setting off a dozen expensive fireworks in the sky before continuing his meal.

"Reinforcements! We need reinforcements! Where are the exorcists? Where is America's fleet?!"

Seeing that the Great Tengu easily destroyed more than a dozen modern air force fighter jets and then directly entered Waseda University to reap souls at will, the Japanese high command was on the verge of madness. Especially after discovering that the death toll was at least in the tens of thousands, one of the Japanese commanders in charge shouted frantically.

"Sir, the air force just now was the fastest reinforcement. In front of that monster, there's no difference between police and ordinary people. It seems the American garrison hasn't deployed any more troops, but has sent large drones to observe the surrounding area..."

Regarding the Japanese commander who was on the verge of madness, his trusted confidants understood why their leader was acting so insane. One of them spoke very cautiously.

Everyone knows that the Great Tengu, an evil spirit supposedly sealed away by the ancients, was something the Japanese leadership thought they should handle with care. However, it turned into a Godzilla landing in Tokyo Bay. Worse still, the previous evacuations and preparations proved utterly ineffective against the Great Tengu. With the American garrison standing by and watching, Japan is in a bind. They can't just watch Tokyo be destroyed by the Great Tengu, can they?

However, when even the Japanese commander and his confidants felt that their previous methods were ineffective against the monster that was clearly running rampant in Tokyo's most bustling urban area, a communications soldier pointed at the screen in front of him and shouted:

"Look! What's that? It stopped that monster?!"

Chapter 29 Dragon Man VS Great Tengu

In the heart of Tokyo, the Great Tengu has already devoured tens of thousands of human souls, yet its aura has only grown stronger. Clearly, the human souls it has consumed are gradually restoring its power to its former peak.

The Great Tengu, which had been sealed away for hundreds of years by various forces in the Japanese supernatural world, was not so lucky as to hone its skills and break free while imprisoned at the underground spiritual vein node. It was gradually weakened by the passage of time and the erosion of the barrier. According to the original intention of the various Japanese supernatural forces that joined forces to seal the Great Tengu, they wanted to continuously wear it down and weaken it so that it could be sealed away forever.

You mean to completely eliminate the S-class evil spirit, Great Tengu?

Sorry, the various forces in the Japanese transcendental world simply couldn't do it. They tried every method but still couldn't kill [Great Tengu]. That's why they had no choice but to rely on time to seal him away. They even gave him the nickname "The Undying," which shows that they were truly powerless against [Great Tengu].

However, the hundreds of years of sealing still had a good effect. When the Great Tengu was first released, its strength was at most two-thirds of what it is now. After devouring a large amount of earth vein spiritual energy and tens of thousands of human souls, the Great Tengu's strength was significantly restored. To put it in a more understandable way, it could generate at least five A-level evil spirits with terrifying spiritual power. However, this only restored the Great Tengu's strength considerably, but it did not reach its peak state.

If the Great Tengu were given enough human souls to devour and grow stronger, it would likely recover to its peak S-class evil spirit state without much problem. However, in that case, Tokyo would probably become a complete no-man's land. The millions or even tens of millions of human souls would not only allow the Great Tengu to recover to its peak state, but would also give it a tiny chance to try to break through the limits of S-class evil spirits and become an even more terrifying and powerful evil spirit.

Now, Li Mo didn't give [Great Tengu] a chance to try to break through. After confirming that the area in front of [Great Tengu] was inhabited by ordinary people, he directly threw out the dragon-man avatar of [Dragon Leaf Shrine], which pounced on [Great Tengu] from the sky!

"Roar!!!"

Suddenly discovering the dragon-human incarnation of the Great Tengu descending from the sky, it instinctively sensed the opponent's power and ignored the nearby desserts and delicacies. With a roar, it suddenly swung out its claws, which were wrapped in violent lightning, and slashed out instantly.

Boom!