I adopted a child demon from the Gap, and I'm a special agent for the Bureau of Supernatural Ab

"So this is what they call a monster? It looks pretty good, but all the literature describes it as a bunch of crazy ugly monsters. You really can't just believe everything the victors write. Hmph, hmph, well, at least I've seen a real monster, which fulfills one of my wishes. After all, you guys were no longer around when I was growing up."

"That's because before that time, we had already discovered the potential for human growth. If we continued to coexist with you, one day you would completely crush us and destroy us. So we chose to leave before that happened."

Zi replied calmly, and Oda Nobukoshi nodded in deep agreement.

“That’s right. That’s how humans are. They advance relentlessly, by any means necessary, killing all their competitors, even killing each other. That’s the nature of our species, a disgusting nature—”

As if recalling something disgusting, Oda Nobueshi's expression became much more ferocious, but the corners of his mouth still held that comical smile.

"However, there's nothing I can do about it. After all, I'm also a member of the human race. No matter how much I hate my own kind, I have responsibilities and missions that I can't escape. And now, my mission is to fundamentally eliminate the possibility of war and slaughter between the supernatural and magical sides for the next few decades or even hundreds of years by wiping out one side."

With a broad smile, Oda Nobueshi stood side by side with the somewhat recovered Aleister, facing the purple figure standing in the gap ahead.

Is it two against one?

Zi frowned.

Merry, with whom he had barely reached a cooperative agreement, had only been providing support from afar and had not yet appeared on the front lines. And directly opposite him was Oda Nobueshi, the so-called mysterious assassin.

The situation seems to have gotten a little worse.

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Section 354, Chapter 33: Weaknesses and the Final Act

A mysterious assassin.

It can weaken the performance and effects of all mystical forces, and then relatively enhance the damage and destructive power it can inflict on them.

This special power was first discovered in Japan hundreds of years ago, manifested by a man named Oda Nobunaga.

The story of that person is no longer relevant to anything now, but the existence of that power, after being discovered, has gradually begun to be studied.

That Oda Nobunaga was only a decent A-rank, but due to the special nature of his power, and with the great efforts of his Oda clan, a transcendent power that was not afraid of any legends or myths and was capable of challenging fantastical creatures was slowly cultivated.

To use power, someone must be willing to bear that power.

Even by the time of Oda Nobueshi, the Oda family had not been able to completely stabilize this power. For the children who were inoculated with this power, while this powerful force had the potential to make them incredibly strong, it also had a very high chance of killing them before they could grow to that level.

In order to collect as much experimental data as possible, and to ensure the possibility of more strong members growing up in the family, each generation of the Oda family would choose to produce a large number of offspring. In this way, the Oda family has maintained its prosperity for hundreds of years.

Such methods are undoubtedly cruel, but they are a necessary price to pay in order to gain greater power. In fact, despite countless oppositions from both inside and outside the family, this policy of the Oda family has indeed been continued by each generation of family heads without interruption.

By the time of Oda Nobueshi's generation, the family had made a breakthrough in this power, making Oda Nobueshi a transcendent being and bringing unparalleled glory to the Oda family.

"However, such a glorious family, which had finally reached its zenith, ultimately met a near-total annihilation, with only you, the transcendent one, remaining. The moment of peak is also the moment of destruction—isn't that quite interesting?"

Amidst the city ruins, Murasaki faced Oda Nobueshi and spoke to him in a flippant tone.

"However, a family capable of nurturing transcendent beings is, in this world restricted by the 'Law,' a potential rule-breaker. For that reason, their destruction should be expected. But to be completely wiped out, leaving only you alive, is cruel enough to seem somewhat illogical."

boom--

Without any intention of exchanging words, Oda Nobukoshi suddenly swung his nearly two-meter-long blade, and a jet-black light blade swiftly slashed towards Murasaki. However, the attack missed its target, only cutting a pit that stretched for hundreds of meters in the ruins. Murasaki had already used the gap to appear in another place.

"Oh dear, it seems you really don't want to talk about it. Is it because you're not interested, or are you actually afraid to face this matter, or is the role you played in this matter not particularly honorable?"

Oda Nobueshi launched his attack in silence, crimson flames rising from the blade, yet they did not burn like normal flames.

Oda Nobukoshi suddenly unleashed the flames from his sword, and countless flames vanished into thin air in an instant. In contrast, Murasaki almost immediately felt a powerful pressure being released in this environment.

Is this the specialization in mysticism? It feels like being thrown into a quagmire; breathing is difficult, movement is restricted, and the flow of demonic energy throughout the body is hindered. Even the blessing from Meryl that was originally intended for Yukari was directly neutralized by this attack.

An even more intense flame, blotting out the sky, fell straight down from above. Oda Nobukoshi's attack, filled with murderous intent, blasted everything in a hundred-meter radius around the spot where Murasaki stood into dust.

But then, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of Zi emerging from the gap at the edge of the attack range.

"You shout so cheerfully, but all you do is run away?"

"Put away the flames on your body," Oda Nobueshi said coldly.

"After all, for us right now, this kind of power that causes continuous damage once we get close is too troublesome. If we were to get even a little bit of it, it would be as hard to get rid of as the flu virus. We wouldn't dare to take such a risk at such a critical moment."

With a relaxed expression on her face, Zi tried her best to calm the chaos of the demonic power within her body and smiled once again.

"However, speaking of which, when I checked your family members, I found that you had seventeen siblings, and none of them survived to adulthood. Could this be you—"

An extremely fierce flame annihilated the spot where Zi was standing, but then Zi emerged again from another gap and calmly finished speaking.

"—Could this be the reason why you chose to wipe out your own family?"

As he had expected, after those words were spoken, Oda Nobueshi's aura paused for an extremely brief moment.

"...You've investigated quite a bit, but even if you find out everything, what can you do? It won't change your current weakness and powerlessness. You have no chance of defeating me."

With a cold voice responding to Yukari not far away, Oda Nobueshi rekindled the flames emanating an eerie aura from his body.

"The longer you fight me, the more severe the suppression you will suffer. My power is enough to cover this entire barrier, so no matter how you try to escape, you will eventually be unable to use your power."

"Indeed, this kind of suppressive power that can be continuously strengthened as long as it is released, and this demonic fire that is almost overwhelmed by hatred and anger, even when I was in my prime, I was not confident that I could easily defeat it. In the end, I ran into an opponent like you when I was in such a bad state, which is really a headache for me."

Zi Wei sighed slightly, her face showing signs of trouble.

As the gap opened, Zi dodged another barrage of fire from Oda Nobueshi, and the purple light in her hand suddenly began to gather.

"Fortunately, it seems you're not an invincible, tough man after all; otherwise, this flame wouldn't be in your hands."

What does she want to do?

Without hesitation, Oda Nobuyoshi gathered a fierce flame and launched another attack at Yuki. But this time, Yuki did not dodge. A purple light pierced through the flame and struck Oda Nobuyoshi at an extremely fast speed.

"Psychological attack?"

Aleister, who was forced to watch from the sidelines due to his weakened state, immediately realized what had happened with Purple's earlier attack.

"Yes, I learned it from a girl who is very good at this. After all, the strength of our power lies in its versatility and ability to be used for all sorts of purposes."

Seeing Oda Nobueshi stop in his tracks, completely enveloped in flames and motionless, Murasaki's face curled into a satisfied smile.

Although we can't defeat him for the time being, being able to temporarily trap this troublesome opponent is not a bad situation.

Perhaps realizing the change in the situation, Aleister activated magic and quickly disappeared from the spot. Zi sighed softly, wanting to use the gap again to leave, but found that her power was so weak that even opening the gap would cause a huge consumption.

If Li Cheng hadn't connected all of his demonic power with Zi, she probably wouldn't even be able to stand up right now.

That's quite embarrassing. It seems I need to find a way to recover my strength as soon as possible. If this injury continues, it will only cause more and more problems in future battles.

"You're in really bad shape. I thought you were going to get killed by that slovenly old man."

Meryl's voice rang out from beside Zi. Sometime later, she arrived at Zi's side with her wand and immediately channeled several streams of magical healing energy into Zi, greatly restoring her condition.

"We thought you were planning to hide in the back forever, but you actually dared to come to the front lines. Aren't you afraid of dying together with us?"

Leaning against a broken wall, Zi panted lightly as she spoke irritably, showing no appreciation whatsoever.

"After all, that guy is really disgusting. This kind of targeted power is much more serious for a descendant of a legendary creature like me than for you. Even if I'm hiding behind the battlefield, I'll still feel terrible."

Meili muttered a few words of resentment, but seeing that Zi wasn't listening, she pursed her lips and stopped talking. Turning her head, she noticed a large fireball in the ruins not far away and couldn't help but show a puzzled expression.

"What's that guy trying to do, curling up in the fire? Is he becoming withdrawn?"

"Although his power severely suppressed us, I investigated his background beforehand. He doesn't seem to be a guy with a strong enough mentality, so unfortunately he fell for our attack. Right now, he's probably trying very hard to get out of his past predicament."

“I see. You really know all sorts of strange things,” Meryl muttered thoughtfully, carefully observing the fireball in front of her. Then her expression brightened. “In that case, I’ll add a little something to it. If you just give him a mental attack, he might be able to recover after a while. But if I give him a deeper dream, it should completely disable him, right? Heh heh, after all, I’m the real expert when it comes to the mental realm.”

"Won't something go wrong? You saw it yourself, that flame contained a very ominous aura. What if we overstimulate it?"

"How could that be? When have I ever crashed? I'm the expert at this kind of thing!"

Ignoring Yukari's doubts, Meryl waved her staff and struck Oda Nobueshi with a mental binding spell several times stronger than the one Yukari had used before. Then, she and Yukari disappeared into a gap and headed back towards the central tower.

Only Oda Nobueshi remained, still enveloped in flames and silent. Under the extremely powerful mental restraint, no one knew the state of his mental world at this moment. However, the light emitted by the flames was becoming increasingly strange.

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Meanwhile, the battle at the central tower had also shifted.

On the land that had been bombarded to the point of almost resembling the surface of the moon, Li Cheng wiped away the blood that had accidentally flowed from his forehead during the previous battle and looked at Eric, who was slightly panting in the sky.

Beside the man, Touma Kamijou was being held by a string of metal objects and was still unconscious.

More than twenty minutes ago, Oda Nobueshi suddenly appeared in the square, threw the unconscious Kamijou Touma to Eric, and then disappeared into thin air. Shortly after that, Li Cheng felt his demonic power linked to Yukari begin to deplete rapidly. He immediately realized that Oda Nobueshi had joined Yukari's battle and was undoubtedly on the enemy's side.

The battle that followed remained at a standstill, with Li Cheng and his two companions struggling to find an opportunity to break through. Under the torrent of tens of thousands of tons of metal, which had been broken into countless tiny fragments, any minor opening could be quickly filled and counterattacked efficiently. With teleportation methods unusable, both sides could only engage in a protracted confrontation that amounted to a war of attrition.

Until a man who looked badly wounded joined the battle.

The Water from Behind was a Transcendent being whom Li Cheng had heard of—powerful and upright, but that was all he knew. However, at this moment, this Water, who had emerged from the ruins, was clearly depleted of magic and physically weak. It seemed he had only received very limited treatment before hastily rushing to the battlefield.

But this silent man, who had joined the battle without uttering a word and had barely exchanged any words with Li Cheng and the other two, quickly turned the tide of the battle.

Even in his weakened state, the Water Behind him remained an extremely powerful force. The torrent of metal that Li Cheng couldn't break through could be easily crushed by the Water Behind him with a single charge of his giant club. And with the situation shifting from one against three to one against four, and these "four" being on a completely different level from the other three, Eric finally began to show signs of exhaustion.

They launched attacks from two directions, harassing and seizing every opportunity to quickly approach and strike. Finally, during one of Eric's attacks, when he used a torrent of metal to defend against Wuming's arrows and Xin's sneak attack, Li Cheng successfully broke through a thick metal wall, enduring the electric shocks and rushing to Eric's side. At the same time, from another direction, Shui also successfully broke through, and the two of them quickly approached Eric from different angles.

A teleportation spell enveloped Eric, quickly removing him from the encirclement. At the same time, another teleportation spell attempted to envelop Touma Kamijou and take him away as well, but Touma, who suddenly regained consciousness, waved his right hand, eliminating the metal controlled by Eric's ability along with the external teleportation spell.

The wounded Aleister, accompanied by a sweating Eric, appeared atop the giant red sphere. Li Cheng, holding onto Touma Kamijou, brought him back to the ground to reunite with Wuming and Xin. Water also descended simultaneously, its gaze fixed on the two above, clearly ready to strike again at any moment.

"He was clearly so badly injured by Oda that he couldn't move, yet he reappeared in such a short time. Does that mean there's a powerful person hiding here? A powerful person who can heal those who have surpassed him?"

Looking at the resolute gaze of the water on the ground, Aleister muttered to himself expressionlessly.

Despite preparing for so long and taking various preventative measures, all sorts of unexpected events still occurred, repeatedly disrupting the progress of the project.

However, setbacks of this magnitude alone are not enough to make him give up. His determination towards that goal will not be so easily shaken.

“I’m sorry, I wasn’t able to eliminate even one enemy,” Eric said apologetically. “Fighting three top-tier superhumans at the same time was still a bit troublesome for me.”

"It's alright, this won't change our plans."

Landing on the crimson planet beneath his feet, enduring the pain emanating from his wounded body, Aleister squeezed out his already depleted magical power, making the "planet," which was already quite bright, shine even brighter.

"Now, it's time to begin the final act."

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