Isekai Adventure in the Dimensional Cube-Chapter 1223 - 892: Do It to the Best

At this moment, Reiger and Gojo Satoru had already entered the school building and arrived at a place resembling a chapel.

The facilities remained very vintage, whether it was the floor, walls, or ceiling, all were made of wood.

However, the venue was quite spacious, allowing a bit of room to move around.

Perhaps that’s why Gojo Satoru brought him here?

With such a thought flashing through his mind, Reiger was already greeted by a puppet resembling a boxer.

Facing the rapidly enlarging boxing glove in his view, Reiger did not dodge it. He stood at his original spot until he was about to be hit, then raised his hand and slapped it away.

"Boom!"

With a muffled sound, Reiger, who started slower, instead hit the puppet first, making it look as if it had been flattened before being sent flying.

But then, like a bouncing ball, the puppet began darting back and forth at an astonishing speed.

It first heavily slammed into a wall, flattening its body, and then rebounding like a spring, crashing into another wall, continuing to bounce and fly, repeating the cycle, constantly accelerating around Reiger, zipping back and forth.

"Whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—whoosh—"

The puppet’s elastic body allowed it to accelerate with each bounce, and after dozens of such accelerations, its figure was completely invisible, only vaguely seeing a line flying around, sometimes left, sometimes right, sometimes up, sometimes down, weaving its trajectory into a dense net that completely sealed the space around Reiger.

"Aha!"

Meanwhile, the puppet that had been flattened and bouncing around the chapel continued to screech, endlessly swinging its fists, transforming into countless fist shadows that enveloped Reiger from all directions.

"It can do that too?"

Reiger was stunned, but his reaction was quick enough. He shifted his steps, and his figure finally started moving.

With the surrounding space completely sealed, the space Reiger could move in was quite limited.

However, even in such a limited space, Reiger moved like a phantom, flickering and dodging, using the smallest movements to avoid the countless incoming punches from all directions, making each strike miss.

"Bang!"

Occasionally, Reiger could suddenly seize an opportunity, delivering a punch to the puppet as it flew by, sending it crashing heavily away.

But not only did this fail to harm the puppet, it accelerated even more, bouncing faster and faster, making the fist shadows even denser.

"Does it have physical immunity?"

Reiger squinted his eyes.

The puppet was neither a Curse Spirit nor a cursed tool, nor a cursed object, but a kind of man-made Curse Corpse, inhabited by a cursed doll inside.

At the Capital City Metropolitan Curse Mage Academy, there’s someone who excels at crafting these Curse Corpses, even successfully creating life and intelligent Curse Corpses and allowed such Curse Corpses to study and act as Curse Mages in the high academy for curse techniques.

Therefore, Reiger wasn’t surprised that the puppet could move and fight, only finding the combat style of this cursed doll quite unique.

Being a puppet, pure blunt strikes have limited effect on the Curse Corpse. Even with Reiger’s current "strength" parameter, it’s unfeasible to inflict fatal damage with just punches against such a soft target.

The opponent is also inhabited by a curse, which might also be why its resistance to physical attacks has some enhancement. After all, it’s well-known that Curse Spirits are immune to physical attacks. Though Curse Corpses might not be as extreme, it is presumably quite difficult to solve them with mere blunt force.

To quickly settle such an opponent with these traits, using a blade should be the best choice.

With a blade, Reiger could instantly finish off the opponent.

But...

"This is a test, isn’t it?"

While dodging, Reiger glanced at Gojo Satoru who was hiding in the corner.

The bastard gave Reiger an innocent look, as if to say it had nothing to do with him, as if he wasn’t the one who just angrily shouted for Reiger to be beaten to death by the puppet.

At that moment, Reiger really wanted to land a punch on that guy’s face.

"Hoo..."

After taking a deep breath, Reiger’s expression became calm.

He roughly understood what the person sending out this Curse Corpse intended to do.

The opponent might have learned from Gojo Satoru that he had mastered the extraction of curse power and wanted to see how well he could wield it.

Pure blunt force has limited effect on Curse Corpses. However, if infused with curse power, the situation changes.

Because an attack infused with curse power is bound to affect a curse, and the Curse Corpse contains a curse within.

"Then let’s give it a try."

Reiger began to extract curse power.

This process was completed very smoothly and swiftly, causing curse power to emerge from Reiger’s body in no time.

"Whew~~"

Seeing this, Gojo Satoru couldn’t help but whistle.

To only just have learned to extract curse power and already be so proficient in its use?

This guy might truly be an extraordinary genius.

Of course, this is also because Reiger is well-versed in the sensation of converting spiritual power into Magic Power. His control over Magic Power had already reached a masterful level. Now, it’s just a matter of refining the negative aspect of spiritual power into curse power and then using curse power in the way one would manipulate Magic Power. Naturally, the result is equally masterful.

And after a night of trials and adaptation, Reiger also discovered the advantages of this power called curse power.

Unlike Magic Power, curse power can have a huge effect even if it’s not used to cast curses or techniques.

As long as curse power is infused into his attacks, not only can the attacks affect a curse, but their power can also be greatly enhanced.

Additionally, curse power can be used to strengthen the body, enhancing physical capabilities and even the five senses, with a significant degree of enhancement.

How significant, you ask?

At least from Reiger’s perspective, as long as there is ample curse power, a curse mage could even enhance their physical strength by one or several levels!

What does this concept mean?

It means that, even if Reiger uses an extraordinary augmentative magic like "Wind Spirit Swift Walk," the magnitude of enhancement might not compare to the effect of significantly enhancing the body with a large amount of curse power!

This revelation surprised Reiger quite a bit.

Though it requires a large amount of curse power as a prerequisite, the degree of enhancement is truly astonishing.

"Perhaps it’s also due to the fact that curse power is refined from negative emotions."

"Because it’s derived from negative emotions, the aggressiveness and destructiveness of curse power and curses are generally very strong."

"In contrast, Magic Power is actually a more mild force, so while magic does have aggressive and destructive properties, it focuses more on functionality."

This is most evident in the tiered magic.

Augmentation, debilitation, defense, detection, teleportation, creation... Tiered magic is simply all-encompassing, with all kinds of effects, even including time-stopping magic; its functionality is extremely strong, but its aggressiveness is not particularly prominent.

If it weren’t for Reiger’s "Magic Power" parameter being able to enhance the power of magic, plus development abilities like "Magical Guidance" and "Magic Chant," along with skills and secret treasure items that enhance further, to be honest, the attack power of even the highest tier tenth-level magic in tiered magic is just like that. The super-tier magic "Falling Skies" is only equivalent to a tactical level magic, with such a long casting time that Reiger had long stopped using it.

However, the emergence of curse power and curses presented Reiger with another possibility.

"Given the nature of curse power and curses, they are undoubtedly very suitable for close-quarters combat with blades."

"In the original story, it’s the same. Almost every curse mage engages in hand-to-hand combat alongside using curses, with extremely strong abilities in melee combat. After all, given the nature of curse power, not using it to enhance the body for melee combat would be a waste."

"Unlike the more function-oriented magic, curses can be entirely integrated into a close-combat system to enhance my close-combat abilities."

All along, due to various developmental abilities, skills, and secret treasure items, Reiger’s abilities in magic have always been stronger than in melee combat.

But if the curse system is integrated into melee combat, then the ability on the melee side will surpass that of magic for Reiger.

This has a very significant impact on enhancing Reiger’s overall strength.

After all, in one-on-one battles, close combat is the most effective and direct approach; in most cases, using magic would be considered overkill, making it unsuitable for one-on-one combat.

At least, for Reiger, whose melee capabilities are not weak, this is the case.

So...

"If you’re going to do it, do it the best."

The curse power coursing through his entire body suddenly surged.

For a moment, an astonishing power flowed through every part of Reiger’s body.

Cursed power filled his body, enhancing his physique drastically in an instant, making even his five senses incredibly sharp, giving Reiger a sense of omnipotence, as if he could tread upon the heavens and earth.

"......!"

Feeling the terrifying curse power emanating from Reiger, the previously grinning face of Gojo Satoru changed immediately.

"Not good!"

Without any hesitation, Gojo Satoru tore off the blindfold on his face.

"Ah, strike!"

Meanwhile, the Curse Corpse, oblivious to the kind of monster it had awakened, screamed as it threw a punch at Reiger’s eyes.

Reiger raised his head, one hand reflexively lifting to launch an attack.

And at this moment...

"That’s enough!"

With an angry shout, a burly figure charged in and pushed the Curse Corpse that lunged at Reiger to the ground.

"Whoosh!"

Gojo Satoru’s figure also seemed to teleport, appearing instantly beside Reiger, one hand pressing on his shoulder, the other on his raised fist, forcibly restraining him.

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

"Whoosh!"

What followed was a series of unfamiliar figures, whether men, women, students, teachers, or active curse mages, all appearing around Reiger, either holding his shoulder or his body, controlling him.

For a moment, the entire chapel became lively, yet also exceptionally solemn and silent.