Isekai Adventure in the Dimensional Cube-Chapter 1368 - 970: Both Targets Under Surveillance (Part 2)
"Chirp chirp chirp chirp chirp...!"
Reiger was just about to defend when countless cockroaches flew in from all sides, wave after wave, like a flood and tsunami, raging and deadly.
Seeing this, Reiger once again unleashed the cursed energy stored in the Lotus, forming a large-scale curse energy outburst, causing the surge of cockroach swarm to explode and scatter.
This allowed Black Mokushi to charge smoothly, riding the black waves like breaking waves, as it swung the decaying blade in its hand.
"Clang!"
The fierce swing of the decaying blade was deflected by the swiftly arriving gauntlet.
Reiger maintained his calm, using the back of his gauntlet-clad hand to deflect Black Mokushi’s decaying blade, then immediately closed in, moving through the scattered sparks, and arrived in front of Black Mokushi.
"Thunk!"
In the next second, Reiger’s knee buried into Black Mokushi’s abdomen with a muffled sound.
This knee strike, not only carrying the power comparable to Lv.9, was further strengthened by the Lotus’ cursed energy.
"Guh!"
Black Mokushi vomited what seemed like chunks of flesh mixed with blood.
Being a Curse Spirit, it should have been invulnerable to physical attacks, but unfortunately, Reiger used the Lotus’s curse energy, causing damage to it.
"Chirp chirp chirp chirp...!"
The cockroach swarm under Black Mokushi immediately reacted, creating a harsh sound as they rushed towards Reiger.
Reiger naturally noticed this scene and liberated the Lotus’s cursed energy for the third time.
"Boom!"
The unleashed curse energy was like a huge explosion, blowing away countless incoming cockroaches as well as Black Mokushi itself.
"Gwooooooo...!"
Feeling the strike of cursed energy all over its body, Black Mokushi’s eyes bulged with rage, finally letting out the wild cries typical of a Curse Spirit.
Under its control, the cockroach swarm surged forward again, supporting it, allowing it to ride the waves and once more attack Reiger.
Enraged, Black Mokushi was like someone who had lost his sanity, wielding the decaying blade, furiously hacking at Reiger over and over again.
"Clang!" "Clang!" "Clang!" "Clang!" "Clang!"...
Reiger did not retreat, both fists with gauntlets moved like wind, seemingly casual punches and smashes, yet precisely deflecting the relentlessly incoming black storm-like hacking decaying blade from Black Mokushi.
Black Mokushi, unwilling to give up despite not being able to overcome Reiger, played to its strengths, weaving around Reiger while stepping on the black wave formed by cockroaches, maneuvering with astonishing speed and fiercely swinging one blade after another, seemingly wanting to carve Reiger into pieces to place neatly on the dining table for enjoyment.
In an instant, Reiger seemed like a small animal trapped in quicksand, the surrounding black sandstorm continuously emerged, wrapped in a bloodthirsty storm eager to devour him, attacking again and again.
Despite this overwhelming assault, it still couldn’t take down Reiger.
No matter how fierce the blades swung by Black Mokushi were or how tricky the angles were, Reiger could always precisely deflect them.
The surrounding cockroach swarm repeatedly tried to close in on Reiger, aiming to pounce on him for a feast, but Reiger, without reservation, constantly liberated the cursed energy stored in the Lotus, resulting in curse energy shocks that had blasted away the surrounding cockroach swarm countless times.
This Black Mokushi, whom everyone kept their distance from, now had no way to tackle Reiger.
This caused the atmosphere emitted by Black Mokushi to become increasingly agitated, its glaring eyes almost falling out of its sockets.
The most troublesome thing was that whenever it was given an opportunity, Reiger would immediately turn from defense to offense, with one punch causing Black Mokushi to spit blood and retreat when it swung a blade.
If Black Mokushi weren’t a Curse Spirit, entirely composed of condensed curse energy, with bodily strength greater than a typical human Curse Mage, and capable of instinctively repairing injuries with curse energy, akin to perpetually activating reversed curse techniques, this cockroach Curse Spirit would have long been blasted apart by Reiger like Druf.
"Impressive."
From afar, Ishiryu Ryu couldn’t help but admire upon seeing Reiger’s calm handling.
"Despite not having any techniques and no inherent curse energy, he’s able to rely on the cursed energy stored in a single cursed tool to contend with Black Mokushi to this extent... Eric Mozart, this man is stronger than I imagined."
Black Mokushi’s cockroach army could still be quite trying, among the four strong players of the Xiantai Barrier, aside from Druf who counters it, the other two are mostly unable to do much against it.
No need to mention Uro Yukako, who is countered by Black Mokushi.
Ishiryu Ryu can deal with Black Mokushi, but also struggles to ensure a complete victory over the opponent.
Mainly because the insect swarm tactics are very troublesome, Ishiryu Ryu’s techniques are strong but still unable to completely clear all the cockroaches at once to further attack Black Mokushi.
In contrast, Reiger, with only curse energy outburst, prevented Black Mokushi’s insect swarm tactics from having their way with him, which indeed surprised Ishiryu Ryu.
He can’t help it, for his technique is purely related to curse energy outburst.
His [Ice Slush Shock Wave], at the end of the day, is just a powerful curse energy outburst, with the best skill being curse energy outburst.
In such circumstances, the way Reiger releases cursed energy is quite novel to Shiliulong.
However...
"Releasing cursed energy in such a lavish way, even I would have almost exhausted my energy by now."
Shiliulong crossed his arms and laughed.
"The cursed energy stored within that magical device should also be nearly depleted."
This assertion was verified just a few seconds later.
"Boom!"
For the umpteenth time, Reiger unleashed the cursed energy of the Lotus, forming an outward surge of cursed energy that blasted away the incoming swarm of roaches.
Yet this time, the blasted swarm quickly crawled back.
They hadn’t been obliterated by the cursed energy release this time.
"Has the power diminished?"
Having evaded the roach swarm’s pursuit, or rather Blackmuo Death had recalled all the roaches to confront Reiger with full force, Ulro Hekko flew in mid-air, watching the scene with cold gleaming eyes.
"It seems this is the end."
As if responding to everyone’s speculation, in a short while, the gloves worn on Reiger’s hands lost their brilliant color. 𝒻𝓇𝑒𝘦𝘸𝑒𝒷𝓃ℴ𝑣𝘦𝑙.𝒸ℴ𝘮
The special-grade magical device, Lotus, had finally exhausted the cursed energy stored within.
"Squeak squeak squeak squeak...!"
Numerous roaches, as if waiting for this moment for a long time, unwillingly formed an overwhelming assault, covering towards Reiger.
Blackmuo Death also lunged at Reiger with a grim smile, raising his decayed knife and slashing at Reiger.
Time seemed to slow down at this moment.
From all directions, countless man-eating roaches swarmed in.
Ahead, a vicious Curse Spirit swung its knife to strike.
This encirclement, seen by anyone, was undoubtedly the prelude to a certain demise.
Yet trapped in this deadly encirclement, Reiger’s face remained calm.
"Snap..."
A barely perceptible sound was heard.
Along with this sound, the shoulder bag Reiger had been carrying was somehow unfastened.
"Click..."
With lightning speed, Reiger reached out his hand, into the shoulder bag, and grasped something.
In the next moment—
"Boom!"
Fiery flames akin to a Red Lotus rose amidst the dark sea of insects.
"What...?!"
Ulro Hekko’s face changed dramatically.
"This is..."
Shiliulong was also suddenly startled, his arms unconsciously dropping.
"Squeak squeak squeak squeak——"
In the suddenly rising Red Lotus Fire, countless roaches screamed out, turning into ashes.
And at the center of the Red Lotus Fire, Reiger raised his gaze.
In his hand, a red light suddenly flashed.
"Slash!"
In an instant, the sound of flesh tearing echoed.
Blackmuo Death, following his roach army, also screamed.
