Chapter 664: The King of Cursed Spirits, Satoru Gojo, Appears
The powerful positive energy surged through Shadow and Candlelight, rapidly healing their nearly collapsed physical bodies.
However, the opponent's bizarre kinetic force and that golden specialized energy continuously caused cellular necrosis in their bodies. The massive expenditure of energy left them almost completely unable to maintain human form.
Why the dragon race chose to take human form was something they had long forgotten; they only knew it had always been thus since ancient times.
Perhaps it was because of [The World Dragon · Kurma], perhaps because of a certain golden dragon that became an immortal ancestor, or perhaps because of the observation of other entities.
But Shadow and Candlelight actually despised transforming into humans. This fragile, greedy species possessed few merits, save for acting as subjects for their Harmonizing Faction.
However, legends concerning the [Hero] had always circulated within the Dragon Court, holding that because humans were vast in number and short of lifespan, a terrifyingly powerful and formidable individual would, on exceptionally rare occasions, be born from among them.
Shadow and Candlelight suddenly froze at the same time. Their minds were interconnected, and at this moment, their thoughts unexpectedly grew scattered. This implied that their condition was exceptionally poor; they had indeed been driven into a corner by this powerful Reincarnator.
Shadow and Candlelight looked at the Reincarnator, whose face was filled with greed. They knew full well that as the most malevolent force in the multiverse, that special [Box] always used the most naked plundering to nurture its subordinates.
Reincarnators were a swarm of greedy demons who scraped the bones and ate the marrow—a species of parasites that should be eradicated the moment they appeared in the multiverse.
Otherwise, once such entities grew, they would inevitably cause massive chaos.
Hum!
The innate profound light of black and white ignited. The greatest difference between high-tier dragons and low-tier races was that they were born commanding Authority.
That was an innate endowment, a gift from the observers and [The Dragon King].
This was an absolute racial advantage that other low-tier races could never hope to achieve!
The Authority of [The Inversion of Yin and Yang] was exceptionally intense at this moment, that specialized power directly throwing the surrounding magnetic fields into a state of total runaway disruption.
Kaito Shirogane felt his [Mind Web] suddenly plunge into an absolute vacuum, entirely incapable of perceiving anything. Everything was being contorted, and the fundamental properties of all creation were being inverted.
Fire and lightning began to manifest within the sea, elements growing entirely chaotic. Even the tilted and depressed ocean was locked in place, and the seawater actually began to flow in reverse, surging upward from below.
This was the manifestation of the very laws of heaven and earth entering a state of inverted chaos.
An Authority of this classification was likely indeed powerful enough—at the very least, it looked to occupy a higher tier than [The Authority of Granting and Depriving] Kaito currently possessed, or [The Authority of Qi and Force] that had yet to be unlocked via mission completion.
Kaito Shirogane aggressively thrust a lone finger forward once more, a Dodon Ray bursting out to instantaneously pierce straight through the head of one of the dragons.
Yet, the expected scene of exploding flesh failed to manifest; in the very next fraction of a second, the wound began to execute a full restoration.
The bodies of the twin youths elongated drastically, ultimately mutating into a pair of colossal, hundred-meter dragon vessels that aggressively churned the upper atmosphere above the ocean.
The black dragon and the white dragon intertwined, continuously rolling together, before cleanly fusing into a singular, bizarre giant dragon of mixed black and white hues.
Furthermore, this colossal dragon sported a head at each end of its body.
Evidently, these two assets likely belonged to a specialized classification of anomalous variants within the dragon race, entirely distinct from standard individuals.
Of course, one could alternatively label them as "deformed mutations"—Kaito thought with zero baseline malice.
Monumental plumes of water vapor, intertwined with lightning and fire, continuously skyrocketed into all coordinates amidst the howling tempest.
The two-headed black-and-white dragon danced as it soared into the absolute highest heavens, and in the next fraction of a second, the black and white profound light completely and flawlessly blanketed Kaito Shirogane's coordinates.
In a single instant of contact, Kaito registered that the frantic, boiling life force roaring within his core was beginning to decline, his powerful instinctual immortality attributes fading away. Millimeter by millimeter, the severed stump anchoring his right shoulder even began to reveal visible indicators of decay.
Kaito merely cast a passing glance at the mutation. In the very next heartbeat, his golden Ki erupted with vastly more monumental, booming intensity, the decay instantaneously vaporized down to the atom.
The unique immunity characteristics hardcoded into the energy profile of [Ki] were parameters Kaito had long since mapped, but at this precise nexus of the conflict, the two-headed dragon's Authority was genuinely capable of leaving a diagnostic marker against his frame.
This verified that under his Six-Fold Kaio-ken, his active Ki pool—sitting at a baseline of over two hundred points—merely occupied an equal tier when measured against the volume of their output.
Consequently, his engine lacked the priority to safely execute a total, unyielding immunity check.
Kaito Shirogane let out a cold snort, before launching his frame upward from the ocean waves, attempting to scale his altitude. But after advancing for a mere few meters, his predatory senses identified an anomaly: space itself had been systematically inverted.
Or rather, his absolute kinetic intent had been completely turned upside down; his motor command to fly upward had been structurally re-engineered to manifest as a downward descent.
The fires roiling within the seawater violently scorched Kaito's body surface, a high-frequency offensive saturation that cleanly and flawlessly forced his characteristic [Lonely Envious Flame] into active deployment in a split second.
When Kaito Shirogane evaluated these twin variants of the Primordial Dragon Court as pathetically weak, it wasn't a line of deliberate, hollow mockery; his clinical focus genuinely concluded that they lacked real strength.
The absolute diagnostic evidence was clear: at this stage of his evolution where his mind could manually and seamlessly govern the parameters of his [Lonely Envious Flame], standing before these two powerhouses, his psyche had failed to generate a single spark of genuine envy toward their strength.
The flame had only been forcefully catalyzed at this microsecond due to the direct thermal stimulation of the seawater fire.
The crimson primordial fire flamed furiously across Kaito's skin, his physical attribute thresholds scaling further upward to settle into a monumentally substantial numerical baseline when multiplied across the Kaio-ken.
Yet this threshold escalation lasted for a single micro-frame; the black and white profound light forcefully extinguished the flames coating his body surface, inverting the concept to manifest as a dense, stygian black fire wrapping his muscles instead.
Kaito let out a sharp click of his tongue. An Authority of this classification was indeed layout-wise, somewhat all-powerful...
"Tedious. Beyond all measure of professional interest, tedious~"
Tracking the twin dragons completely avoiding a head-on, unrefined physical gamble—choosing instead to rely on their specialized mechanics to stretch the board to the absolute end—the final thread of Kaito's patience was thoroughly and flawlessly snuffed out.
In the very next fraction of a second, an ocean of dark green Reiatsu violently and flawlessly erupted from his skin like an expanding nova, his Murciélago state executing a full remanifestation. Concurrently, a pristine, almost transparent circle of bleak gray light shot outward from Kaito's body surface to blanket all coordinates.
Roar!
A voice that was completely, flawlessly stripped of the capacity to be processed by native breathing organisms let out a furious, apocalyptic roar from a separate dimension.
The undisputed absolute Master of the Spiritual Plane forced its head through the clouds directly behind Kaito's back, a colossal, pitch-black phantom of pure tyrannical authority rising from his cells to bellow across the upper atmosphere.
[The Dominator of the Realm]!
The bleak, suffocating gray territory instantaneously expanded to blanket a localized radius of several kilometers, systematically and flawlessly bricking every single non-soul-side capability active on the grid.
The chaotic elemental chain reactions roiling across the ocean surface were cleanly terminated in a heartbeat; the fire, the lightning, and the howling tempest vanished from the board. High in the stratosphere, the twin-headed giant dragon convulsed violently as its flight mechanics collapsed, its massive hull dropping through several atmospheric tiers.
Kaito Shirogane took one deliberate step after another to walk straight up into the air, his monumentally terrifying physical body tempering remaining entirely, unshapeably intact.
Under the active parameters of Dominator of the Realm, an elite practitioner rooted in close-quarters physical combat sustained absolutely zero baseline losses—yet conversely, these twin dragons were explicitly a specialized classification of glass-cannon builds whose profiles were pathetically weak when stripped of their mechanics.
Kaito drove the tips of his boots against the air currents. The exact microsecond his supreme physical force completed its compilation, a rapid-fire succession of sharp, mechanical cracks violently detonated across local space under the pressure.
Just as Kaito Shirogane prepared to drive his left hand forward to systematically and unrefinedly tear the two-headed giant dragon apart with his bare knuckles, a sky-tearing column of pure black-and-crimson cursed energy violently exploded directly before his face.
Accompanied by a deep, continuous crackling sound, twin chains of raw metaphysical force violently punched out from the deep ocean floor, cleanly slicing through the spatial architecture of the vacuum to materialize out from a separate, exceptionally distant coordinate.
"Ha~ so this is the absolute sensory reality of operating as a cursed spirit~"
"Truly, flawlessly... exhilarating!"
Satoru Gojo's vocal cadence had completely and unalterably fractured, the sound heavily layered with a synthetic, electronic wisp, sounding exactly as if two separate, distinct entities were unhinging their jaws to articulate the syllables in perfect unison.
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