Yuji Itadori turned his head to look beside him; the White Whale had already disappeared into the thick fog.
The previously destroyed forest was also entirely shrouded by the white fog.
"I originally thought this level of power would be enough to kill it in a single strike. Did the bristles on its surface block most of the damage?"
Yuji Itadori looked up at his surroundings. The fog had beco denser, and only a faint sll of blood lingered in the air.
Beside him, Rem looked at Yuji Itadori with so surprise.
'Is this really Magic?'
She hadn't seen Yuji Itadori make any chanting motions at all.
And the attack just now, although it looked similar to wind-attribute Magic, was completely different.
There wasn't any trace of Mana in the surrounding environnt either.
Rem had already known that Yuji Itadori possessed incredibly powerful combat strength, not just because he had defeated Roswaal from an extre distance
, Rem had also seen the densely packed Witchbeast corpses in the forest.
Those corpses had even been cut down to the size of scraps, and all the Witchbeasts within a radius of hundreds or even thousands of ters had been killed—yet the surrounding
trees didn't have the slightest bit of damage.
'Just how was this done?'
While Rem was in a daze, Natsuki Subaru beside her spoke up:
"Damn it, this cunning guy actually hid straight in the fog! Even if we disperse the fog, it'll just release it again!"
The fog grew thicker and thicker, dyeing the entire world grayish-white. Even the shadow of the White Whale had been completely hidden.
Natsuki Subaru knew very well that this Witchbeast would likely hide in the shadows and wait for the right mont to launch an attack.
What exactly should they do?
"Since it can continuously release thick fog, then we just need to keep dispersing it."
Yuji Itadori said slowly.
Around him, countless tiny, invisible slashing attacks constantly swirled, acting like a close-fitting Barrier.
Then, all he had to do now was increase the edge's radius.
In an instant, those continuous slashing attacks spread throughout the surrounding space. The sound of tearing air was like hundreds of birds chirping.
These slashing attacks acted like a Barrier, completely isolating all the surrounding fog on the outside.
One wave of fog was dispersed, and another wave quickly enveloped them again—but these slashing attacks were endless. No matter how thick the fog was
, it was completely unable to penetrate this layer of defense ford by the Cursed Technique.
Right at this mont, Natsuki Subaru heard a loud boom, as if sothing had burst open behind him.
He turned his head to look and instantly widened his eyes in surprise.
A mass of fog, presumably ford from the mist, tore through the ground like a shark's dorsal fin and swept directly toward them.
He could keenly perceive that this mass of fog was completely different from the rest of the fog.
This mass of fog crashed into Yuji Itadori's slashing attacks, instantly exploding, and after letting out a loud boom, it completely dissipated.
"Thank goodness for Senior Itadori..."
Natsuki Subaru swallowed his saliva. Although he didn't know what that was, his intuition told him that this thing was extrely dangerous.
Just as he was thinking, attack after attack continuously crashed into the Barrier.
"Is this guy trying to keep hiding in the dark and attacking?! It's really despicable!"
Natsuki Subaru gnashed his teeth. He hadn't expected such a massive behemoth to actually possess intelligence.
I'm afraid the White Whale wants to hide its body and wear them to death!
"The White Whale is an extrely dangerous existence... The Kingdom has organized several White Whale Subjugation Strategies, all of which ultimately failed. Even
over a decade ago, the White Whale Subjugation Squad organized by the previous Sword Saint was also entirely wiped out..."
Rem said with so worry from the side,
aning the White Whale was at a level that even an army couldn't handle.
"Don't worry, Rem."
Yuji Itadori's tone, however, was incredibly calm.
"I've seen much more dangerous existences. Compared to them, this Witchbeast is nothing."
Without any boasting or bluffing, Yuji Itadori spoke as if he were stating sothing incredibly ordinary.
Compared to Sukuna in his pri, the White Whale was absolutely nothing.
"Subaru needs to return to the territory, and we can't be late."
"Not to ntion—"
"I absolutely cannot allow this kind of existence to continue plaguing the world."
Yuji Itadori already knew that the White Whale had caused countless disasters.
Since that was the case, then it needed to be Exorcised!
As he spoke, Yuji Itadori released the Cursed Energy within his body.
That Cursed Energy, like turbulent waves, seed ready to subrge everything around it.
Rem could feel a certain terrifying power perating from Yuji Itadori, but she didn't know what it was at all.
It wasn't Mana, but a kind of presence.
Swish, swish, swish!
Those little slashing attacks spread out, forcefully tearing the thick fog completely apart!
The vast starry sky, without the slightest bit of obstruction, appeared above their heads—
As well as the White Whale.
Except the White Whale wasn't the sa one from just now.
Instead, there were three of them!
"How could this be?! Why did it turn into three White Whales?!"
Natsuki Subaru looked at the sky in disbelief.
Could it be that there were three White Whales from the very beginning?
"I've never heard any rumors about there being three White Whales..."
Beside him, Rem was equally dumbfounded.
"Could it be... an illusion? No, it's a split!"
And as the thick fog was forcefully cleft open once again, the three White Whales rapidly flew in three different directions.
"Are these guys trying to run away?!"
A legendary Witchbeast that had plagued the world for four hundred years and killed thousands of people was actually running away?!
Everything happening right now had completely exceeded the scope of Rem's understanding.
The White Whale possessed combat intelligence, but similarly, it also possessed the instincts of a beast.
Just like how an animal would instinctively feel fear when seeing a monster much larger than itself.
In the eyes of the White Whale, Yuji Itadori was a monster several tis, even dozens of tis, its own size.
Every cell in its body was warning it just how dangerous the human in front of it was.
Flee, flee, flee!
Fear was a biological instinct—
anwhile, Yuji Itadori expressionlessly observed all of this.
When the White Whale appeared before him, there was only one outco left.
"Senior Itadori, the one flying the highest might be the main body!"
Natsuki Subaru's brain rapidly made a judgnt within a short span of ti.
If the White Whale existed in plural, how could there have been no news of it in these four hundred years?
Then there was only one answer.
The original White Whale split into three!
It had to divide its body in order to save its own life!
Since the main body wanted to escape, it would definitely choose the position furthest away from Yuji Itadori!
But just as Natsuki Subaru loudly told Yuji Itadori his judgnt, he noticed that the other's hands had already ford a strange
posture.
He had seen that posture before.
Back when Yuji Itadori was confronting ili.
"No matter how many it splits into, it doesn't matter."
"As long as I take care of every single one, it'll be fine."
"Their body structure seems able to significantly reduce the damage they take, but what if it's an attack like rain?"
Yuji Itadori wouldn't give the White Whale a chance to escape.
Domain Expansion.
Without even the ti to blink, the surrounding environnt instantly changed.
The road that was originally located in the forest had now been replaced by an unfamiliar town.
Natsuki Subaru had already experienced Yuji Itadori's Domain once, so he didn't feel unfamiliar with this scene.
However, this town seed slightly different from last ti.
It looked like it wasn't as dilapidated as last ti?
Natsuki Subaru rembered that last ti inside the Domain, this city had looked a bit ruined, but now it looked sowhat different.
"What... is this?"
Rem widened her eyes. Reflected in her pupils was a cluster of countless peculiar buildings, and the thick fog isolated outside the Cursed Technique had
also completely vanished.
Intuition told Rem that this should be a town, but she had never seen the architectural style of the buildings inside; it was different from any
country or city she knew of.
Did Yuji Itadori use teleportation Magic to send them to an unfamiliar place?
No, that wasn't right—
Rem imdiately denied this answer.
Because she saw the White Whales in mid-air, which had likewise been brought into this space.
At this mont, the White Whales let out a roar from their mouths. The sound was incredibly piercing, capable of even disrupting a person's mind. If it were an ordinary person
, they would very likely fall into madness and begin to self-mutilate. Even Rem had to expend quite a bit of effort to maintain her sanity.
But within those roars, there also seed to be fear.
Even the White Whale couldn't comprehend everything happening before its eyes at all.
It was a fear originating from biological instincts.
It could feel a presence—a power it had never encountered before, completely enveloping it.
It was as if a behemoth even more massive than itself was swallowing it into its mouth.
The White Whale wanted to escape this place, but it couldn't do so at all.
Not just because this was a completely independent and enclosed space.
But also because Yuji Itadori's attack was about to strike.
It didn't matter how many the White Whale split itself into, or which one was the main body.
As long as all the White Whales were entirely wiped out, then it didn't matter.
Even if the White Whale's special body structure could reduce most of its damage, the Cursed Energy storm composed of Dismantle and Cleave would completely
destroy its body!
Not to ntion, Yuji Itadori's Domain wasn't entirely identical to Sukuna's Malevolent Shrine---
Within Yuji Itadori's Domain, these slashing attacks weren't solely aid at the physical body.
There was also the soul!
Yuji Itadori stood in the middle of the street, looked up at the three giant beasts trying to escape, and raised his hand.
"Disappear."
Following Yuji Itadori's words, a violent storm erupted in the city.
But this wasn't rain—it was slashing attacks.
Countless slashing attacks that couldn't be caught by the naked eye, dense like rainwater, poured down from every location within this Domain!
They were a torrential rainstorm, a rainstorm composed of slashing attacks, suffocating in its density, and one that would never cease.
These slashing attacks continuously tore through the air, letting out ear-piercing explosive booms!
The three White Whales suffered attacks simultaneously.
As those slashing attacks landed on their skin, blood instantly spurted out, blooming like flowers!
The surface of the White Whale's skin was covered in layer after layer of bristles; even bombarding it with cannons wouldn't cause any damage.
However, the White Whale was ultimately just a creature of flesh and blood!
Those countless slashing attacks poured onto its body, akin to death by a thousand cuts.
Every single attack could deal considerable damage to the White Whale, and if this single attack were repeated a thousand, ten thousand, a hundred thousand tis
, or even more, then what awaited the White Whale would be an even more tragic end!
In re seconds, the bristles on the outer layer of the White Whale's body had already been continuously sliced and completely destroyed. Scarlet flesh was directly exposed, and fresh
blood constantly fell like rain.
It was exactly as if a fish treated as an ingredient on a chopping board was having its scales scraped off.
The White Whale's body convulsed violently in the air. It wasn't just physical pain—but also the soul.
Those slashing attacks weren't rely slicing its body; they were also slicing its soul.
It felt it. A pain it hadn't experienced in four hundred years erupted from the deepest parts of its body.
The White Whale opened its mouth, wanting to let out a roar.
But no sound ca out, because the slashing attacks had already penetrated its skin, shredding its throat and vocal cords alike!
The body is the container, and the soul is the contents.
But if the soul was damaged, then the body would similarly suffer harm.
The White Whale's body began to scatter.
Not shattering, not exploding, but scattering, just like a dandelion.
Its skin, muscles, bones, organs; everything was being sliced into thin flakes amid those endless slashing attacks.
And before those flakes could even land, new slashing attacks arrived, cutting them finer, more broken, and smaller.
Turned to dust, dissipating with the wind.
All of this seed incredibly long.
But in reality, only a few seconds had passed.
A few seconds later, only patches of blood mist remained in the sky. Their bodies had almost entirely turned into bloody froth or powder, drifting
and scattering with the wind. Only the White Whale furthest away, suspected to be the main body, still had a dilapidated head remaining.
That was intentionally left behind by Yuji Itadori, to tell the world that the Witchbeast nad the White Whale had been completely erased.
Domain dispelled.
The town vanished entirely, replaced by the forest and muddy road that was supposed to be here in the first place.
The dilapidated head of the White Whale plumted to the ground, smashing a giant crater.
Rem watched all of this, so shocked she even forgot to breathe.
This Witchbeast that had existed for over four hundred years was actually instantly killed by Yuji Itadori?!
A Witchbeast that the Kingdom had dispatched countless armies against, one that not even the previous Sword Saint had successfully subjugated, couldn't even withstand a single
blow in front of Yuji Itadori!
Moreover, what in the world was that just now?
Yin Magic indeed could distort space, but was what Yuji Itadori just used truly Yin Magic?
Natsuki Subaru was the exact sa.
Even though he had personally experienced it once already, seeing it again still made him feel incredibly shocked.
No, this ti, the Domain seed even more ferocious than the last.
"Ti to head out."
It wasn't until Yuji Itadori's voice rang out that his thoughts were pulled back to reality.
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