"Bang!"
After a collision between a twisted spatial curtain and a Curse Power Shock Wave, both Uguru Henko and Ishi Ryuu stopped fighting, letting themselves be swept away by the airwaves as they distanced themselves from each other.
Their gazes collectively fell on the young man, watching as his fist, crackling with black electric sparks, struck Druf, killing him instantly. Their expressions stiffened slightly, and their eyes simultaneously widened.
"Druf... is dead?"
The only thought left in their minds was disbelief.
A being that could stand on equal ground with them had suddenly died by Reiger’s hand, which indeed caused a certain shock to both Uguru Henko and Ishi Ryuu.
But after the shock, both of them simultaneously had the sa thought.
"This is trouble..."
Yes, it’s trouble.
Because Druf’s death would lead to awakening an entity they did not want to confront directly.
"Hmm?"
At the sa ti, Reiger, who had killed Druf with one punch and earned the 5 ga points contributed by him, hadn’t even had ti to retract his fist before he sensed an unusual atmosphere.
This was an atmosphere that made the skin tingle and caused a nauseating urge to vomit.
This atmosphere felt like ugly worms buried in the soil were wriggling their viscous bodies and slowly erging from the ground, creating a psychological discomfort.
"What is this thing?"
As he retracted his fist and raised his gaze, the sight before him made him freeze.
...
This was a place of dark space that no one could step into.
The space was empty, filled only with seemingly endless darkness.
The darkness was eerie and appeared to be wriggling, as if alive, exuding a sickening sensation.
But within this wriggling, nauseating darkness, a pair of eyes suddenly opened.
What kind of eyes were these?
Firstly, it could be affird they were not human eyes, with a flat appearance reminiscent of so kind of insect.
Secondly, there were no whites, nor pupils; it seed sothing was rolling inside.
With the appearance of the eyes, a white face also erged from the wriggling darkness.
That face did not belong to a human either, but rather an inverted triangular insect face.
"... The nesis is gone."
A hoarse, unbearably harsh voice softly erged from the creature’s mouth.
"Dormancy introduction target... is dead."
"Dormancy introduction condition... fulfilled."
"Awakening... possible..."
The creature murmured in the wriggling darkness like this.
Then, a desire rapidly grew within it.
That desire was telling it, it was now ravenously hungry.
That desire told it, it needed to feast.
To devour everything completely — that was its only desire at this mont.
This desire was nad hunger.
"Squeak-squeak——"
"Squeak-squeak-squeak——"
"Squeak——"
The surrounding darkness scattered instantly, revealing its true nature.
It turned out to be countless black insects — cockroaches.
Densely packed, endless, innurably countless cockroaches broke free from their dormant state at this mont, awakening together with their master.
"I..."
"I crave..."
"The taste of... iron...!"
The monster, embraced by the cockroach army, laughed.
"Devour everything... completely...!"
Thus, the most feared Poet within the Xiantai Barrier joined the scene.
...
Black Mu, dead.
This is the last of the four formidable entities within the Xiantai Barrier, alongside Druf, Uguru Henko, and Ishi Ryuu.
Its score is 54, the lowest among the four formidable entities, but that was because it hadn’t had the chance to unleash a slaughter.
Druf, Uguru Henko, and Ishi Ryuu were ancient Curse Mages revived in the modern world, but Black Mu wasn’t.
That’s because Black Mu isn’t even considered a mage, nor a human at all.
It is a Curse Spirit.
It is one of the sixteen registered special-grade Curse Spirits.
It was once controlled by Geto Suguru’s [Curse Spirit Manipulation Technique], one of the countless Curse Spirits under Suguru’s command, and was set free after being placed into the Xiantai Barrier during the Destruction Revisit.
Under these circumstances, Black Mu joined the survival ga of Destruction Revisit as a Curse Spirit Singer, becoming one of the four formidable entities within the Xiantai Barrier.
Due to being a cockroach Curse Spirit, Black Mu’s technique allows it to control, create, and command countless cockroaches, strengthening them with its curse power to form a deadly army.
If left unchecked, this deadly army will infest every corner of the Xiantai Barrier, devouring all living things encountered.
Theoretically, Black Mu, possessing such a cockroach army, should be the highest-scoring Poet within the Xiantai Barrier.
The reason it hasn’t achieved this is due to Druf’s technique suppressing Black Mu, ensuring its swarm cannot spread within the Xiantai Barrier.
Realizing an encounter with Druf would be extraordinarily unfavorable, Black Mu decided to use Druf’s life and death as dormancy induction conditions.
As long as Druf lives, Black Mu remains dormant.
Conversely, once Druf dies, Black Mu awakens.
Now, Druf is dead.
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