webnovelvip Chapter 140 The Pressure of Amaterasu
Chapter 140 The Pressure of Amaterasu
Click.
Cracks spread wildly along the surface of the giant cocoon, tearing open dark gashes that looked truly eerie and sent chills down one's spine.
The second and third sounds grew louder and louder, and it just wouldn't stop.
Oh dear, this sound isn't coming from outside, but from inside the giant cocoon. It sounds incredibly muffled, and it looks like it's about to burst through the shell.
The opening created by the collision of the demon sword and the fox spirit's power became the breakthrough point.
Large swathes of black light streamed out through the cracks. This light was not bright at all; instead, it completely absorbed all the surrounding light, heat, and sound, leaving nothing behind. It was very eerie.
The members of the God Hunting Squad felt everything go black, and the surroundings became chillingly cold. There was no sound of any living person, and they were completely bewildered.
The storm came crashing down.
This wasn't just any ordinary airflow; it was pure energy that couldn't be contained anymore, causing it to completely explode.
The violent energy radiated outwards from the giant cocoon, slapping directly at their faces. There was no way to dodge it, and nowhere to run.
At the very front, Kenshin Fudo planted the Muramasa demon sword firmly into the scorched earth beneath his feet, his legs planted firmly in a horse stance, all his muscles stretched to their limit, veins bulging out from the seams of his armor.
Even so, he was still pushed backward for more than ten meters, the blade tearing a deep trench in the ground, sparks flying everywhere, it looked painful just watching him.
Summoner Akashi's hunting robes didn't even last a second in the wind before they tore into shreds.
He tried to take out a talisman and shake it to summon a shikigami to block it, but the talisman was scraped to ash as soon as it left his hand.
He was thrown into the air, vomited a mouthful of blood in mid-air, and crashed hard a hundred meters away, feeling dizzy and disoriented, unable to get up for a long time.
The cherry wood staff in the hands of the Onmyoji Abe shattered into pieces. His old bones were thrown high into the air and then crashed straight back to the ground. He almost couldn't catch his breath and passed out.
As the storm slammed into his face, the thief pressed himself against the ground, trying to burrow underground for cover. However, the strange force pulled him out of the shadows, leaving him covered in mud and completely exposing his presence.
It's incredibly embarrassing.
Wait until the noise completely stops.
The giant black cocoon in the very center of the battlefield was completely destroyed, leaving not a trace.
A woman was standing there.
She floated barefoot half a foot off the ground, wearing a pure white shrine maiden's robe that was so clean that not a speck of dust could be found, making her completely out of place in this desolate place.
Everyone is very familiar with this face; it's that of the witch on the altar who was disemboweled and sacrificed.
However, at this moment, there was no trace of the fear and resentment she felt before her death on her face. Instead, she wore a gentle smile that seemed to be saving all living beings, which looked particularly incongruous.
A sun floated behind her.
It was pitch black and didn't emit any light at all.
It was a pure black sphere, not reflective, just hanging there dryly in the sky, sucking away all the vitality from its surroundings. Even a glance at it made one's heart tremble and feel uneasy.
The woman opened her eyes.
She glanced around at the people struggling on the ground, and finally stared at the unconscious Yukiko.
Seeing the fox tail peeking out from behind Yukiko, her smile deepened, clearly indicating that she had her eye on her prey, which was truly chilling.
She raised her right hand, spread her five fingers, and gently pressed down.
It didn't make a sound.
There wasn't even the slightest energy fluctuation.
But the people present, including the unconscious Yukiko, all suddenly sank downwards.
A strange force crashed down on them, pressing down on every bone and muscle, and they couldn't withstand it at all.
"Well……"
As soon as the Onmyoji Abe managed to prop himself up, his bones started cracking and popping. He was forced back to the ground, his cheeks smeared with scorched earth, unable to move even a finger. This old man was going to die here.
Akashi, the summoner, was incredibly fragile at this moment. He could only kneel on the ground in humiliation, his forehead slamming heavily into the pile of rubble. He had lost all face and didn't dare to utter a single word.
Kenshin was the only one among them who could still half-squat.
He used Muramasa to support himself on the ground, the blade bent frighteningly.
His legendary samurai armor creaked and groaned as it shattered into pieces that littered the ground, proving utterly useless and a complete waste of such excellent equipment.
Blood gushed out from the corners of his mouth, nostrils, and ears.
"Humans in the present world."
The woman's voice rang directly in their minds, radiating a cold disdain and undisguised contempt: "Have you all become this weak?"
Three hundred meters underground in the Sakura Country, the unified headquarters command center.
Yoshino stared intently at the main screen.
As soon as the woman appeared, everyone in the conference room stood up.
With a single gesture, she completely overwhelmed the entire elite hunting squad of the Sakura Kingdom, leaving everyone in the conference room stunned and even more desperate than when they first saw the monster.
"She... is too strong. That pressure is going to kill me."
"Her presence was completely incomprehensible."
"This...this really is a god..."
A young staff officer was muttering something under his breath, but before he could finish speaking, Yoshino glared at him, and he immediately shut his mouth, not daring to utter a single word.
Yoshino stared intently at the screen, at the god with the shrine maiden's face and the black sun behind her. He slumped into his chair, completely drained and utterly deflated.
This round of losses is completely unsuccessful.
They gambled with the fate of the nation, sacrificed three thousand top-tier fighters, and even risked the royal bloodline, only to find that the savior they finally invited was no savior at all.
He's a deadly living devil.
On this side of the battlefield.
"you……"
Kenshin mustered all his strength and squeezed out a single word from his throat.
The pressure overhead seemed to intensify.
He couldn't take it anymore, and his left knee slammed into the ground, creating a large dent in the floor tiles.
But he refused to bow his head, stubbornly raising his blood-covered face and staring intently at the shadow in the sky, pretending to be defiant.
"You... what makes you... the Goddess of Cherry Blossoms...?"
With each word he uttered, more blood gushed from his mouth.
"...yet they want to...slaughter their own people!"
That shout sounded particularly jarring on the battlefield.
The smile on the woman's face finally changed.
She looked down at the mortal still messing around, feeling neither anger nor pity.
She completely ignored him.
This kind of trivial problem is nothing to her.
She pulled her hand back, and the deadly pressure dissipated instantly.
Kenshin and his group finally breathed a sigh of relief, opening their mouths wide and desperately trying to stuff air into their lungs.
The woman didn't bother to look at them again. She turned around, her bare feet hovering in the air, and walked away step by step.
Her silhouette against the dark sun looked incredibly eerie.
To be honest, this is blatant disregard.
These people don't even have the right to ask her to say another word.
To be honest, if Lu Yan were here right now, he would definitely recognize this woman's old problem at a glance—greed for the bodies of living people, arbitrary distortion of the surrounding laws, and a value system completely different from that of gods...
This thing is a false god.
The woman had only taken a few steps when she suddenly stopped.
She turned her head, her gaze returning to Kenshin.
"The knife you have is quite nice."
She began to speak.
"I'll let you eat last, since you're so brave."
Behind her, numerous secret realms suddenly appeared out of thin air; these were almost all the secret realms that had been opened in the Sakura Kingdom. "I am Amaterasu, my subject..."
Needless to say, hordes of demons surged towards Kenshin and his companions.
Amaterasu muttered to herself, "Have the others started making their moves too? I'd better hurry."