57 Ominous Pressure

Sukehime who was sitting on the dome of the nether flame fiend demon doin arry was finally finished with her preparation and was no longer interested in chit chat with her attacker's. Then She looked at the curious gaze of the attackers, who seemed to be waiting to hear a heartfelt discussion between Yui and herself. Frowning her brow with an annoyed expression and with eye's filled with ice cold killing intentions she said "are you guys here to listen to my stories or kill me?"

" Sukehime ! I respected you as the nation's hero but now knowing how much disgrace you have brought to the kingdom, the crown and the royal family by letting a bastard inherit the crown. I have lost all faith in you. " shouted a middle aged Master, his face was completely read with shame and anger. While he no longer pretended to be polite by using honorifics to talk with Sukehime.

'if you really respected me then why are you trying to kill me?' thought Sukehime as she sneered and chose to ignore the middle aged master.

Seeing the conversation go out of topic the bearded old Man intervened and said " Gentlemen, I hope you stop falling for her tricks. Because we cannot confirm whether what she is saying is true or false. For all we know she is just lying trying to buy time, so I recommend we attack her right now. "

Many of the attackers were very pissed with Sukehime after knowing that She had been playing them as fools all these years. And when the Bearded old asked to attack Sukehime they agreed Immediately forgetting all the fear they had for her for a while by replacing it with the anger for her.

Yui and Hakuun were in a bind for their own reasons.

Yui did not know whether to believe sukehime or not because the childhood friend she knew would never do anything that would bring shame to the country and its people. Most importantly she hated lying so her childhood friend will never fake marriage in front of the whole kingdom. The more Yui thought the more she felt that the Sukehime she knew and the Sukehime in front of her were two different people. It did not matter if Sukehime was telling the truth or not because Sukehime wronged her by separating her from her only son. Therefore she decided to attack Sukehime.

Hakuun unlike Yui did not think with his brain it was as if he was totally smittened by Sukehime after knowing that she has never been with a man and was still pure and untouched. Hakuun was staring at Sukehime with a hot gaze but did not dare to leave the formation and near her because even though he was smittened by Sukehimes charm his instinct told him that if he leaves the formation then he will definitely die and also kill the rest of the masters with him.

The Bearded Old Man looked at Hakuun and knew what was going through his head, so he shouted at him " You really are a disgrace to the Monks of the Fuji mountain. aren't you brat?"

Hearing the Bearded old man call him disgrace to the Monks of the Fuji mountain Hakuun awakened from his wet dream and glared at the bearded old man and cursed " Old Man you are looking for death! "

" So you are awake after all, do not forget now your life is not yours it belongs to the 13 allied families. Stop thinking the impossible and daydreaming. Come on everyone let's begin. " Hearing the old man Hakuun clenched his fist hard but soon loosened it as what the Bearded old man told him was the truth, after giving his loyalty to the 3rd prince and the 13 allied families his life was no longer his to dream and hope for a future. Being the slave of the 13 allied families was his only future and he had to accept it.

But he did not regret it as he was able to know that his goddess was still pure and untouched. Knowing this was more than a compensation and enough of a reward for him. He could happily live the rest of his life knowing that his goddess was untainted, pure and untouched till his end.

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Sukehime did not actively attack these clowns because she knew that with 34 god stones and the 4 elephant star formation they could withstand her attacks enough for them to counter attack her with the 'Lamp of the Damned'. So instead of wasting her time on attacking she prepared a huge defence array around her powered by 12 good stones.

Even with the defence array powered by 12 good stones, Sukehime still thought that this level of defense was not enough for the upcoming battle. Because the ' Lamp of the damned' was no ordinary cursed Item. it was the heavenly treasure which could end the World's will, so she did not dared to underestimate it .

The Curse formed using the Lamp of the Damned is able to ignore all physical defense and directly attack the soul of the target, be it human or celestial beings if they are hit by the Curse of Damned soul, they are damned to be dead in next 2-3sec, not knowing what hit them and when it hit them.

This was the reason Sukehime went through great lengths to Mature the soul of the damned soul inside the lamp. Because when it was sure kill weapon. With this she could easily kill the World's will and finally be free of the limitation placed on her by the World's will.

Moreover, World's will is almost immune to Physical attacks and Sukehime never thought of confronting the world's will with physical strength; it would only be considered as foolishness.

Divine punishment and heavenly tribulations are the strongest arsenal of the world's will and that is why Sukehime had prepared and surrounded herself by a defense array powered by 12 god stones.

This defense array is called 108 thunder tempering array . Its specialty is that it can absorb thunder elemental attacks, it gets stronger by absorbing thunder but with one condition that the level of the array should be the same or higher than the thunder elemental attack it is absorbing. Thanks to 12 basket ball sized god stones powering the array it was already the limit of the crying heaven worlds highest level.

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Following the lead of the bearded old man the remaining 33 attackers excited the formation while drawing energy from the god stone. All the array lines shone brightly as the thick energy of god stone flowed through them.

The specialty of the 4 elephant star array is that the 34 people can attack as one or 33 people can reinforce the attack of the remaining attacker increasing the lethality and power behind the attack by 33 times. This is the reason why this 4 elephant star array is used to fight the enemies with higher strength.

Similarly now the Bearded old man was drawing power from the 33 other attackers and reinforcing his attack to increase the lethality and power behind the curse. While these clowns drew every last drop of energy from their god stones to charge and empower the Curse, Sukehime patiently waited because what she had planned to do next could potentially help her defeat the world's will and the 34 attackers at the same time.

Now that Sukehime knew who orchestrated these assassinations on her from behind the scenes, she knew what she had to prepare for and these clowns were just making it easier for her to calculate her next move.

Theoretically everything seemed to be within Sukehime's calculations but only the perfect execution of the plan could get the desired results or Sukehime could die in the process .

Already knowing enemies next move helped Sukehime by a great deal in here planning. Since she knew that the masters from allied families will be using the Damned soul as their last card, being the creator of the Damned soul lamp she knew how to deal with it and she was able to prepare the necessary counter measures for the attack. Having set up everything Sukehime was waiting for these Clowns to attack her.

There was another reason why Sukehime allowed the draw every last drop of energy from the god stones to reinforce the Curse, because for her plan to be a success Sukehime needs the Curse to be as strong as possible.

The bearded old was feeding the Damned soul with all the energy he had gathered from the other 33 attackers and godstones the yellowish flame within the lamp got brighter and brighter, with its increasing power of the Damned soul a huge ominous pressure emitted from it feeling the ominous pressure, Sukehime mouth edges covered upwards.

This Ominous pressure was the sign of the Damned Soul maturing, thanks to the 34 master's for feeding it with the combined power of godstone and their own power the Damned soul finally matured.