Volume 3, Chapter 104 – Permanence Stage Great Demon

Volume 3, Chapter 104 - Permanence Stage Great Demon

Translator: Aoi

Lily’s power had achieved a tenfold boost after perfecting the First Path of Tsukuyomi Swordstyle’s Six Paths.

Her blade maiden spirit power doubled the density of spirit power originally and her base physique gave her a threefold boost in strength.

Even though Lily is still a 7th-stage Awakened as before, the amount of total strength she is able to muster is sixty times that of an average 7th-stage Awakened because of the cardinality and multiplicity involved between the following trinity of elements—Base Physique, Spirit Power Density and Power.

The strength of a middle-stage Spirit Jade powerhouse is six times that of a 7th-stage Awakened powerhouse while a late-stage Spirit Jade powerhouse is ten times stronger.

It wasn’t common for monsters to learn Esoteric Power Arts but unlike humans, they had innately powerful bodies. Visjt novelbin(.)com for new updates

Kokurin, who was a late middle-stage Spirit Jade Great Demon, possessed an innate strength thrice as powerful as human samurai while Ookado and Kama-Oni were a little stronger than that.

Although Kama-Oni’s raw strength was ten times stronger than human powerhouses on the same level, his speed was much slower, and he wasn’t gifted in handling spirit power. Thus, his total strength was just thrice as strong as a human powerhouse who didn’t possess an Esoteric Power Art.

Thus, the actual strength of the chiefs was between only twenty to thirty times that of a 7th-stage Awakened, which left a clear gap between their strengths and Lily’s strength as she was sixty times stronger!

Lily was also a domain user, and since these chiefs underestimated her a little, it allowed her to kill three of them in an extremely short duration.

A large number of monsters had rushed over and surrounded the temple outside at this moment. As they were unclear about the situation inside, the only choice they had was to barge in forcefully.

A cluster of snowflakes joined the raindrops pouring down outside the temple and the rainstorm became a snowstorm gradually as the white and purple-robed shikigami, Yuki-Onna, descended.

“This road is blocked,” Yuki-Onna waved her long-sleeves, and a freezing wind blew by, freezing the weaker monsters into ice before they even realized it while getting engulfed by the snowstorm.

Meanwhile, Amanojaku raged violently inside the main hall, “Just who in the world are you?!”

“She’s Kagami Lily!” The sole remaining chief, Genga, also got up as the spiders around him transmitted some information to him.

“My subordinates have seen her once, Lord Amanojaku. She’s the Mirror Girl we’ve been hunting all along, Kagami Lily!” Genga looked at Lily with his two pairs of sinister eyes.

“What?!” Amanojaku couldn’t believe it, “W-Why is Kagami Lily so strong then? Didn’t Haihime defeat her and take her captive previously? Kagami Lily, just what method did you use to obtain such strength?”

“Perhaps she was hiding her strength all along!” Genga commented.

The temple was in a mess and many lanterns had collapsed, leaving the surroundings aflame.

“You’re mistaken, Amanojaku. I’m not really smarter than Haihime. It’s just that I never believed that monsters like you have concepts of reputation and righteousness.”

“You demoness! It’s an insult to call you human when you’re so strong and bold! I believe it’s proper to call you a demoness!”

“Amanojaku, do you think all humans are as naïve and weak as you believe them to be? You’ll get immolated by the flames of fury that you’ve set aflame by trampling down on the kind in the end. However, I guess you won’t get it even if I explain it to someone like you who has lived the life of livestock until now, would you? Nay, saying that you’ve lived the life of livestock is actually an insult to livestock now, isn’t it?” Lily grinned.

“B?i?t?c?h?! No one has insulted me like this ever since I was born!!! Die!”

The spirit power shrouding Amanojaku increased sharply and the golden horn of his spirit jade, which is in the shape of a Golden-Horned Statue, began shining and caused the whole spiritual ocean to billow.

Permanence Spirit’s True Intent!

The overwhelming might of the explosive power packed within a Permanence Stage powerhouse’s spirit power was enough to shake the whole temple.

“Whoosh!” Amanojaku’s speed shot up so high that he almost warped in front of Lily instantaneously.

However, Lily’s footwork was otherworldly in nature, just like the lithe and ethereal tempo of a celestial maiden’s dance. Tsukuyomi Swordstyle wasn’t just an esoteric power advancement method. Lily had also acquired the tempo of this Tsukuyomi’s dance subconsciously while practicing the whole set of sword-dance several times.

This was an enigmatic tempo. Although Amanojaku excelled in terms of absolute power no matter which stage he was in, and even though his full strength was over a hundred times stronger than an Awakened powerhouse and much greater than Lily’s, he still failed to land a hit on her.

It was simply impossible for a mere subterranean minor evil spirit to see through Tsukuyomi’s dance steps.

Amanojaku’s speed might’ve exceeded Lily’s if he raised it to the maximum, but Lily’s footwork, turns and movements were too unpredictable. It was as if Goddess Tsukuyomi was personally instructing the dance of a celestial maiden, which made Amanojaku feel as if Lily was far away at the horizon even though she was clearly right in front of his eyes, preventing him from landing even a single blow.

Amanojaku brandished his scythe madly while Lily responded with elusive movements, leaving behind fierce and vicious sword beams in midair along with some afterimages following behind the tempo of her dance. On the other hand, Amanojaku’s strikes just left behind a series of rippling distortions.

“Don’t run, b?i?t?c?h?! Stop hiding if you have any guts!”

The flames had intensified a lot by now and the whole temple had begun collapsing with some pillars, beams and tiles falling one after the other and catching fire, but they had no effect on Lily and Amanojaku.

Lily naturally pushed the debris falling towards her away with her domain while Amanojaku was a victim to the wooden debris’ strikes, but he just didn’t care about it since he was unharmed.

Lily and Amanojaku stood opposite of each other inside the ruins of the temple within the heavy snowstorm.

The massive Thousand-Armed Buddha’s statue tilted to one side, but it hadn’t collapsed yet and the eyes of the statue were as calm as ever, transcendent even, as if Buddha was experiencing enlightenment and overlooking this unprecedented decisive battle quietly with the all-saving gaze of Buddha!

A battle between the blade maiden, Lily, who was just a 7th-stage Awakened, and the Permanence Stage Great Demon, Amanojaku!