A samurai who doesn't want to be a daimyo is not a good onmyoji

Horned Beast
But no matter how powerful it is, it's actually not very useful.

Even though the bodies of mud walls are usually stronger than rocks, no Onmyoji would choose them as their shikigami, because in addition to their good defense and recovery power, their attack power and mobility are poor. .

Although the mud wall angrily tried to launch a counterattack, its movements seemed so slow to Asai Nagamasa and Axiu that it was impossible to touch their sides.

However, it is not completely helpless, that is, it can pick up the stones around it, or directly use its own talent to condense a large piece of soil as hard as a stone, throw it with its claws, or simply use it from its big Squirting out of the mouth.

Although the speed is still very pitiful, the power is quite considerable. When these mud blocks fall to the ground, they often rumble like small cannonballs.

Coupled with its hard body, there is probably nothing that twenty or thirty ashigaru can do against it. After all, it is made of soil and is not afraid of swords or flames like ordinary little demons. Axiu has personally Experiment with the naginata sickle.

When it opened its mouth wide and let out a menacing roar, Asai Nagamasa also smelled the smell of blood. There was no doubt that innocent people had been buried in its belly.

Asai Nagamasa frowned and threw several thunder bombs one after another with his hands, all of which were sent into the throat of the opponent.

Since he has met half-demon friends such as Axiu and Haizuka Xiaoliu, he actually does not have much prejudice against blood and origin. He is not hostile to all monsters, but food like the mud wall in front of him is Monsters that kill people, that's a different matter!
The thunder bullet entered its belly, and the stupid mud wall didn't seem to react at first. It still tried to continue attacking Asai Nagamasa and Axiu in front of it, but soon, as the blue-white light shined in its belly, it His movements suddenly became slower and slower.

Asai Nagamasa immediately pressed the seal with his hand: "Explode!"

The light in the belly of the mud wall suddenly shone, and with a loud "bang" sound, the entire body of the mud wall exploded from the inside. At least several tons of soil were thrown in all directions, but Asai Nagamasa had been prepared. , he quickly pulled Axiu to escape this disaster.

Although even if it hits them, they won't be hurt at all with their current strength, but that would be too embarrassing.

After escaping the light rain of mud, Asai Nagamasa found a soul core at the original location of the mud wall, which belonged to the mud wall.

Compared with the soul core of ordinary little monsters, the soul core of Mud Wall is obviously much larger, and the energy contained in it is several times more. Although it is not pure, it is just large in quantity, but it is not as powerful as the soul core of ordinary monsters. With so much hatred and resentment in it, it can be used immediately after just a little purification, which can be considered a small gain.

Asai Nagamasa, who was still standing dozens of meters away, waved his hand to Hosokawa Fujitaka, who seemed to be in a daze, and then he called Axiu and the little miko to advance deeper into the mansion.

From the time they discovered the mud wall to the time they succeeded in killing them, they could hear the melodious sound of flutes all the time. At the same time, there seemed to be some faint barking of dogs from deep inside the mansion, which proved that they were not alone tonight, and there might be others. An unexpected intruder.

In any case, it's best to check it out.

Before walking a few dozen meters, there was a rustling sound in his ears, and then Asai Nagamasa saw some rotten bones slowly crawling up from the weeds, and even blocked their retreat, closing the door on them. They were completely surrounded.

He suddenly couldn't help but smile a little. The timing was chosen so cleverly, it didn't seem like a pure coincidence. It seemed that the owner of the flute sound was also an enemy.

But if you want to use this kind of stuff to slow them down, isn't it too much to look down on them?
Without him having to speak, Axiu had already waved her naginata and sickle like a whirlwind, killing several enemies in the blink of an eye. She was very familiar with this kind of enemy.

Although these little monsters transformed from decaying corpses have lost many of their weaknesses in life, as long as their heads are chopped off, they will only die!
After only a dozen breaths, they had easily wiped out these little monsters, no more effort than blowing the dust off their bodies.

But after just a short delay, along with a series of crazy barking sounds, some new enemies also appeared in front of them.

They have humanoid bodies, walk upright, and even hold weapons in their paws, but the ferocious dog heads hanging on their necks will definitely not make people misunderstand their identities, they are some dog monsters!
Asai Nagamasa immediately became vigilant. He quickly applied magic defense to himself, Axiu, and even the little witch Kaga, because generally speaking, the strength of monsters that can transform into humans is extraordinary, far from Those resurrected corpses might be comparable to a mud wall, not to mention there are so many of them!

After just such a delay, seven or eight dog demons rushed up with howls, their green eyes flashing with blood, as if they couldn't wait to drink their flesh and blood.

Asai Nagamasa shouted loudly, raised his hand and released several thunder bombs, then advanced instead of retreating, and rushed towards the dog demons together with Axiu.

When you meet on a narrow road, the brave will win. Unless you want to use some kind of strategy, you must not show any fear when facing monsters, because the more afraid you are, the more ferocious they will be. Monsters also bully the weak and fear the strong!
He thought it would be a hard battle, but unexpectedly, when his thunder bomb landed on the dog demon, the scene he expected did not happen.

It wasn't that the power was too small, but that it was too powerful. The dog demons that were selected as targets were all killed on the spot without exception!
Large amounts of blood burst out from their corpses, not only pouring on the remaining dog demons, but even Asai Nagamasa, who was caught off guard, was drenched a lot.

Asai Nagamasa was suddenly a little stunned, but his movements did not slow down for a moment because of this. The sword carrying the lightning easily held the head of a dog demon, and then another fire bomb technique directly blasted the opponent's chest out. A bloody hole as big as the mouth of a bowl.

After cutting the opponent's throat with a knife, he turned around and found that the battle at Axiu was also very easy. There were already two more corpses of the dog demon on the ground, and a third one would appear after the next breath.

He immediately knew that there must be some accidents. The strength of these dog monsters is too weak, not even much stronger than ordinary ashigaru. Can they really be called monsters?

In less than ten breaths, they had easily killed these dog demons, even faster than cleaning up the resurrected corpses before. After looking at each other, Asai Nagamasa and Axiu both discovered The surprise and surprise in the other person's eyes.

When did these monsters become so weak?
If all the monsters in Nibon are only at this level, then it is natural that they gradually disappear, because if they do not hide quietly, I am afraid they will be killed by humans sooner or later!

Wait, Asai Nagamasa suddenly remembered something. If these guys are not monsters, but monsters called beastmen, then maybe it can be roughly explained.
Rather than saying that they are dog monsters, it is better to say that they are kobolds, one of the inferior horned beasts among beastmen!

Nagamasa Asai observed carefully, and then he discovered that all the kobolds did not have any ghost horns on their heads that represented the identity of the monsters, and if nothing else happened, there should not be any soul cores in their bodies.

It's not because of their strength, but because there is no such thing as a soul core in the body of the beastmen. This is also one of the differences between them and the local monsters in Nibon.

Many beastmen use the size and complexity of their horns to determine each other's status in the group. The stronger the beastmen, the bigger the horns on their heads are. Kobolds like this are actually the lowest-grade horned beasts among them. , it is natural that the strength is low.

But what remains unchanged is that after beheading them, Asai Nagamasa can still gain power.

But at the same time, new problems also arise. This kind of beastman has never been born in Nibon before. Moreover, looking at the appearance and performance of these dog monsters, we know that they probably do not have the wisdom to play the flute, let alone the way to play it. into a song.

There must be other beings behind this. Is it a real monster or a more advanced beastman?
As far as Asai Nagamasa knows, although most beastmen are stupid, there are also beings called shamans and beast kings. Their intelligence is much higher and is not inferior to ordinary humans.

Although he is still a little confused, at least Asai Nagamasa is now certain that there must be a spiritual stone deep in this mansion.

They also emit light, have the same power, and can also bring about the birth of evil spirits and demons. There may not be much difference in essence between Nibon's spiritual stones and the dimensional stones known in the old world.

Nagamasa Asai waved his hand and summoned the few remaining paper figures, asking them to guard the little miko Kaga. Then he rushed directly in the direction of the sound of the flute. No matter what, as long as he found the owner of the flute , perhaps most of my doubts will be lifted.

Along the way, while I was slightly surprised by the size of this mansion, more enemies gradually came to attack me. In addition to the resurrected corpse ghosts and dog demons, there were also several larger sheep demons.

But just like the previous dog demons, they were pitifully weak and unable to stop Asai Nagamasa and Axiu's attack.

It wasn't until he crossed a garden and stood on a small broken bridge that, with the help of the bright moonlight, Asai Nagamasa discovered an enemy that really deserved attention.

It was a monster several meters tall, with the head of an ox and the body of a man, and was covered in muscles.

At first glance, it looks very similar to Asai Nagamasa's shikigami Minotaur Ghost, except that Minotaur Ghost is an energy body, and it is a monster that can breathe and even eat corpses on the ground.

Asai Nagamasa is no stranger to this image, because the other party has appeared too many times in various Western-style magic games in the previous life, combined with his previous conclusions, the other party's identity is ready to be revealed, it is the famous bull head people!According to the division among the Beastmen, the lowest ones without horns or with only small horns are the low horned beasts, followed by the horned beasts, and the tauren in front of them are called big horned beasts.

Although their strengths are very different, the only thing that remains unchanged is their incomparable hatred for humans that is engraved in their blood and souls.

For the beastmen, humans are food that can move, and for humans, the beastmen are also enemies that must be killed.

Because these ugly monsters all worship the demons from the subspace and the Four Gods of Chaos. Although they were born in this world, they act as existences similar to the Imperial Alliance Army.

Although the Four Gods of Chaos have never paid attention to the beastmen and only regarded them as cannon fodder, these guys are indeed very hardworking. According to everyone in the Agote Chamber of Commerce, whether it is the old world or the new world, whether it is humans or elves, Or maybe it was the Lizardmen, all of whom had fought against the Beastmen.

Especially the empire that occupies a vast territory in the old world is exhausted by the year-round invasion of beastmen. Common people rarely leave the village or town where they were born, because once they go to the wild, there will be beastmen behind them. attack.

Compared with the current Nibon, the environment in the old world is much harsher. It is currently just a civil war between many human beings. Most of them can survive if they surrender.

However, humans in the old world often had to fight evil alien races such as beastmen in order to survive, and the other side would not surrender.

On the ground next to it, a dark humanoid creature was squatting in front of a pile of human and canine corpses. There was a big mess on its back, and its long, jet-black greasy hair completely covered its body. look.

And because its back was facing Asai Nagamasa, he couldn't tell what it was doing for a while, but he could feel that the aura here seemed to be following some special rules, slowly moving in the direction of the corpse pile. It was flowing steadily, and at the same time, there was a faint aura of blood surrounding it, surrounding it within a radius of more than ten meters.

Is it some kind of special spell or a sacrificial ritual?

Asai Nagamasa is unknown for the time being, but judging from the blood escaping on the ground and the freshness of the corpses, this activity should have been going on for a long time.

Sensing the voices of Asai Nagamasa and others, the minotaur that was devouring the corpse turned its head suddenly. When it saw clearly that it was a human, it immediately raised its head to the sky and let out an extremely excited roar. The blood-stained bull face was even more obvious. distortion.

Then it directly took out a very rough wood-cutting ax from the grass on the ground next to it, and with a sound of hooves, it launched a charge towards Asai Nagamasa.

Asai Nagamasa waved his hand and summoned the Minotaur Demon Emperor Bohui. He also wanted to see which of the two was stronger.

There was no need for him to issue any orders at all. As if the Minotaur Ghost Bohuang had encountered an enemy it hated, it roared angrily and charged towards the Minotaur.

As for Asai Nagamasa himself, his target was the mysterious enemy squatting on the ground.

"Kaga, protect yourself, Axiu, I'll go first!"

Although he shouted this, while running towards the opponent, Asai Nagamasa also released a few thunder bombs in advance. He knew clearly that he and others were coming, and the tauren had already roared so loudly, but you If you are still unmoved and continue to turn your back to me, then let me try the opponent's strength first!

Seeing that the thunder bomb was less than ten meters away from the opponent, at the critical moment, the opponent suddenly turned around and jumped two meters to the left, directly dodging Asai Nagamasa's attack.

At the same time, a stiff face like an evil ghost mask also appeared in front of Asai Nagamasa. The pair of ghost horns emitting green light on its head could not have clearly indicated its identity. It was a real monster. Not Beastmen.

A flute that seemed to be made of white bones was held in the opponent's huge claws that were obviously alienated and were not much shorter than ordinary swords.

After seeing Asai Nagamasa and the others clearly, it became obviously angry: "There is actually a woman? You disturbed my ceremony, you all deserve to die!"

First, he carefully put the bone flute into his arms. The ugly monster suddenly stood up and let out a series of sharp roars. Substantial winds roared in the dilapidated courtyard, showing what it possessed. of great power.

At the same time, Asai Nagamasa also noticed the opponent's astonishing height. After it truly stood firm, it was no less inferior to the Minotaur just now.

He who was charging suddenly couldn't help but slow down. He raised his hand and another series of thunder bullets flew over: "Is this mask a Prajna?"

Prajna, or ghost girls, in the legend of Nibon, they are monsters formed by women with strong jealousy and various resentments after death.

Although they were once women, their chests will always be filled with jealousy and hatred for women after death. Although they still retain some language functions, they basically have not much wisdom left. They are the most hopeless and almost complete. Youkai who cannot communicate are almost the same as beastmen.

Facing them, there is basically only one option, and that is to kill them completely.

Depending on the resentment during life and the resentment and spiritual energy absorbed after death, Prajna's strength varies, ranging from high to low. The strong can massacre villages, while the weak may be wiped out by passing samurai.

After all, they are monsters transformed from female corpses and resentments, and they still have some basic weaknesses of humanoid creatures, such as beheading, which is effective against most monsters.

Except for some pure incorporeal ghosts or energy aggregates, most monsters will still die after their heads are chopped off.

The Prajna in front of me clearly seems to be a stronger one, and it even controls the minotaurs, sheepheads, kobolds and other beastmen by unknown means.

However, Kyoto was once known as Heian Kyo. In addition to imitating the layout of the capital of the Cathay Empire, according to Abe Seimei's records, the imperial power was still extremely powerful at that time. A large number of shrines and temples were built here, and various onmyoji, Buddhist and Shinto magic were everywhere. In the entire Kyoto, ordinary monsters can't get close at all.

According to Onmyoji, Kyoto has a river to the east, a lake to the south, a road to the west, and mountains to the north. The terrain is excellent, in line with the four spirits of heaven. Even the emperor who was still very powerful at that time was still in the four directions. Temples and Rashomon gates were built to further strengthen Kyoto's feng shui and prevent monsters and evil spirits from causing trouble.

Even after hundreds of years, shrines and temples have long been abandoned, a large number of people have fled, and magic has rapidly declined. However, the lingering charm accumulated over the years can also protect Kyoto to a certain extent, preventing it from easily producing ghosts and ghosts. .

During the half day after arriving in Kyoto, Asai Nagamasa gradually realized this.

But despite this, there are still monsters appearing here, even powerful monsters like Prajna and Minotaur. If he and Axiu hadn't taken action, they would have easily killed Prajna after he completed the ritual and obtained the demonized dog god. Throughout Kyoto, no one knows how many people died because of this.

Could this be another conspiracy of the mastermind behind the scenes?

Facing Asai Nagamasa's thunder bomb, Hannya's seemingly huge body showed unimaginable agility. It just dodged and ran out for more than ten meters in an instant, completely out of the attack range of the thunder bomb.

Asai Nagamasa frowned slightly. He did not expect that this was a head-speed Hannya. With the speed it currently displayed, it could be said that unless he cast the spell within five meters, it would be almost impossible to hit it.

But it was too dangerous for him within five meters. Hannya's giant claws were almost equivalent to ten Kodachi swords. Even if he had armor and magic protection, he would probably be seriously injured.

After trying to use the earth trap and quicksand techniques again, but still being nimbly dodged by Hannya, Asai Nagamasa couldn't help but frown more and more.

Therefore, if you want to defeat the opponent with the minimum cost and the fastest speed, you have no choice but to take advantage of its weaknesses.
Thinking of this, he dodged Prajna's giant claws and felt the strong wind blowing in his face, but he didn't panic at all: "Axiu, you come and attack!"

(End of this chapter)