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

Chapter 17 Soul Core
When he was just dealing with the pig demon, he was already hundreds of meters away from the battlefield, but Shinkuro ran not far from the pit in the blink of an eye. The earth power can not only greatly strengthen the defense, but also has many wonderful uses in other aspects.

For example, now, with his affinity for the earth, Shinkuro can make his body lighter or heavier to a certain extent. Even though due to his weak magic power, he cannot continue for too long now, but at the critical moment moment, this can be life-saving.

Before arriving at the pit, Shinkuro found that the war had reached an extremely anxious stage.

Dozens of ghouls were fighting a bloody battle with hundreds of ashigaru. Although the number was small and their movements were extremely slow, the ghouls steadily gained the upper hand.

Because they are not afraid of death and do not know pain. On the contrary, when facing such monsters, the Ashigaru cowers and only wants to temporarily repel the opponent with inferior bamboo spears instead of Completely kill the enemy.

If it hadn't been for Miyabe Tsurujun shouting loudly all the time, and there were several monk soldiers behind him who were supervising the battle team, even with the blessing of faith, I'm afraid some Ashigaru would have chosen to escape long ago.

But this is not entirely their fault. Although these corpses are in rags and look weak, in fact, after actual contact, everyone found that they are indeed real monsters.

Their skin is extremely tough, almost thicker than the skin of cows and horses. If they do not use a full blow, the Ashigaru's bamboo spears will not only be unable to pierce the opponent's skin, but will even break their own spearheads. They are dealing with other enemies. Weapons that were very useful in Ashigaru were not effective against these monsters.

Fortunately, there are elite monk soldiers led by Miyabe Tsugujun. Their weapons and fighting will are far better than ordinary Ashigaru. With them as the center, they can barely fight against the ghouls. As the lord of Miyabe Castle, Miyabe Tsurun even took the lead in killing two ghouls with his own hands, which boosted a lot of morale and allowed the battle to continue until now.

Unfortunately, this does not mean how strong they are. On the contrary, it is because they are too weak, which is why they are like this.

In fact, in Shinkuro's view, as long as he can get rid of his fear, this kind of ghoul, which has just been transformed from a corpse, is actually very easy to deal with. Any warrior with a sharp blade can kill them that move slowly.

In Abe Seimei's inheritance, most of the so-called eight million gods in Nippon are low-level monsters, and there are not a few monsters that can be defeated by mortal warriors who are completely incapable of magic with the sharp blades in their hands.

But this thought flashed through his mind, because the most critical battle now was still in the pit, because there was the largest and most violent pig demon there.

Although it fell into a trap from the beginning and suffered heavy injuries, it never gave up resistance despite holding a giant tree several meters in its hand.

The trap that took dozens of ashigaru people to dig out in the middle of the night has now been completely destroyed by it. The original trap was hammered out with several uneven slopes. They are both pig demons, and it is bigger than the one that was just dug. The pig demon Shinkuro killed was at least [-]% stronger in strength.

Kosaburo and most of the monk soldiers are working hard to stop its advance, but the weapons in their hands are too weak compared to the opponent. The reason why they can maintain the current situation is entirely because the pig demon himself has been injured. It just moved in a short period of time.

As for the last pig demon, no one cares about it anymore, because it was blasted through the belly by an iron cannon at the beginning. Now it is already bleeding all over the ground. It lies motionless on the ground. Only the heaving chest. Proving that it's not dead yet.

Without any hesitation, Shinkuro rushed over and slashed at its throat, taking advantage of its illness to kill it!
The pig demon lying on the ground saw the enemy's intention, but it was seriously injured and could not do anything. It could only watch the shining blade attack, splashing large amounts of blood.

The second pig demon, die!
The familiar warm current surged out of thin air again, and Shinkuro could confirm this time. This was definitely not a simple coincidence, but more like a favor given to him by God.

The only remaining pig demon, which was also the largest, also saw this scene. It suddenly became more violent, waving the giant stick in its hand one after another, and a large amount of soil around the trap flew up, even forcing Miyabe Jirun He had to continue to retreat with the monk soldiers.

But this was only its last struggle. Within 2 minutes, its strength seemed to have been exhausted. When the smoke and dust dissipated, everyone saw it gasping for air, and its whole body was exhausted. The wound became more serious because of its reckless behavior, but it probably didn't care about that anymore.

Looking at the pig demon who was still staring at him with hatred in his eyes, Shinkuro did not step forward in person this time.

Seriously injured beasts are often the most dangerous, not to mention this powerful monster?Its counterattack before death must be very ferocious.

And he also needs to confirm another possibility. Will the enemies he kills with his own hands give him strength, or does it only matter if they die near him?

So he just waved his hand gently.

"Bang bang bang!"

A series of iron cannons sounded. Although it took a lot of time to load this primitive iron cannon, and these guys in Miyabe Castle were not elites, such a long time was enough for them to launch a second attack.

Then came a series of rockets. Although simple arrows were completely unable to pierce the opponent's skin, the flames were still somewhat useful.The pig demon wailed again, but unlike before, this time it was no longer full of anger, but more of pain and resentment, as well as a trace of fear.

But all of this disappeared completely after a minute. With continuous shooting, its life soon came to an end. Then in everyone's surprised eyes, its entire body suddenly turned into a burning object. torch.

It was not ignited by rockets, because the flames all over its body were clearly blood-colored light, but it just looked like flames.

Then its entire body shrank rapidly, almost disappearing in the blink of an eye. Then a gold color fell to the ground, while a green and red crystal slowly floated up, as if it wanted to fly away.

Shinkuro immediately grabbed a pair of bows and arrows from the monk soldiers and shot several arrows in succession.

Archery, swordsmanship and spearmanship are the three skills that many qualified samurai must master, and Shinkuro is no exception, especially archery.

For the original Shinkuro, whether he can kill the enemy is a matter of the future, but it is real to be able to hunt with a bow and add some meat to his dinner, so his bow skills are actually not bad.

The crystal in front of him was slow and much clumsier than the birds he usually hunted, so except for the first arrow that missed, Shinkuro's next few arrows all hit the target accurately.

Although the power of the bamboo bow was very low, the crystal seemed to have little power, and he knocked it to the ground in a few hits.

Seeing that the crystal was still trembling slightly after falling on the ground, Shinkuro immediately rushed forward, yellow light flashed in his hand, leaned over and used his only energy to cover the crystal, and another dozen or so people passed by. After taking a breath, it finally stopped shaking.

The monk soldiers and ashigaru nearby were stunned and didn't understand what happened. However, Shinkuro's face was full of joy when he got up again. This kind of crystal was clearly recorded in Abe Seimei's inheritance. The Onmyoji masters It is usually called the soul core.

The soul core of a monster is called the inner elixir in the parlance of the neighboring Cathay Empire. It not only contains a certain amount of energy, but also often contains the memory and knowledge of the monster during its lifetime.

The soul core is useless to mortals and will only bring disaster or even death, but to the Onmyoji, it is undoubtedly a treasure.

After being processed by spells, the soul core can be inlaid on weapons and armor to enhance their abilities, and can also be refined into special pills to temporarily or permanently strengthen certain aspects of the user's abilities.

In the hands of advanced onmyoji, the soul core has many more uses, such as making it into a special magic weapon to release a certain skill that the monsters mastered during their lifetime, or even using it as a basis to summon monsters that can be Shikigami for driving.

There are so many different things.

In short, the more powerful the monster was during his lifetime, the more precious the soul core he left behind after his death was something that even money could not measure.

For monsters, the purpose of the soul core is very simple, that is, by eating it, they can often become stronger.

However, despite the joy, the scene before the pig demon's death also made Shinkuro feel a certain amount of pressure. The bloody light contained a breath that was familiar to him, and it was the breath of the ghost girl Momiji.

She was able to create a pig demon, and she also obviously arranged some secret tricks, so that before the pig demon died, she could use special spells to burn its remaining life and strength, and then try to remotely seize its soul core. With this set, It fully shows that her intelligence is definitely not low, and her potential is even more amazing.

This time her attempt failed, but if she was given enough time, how many monsters could she create and how many soul cores could she devour?How powerful can she become?
That would be a huge obstacle to Shinkuro's obsession with revenge.

Although he was preoccupied, Shinkuro didn't show it on the surface, he just looked very happy because he won the battle.

Then he turned to look at the ground, where there was a golden crystal that was completely different from the soul core, which seemed to be very similar to something mentioned in Abe Seimei's inheritance.

If it is really that thing, maybe he can roughly understand why this pig demon is obviously stronger than its kind. In addition to the special care of the ghost girl Hongye, the golden crystal must also play a big role. .

Because it is the aggregation of energy in the world, it is the spiritual stone that both Onmyoji and monsters long for!

(End of this chapter)