Crack—crack—!!
The sound of large areas of crystalline shards shattering rang out, followed immediately by a torrent of berserk energy several times more terrifying than before. The overwhelming pressure blasted the black clouds from the sky, and the spatial black hole gate began to collapse and fracture on a massive scale.
With nothing more than a casual claw strike infused with dragon magic, the spatial gate was torn apart—space itself cracking and shattering.
The man whose entrance had carried an oddly ostentatious sense of menace in front of Tohru was instantly ripped apart, his body and the surrounding space shredded into fragments.
The expressions of the other alien monsters descending from the sky changed drastically. The aura Tohru was now releasing was godlike and demonic in its terror. The leader who had confidently tried to take one of Tohru's blows head-on had been annihilated without leaving even a trace.
Just as the dragon maid turned her savage, ferocious gaze toward the other interlopers who had crossed worlds—
"Impudent!"
In the very next moment, a soul-shaking shout rang out. A certain icy gaze from within the massive spatial rift locked onto Tohru. The surrounding space seemed to—no, truly did—freeze solid, causing Tohru's killing intent–filled motion to stall for an instant.
That instant, to a supreme being, was equivalent to nearly a year—more than enough time for countless killing techniques to arrive.
Within the darkness of the sky's spatial void, specks of purple light seeped out, faintly revealing the silhouette of a colossal entity.
An isolated island, towering like a heavenly pillar, pierced through the dim spatial black hole, radiating filthy, corrupted energy.
Smaller islands orbited the massive landmass, while dark, deathly, cursed, and wicked auras intertwined endlessly across its surface.
Behind the island, within the polluted aura leaking from the spatial gate, an additional surge of death-aspected energy appeared, beginning to spin violently. Pale and black, bizarre lightning silently coursed through the clouds.
A being with ram-like horns and bat wings stood at the front of the island like a vanguard general. He held a greatsword blazing with hellfire, his head engulfed in inextinguishable abyssal flames—like a demon god descending upon the mortal world.
Boom!
At that moment, the blasphemous black clouds above the island suddenly contracted, and a gigantic evil eye manifested in the heavens. Within its pupil, countless twisted, grotesque ghostly faces flashed continuously.
[ Soul-Seizing Gaze! ]
The moment the evil eye fixed upon Tohru, an invisible, intangible necromantic wave descended. A massive, violent pulling force ignored Tohru's powerful dragon body entirely and acted directly upon her soul.
Ambushed without warning, Tohru's expression grew momentarily vacant. Above her head, the translucent dragon head of her true form suddenly appeared, roaring in fury and struggling desperately, as though resisting something with all its might—this was Tohru's soul.
Clatter—clatter—!
Dense sounds of chains colliding rang out as several scythe-shaped chains flickering with blue necromantic energy instantly broke through the limits of space and distance, appearing around Tohru and coiling toward her, ready to harvest her soul.
At the same time, the abyssal demon–like king wielding the greatsword let out a cruel grin and crossed the distance between himself and Tohru in a blink. He raised the hellfire-burning demonic blade and swung it down at her, intending to destroy her physical body while her soul was restrained.
In that instant, killing blows aimed at both Tohru's soul and flesh struck simultaneously.
Clang—!
Roar—!
Just as the chain-scythes around Tohru were about to tighten and reap her soul, the cry of a blade and a dragon's roar echoed across the sky.
[ Getsuga Tenshō! ]
A massive black-red blade wave abruptly manifested in the void, sweeping forth like a crescent moon toward the eerie chain-scythes encircling Tohru.
That scene was almost as if a black-and-red glowing moon were returning to the heavens—eerily beautiful.
In the next instant, the gigantic crescent surged forward like a flood.
Crack——!!
Like dust being pulverized, those chains shimmering with sinister blue light shattered into dense energy fragments, scattering downward.
At the same time, a white dragon suddenly appeared, its body wrapped in surging magical power. After letting out a heaven-shaking roar, it unleashed a searing, explosive lightning dragon breath that condensed into a pillar of light and slammed viciously toward the being swinging the flaming greatsword at Tohru.
Facing this overwhelming thunderous dragon breath, the flames around the [Demon King]'s head fluctuated violently. He was forced to abandon his strike on Tohru, instead raising his greatsword and hacking straight into the oncoming breath.
Boom!!
A cataclysmic explosion thundered through the sky. The [Demon King] was blasted backward by the dragon breath, sliding through the air, yet even as he retreated, he cleaved through the beam with his hellfire blade.
The resulting explosion caused the terrifying energy torrent to split like branching streams, blasting off to both sides.
"Ah—!"
Alien monsters and undead demons that had just descended from the ominous island and the spatial rift were instantly caught in the aftermath. Those with intelligence let out terrified, unwilling screams before turning to ash in an instant.
"Oh? Such pure and immense soul power—and it even carries a hint of soul-devouring malice, like that of an evil spirit."
After the attack aimed at Tohru was thwarted, a surprised voice echoed from within the evil eye in the sky. Then, a horrifying figure stepped out from the eye itself.
The being stood over two meters tall. Only bare skull remained of his head, wreathed in azure soul-flames. He wore a long robe that looked soaked in blood and caked with the dust of the dead, an argent-black crown upon his head, with skull-shaped silver ornaments hanging from his waist.
Within the skull, beneath the blue flames, the eye sockets burned with crimson light—especially striking against the azure fire.
This Western undead-like appearance perfectly matched the deathly aura he radiated. In truth, his essence was indeed undead—but not an ordinary one.
He was a demigod-level immortal undead.
The one just now had been his subordinate—a former hell-demon lord turned undead, a powerful Demon King who had already set one foot into the Five-Star tier.
In Tohru's world, humans themselves could possess terrifying power, and many beings capable of ravaging the continent existed. As such, power levels were clearly divided.
[One-Star Rank: Entry-class]
Capable of fighting against ten thousand armies, with special abilities and destructive power just below city-level destruction.