[During the battle between Dabura and Mahoraga]
Domain expansion: Otherworld Between Darkness and Light: Reverse Transcendence
Mahoraga was now trapped inside Dabura's domain. But for the shikigami it seem no big deal. He raced towards him, with his sword unsheathe. With a furious swip of his hand he cut his opponent into two pieces.
The large hemisphere flickered.
He stood and turn around only to see Dabura standing behind him. Dabura quickly caught sub light speed delivering a powerful kick that devasted Mahoraga belly. The woody ground crumbled under him. The impact pulverized the woody floor to dusty powder. The wheel rotated and the wound healed up.
"I see, my domain is still not perfect" Dabura said to himself. Just then Mahoraga jumped in, trying to land a direct hit on his head. But that hit was stopped by a long light pole. Mahoraga struggled to cut it. And Dabura threw him to a distance.
But the shikigami quickly took to the offensive and tried to give a kick. The hemisphere flickered once more. Mahoraga found himself high up in the air. He look down to see his opponent, but Dabura had already unleash his next attack. A beam of light reaped through the shikigami. As he was falling the wheel spin again and the next step of adaptation continued.
[ Mahoraga will only need three more turns to become fully adapted. But only if he could grasp the heart of this domain technique]
A brutal swordplay ensued between them. Mahoraga sword slash right and left, slicing strands of light from Dabura's light spear. The hemisphere flickered once more. Mahoraga slice missed and the spear landed on Mahoraga's face throwing him away.
Mahoraga stood up. He intently glare at Dabura. Even Dabura was himself puzzled at his inactivity. But his wheel started to shake. Dabura looked at him with astonished eyes. And before too long the third turn was complete.
A barrage of slashes followed. But this time Mahoraga swings were aimless. He was just vigorously swinging his sword right and left. Even Dabura was getting trouble dodging all the slashes. In the midst of the battle, Dabura glared at him. The hemisphere once again flickered. Mahoraga slash missed and the spear landed once more.
Healing himself up, Mahoraga smashed the floor with a tremendous stomb. Pieces of wood levitated in the air which he kicked at Dabura. Dabura protected himself by wrapping around a sheet of bright light. When the wood came into contact it just turned to ashes. But before he could unwrap himself, Mahoraga landed a punch that send him flying away. Even Mahoraga incurred damage, his right hand was burned up, but it gradually healed. Mahoraga had understood a piece of Dabura's domain.
Once again a savage swordplay started. Dabura was trying to focus to activate his technique but the shikigami wasn't allowing him rest. As they were exchanging blows, Dabura noticed that Mahoraga wheel was again shaking. He could by no means allow it to turn.
Escaping backwards he created distance between them and was starting his reversal technique: Shadow ball. As the technique used lot of curse energy his domain was crumbling and the energy was gathering into that black sphere. Mahoraga too headed towards his opponent determine to finish him. But just as he was about to get him, Dabura released the sphere.
A tremendous explosion blew up his domain and threw Dabura outwards. He had sustained severe injuries and his reverse curse technique was not enough. As the dust settled, the shikigami resurfaced as brand new.
Dabura thought that it was his end. It was his first time lossing a battle. But he accepted it. Running away and living another day would be more shameful than to embrace death on the battlefield.
"Get out of the way" someone shouted.
Dabura turned to look who it was. It was a young man wearing a brown jacket and black pants. Dabura just passed at the neck of time, because just than a giant slash came cutting right through their path. It slashe right pass Mahoraga cleaving him in two. The shikigami fell to the ground. Unable to adapt he was dissolving into the shadows and Yuka body was resurfacing. The ritual had ended.
Dabura looked astonishely at him. "Is this your doing?" He asked in awe.
"No, it was our leader's technique" he replied smilingly. "I'm here to offer an invitation. You are a strong sorcerer Dabura kun. And our leader seek strong sorcerers. We need as many sorcerers as possible. So will you join us?" He told him while extending his arm.
"Why do he need me? He is strong enough to defeat that beast in a single strike. I'm no way near him" Dabura replied blankly.
"No Dabura kun you underserimate yourself. There is no hurry to it, you can think and tell me later. I'm always around the corner" he said and disappeared into the rubbles.
High above on a distant building that had survived the onslaught, a so
rcerer looked over their conversation.