A magnificent and resplendent light burst forth instantly.
The sunlight in the sky became even more glaring.
Moreover, other celestial bodies, usually impossible to observe during the day, now appeared one by one in the sky: Mercury, Venus, Mars, the Moon…
The nine celestial bodies of the solar system all appeared in the sky, along with the Earth they were on.
All ten celestial bodies emitted brilliant light, establishing a virtual connection with the small hill before Nathan across the void of space.
Even if this connection was minuscule, the power mobilized less than one hundred-millionth, it was still enough to achieve Nathan’s goal.
The immense magical energy activated, immediately binding Muzan tightly, and began to drain his life force, continuously converting it into magical energy and storing it in the gemstones surrounding the barrier’s array.
‘What happened?
What is this?!’ Muzan suddenly woke up, completely bewildered to find that he couldn’t move.
An invisible force held him captive, extracting something from his body.
Muzan was both shocked and enraged.
He felt himself rapidly growing weaker.
Although his vitality was abundant and he wasn’t afraid of this level of extraction, this invisible attack, with no enemy in sight, terrified him beyond measure.
Bang!!!!
He suddenly stood up, splitting into tentacles that lashed out in all directions.
His tentacles, harder than steel, struck the surrounding mountain walls.
An attack that should have been able to penetrate the mountain only managed to knock a few stones loose.
And in the next second, magical light shimmered, pulling the broken stones back to fill the gaps, making it whole again as if nothing had happened.
‘What in the world is this…’ This strange phenomenon struck Muzan’s mind with immense force.
It was as if this mountain had come to life.
Turbulent waves rose in his heart: ‘Could it be that this mountain is alive, a legendary mountain spirit, and I just happened to run into its mouth, and now it’s digesting me?’ Muzan looked at the mountain walls that he had broken and which had now recovered, felt the continuous drain of life force from his body, and his expression immediately turned serious.
It wasn’t impossible.
He could become a Demon, so it wasn’t surprising that a mountain could become a spirit.
After all, this land had legends of eight million gods.
Muzan prepared to run outside, but his steps immediately halted.
Even though he had been asleep, his biological clock clearly told him that it was daytime.
He had specifically set this function to prevent himself from accidentally wandering outside during the day.
Muzan was full of frustration, but he wisely crawled back into the hole.
‘It’s not a big deal.
It can’t drain me dry anyway.’ Muzan comforted himself.
“Endure it!
Once night falls, I’ll go out immediately, remember this place, and after a hundred years, when that sunlight-summoning bastard dies of old age, I’ll come back here and blow this mountain up.” Nathan observed Muzan’s movements through the barrier and roughly guessed his thoughts, finding it amusing: “What a cowardly guy.
But that makes things even better.” He snapped his fingers, and the spirits he had collected and refined sank into the barrier, beginning to assault Muzan.
Their only purpose was to attack Muzan’s consciousness.
Rip— A faint stinging sensation came from Muzan’s brain.
Before he could even react, stinging sensations came one after another, like the tide, wave after wave.
And this stinging sensation kept growing stronger and accumulating.
Nathan shook his head.
The lethality of the spirits was much lower than he had expected.
But that was within his expectations.
He wasn’t particularly proficient in the magic of the Department of Evocation.
Moreover, Muzan, who was truly immortal, possessed incredibly dense life force, which was highly damaging to spirits.
But it wasn’t a big problem.
Nathan continuously summoned spirits, infusing them with a trace of soul-targeting curse power, and sent them into the barrier to wear down Muzan’s consciousness.
The quality of the spirits in this world was unexpectedly high.
Not fearing sunlight was just the baseline.
Sabito had sparred directly with Tanjiro, indistinguishable from a real person, without Tanjiro noticing anything amiss.
Even some nameless wandering ghosts were enough to erode Muzan’s consciousness.
Muzan felt his body growing heavier and colder.
That was the illusion caused by his consciousness being gradually worn away.
He wanted to turn over and resist, but the magical formulas restraining him were quite powerful.
Moreover, the internal terrain of the mountain had quietly changed, burying him deep inside, even the parts of his body that could generate force were bound.
At the same time, the wound that Yoriichi had inflicted on him, which had never healed, began to act up again.
“I can’t go on like this.” Deeply aware of the crisis of death, Muzan struggled with all his might, but everything was contained within the mountain.
His outbursts of power also grew weaker and weaker.
… The sun in the sky slowly rose from the east and set in the west.
A whole day had passed.
Muzan’s planned nighttime escape had already failed.
Not to mention leaving this mountain, he couldn’t even crawl out of the hole he had dug.
“Damn it, what’s going on?” Muzan’s consciousness was becoming increasingly blurry.
Even though he knew it was now night, it was already too late.
After a whole day of erosion, his consciousness was extremely weak.
Finally, it fell silent.
“Is it gone?” Nathan found that Muzan inside the barrier was no longer moving.
He casually kneaded several souls together to create a stronger one, then threw it into the barrier, attaching it to Muzan’s body.
Rip— Muzan suddenly leaped up, and the spirit Nathan had sent was dissolved.
“Who?
Who’s there?!” He had deliberately feigned weakness, concentrating his remaining strength, trying to kill the enemy.
But unfortunately, Nathan would never go there himself.
And after this, Muzan was completely silent.
Nathan successfully got a spirit to enter Muzan’s body and control it.
“Completely erased.” Nathan sensed that Muzan’s body had become an empty shell.
“It’s done.” Nathan said.
“Kibutsuji Muzan is dead.
Only his shell remains.” His words made the Hashiras present a little excited: “Really?” Nathan didn’t answer.
He snapped his fingers, deactivated the barrier, and let the spirit that had possessed Muzan walk out.
This spirit had been branded by Nathan from the very beginning, completely obedient to his commands.
Seeing Muzan walk over, the Hashiras were a little nervous.
Nathan commanded: “Squat.” Muzan squatted.
“Shake hands.” “Lie down.” “Stand up.” “Backflip.” Nathan gave a series of commands that could be considered humiliating, and Muzan followed them all without hesitation, without a moment’s delay.
“So now, kill all the Demons.” Tanjiro’s heart skipped a beat: “But Nezuko…” “Don’t worry, Nezuko has already broken free from Kibutsuji Muzan’s control.” Nathan said.
“Kibutsuji Muzan can’t control her, so naturally, he can’t kill her either.” As Nathan said, Muzan simply couldn’t control the Demon’s blood in Nezuko’s body.
He erased all the remaining Demons in the world.
Then, Nathan took out a box, one he had prepared earlier to seal Muzan’s body, which could continuously drain his magical energy.
“Good.” Nathan sealed Muzan in the box and turned to Shinobu.
“I will take Kibutsuji Muzan back to my own world.
From now on, there will be no more Demons in your world, and you can all live ordinary lives.” “Is it really over just like that?” Shinobu felt a sense of unreality, but she knew Nathan wouldn’t lie to her.
“It’s all over.” Kagaya suddenly laughed.
The horrifying scars on his face were already beginning to fade, revealing normal human features.
“My body feels so light.
The curse that has plagued the Ubuyashiki Family for a thousand years is gone.” “Kibutsuji Muzan is truly dead.” “Great!” The Hashiras were all overjoyed, both for Kagaya’s recovery and for the end of the Demon era.
Only Shinobu and Kanae looked at Nathan with a hint of reluctance: “Are you leaving?” “Yes.” Nathan said.
“But staying one more night is no problem.” He looked at the two sisters: “Besides, it’s not like we’ll never see each other again.
Later, I’ll look into the forum and see if I can bring you along too, maybe for occasional visits.” Nathan shrugged: “Of course, not anytime soon.
I still have a battle ahead of me.
Although I’m confident, it’s still pretty dangerous.” Shinobu knew that her strength wouldn’t be of any help to Nathan.
If someone as powerful as him found it dangerous, how strong must the enemy be?
She definitely wouldn’t hold him back.
“I understand.
Be careful.” Shinobu said, a little reluctantly.
Kanae nodded beside her: “That’s right.
Remember what you said.
Come visit us.” “Of course I will.
My connection with Shinobu-chan is something even worlds can’t sever.” For the first time, a hint of shyness appeared on Shinobu’s face, but she quickly masked it with a smile identical to Kanae’s.
“Alright, I’m not leaving right now.
Don’t look at me like that.
There’s still one more night.” Nathan said.
“So, let’s have a bonfire party together!”