“Ah——”
Coulson let out a weak moan, his bones nearly shattered, emitting a hysterical wail under the pressure.
The invisible enemy, the massive size, and the terrifying power were all challenging this Agent’s nerves.
An unprecedented despair gradually spread and grew from the bottom of Coulson’s heart!
No matter what kind of desperate situation he faced in the past, Coulson would always find a way out in despair, but now he was desperate, unable to see where a way out was at all!
“Am I going to die?”
Coulson’s eye sockets were bloodshot from the squeeze, and his consciousness became blurred, as if he was only a step away from Death!
But even in this situation, Coulson’s ‘vision’ actually became clearer and clearer!
From initially only being able to see a blurred outline, to now in a near-Death state, he could see this huge Hollow quite completely!
“How ridiculous…”
Coulson felt a bitter taste in his heart: “Is it because I am dying that I can see it?”
Beneath the long-nosed mask as comical as the Joker, a bloodthirsty and tyrannical appearance was hidden.
Just as Jack said, it was a quite terrifying and horrifying monster!
“Goodbye, Director.”
Coulson, on the verge of losing consciousness, vaguely saw a black shadow speeding over from afar!
“Hado #4: Byakurai!”
Boom!
A scorching white beam of light cut through the dark night like thunder, and with an incomparably fierce momentum, pierced the wrist of the Hollow in one fell swoop!
“Ooh, aaaah——”
Gillian let go of Coulson in pain, letting out a sharp, frenzied howl!
Coulson, falling rapidly from mid-air, was suddenly caught by that black figure, and then the two of them slowly landed on the ground.
“Huff, huff…”
Coulson, having narrowly escaped Death with great difficulty, suddenly panted heavily, lifting his head with difficulty to look at the You-Know-Who who had saved him.
Silver short hair, blue pupils, a black long-sleeved kimono, loose black trousers, and a wakizashi-style short blade hanging at his waist—it was identical to the Shinigami in Jack’s description!
“De—Shinigami?”
Coulson was shocked in his heart: “You… are you a Shinigami?”
“Hmm?”
Lord raised his eyebrows slightly, feigning confusion as he asked: “You actually know of the existence of the Shinigami?”
He truly was a Shinigami!
Hearing Lord readily admit it, Coulson’s heart shook again, and he hurriedly said: “I learned about it from Jack, the black man you saved that day. We have been looking for you!”
“Looking for me?”
Lord continued acting: “You should be humans, what are you looking for a Shinigami like me for?”
Coulson coughed up a few mouthfuls of blood, then weakly said: “We have many things we want to ask you, such as Hollows and Gods of Death, how long you have existed, and so on…”
A giant roar interrupted the two of them.
A trace of apology appeared on Lord’s face as he turned around and said: “Sorry, now is not the time to discuss these things. Let me slay this Hollow first.”
“Hollow?”
Hearing this, Coulson was stunned, then looked at the huge monster, thinking to himself that this truly was a ‘big’ Hollow!
Roar——
The moment the Hollow saw Lord, as if seeing an enemy, it erupted with a crazy, bloodthirsty murderous intent!
Among the hundreds of fellow clansmen it had devoured and those countless fragments of wronged Souls, deep resentment towards this man remained!
It was him!
It was this man who had imprisoned them when they were still humans in a deep underground cave, forcing their Souls to mutate and ultimately degenerate from pluses into Hollows!
“Kill… kill you!”
The Hollow squeezed out a sentence with difficulty and charged crazily at Lord!
“Oh?”
Lord raised his eyelids slightly and chuckled: “I didn’t expect that the Hollow would still have residual memories. It seems the degeneration wasn’t complete enough.”
“Kill you!”
Whoosh——
The Hollow raised a slender, pale, giant hand, its five sharp nails suddenly swiping across, stirring up ripples in the air!
“Careful——dodge quickly!”
Coulson’s heart tightened.
Seeing that Lord was still staying in place, he was frightened and shouted to remind him to dodge.
“Never mind.”
Lord’s expression remained calm.
Under Coulson’s terrified gaze, he slowly raised his right hand: “This level is not enough to make me Move my feet.”
“Bakudō #61: Rikujōkōrō!”
The moment the voice fell, six strip-like lights suddenly appeared, shooting out like a hexagram, fixing the Hollow in place!
And this scene made Coulson’s eyes widen, his jaw almost dropping to the ground, as he shockedly said: “What is this? magic? Witchcraft? Or Qi?”
“Not really.”
Lord lowered his hand and explained: “This is Kido, a higher-level spell that only some Gods of Death can use.”
Coulson had a blank expression: “Kido? Higher-level spells?”
“Roar, aaaah——”
Bound by Rikujōkōrō, no matter how much it struggled, the Hollow could not Move, and could only emit an impotent roar, the crimson light in its eyes growing increasingly intense!
Hum——
The Hollow opened its mouth beneath the mask, streams of dazzling red light gathering in front of its mouth, accompanied by heart-palpitating energy fluctuations!
Seeing this familiar scene, Coulson’s heart twitched in fright: “This wouldn’t be some kind of energy weapon, would it?!”
“Cero?”
Seeing the gathering red light, Lord was slightly startled in his heart: “It actually even learned this Move?”
This is a Move only orthodox Hollows know, yet unexpectedly, this low-level Fusion monster learned it too!
“Still, that’s fine.” Lord sneered and said, “Just right, I’ll use it to test the waters!”
“The ruler!”
“Mask of flesh and bone, flutter high, all things of the universe, the thing that bears the name of man!”
“Truth and temperance, unaware of the wall of sin dreams, stand upon it alone!”
“Hado #33: Sōkatsui!”
“Roar——”
Fully chanted Hado, Spiritual Pressure surged crazily out from the palm, and an azure giant dragon roared and rushed out!
The two completed their charging at the same time, the crimson Cero and the azure Hado colliding with each other and erupting with a deafening roar!
Rumble——
The street collapsed and shattered in an instant, a visible gale raged and whistled, and huge stones and building debris were thrown high into the air!
Is this the battle between Gods of Death and Hollows?
Coulson looked at the ruins before him, as if it had been bombed by a cruise missile, and his heart could not help but fill with solemnity.
“As expected of a Cero.”
In the smoke and dust, Lord stepped on the Void Realm, his figure looking somewhat disheveled, and a trace of helplessness appeared on his face: “Wanting to use Kido numbered 30 or above to head-on defeat a Cero is indeed still impossible.”
But this was also within expectations.
After all, this is only sixth-class Spiritual Pressure, equivalent to a lowest-ranking officer.
Once he becomes a Captain-level, even relying solely on the leaked Spiritual Pressure would be enough to shock this Hollow to Death!
“Roar——”
The Hollow let out an angry roar, a visible torrent of spiritual power boiling, actually causing the surrounding space to vibrate, forcefully breaking free from the restraints of Rikujōkōrō!
“Mm…”
Lord’s eyelids lowered: “The commotion just now was big enough, your task is already complete, you can now die in peace.”
The wakizashi short blade at his waist was unsheathed, and the silver blade reflected a spine-chilling cold light under the moonlight.
“Shoot to kill, Kamishini no Yari!”
A flash of silver light suddenly swept past.
Accompanied by the incomparably sharp blade, after cutting across the sky at several times the speed of sound, the roar of the Hollow abruptly stopped.
Clang!
Lord sheathed his blade.
A huge head severed, heavily crashing down onto the ground!
Hollow Gillian—Dead!