Chapter-84: Gyokko, the Upper Rank 5 of the Twelve Kizuki..
Chapter-84: Gyokko, the Upper Rank 5 of the Twelve Kizuki..
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3rd POV | Swordsmith Village |
"There' some uninvited guests to our village it seems.." The Grand Elder somberly looked out of the window. He spectated the defense with kind of an insouciant attitude.
That insouciant attitude of him comes from old age. He has been serving the Ubayashiki family for 93 years, almost all his life, as his current age is 111 years old, one of the oldest in history.
"The swordsmiths have all been gathered in the main house." Nagatomo barged in again from the sliding door.
He gave a situation report while putting his pipe up on his mouth and took a puff. Some Demon Slayers also escorted the swordsmiths as they are all valuable for being the only smiths to be able to forge weapons made out of Scarlet crimson ore, an ore very vital and the core component of Nichirin weapons.
"Hey, Grand Elder, since all of the swordsmiths are inside, can I clean up now?" Ren asked the Grand Elder with a hint of casual and politeness in the perfect blend.
"Hoho, you are free to do so, I'm not the one to constraint against someone's wishes after all." The Grand Elder replied while caressing his majestic white beard.
"Indeed, very wise of you Grand Elder." Ren smiled at the Grand Elder's quip as he brought his wings out. He unleashed his aura while walking towards the window. Using his , he phased out of the window via a quick teleport.
His long fingers grabbed the gap between bricks and hanged from the wall like Batman. Ren turned his head back to the people who was watching him, and with a small salute, he took off flying by pushing from his feet to launch himself into the air.
Ren glided and with a flap of his wings, he sped up. He reached a part of the sky high enough to overlook the village and the demon siege. Ren raised his arm up above him as he gathered his Light magic hovering above his palm.
"It's a terrible night for rain." Ren quoted a certain Roy Mustang while a large clump of Light magic forming a large sphere had gathered above his palm. He flicked his wrist as he snapped, letting the Light sphere launched into the clouds.
The sphere of light magic scattered within the clouds, and the clouds seemingly absorbing the light magic particles. The clouds above the village suddenly erupt in a golden sheen, looking holy and divine if observed, like the gods were descending into the earth to judge the demons.
This was Ren's plan, to imbue the clouds above the swordsmith village with Light magic so when they're forced to rain, it will rain light magic, which is harmful to all demons. This was better than manually creating light magic constructs which would take some time, but Ren was feeling lazy so he gained this idea and did it instead.
"Now, the curtain rises.." Ren made Light magic push the capacity of the clouds to it's limit and made it heavy to make it rain.
—Drip..! Drip..! Drip..!
The clouds started to drip down and eventually, a full on rain of light magic water drops. The light magic water drops also glowed a golden sheen, like the divine ichor of the gods.
As soon as the light magic-exposed water drops made contact with the fish demons, they started hissing and melted.
—Hiss!
The light magic infused water drops also did quite a damage to Gyokko, making him hiss in pain. He quickly retreated into his vase to teleport to another vase outside of the village's boundary.
Meanwhile, Ren observed Gyokko's way of teleporting via seeing it himself. Only problem is, how does he track the pattern of teleportation with ? By feeling the fluctuations? Not enough.
"Hmm..How about imbuing my eyes with so I can see the path of the space teleport?" Ren thought out of an idea. And so, he imbued his eyes with , which made him able to see the "Essence" of space, meaning he can see space tunnels which makes one able to teleport.
Teleporting is like digging, but through the fabric of space-time like a tunnel. In Ren's eyes, he can see the visible path of space weaving throughout the various different jars of Gyokko.
Soon, he saw Gyokko cruising through one of the space tunnels, heading out of range from the light magic rain.
"Found you~" Ren said in a singsong way as he warped near the tunnel and kept up with Gyokko.
"My beautiful masterpiece!—" Gyokko shouted as he popped out of his jar, only to see Ren standing in front of him.
"Well hello there!"
"Ren Kato— pfft!" Gyokko didn't finish his sentence and immediately started attacking. His used his vase to spurt out a torrent of jet-speed water. A layer of light magic barrier formed into a shield in front of Ren and completely blocked it, not that it would've done anything except make his clothes wet.
"Guh! You were the one that made HIM unhappy! I shall make you into my art piece and present you to him!" Gyokko shouted from his eye-mouths. He intended to run away for a bit to see Ren's abilities through his teleport.
So when he did try to teleport away, Ren still followed him. In one second, Ren thought of an idea...
"Wha—!" Gyokko was ripped out of the space tunnel with Ren's right hand grabbing his head.
"Uh, oh, you can't escape!" Ren said with a teasing voice as he threw Gyokko towards a tree. The slippery Gyokko just climbed on the tree like an insect and crawled with his infant hand back.
"Disgusting.." Ren recoiled in disgust for a bit. Then, with a sudden burst of speed, Ren reappeared in front of Gyokko, blocking his crawling advance.
Ren threw a kick at Gyokko fast enough that the demon couldn't register what had happened..
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Word Count: 1005
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