Looking at the hometown scenery he thought he had forgotten, Yami told everyone the legends passed down in the Land of the Sun.
Legend has it that long ago, a magical beast called the Five-Headed Dragon wreaked havoc in the Land of the Sun, so a celestial maiden suppressed it in the sea at the end of the Land of the Sun, in Goshu.
But that magical beast's demonic power seeped out, dyeing the sea pitch black and even distorting space-time to connect with hell.
If Charles hadn't confirmed from Yami that the celestial maiden in the legend never became the ruler of the Land of the Sun, this legend would be almost identical to the story of the first Magic Emperor slaying the Demon God.
Hmm... considering the Land of the Sun's prototype, perhaps a certain ninja sealing the Nine-Tails plot would be more similar.
However, in worlds with supernatural powers, such legends are mostly true stories. The sea area polluted by magic power before them was proof.
Chongming continued forward and finally truly arrived above the Land of the Sun.
But Yami's expression also darkened accordingly. The first sight that met their eyes was that collapsed torii gate, followed by destruction traces extending all the way into the town.
Those traces looked as if some creature had dragged its mountain-sized body through, flattening everything in its path.
Only because everyone was high in the sky could they see the entire trail clearly.
Seeing this trace, everyone couldn't help but associate it with the Five-Headed Dragon from the legend Yami had told.
Soon the group arrived above the town. Although they had expected it, seeing the town's ruins, everyone didn't know how to comfort Yami, whose face grew increasingly grim.
The Land of the Sun was as Charles had imagined - an otherworldly island nation. Though destroyed, you could still see the buildings were all in ancient island nation style.
From the scale, it seemed like quite a lively place, but unfortunately now only some broken walls remained.
Charles twitched his nose and said, "There's no smell of blood here, and I don't see any corpses below. The residents should have been evacuated in advance when the magical beast attacked."
Hearing Charles's words, the low pressure surrounding Yami finally lifted a bit.
Charles continued, "Captain Yami, there are strong magic power fluctuations over there. Someone should be fighting."
Yami jumped up at once, his hand pressing on the hilt at his waist.
"Then what are we waiting for! Whoever dared to destroy my hometown like this must pay the price."
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Just as the Black Bulls group arrived in the Land of the Sun, the battle in the Land of the Sun had also reached its most severe moment.
Yami, who hadn't returned to the Land of the Sun in many years, didn't know this country was already very different from his memories.
The noble young master he had known in his youth had become the general who unified this country.
Ryudo Ryuya - this man had unhesitatingly exchanged all his demonic power for the ability of Divine Eye when plague appeared in the Land of the Sun.
With this ability, he found the medicinal herbs to cure the plague.
Even after losing his demonic power, his actions still inspired many strong people who likewise hoped the Land of the Sun would improve, making them willingly follow by his side.
Even former rivals who had competed with him for the position of general voluntarily became warriors serving him.
Thus, the Land of the Sun achieved unification under this man without demonic power.
It was precisely with the assistance of that ability called "Divine Eye" that Ryudo Ryuya could quickly restore the Land of the Sun that had declined due to division.
It was also relying on this ability that the Land of the Sun could respond in advance to previous turmoil, minimizing losses.
Ryudo Ryuya used that eye to see the Magic Knight expedition, to see Charles and others slay Lucifero... and also saw Lucius cross the sea to arrive in the Land of the Sun.
Ryudo Ryuya didn't rush forward hot-headedly to fight this invader to the death, but immediately arranged for his subordinates to evacuate all the people of Goshu.
Perhaps in the futures Lucius foresaw, there was content about the Land of the Sun interfering with him, so even though Ryudo Ryuya had already hidden, he still decided to flatten the Land of the Sun.
Lucius had previously gone to the underworld to harvest the remnants of Lucifero.
His hiding in the Land of the Sun wasn't without reason. His plan to master all magic and become the Magic Grand Emperor had encountered many accidents.
The most serious was that he had originally planned to obtain all of Lucifero's power, but now only had one-third in hand.
So the part of his original plan about sweeping through all devils in the underworld and converting them into power materials for the new humans he would create had to be abandoned.
And without that magic power, his process of fusing the Dark Triad's magic also required much more effort.
Even his collaborator Adrammelech had developed ulterior motives.
Devils were inherently untrustworthy creatures. If everything had proceeded according to his plan and he had gained the ability to decide everything, that would be one thing.
But with the plan destroyed like this, it was normal for Adrammelech to become restless.
Fortunately, Lucius's current power, especially his ability to purify devils, still had some deterrent effect, so Adrammelech didn't dare act too obviously.
But because of this, Adrammelech, whom even Lucifero couldn't command, naturally wouldn't obediently work for Lucius.
This left Lucius without even anyone to do his bidding, so he chose to break the Five-Headed Dragon's seal.
Using his already preliminarily transformed power, Lucius strengthened the Five-Headed Dragon and injected it with the command to destroy the Land of the Sun before leaving.
Actually, even without Lucius's command, the Five-Headed Dragon wouldn't suppress the anger it had accumulated from being sealed for so long.
So this magical beast that had once ravaged the Land of the Sun in history was rampaging across the Land of the Sun's earth once again.
Ryudo Ryuya had naturally seen all this long ago, so he sent out his strongest fighting force, the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors, to intercept the Five-Headed Dragon.
The Seven Dragon Zen Warriors were seven strong individuals from various places in the Land of the Sun who had voluntarily gathered under Ryudo Ryuya's command.
Each of them possessed powerful demonic power and magic, and were proficient in those advanced techniques using ki that Yami had mentioned.
Although their fighting methods varied greatly, the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors undoubtedly all had Magic Knight captain-level strength, and from a combat ability perspective were even slightly superior.
In battle, the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors had even severed the Five-Headed Dragon's heads more than once.
But unfortunately, the Five-Headed Dragon's strongest ability besides its inexhaustible magic power was its terrifying vitality. Otherwise, the celestial maiden in legend would have slain this magical beast rather than merely suppressing it.
After being modified by Lucius, this magical beast's immortal ability had been greatly enhanced.
One second a dragon head was severed, and before it could hit the ground, a new dragon head had grown out.
Although the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors were all strong, they were still normal humans with limited stamina and magic power. Even they couldn't withstand this kind of endless battle.
If not for the fact that among the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors there was a healing sorcerer at Mimosa's level, and Ryudo Ryuya's proper coordination allowed the fighters to rest somewhat, the defense line would have collapsed long ago.
But even so, the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors were nearing their limit.
Ryudo Ryuya had long since removed his eyepatch, his pupils surrounded by magatama radiating incredibly mysterious power.
"Everyone, please hold on a little longer. Our reinforcements will arrive soon!"
Wazudachi Kiyozou, one of the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors temporarily out of battle due to severe injuries, with his demon mask half-shattered, couldn't help but look toward Ryudo Ryuya.
Actually, when the battle reached halfway, even the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors began to feel confused about whether they could survive this calamity.
But Ryudo Ryuya appeared completely confident. At first everyone thought this was because as their leader, if Ryudo Ryuya himself lacked confidence it would cause others to panic, so he was pretending to be calm.
But as the situation became increasingly dire, Ryudo Ryuya never showed any wavering. Everyone admired Ryudo Ryuya's firm will, but also began to wonder if he really had some preparation.
But regardless, the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors would unconditionally trust the lord they served. It was precisely because of this that they had persisted in fighting until now.
Now he finally understood - Ryudo Ryuya had long used Divine Eye to see that reinforcements would arrive.
But Kiyozou couldn't imagine what people in the Land of the Sun had the ability to subjugate the Five-Headed Dragon. Although he didn't know who it was, since Ryudo Ryuya said so, it must be powerful reinforcements that could completely end this battle.
Just as the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors in battle were all becoming invigorated, one of the Five-Headed Dragon's heads opened its mouth and breathed out a light cannon. The ultra-high intensity magic power directly exploded a small mountain.
Hanagura Gin no Joushu Touri, one of the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors, nimbly dodged the light cannon and was about to attack the Five-Headed Dragon with a face full of madness.
Hanagura was dressed like a standard Yamato nadeshiko, and normally she had a meek and timid appearance.
But once she entered battle mode, she would transform into a cruel personality that thirsted for blood.
But precisely because of this, she wasn't calm during combat. Although she dodged one light cannon, that dragon head turned direction and opened its mouth toward her again.
Just then a black sphere appeared in the sky, its powerful attraction directly pulling Hanagura up, helping her dodge this strike.
"Dark Magic - Crescent Moon!"
The one using this magic was a woman whose facial features were eighty percent similar to Yami's - Yami Ichika, one of the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors.
After pulling Hanagura to safety, Yami Ichika saw a dragon head had already crashed toward her.
On the other side, a writhing dragon head shattered the rock-formed Buddha statue giant and opened its mouth to bite toward Ooka Daizaemon, one of the Seven Dragon Zen Warriors.
And Imari Komari, whose magic power was exhausted, was also knocked flying by a dragon head and was about to fall into a dragon mouth.
"Not good!" Kiyozou, who had been watching the battle, couldn't help but cry out seeing this scene.
But Ryudo Ryuya showed a smile, "It's fine, they've already arrived!"
A fire meteor flashed across the sky, directly ramming the dragon head biting toward Imari Komari upward, then Charles caught the falling Komari in a princess carry.
On the other side, Asta also entered devil assimilation, the Demon-Slayer Sword in his hand expanding countless times and directly severing the dragon head biting toward Daizaemon.
"Dark Magic - Dark Bind - Dimensional Slash - Equinox!"
A black vertical line swept by, directly bisecting the dragon head crashing toward Yami Ichika.
Yami Ichika looked at the back figure blocking in front of her with contracted pupils. She never would have imagined seeing the person she had always resented in such circumstances.
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