"Just fight. Pain is easier to understand than anything else."
"After experiencing battle after battle, one will eventually understand what power needs to protect."
Xia Wei looked at the projection on the screen, holding a cup of coffee in his hand.
On the screen,
Dekimori Sanae was caught off guard and hit in the back by the evil spirit's tentacles. She screamed as she was slammed against the wall, red seeping from the corner of her mouth. Fear and weakness appeared on her face for the first time.
Her chuunibyou was instantly shattered by the pain.
Rikka Takanashi and Nibutani Shinka cried out to Dekimori Sanae in terror.
Their friends being injured in reality impacted their hearts so directly for the first time.
They were angry at themselves for not reacting, and regretful for not taking it seriously.
Kumin Tsuyuri rushed to Dekimori Sanae's front immediately, continuously using her psychokinesis to attack the constantly pouncing evil spirits.
However, the evil spirits had surrounded them, so she could only hastily erect a psychokinetic barrier to defend against the attacks coming from all directions.
She bought time for the others to react. Tomioka Yuuta shouted and charged forward, desperately throwing black flames from his hands.
Nibutani Shinka continuously used magic for support, finally dispersing the evil spirits that had piled up into a small mountain on the psychokinetic barrier.
Rikka Takanashi flew forward recklessly, her "True Eye" fully interfering with the surrounding energy to form energy spears that pierced through the dispersed evil spirits.
Even so, the evil spirits did not die. As long as their spiritual bodies were not completely destroyed, they would not die, and they could even devour each other to recover quickly, or even grow stronger.
This was the deepest layer, where the 'Laws of the Undead' were most concentrated. Here, the evil spirits possessed certain characteristics, even able to condense Black Smoke into strange things like tentacles and chains.
Ayame Yomogawa gritted her teeth and fully focused on healing everyone.
They had only been in combat for less than five minutes, and a teammate was already severely wounded.
Moreover, these evil spirits were continuously gathering. Although the speed at which they gathered was slow, if they continued to wear them down like this, in less than thirty minutes, there would be so many that even with their full effort, they wouldn't be able to kill a single one.
The more evil spirits gathered, the harder they were to kill.
A ten-meter-tall evil spirit, wrapped in bandages and carrying a huge scythe, like a grim reaper from hell, slowly walked towards them from the other end of the street.
Every step it took caused the ground to tremble slightly.
Ayame Yomogawa chose to retreat quickly and end this battle.
Dekimori Sanae's face was pale. Although she was healed, her mental trauma wouldn't recover so quickly. She thought she was going to die.
Nibutani Shinka and Rikka Takanashi each held one of her hands, repelling the pouncing evil spirits with magic while running backward.
Kumin Tsuyuri continuously attacked the evil spirits with psychokinesis. Against weaker evil spirits, she could accurately kill them with a dozen consecutive attacks.
Her physical instincts were rapidly developing.
Her combat prowess in her sleep far surpassed that of Rikka Takanashi and the others.
Tomioka Yuuta and Ikoma covered their retreat, with a dozen evil spirits burning with black flames.
Tomioka Yuuta's "Black Flame" could deal special damage to evil spirits, but its level was too low, so the damage was minimal. An evil spirit would need to burn for at least a minute to truly die.
Ikoma's Divine Blessing was "Penetration" and "Blade Aura." Although he could easily cleave an evil spirit's body apart, he couldn't kill it directly. He had to continuously cut the evil spirit's spiritual body into tiny pieces to kill it.
He needed to swing his sword hundreds of times to kill one evil spirit, but he could still kill one within a dozen seconds.
Ayame Yomogawa killed the most evil spirits. Her other Divine Blessing was "Karmic Fire," and it was a Karmic Fire that had reached Lv.4,
Specializing in burning impurities.
This Divine Blessing was bestowed upon her by Xia Wei as his miko in the Kabane World, making it a very high-level "Divine Blessing."
On the other side,
Yotsuya Miko, Nikuratoudou Yuriya, and Yurikawa Hana, led by Mumei (Hozumi), Na, and Kajika, were fighting very steadily.
And with Yurikawa Hana there, they maximized their use of Divine Blessings and magic.
Yurikawa Hana was constantly stuffing chocolate, candy, and cookies into her mouth.
"No, too many evil spirits are gathering. I've noticed that the more there are, the harder they are to kill. We need to retreat."
"Mmm-hmm, I'm almost full too." Yurikawa Hana patted her stomach. It takes some time to digest food, you know.
Both small teams quickly retreated to the 'safe zone.'
However, they weren't in a hurry to return. Having gained experience from their first battle with evil spirits, they wanted to rest and prepare for a second battle.
After all, it had only been half an hour since their first real combat. How could they retreat so quickly and shamefully?
Xia Wei didn't continue to peek at their battle. After all, a rookie's first battle was the most interesting; after that, it was just steady growth.
"No, no, a God's leisurely daily life cannot be this dull and boring. I can only tease ordinary people."
Xia Wei sighed, crossing his arms.
"I finally understand why some Gods in certain worlds go mad from boredom."
"For true Gods, in such an ordinary world, a single thought is enough to know everything they want to know."
"This is like a 'sandbox game' for a true God, lacking any anticipation or novelty of the unknown."
"Indeed, only other Gods can bring joy to a God."
Xia Wei raised his hand, and the 'Heavenly Dimension Gate' interface appeared before him.
"Worlds with Gods, and worlds that pose no threat to me."
He thought about it and still wanted to open a path to a world with Gods to take a look.
He wouldn't cause trouble there for now, just visit as a guest. Those Gods shouldn't bear him any ill will.
With good luck, he might even be able to poach a few Gods.
He had thought before about whether he could poach Gods from certain worlds.
Anyway, the Gods were 100% under his control. After poaching Gods from other worlds and incorporating them into the Gods' Order, they would also be bound by the Gods' Order.
"I can give it a try." Xia Wei stroked his chin.
He hadn't done this before, not only because his own strength was insufficient but also because the Gods' lacked foundation and had few worlds.
Now his Gods' Order was formally established, and there were so many lower-level worlds. Although they were only low-level worlds, they were still a standard emerging Gods' Order!
"Let me see which world to go to."
The 'Heavenly Dimension Gate' quickly filtered out dimensional coordinates that matched his thoughts.
[Type-Moon Grand World, Coordinates XXX, Energy Level ??? Super-Singular ~ Infinite Super-Singular ???, Infinite Parallel Earth Coordinates XXX Fifth Level (Galaxy Level).]
[KonoSuba: God's Blessing on This Wonderful World!, Coordinates XXX, Fifth Level (Nebula Level), Aksel Town Coordinates XX]
[The Hero Is Overpowered but Overly Cautious, Coordinates XXX, Fifth Level (Nebula Level)]