87 Chapter 87: Wrath Of The Ancient One (End)

'This has gone on long enough'

Asfius tore the tattered shirt off of his body, it was already covered in countless holes thanks to all the attacks he received, exposing his perfectly sculptured physique.

"Who are you, why are you helping them?!", The leader Katsuro asked, walking out from the group of Nekomata he approached Asfius stopping not five meters from the Titan.

"Just walk away, there is no reason for you to get involved in this.", Katsuro had been observing Asfius, and what he saw caused his poor little heart to cramp up into a seizure. No matter how many times they struck no matter what they did there was not a single mark on the body of this being, not only that but any casual swipe from him would cause droves of his underlings to die.

Not seeing them winning against this being without incurring massive casualties and thus weakening them to the point of not even being able to put up an ounce of resistance if Yasaka decides to retaliate, Katsuro thought it would be best to go towards the more subtle art of diplomacy.

"NO", Asfius spoke causing tremors and making the Nekomata goons take a few steps back.

"Then die!", Katsuro moving through the tremors caused by Asfius's voice pulled out a ceremonial blade, it's edge shone with a dangerous gleam. Katsuro was finally showing the full might of an Ultimate class being as his goons couldn't even see him move before he arrived in front of Asfius the blade heading straight for where Asfius's heart ought to be.

Katsuro's heart was beating wildly, as he could already see his victory coming, he had completely taken this being by surprise and with a single step, it would be its end. He had originally not been so certain in being able to battle Yasaka as even though he too was an ultimate class Yokai or Daiyokai as they called themselves he still fell far from rivaling her in a straight-on confrontation, that was not even considering when she tapped into he almost infinite amount of spiritual power that laid dormant within Kyoto's leylines.

The only reason he had finally decided to confront her is that he had happened upon this ceremonial knife, it was uncannily sharp able to cut anything even spiritual energy itself, while also being able to suppress the flow of energy within anything it managed to cut. This was what he was going to use as his trump card to defeat Yasaka, but is seems that he would have to reveal it now much to his regret, but there was no helping his current foe... he had a feeling this being was even more frightening than a Yasaka going all out.

The knife approached Asfius's chest and with a thundering sound, it struck his chest.

Klink

The sound of metal hitting metal resounded causing a shockwave to explode from the contact point as its center. The Nekomata all took cover as the shockwave approached them those unlucky enough to get swept by the force either died immediately or were injured to the brink of death.

Standing up after the force swept by the Nekomata all looked towards the center as the dust slowly settled showing a horrifying scene. Katsuro's entire body was shivering as he stared wide-eyed at the contact point of his knife and Asfius's chest. His bloodied hand was holding the knife with all the strength left that he could muster, the tip poking against Asfius's chest merely made an indent as if he was poking the guy with his finger, there was no blood there was not even the subtle wite mark of a scratch.

Katsuro's mind was going into a panic, 'Impossable...Impossable...Impossable...Impossable...Impossable...Impossable...', the knife he had put so much stock in was useless he couldn't accept it and as his thoughts were going more erratic a shadow pulled him back to reality.

Looking up at what was covering the rays of the sun he saw Asfius looming over him, the sun behind his back throwing dark shadows over his face as his right hand was lifted into the sky and was about to decent into like the wrath of the gods.

"..."

Katsuro had no time to speak as the hand descended down, the air pressure caused by it's decent destroyed him before the palm even reached him. The strike landed and the earth trembled.

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM

Yasaka, who was currently waiting three kilometers away from the battle felt the earth under her move followed by a force that pushed her back ten steps, luckily she protected Kunou or the little fox girl might have been seriously hurt.

"What was that?", One of Yasaka's subordinates asked as he lifted himself up from the ground spitting out some dirt that he had swallowed when he faceplanted.

"It was horrible indeed", Riwuccu, the leader of the Karasu-Tengu said as he dusted off his hermit's cloak while stretching his wings. "Yasaka-Dono, please take the young princess and head towards the palace, we of the Karasu-Tengu will go and scout what happened.", The old hermit yokai said as he spread his wings about to take flight.

"Wait...", Yasaka said as she was about to stop them but Riwuccu interjected.

"Forgive me Yasaka-Dono, but we can't allow you or the princess to further endanger yourself, please leave the area immediately. I do not believe Asfius-Dono to have fallen so easily he might even be the cause of that explosion."

"Alright, I'll leave it to you", Yasaka said before teleporting away.

"It is my honor", Riwuccu said before taking flight with a hundred of his clan's finest hermit monks.

'Please be safe Asfius-Dono', Riwuccus prayed in his mind, he had met Asfius on many occasions where Kunou 'secretly' summoned Asfius to read to her or play with her. He could tell that although the titan looked cold and acted without the care he had a heart of the purest gold, in fact, he couldn't believe his eyes when he saw Asfius strike out and kill those Nekomata, he had never thought that Asfius could actually kill anything with how soft he acted around Kunou.

The very force that came from Asfius caused shivers to run down Riwuccu's spine and it reminded him of the time he heard Lambert speak of him, 'Yes, you will find him to be more than capable of helping you in a tight spot.', were the words Lambert spoke at that time, Riwuccu didn't hold much stock in this before but now..

Riwuccu came to a stop, hovering in mid-air he was beholden to a sight that caused his breath to leave his body. A crate of five-hundred meter radius, the surrounding buildings completely destroyed, Asfius was currently waling out of the cater his face as calm as ever.