Chapter :-53 The Onin War (Part-4)

"What do you think, Freya-sama? Will the Yamana clan surrender or will they fight?.."

A beautiful woman, wearing a light blue cloak stood near Kiyohime. She had sharp green eyes with a tint of purple within the iris, silver-white hair and a sexy figure. Over her soft skin laid a purple pendant which glowed with a shiny twinkle.

On the back of her neck was a simple black tattoo, a three tomoe pattern signifying her control over the [Divinity:-Death]. As her contract with Izanami grained her with abilities within the domain of Underworld.

Freya had grown stronger since the last two centuries, her control over [Force] has progressed from leaps to bounds. She spent a 100-years mastering [Force-Earth] and had reached the level of shaking cities with her power.

Her witchcraft stayed at the same level as there was nothing she could do to improve it any further. Most of all, she learned a few new spells to add to her Grimoire after researching on this world's magic system.

She learned to use her newly gained [Greater divinity], mastered most of the abilities she got from Izanami except [Ruler of Underworld]. Now she finally had a chance to test her power against someone.

"They should surrender. The Minamoto clan had requested us to not to kill them all if they dare resist, then they are to blame for us slaughtering them all."

"The Hosokawa family has gathered its men and are heading towards the Yamana family compound, looks like they want to force the Yamana's into fighting us."

"Then we shouldn't give them a chance to do so…."

"FORWARD!!!!…."

"ORA ORA ORA!!!!…"

The army of armour soldiers, riding horses towards the deserted district as their roar shook the whole capital. In the distance, the Hosokawa soldiers trembled in the face of their depending doom.

Their arms holding wooden base spear trembled, they gritted their teeth, a sudden rush of adrenaline gave them enough courage to face the Gerard family forces.

One of them stepped forward and roared at the top of his lungs.

"FOR GLORY!!!!!….."

Following his shout, the entirety of 80,000 Hosokawa soldiers rushed into the battlefield to face and hopefully conquer death.

"Mage squad in formation, deploy [Heaven's Feel]…."

A massive mandala appeared above the head of Gerard family soldiers as the sky turned red, the temperature increased to abnormal levels as the combined power a few 1000s turned into a meteor shower and started falling towards the Gerard family forces.

The Hosokawa clan was also one of three families to dominate the post of Kanrei (Shōgun's deputy), under the Ashikaga shogunate which was later overthrown by Gerard family when Kiyohime became the new [Shogun] with the support of mysterious Mikaelson family.

At the beginning of the Ashikaga's rule, the Hosokawa had been given control of the entirety of Shikoku. Throughout this period, members of the Hosokawa clan were Constables (Shugo) of Awa, Awaji, Bitchū, Izumi, Sanuki, Settsu, Tanba, Tosa, and Yamashiro Provinces.

They were a powerful clan with one of the most powerful mage squads in the country, their [Heaven's feel] formation was able to replicate Meteor strikes and bombard the enemy forces from far away.

But this also was a one time use formation; it had a three months cooldown period which made it their trump card. When up against Gerard family, they could not risk losing any mage from their squad, as the formation required a fixed number of mages to perform which must be within a set criterion.

Thus, they decided to use it from the beginning without caring for the consequences of their action.

Seeing the flaming meteors, Gerard family remained unfazed as they continued to ride forward with their spears in front. The mage squad of the Gerard family wasn't dispatched to deal with the enemy because of 'her' presence in the battlefield.

Several beams of concentrated purple ray blasted towards the incoming meteors; people had their ear buzzing due to the intense sound created by the concentrated energy as it exploded forward.

The purple ray travelled fast and impacted the burning meteors, and exploded. The mansion-sized meteors busted into numerous pieces as the whole rock fell apart.

The numerous pieces also disintegrated into the purple matter and phased out of existence as if they never existed in the first place.

"Wha–…."

*Boom*

Even before the mages squad of the Hosokawa family could react, the purple ray travelled fast. It appeared at their position almost instantly, not giving them a single moment to respond before they got engulfed into a purple explosion.

The Hosokawa family mages squad was destroyed, a single attack from the enemy and they didn't even see it coming.

The soldiers, elders, and the clan head of the Hosokawa family were all astonished and weren't able to react for a few moments. The loud clattering of the armoured, riding enemy woke them up, out of their stupor.

But they moral had pummeled immensely, and their will to fight had taken quite a blow from the display of such terrifying magic. What was truly scary was the fact that the spell of caste by an individual, one person, nothing more.

The clan head of the Hosokawa family looked towards the cloaked figure standing beside Kiyohime while the Gerard family slaughtered their forces, with fear.

That figure's power scared him and everyone that witnessed it, but what was even scarier was the symbol printed over the top of the cloak that the mysterious figure was wearing.

"The Mikaelson family...."

The symbol ᒥ M ᒧ proudly glowed with an ominous light as the cloaked figure beside Kiyohime retreated backwards, inside the tent that Gerard family head, Kiyohime resides in.

(At Gerard family side)

"Well well, looks like training did pay off…."

Freya had just utilised [Greater divinity] to convert her [Force] power into divinity energy and blast an [Extermination ray] towards the enemy forces.

After taking care of the mage squad of the opposing force, she retreated inside the tent and entered Kiyohime's room before sitting down with her eyes closed.

This was Kiyohime's queue to take action and prove her power to the whole of Japan, as the current wielder of [Honjo Muramasa] and the Gerard family head, she had to establish her authority through the war as the people of Japan only acknowledged individuals with power.

She pulls out her Katana in her right hand while rotating the Flintlock towards the back of her waist, wearing armour, she rode forwards to meet the enemy forces head-on and slaughter them.