Chapter 28
Chapter 28
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Translator: uly
Chapter: 28
Chapter Title: Matchup
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1.
Evolution.
Living beings alter their traits
to gain advantages for survival.
Yokai are an advantageous race in terms of evolution.
They harness spiritual power and natural energies
with their yokai force
to accelerate their transformations.
Some individuals covet bodies impervious to all harm,
others bodies capable of absorbing women,
craving and desiring
to make it reality.
That is the nature of yokai.
Miura, the Yokai Immortal.
He too harbored a desired direction for his evolution.
A colossal body capable of challenging the Great Yokai.
A longing to possess it with his own form.
Of course, evolution requires energy,
and the greater the change and the farther the endpoint,
the exponentially more energy and yokai force it demands.
'I've gathered twenty years' worth.'
From across this vast Great Forest.
By slaying the entirety of nature itself.
He obtained astronomical yokai force
and surpassed mere size or height,
achieving an evolution worthy of being called gigantic.
'I can feel it. The fullness of power.'
Just as an elephant need not strive to grow strong
to effortlessly crush a mouse pup underfoot,
humans were such existences to the Yokai Immortal Miura.
To commemorate his achievement of gigantic evolution,
with a casual step,
beings he could squash to death anytime he wished—
such
small and insignificant
utterly non-threatening
crawling insects far below on the ground.
Nothing more than that.
So he had thought.
Until he encountered the Silent Swordmaster.
Before his colossal frame could blanket the earth,
it slipped out of attack range
at an impossible-to-track speed.
'That human... could she be a half-yokai?'
No. Impossible.
He, a yokai,
could not fail to sense the yokai force of mere half-yokai trash.
She was human.
Pure-blooded human, untainted by any yokai blood.
Thus, this speed,
this nimble reaction time,
stirred a physiological revulsion,
like flies buzzing around his body. 💥 CRITICAL HIT! 💥 Thud Dodging the strike that slammed into the ground,
centipede tails swept the earth repeatedly,
like swatting at mosquitoes with a flyswatter.
A cataclysmic thrashing
shaking the entire Great Forest field.
In the midst of that great chaos,
a tremendous sting pierced his back. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [This fly-like bastard dares!!] Even among insects, some are called pests.
The plague spirits that sicken the forest
and the tribesmen who became their materials were beneficial insects, but
this human wielding a sword,
stabbing his gigantic body,
inflicting pain, was unmistakably a pest.
'Pests are tolerable. But it must not become a venomous insect.'
Evolution does not come without drawbacks.
As muscles grow and bulk increases,
basal metabolism rises,
requiring more calories to sustain the body.
Hunting for food grows harder,
consuming more time in pursuit.
Naturally, the predators of giant beasts
are not larger monsters,
but parasites that induce greater calorie expenditure,
or small predators that reduce prey,
and above all,
venomous insects too tiny to swat,
inflicting one-sided damage. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [No matter how sharp your puny toothpick,] [can it compare to the power I've amassed over twenty years?!] Unfurling his massive tail fully,
a field-wide annihilation sweeping the entire forest.
His sturdy yokai body could endure it, but
a fragile human body
would be reduced to minced meat by the mere debris. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [I'll end you!!] ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Dream on. Buddy, cling to my body!] The foolish, frail half-yokai leaped high, latching the human onto its back.
With venomous eyes glaring at him, it charged.
Over uprooted trees,
smashed boulders,
piles of flowing earth,
even as one leg was swallowed by debris and torn off,
even as annihilated wreckage crushed its soft body,
enduring the pain,
swallowing screams,
its full height 2.5m,
length 4m,
making that bulk look ant-sized—
full height 20m,
length 100m—
the field-scale assault of Yokai Immortal Miura
was weathered, just once.
2. [Story Mode] ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Pathetic. Is a used-up doll this pitiful?] [What meaning is there in that desperate struggle?] [Even if you delay the inevitable end, what can you do in just over a minute?] The Yokai Immortal even mocked that struggle.
Before his jeers, the half-yokai human-faced treant
neither despaired
nor sighed.
It simply cried out resolutely with blazing eyes. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [You think wielding overreaching power makes it eternal?] [You're too cowardly.] [And overly cautious too.] [That's why even against tiny vermin, you spare no mental effort, and when you need to strike, you pour everything to crush it.] Eyes showing no fear,
radiating a certain resolve.
An alarm rang in Yokai Immortal Miura's mind. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Human! Where is that vermin?!] ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Immortal! Can you keep hunting my friend without tiring? How long can you move that massive body? Aren't you fatigued enough already?] The Silent Swordmaster chose a war of attrition.
Yokai Immortal Miura.
Frustratingly, this monster was strong enough.
Even precise bone-targeting strikes
merely stung, thanks to its fraudulent durability and bulk.
'Charging head-on into a brute force contest against such a powerhouse would be for fools.'
If the foe trusts in overwhelming offense,
redirect it with soft techniques,
and if it tries to smash with immense pressure,
counter with swift speed.
Like the five elements' compatibilities,
martial arts attributes' matchups.
The four basic attributes represented by Hard, Soft, Fast, Heavy,
and derivatives like
Twist, Explode, Absorb, Strike,, Curve, Slow, Merge, etc.—
Mastering the principles of the Four Wheels, Eight Paths, Sixteen Gates,
she felt no despair at mere size. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Buying time, right?] The more she hid, the greater the pressure on the human-faced treant,
but the half-yokai gladly understood her intent
and accepted it. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Leave it to me. I'll find an opening somehow.] Thus, the first phase, 🌀 Great Rampage 🌀 ended.
The Yokai Immortal swelled his body massively
and exhaled poisonous mist.
Foosh!! ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [When wielding power, I use it fully. Half right, half wrong.] [This power was meant to challenge the Great Yokai.] [Not for trash like you...] [But now that I've unleashed it, I won't end it gently.] [Twenty years of plague energy that sickened the Great Forest,] [no matter where you hide,] [no matter where you flee,] [blanketing the entire Great Forest makes evasion pointless!] [Try enduring this with your tiny body!!] [Player Mode] Second phase ☠️ Plague Breath ☠️ Surpassing a mere boss fight, a true boss raid
unleashing otherworldly strength and attacks—
Yokai Immortal Miura.
Breath charge speed,
release range,
ground-melting potency—
nothing ordinary.
Water ghost biotoxins could be held at bay by holding breath,
but Plague Breath was instant death;
enter the area, and bones melt without chance of survival. 💬 Comments — Anon123 wtf insane, instant death? what genre is this game anymore — SpeedRunnerX range is fucking massive too — MurimFan can you dodge by jumping or nah? — NoobSlayer where tf did silent swordmaster go — LULz 1st person got me scared af then swordmaster vanished lol — GamerPro why we playing where's wally during live stream lmao Viewers watched the epic boss battle like an action flick. — EagleEye found her, hanging on its back — Climber when did she climb that high?? — WallMaster scaling vertical body like nothing — WuxiaNerd wall tiger technique from wuxia novels? — Boomer you know wall tiger art?! super useful af — Noob wtf is wall tiger boomer — Guru lets you climb walls. must-learn for spiderman vibes — MarvelFan did peter parker learn wall tiger? — Troll yeah he did if treant was male it'd be spiderman next spiderman kekw Unlike the thrilled viewers,
the Yokai Immortal sank into growing unease.
'Not a mere pest after all?'
Even if impossible to swat with limbs,
it should drop dead from insecticide.
He deemed it such vermin, but
if it survived the spray,
tenaciously reemerging
like a massive centipede,
possessing resilient vitality— a venomous insect.
'Impossible. It can't be.'
Yokai force amassed over long years.
Plague Breath using fractions of that power.
If even dragon-like breath range attacks fail to catch a human,
expenditure skyrockets,
eventually unable to sustain the current form.
Can a yokai stripped of superhuman might still be called yokai?
No.
Thus, if expending, do it decisively.
With resolve to end it in one go,
the greatest suction yet gathered
the maximum-scale Plague Breath.
Second phase ☠️ Plague Breath ☠️ Phase final pattern 💥 Great Plague Eruption 💥 Signs of imminent explosion—
like a volcano filled with lava and gas,
his massively swollen body.
The Silent Swordmaster clinging to its nape
drew her sword once more.
Great Eruption—
encompassing Explosion's essence
and Fire's essence simultaneously,
a wide-area slaughter art
leaving only hellish ruins where none survive contact.
But power wielded by yokai force
can also be unleashed by human inner energy.
'Cloud-Splitting Blood Sea. Blood Cult Leader Blood Mok-rin's signature ultimate.'
Once it subdued her,
turning her into the Blood Cult's blood golem—
the cult leader's supreme technique.
Piercing clouds,
summoning a sea of blood,
a wide-area slaughter from profound energy.
Against the first encounter,
she fell without chance to react,
but after enduring time,
standing before Blood Mok-rin again.
She had grasped the counter to the invincible Cloud-Splitting Blood Sea.
'Before power condenses and erupts. That single moment of gathering qi is the only gap.'
Once unleashed, without matching wide-area technique
or inner energy clash,
survival impossible— peerless martial art. ⚔ Wall Tiger Technique ⚔ ⚡ Explosion Sword Essence ⚡ Yet if severing the flow before unleashing— [!!!] That power erupts internally first,
scorching the caster's meridians, organs, and dantian. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [Graaaaaah!!!] The colossal body
convulsed entirely,
vomiting the backlash across its form— the Yokai Immortal.
The ominous momentum evoking Cloud-Splitting Blood Sea's dread
completely ravaged Miura's internals,
leaving not even the yokai force to maintain the giant form. ⚙ SYSTEM NOTIFICATION ⚙ [No... this can't be!] [My twenty-year grand scheme, the power to surpass the Great Yokai...!!!] Yokai Immortal Miura's massive body
crumpled,
folded,
shrank,
and finally reverted to a bare human form. ◇◇◇◆◇◇◇