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But Kagura didn't care about that. As the head of Ise Jingu, there were some things and responsibilities that she couldn't avoid from the beginning.
The Eight-foot Mirror is now enshrined in the Tsukimine Shrine. It doesn’t matter. As long as it is not in the hands of the devil, her connection with the artifact will not be severed.
Not only that, by offering the sacred artifact at Tsukimine Shrine, Kagura would not only receive a response from the sacred artifact, but she also guessed that if she prayed, she would most likely receive a response from the gods.
At a certain moment, Shenle moved. Her eyes lost their human emotions, replaced by inhuman abilities. She took a step forward, and her entire body turned into a shadow.
The real purpose of the Eight-foot Mirror is not to attack, but to cast a spell! Among them, the sealing technique is the most suitable.
When Kagura appeared again, she was standing in front of the lion dance man and stabbed his stomach with her hand.
There was no blood, and the "stabbing" action seemed to have nothing to do with physical phenomena, but rather belong to the realm of mysticism.
Divine Skills: The Foundation of Zero Skills
Amaterasu is the supreme god, and the eight million gods of Takamagahara are all listed under her throne. Amaterasu can confer titles on gods, but can also deprive them of their titles.
The foundation of zero skills is not a skill, nor is it a "spell" in the general sense. It is a certain authority obtained by communicating with the Eight-foot Mirror, the incarnation of Amaterasu.
The authority to deify.
It is not a canonization, but a seal, sealing the divine power of the gods, or even depriving them of their position as gods.
But in the next second, Kagura realized that she had made a mistake. A very important mistake.
The foundation of zero skills did not produce any effect. It was not that the magic skills were ineffective, but that the man wearing the lion head was not possessed by the devil. He was simply hypnotized and his mind was controlled.
The real demon——
The drumbeats behind him stopped, and the boy beating the drums gave a weird smile.
"I guessed wrong." He said.
"The Lord of Ise Shrine is indeed very dangerous, as he uses human body to perform the power of gods. However, if I remember correctly, the divine skill can only be used once, right?"
Yes, the divine skill can only be used once. After that, a certain solemn ceremony must be performed to recall the humanity that is on the verge of being shattered due to the flesh accommodating the divine descent.
Otherwise, human nature cannot be redeemed, and Kagura Chizuru will no longer be Kagura Chizuru.
"What exactly do you want to do?"
"Didn't you see it all? Let Mount Fuji come alive." said the boy.
He glanced at the TAC plane passing by in the sky.
"Today's humans are really amazing. I heard that this is a power called 'science'. There are also giants from the Kingdom of Light. I have to find something for them to do."
The boy said as he continued to play the drum.
Not enough, not enough. Human fear is not enough, nor is the reverence for the gods! These sacrifices are far from enough!
As the drums beat, the body of the man wearing the lion head began to change.
Kagura couldn't stop it. If she used her divine skills now, she could stop the lion-headed man from changing, but unfortunately she used it too early.
Using the Zero Skill Foundation on an ordinary person would not have any effect. But now, the power of the demon god borrowed from the lion head and began to invade his body.
The man let out an inhuman roar and transformed into a gigantic monster.
Chapter 266 God's Descent
A huge monster with a red face appeared on Mount Fuji.
"Is this a super beast?"
The monster looks a bit like a lion, with the characteristics of earth creatures, and the genetic modification of earth creatures is an important sign of super beasts. But it gives people a feeling that is a bit different from super beasts.
Beidou and Yamanaka were flying at the scene and witnessed the appearance of the monster with their own eyes.
"Could it be that the volcanic eruption was caused by it?" Beidou said.
Although he didn't think that such a monster could cause such a big commotion, the appearance of such a monster at the scene could not be a coincidence.
"That would be great if that's the case."
Yamanaka would rather do so. Facing the natural disaster, the TAC team is powerless. If it is simplified to defeating the monster to prevent the disaster, it will return to the process that TAC is familiar with.
Converting a problem you don't know how to solve into one's own knowledge is called reduction thinking in mathematics. This is undoubtedly a good thing.
"But what is that monster doing?" Shanzhong stared at it for a long time, but still didn't understand what the monster was trying to do.
After it appeared, it did not destroy everything immediately like previous super beasts did, but instead it jumped around at the foot of the mountain as if it was having fun.
"This... is it dancing?" Beidou guessed that the rhythmic and melodious movements could easily remind people of dance steps.
"Beidou, wake up. How can a monster dance?"
But the monster is indeed dancing. If it were shrunk to human size, it would be a normal lion dance, bouncing and jumping to the rhythm of the drums.
Dance on a stage with the erupting Mt. Fuji as the backdrop.
"Kaima, you are the great god Kaiima, right?"
Shimazu asked. Compared to the other Kagura Miko present, she seemed a little weak. Of course, she was just an ordinary person without any power. She couldn't use the great exorcism magic like 'Kachu', nor could she turn into a huge monster like 'Bongka'.
To be honest, she still didn't fully understand what happened at the scene.
The only thing she knew was that the demon in front of her was Kaima, the divine body they had lost. Even if Kagura hadn't mentioned it and it hadn't introduced itself, Shimazu knew it.
To be honest, she didn't understand why she knew that, but she was so sure of it in her heart.
"Great God? You still call me 'Great God'?" Kaima was a little surprised.
"You are the God of Fire that our shrine has worshipped for hundreds of years! I am sorry for losing the divine body. You can be as angry as you want and blame us as you want, but no matter what, please don't let Mount Fuji erupt."
Shimazu was just a little shrine maiden, an ordinary person without any magical power. She knew that her voice was insignificant, and in such a situation, she was not even qualified to interrupt.
Unexpectedly, Kaima looked at her seriously and actually thought about it. Although the result was the same.
"No. This has nothing to do with you, and it has nothing to do with Sengen Taisha either."
Instead, it was grateful for losing its divine body, as it was the reason why it gained its freedom.
It is determined to make Mount Fuji erupt, not out of revenge or hatred towards anyone.
The super beast incarnated by the man wearing a lion head is still singing and dancing. If you ignore its size and terrifying appearance, it is no different from the lion dance during festivals. But this is exactly what cannot be ignored.
Whatever a monster weighing tens of thousands of tons does, it will cause the world to collapse.
The mountain roads were collapsing and rocks were constantly rolling down, causing great trouble to the evacuation work.
"Beidou, Yamanaka, I authorize you to attack. Subsequent support will arrive soon."
After receiving Captain Long's order on the communicator, Beidou and Shanzhong no longer hesitated. It had been their instinct to attack the monsters as soon as they saw them.
The Cosmos began to launch missiles. One after another, high-yield missiles exploded on the super beast, focusing on the head.
As usual, such missiles could not cause any damage to the super beast, but only angered it.
Kaima just took a quick look at the fierce battle over there and paid no more attention to it.
It beats the gongs and drums, and walks towards the top of the mountain step by step, neither hurried nor slow. Shen Ya She Drum. No one can remember the glory of the past, and it actually feels a bit old.
There is the crater of Mount Fuji with a diameter of more than 500 meters, emitting thick smoke, like the entrance to hell.
Every time the gongs and drums are beaten, the monster will jump to the rhythm, just like some kind of ritual.
Is this some kind of evil ritual? Shimazu knew that she was not well-educated and could not understand it, but she believed that the Kagura Miko must understand it.
"This is indeed a ritual," Kagura nodded, "but you should also know that everyone knows. This is the lion dance ritual to exorcise evil spirits."
"what?"
There is nothing complicated about it. This is the lion dance, which is performed every New Year to pray for good fortune. May the new year be a good year with good weather, peace and health.
"This is the lion dance that Asama-sama loves the most, right?" Kagura shouted at the back of the demon god as he headed towards the top of the mountain, "You made Mount Fuji erupt because you wanted to awaken Asama-sama! But he's gone. The gods have fallen! Don't you understand that even if Mount Fuji erupts, Asama-sama will never come back!"
The always calm demon god got angry for the first time.
It stopped and turned its head. With just one glance, Kagura's body was like being hit by a truck. It flew away and smashed into an ancient pine tree, breaking the thick trunk that a person could hug.
She spat out a mouthful of blood or internal organs. If she were an ordinary person, there would be no way she would be spared. Fortunately, Kagura Chizuru was the host of the Eight-foot Mirror after all.
Although she couldn't stand up for a while, she was still alive after all.
"What do you know? I'm still alive. Why would the great goddess Asama fall? The great goddess said that if I do evil, she will kill me with her own hands!"
Asama-no-Okami, Konohana no Sakuya-hime, is the god of volcanoes. Mount Fuji has not erupted for nearly three hundred years, but it has been sleeping for too long. As long as the volcano erupts again, people will remember it.
As long as we remember Him, He will be resurrected in our hearts and come to the world again.
The crater is roiling, brewing hot magma.
The volcano of Mount Fuji cannot be ignited and erupted by a mere demon.
Kaima was just a medium. Various artifacts were arranged in the crater according to mysterious rules.
The royal sword of Sengen Shrine, the Heart Sutra of Mishima Taisha Shrine, the jade butterfly of Izu Shrine... there are more than a dozen of them, all of which are offerings that have been lost in recent times at various shrines.
These are offerings that have been made to the shrine for as short as a hundred years or as long as a thousand years, and they contain the faith of all living beings. But it is not enough, these are not enough to complete the ceremony, far from enough.
It had originally intended to use the Eight-foot Mirror as the center of the formation, but now it was impossible to obtain it. As for the other two of the Three Sacred Treasures, the Kusanagi Sword and the Yasakani no Magatama, which had never been shown to anyone, they were said to be kept in the Imperial Palace, but in fact they had long been lost. It was even unknown whether they had ever existed, even though they were famous in history.
It is more likely that it is just a lie told by the royal family to claim to be orthodox.
At the foot of the mountain, the monsters summoned by Kaima are fighting the Giant of Light, a giant named Ace who came to Earth when it was asleep.
It was difficult to tell the winner for a moment.
Is it because they saw the human inside the monster that they are restraining themselves? Ha, the so-called Kingdom of Light is just like this, either stupid or hypocritical.
They were like two sumo wrestlers wrestling, hugging each other and trying their brute strength, and their postures were really too ugly. However, as an entertainment program, it was not bad to support Sakuya-hime like a clown when she woke up.
Kaima sneered coldly.
It stretched out its hand, and in its hand was a stone. It was its sacred body that had been discarded by the shrine.
If you don't have the Eight-foot Mirror, you can only use yourself as a substitute.
"Stop, Kaima. I promise in the name of Ise Jingu that as long as you stop, we will continue to worship you as the God of Fire."
Amidst the panting sounds, Kaima heard a voice behind her.
It was not surprising that Kagura Chizuru was still alive, after all, she was the host of the three sacred artifacts. However, it was still somewhat admirable that she could drag her injured body to the top of the mountain.
Kagura was supported by Shimazu as she climbed the mountain.
"You're not guiding a volcanic eruption. This is a summoning circle. What exactly are you summoning?"