Rowan swept his gaze around the area. One onmyoji after another appeared, leading all kinds of shikigami and yokai to surround them completely.
Yet he showed no fear.
Although Abe no Seimei's descendants in this world were clearly much stronger than their counterparts in Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, they were not powerful enough to frighten Rowan.
After all, Rowan's side was also extremely strong.
Cú Chulainn laughed wildly.
"Looks like we won't have to fight over opponents anymore. Ha! Now this is more like it!"
His eyes swept across the surroundings as though selecting an enemy.
At that moment, Abe no Seimei's son, Abe no Yoshihira, was the first to arrive at the scene. He respectfully bowed to Abe no Seimei.
"Father."
Abe no Seimei's expression remained unchanged.
"I leave them to you."
Abe no Yoshihira nodded, then turned toward Rowan's group. His gaze was cold, carrying a faint trace of killing intent.
"Attack."
The moment he spoke, countless shikigami and descendants of Abe no Seimei launched their attacks simultaneously.
Water cannons, lightning dragons, fireballs, sword light…
An overwhelming barrage swept toward Rowan's group like a landslide and tsunami, attempting to drown them completely.
Medea raised her hand.
Layers of magical formations unfolded, establishing barrier after barrier that blocked the overwhelming assault.
At the same time, Heroic Spirit EMIYA began chanting.
One weapon after another was projected into existence and fired toward the enemies in every direction.
"Broken Phantasm!"
The moment the projected weapons were launched, they erupted in earth-shattering explosions.
Boom! Boom!! Boom!!!
Violent explosions rang out one after another. Ferocious shockwaves surged in every direction like landslides and tsunamis.
Countless shikigami and yokai failed to evade in time and were torn to pieces by the blasts.
Seeing this, Cú Chulainn could no longer restrain himself and immediately charged forward.
The blue Lancer tore through the night like a bolt of lightning, the crimson demonic spear in his hand leaving a blazing trail through the air.
At that moment, a woman blocked his path.
She was the third head of the family, Abe no Orochi.
Although she was a woman, she possessed terrifying power that ranked among the greatest of all previous family heads.
With a raise of her hand, eight pitch-black fissures tore open in the void.
Eight enormous serpent shikigami roared out from the cracks, each more than thirty metres long. When their jaws opened, venom poured down like torrential rain.
Rather than retreating, Cú Chulainn charged forward, a beast-like smile spreading across his face.
He immediately began fighting her.
To verify his theory, Cú Chulainn used his Noble Phantasm again without hesitation.
"Gáe Bolg—the Spear that Pierces with Death!"
The crimson demonic spear left his hand and traced an arc through the air that violated the laws of physics.
All eight giant serpents lunged forward simultaneously, attempting to block the attack with their bodies.
But Gáe Bolg never missed.
The instant the spear struck the first serpent, its magical energy pierced through the second, the third, the fourth…
Finally, it penetrated Abe no Orochi's chest.
Abe no Orochi lowered her head and saw a fist-sized hole in her chest.
But the next instant, pitch-black cursed energy poured from the wound. It moved through her flesh like countless tiny snakes, slowly stitching her shattered organs back together.
Cú Chulainn clicked his tongue.
"So that's how it is. You're all monsters with immortal bodies."
He tightened his grip on his spear and felt an unprecedented surge of excitement.
At the same time, Medusa, Medea, Heracles, and the others also made their moves and selected their respective enemies.
An unprecedented melee began.
Heroic Spirit EMIYA chose Abe no Yoshihira as his opponent.
Abe no Yoshihira was Abe no Seimei's eldest son and, like Nura Rikuo from Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan, possessed one-quarter yokai blood.
In the original story, his ability was weather manipulation, and he was especially skilled at summoning lightning.
But now, Abe no Yoshihira displayed an entirely different power.
He formed seals with both hands, and an enormous pentagram formation thirty metres in diameter spread beneath his feet.
Brilliant energy surged from the formation into the sky, transforming into countless whips of light that lashed toward EMIYA.
EMIYA leapt backward and extended both hands.
"Trace on."
Magical energy condensed between his palms, forming a pair of black and white swords.
Kanshou and Bakuya.
The whips descended like torrential rain.
The twin swords in EMIYA's hands transformed into black and white streaks of light, precisely severing every incoming lash.
The sound of colliding metal echoed layer after layer throughout Spiral Castle, like hundreds of bells ringing at once.
But Abe no Yoshihira's techniques did not end there.
He slapped one hand against the ground, causing the pentagram formation to expand again.
Countless shikigami formed from cursed energy surged from the centre of the formation—tengu, crows, fox yokai, and vengeful spirits—flooding toward EMIYA like a tide.
EMIYA dismissed the twin swords and opened his left hand.
An ancient longbow appeared in his palm.
His right hand gripped the bowstring as magical energy condensed into a spiralling arrow—
a projected Caladbolg II.
He drew the string fully and aimed the arrow at the centre of the shikigami army.
"Broken Phantasm."
The arrow left the bowstring and exploded the instant it entered the centre of the shikigami horde.
A violent shockwave of magical energy spread in every direction, blasting an enormous gap through Abe no Yoshihira's army.
EMIYA did not stop.
While retreating to create distance, he continued firing.
A second, third, and fourth arrow flew out in succession, each one producing a devastating magical explosion among the enemy forces.
But Abe no Yoshihira had already disappeared from his original position.
EMIYA abruptly turned around and crossed Kanshou and Bakuya before himself.
Almost simultaneously, Abe no Yoshihira's fist tore through the scattered dust and struck the intersection of the twin swords with tremendous force.
EMIYA was blasted away.
But in the next instant—
the world burned away completely.
When Abe no Yoshihira opened his eyes again, he stood upon a barren land filled with countless swords.
There was no sun in the blood-red sky.
Only enormous gears slowly turned above the heavens.
Reality Marble—
Unlimited Blade Works.
"A special domain?"
Cursed energy erupted wildly around Abe no Yoshihira as he attempted to resist this otherworld with his own barrier technique.
At the same time, he formed seals with both hands.
"Domain Expansion—
Thunderous Roar."
In an instant, an island engulfed by a roaring sea of lightning forcibly pushed its way into the Reality Marble.
…
Meanwhile, elsewhere,
Heracles swung the axe-sword in his hands.
Every strike shattered an entire stone pillar in half, and every step caused spiderweb cracks to spread across the ground beneath him.
The ones opposing him were the fourth head, Abe no Ariyuki, and the fifth head, Gokadoin Yasunaga.
Abe no Ariyuki appeared to be a young boy, but his strength was formidable.
In the original story, he had intervened in the final battle between Nura Rikuo and Sanmoto Gorōzaemon. He overwhelmingly suppressed Keikain Ryūji and the others before rescuing Enchō.
However, against Heracles, he had no choice but to use his true ability.
His gravity technique twisted the entire surrounding space into a spiral.
Every inch of air was compressed to its limit, and even light visibly bent as it passed through.
Yet this power could not crush Heracles.
As the great hero of strength, he paid no attention to such a trivial amount of gravity.
As for the fifth head, Gokadoin Yasunaga—
he was a unique figure who served as a bridge between two eras.
In the original story, although he was a descendant of Abe no Seimei, he wanted to return the entire Abe family—who were obsessed with fulfilling Seimei's wish—to their original duty as an Onmyō Bureau that protected the people and served the imperial court.
He also wished to free the Abe clan from existing solely because of their obsession with Abe no Seimei. Hoping to break Seimei's curse, he changed the family name from Abe to Gokadoin.
However, he failed to change the minds of the clan members led by Abe no Ariyuki.
In the end, he disappeared in disappointment and secluded himself in the Village of Half-Yokai, waiting for his nearly eternal life to fade away.
But in this world, judging from his presence here, his beliefs had clearly changed.
No one knew why.
Perhaps that was simply one of the differences in this chaotic crossover world.
Gokadoin Yasunaga's techniques specialised in restraint and sealing.
At this moment, he coordinated with Abe no Ariyuki. Dense sealing incantations formed an enormous net, trapping Heracles at its centre.
But once again, these flashy tricks were useless against Heracles.
Sealing incantations?
Tear them apart.
Distorted space?
Endure it head-on.
The sealing incantations spread like a limitless net, attempting to completely imprison Heracles.
But the shockwave produced by a single roar from Heracles tore half the incantations into fragments.
His feet remained firmly planted upon the shattered earth. Every step crushed even more sealing formations into pieces.
"H-Hey, what kind of monster is this?"
At that moment, Abe no Ariyuki was drenched in cold sweat.
In all his life, he had genuinely never encountered such an unreasonable monster.
…
Elsewhere, Medea finally encountered her opponent—
Gokadoin Yuiyui.
She was a beautiful yet sinister-looking woman dressed in a Gothic Lolita outfit, holding a stuffed bear in her arms.
During Gokadoin Yuiyui's reign, Japan had entered the chaotic Sengoku period following the Ōnin War, when yokai had become especially powerful.
Because of this, Yuiyui had been forced to strengthen the Gokadoin family to oppose them.
That had granted her power ranking among the greatest of all the black-clad Gokadoin family heads.
She was even stronger than Gokadoin Hiruko, who bore the title of the strongest man in the Gokadoin family.
She gently pulled the threads in her hand.
The ground beneath Medea suddenly exploded.
Hundreds of dolls surged upward from below.
Each looked indistinguishable from a real person and wielded a sharp blade.
They were puppets controlled by threads, and their movements followed no discernible pattern.
Medea flew backward and flicked her finger.
Layer after layer of magical formations unfolded, firing volleys of magical projectiles that blasted the first wave of approaching dolls into fragments.
"So powerful. Truly impressive. Then how about this?"
The threads in Gokadoin Yuiyui's hands spread like a spiderweb, covering the entire corridor.
Even more dolls crawled from the shadows and completely surrounded Medea.
With a slight movement of her fingertips, countless puppets charged forward, forcing Medea to retreat repeatedly.
But at that moment, Medea suddenly transformed into a wisp of purple mist and vanished from where she stood.
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