Epic of Caterpillar

Chapter 2429: The Cursed Manor's Boss



The trio stepped into the last floor; a huge hall made of wood stretched in front of them.

And then, someone was sitting over a throne, a single "person".

They immediately froze upon seeing them.

TRUUUM!

The tremendous Aura of Cursed Mana and Poisonous Mana that emerged from within them was so big it twisted space itself.

Although they had seen a wooden hall when they got here, the moment they felt this "person's" Aura, everything turned into something resembling a purgatory.

Purple and black stone covered every inch, walls, ceiling, floor. Purple and Black flames surged from the ground endlessly.

And a large river of venom constantly flowed through it all.

Just being here was nauseating and was rapidly weakening their bodies and magic power! "Ugh...! T-This presence...!" Frank felt sick to the stomach. "I-I can barely breathe?!"

Ding!

[Warning! Warning! Warning!]

[An incredibly strong foe has appeared in front of you.]

[Their very Aura distorts space and time, creating a {Cursed Domain of Demonic Purgatory}!]

[Within this Domain, all of their foes will take constant venom and demon-type damage.]

"No way...!"

Frank gave a step back as he pushed his friends with him, he didn't even dare get closer to this being.

The more they walked through this Domain, the more damage they would receive!

The presence, who was shrouded in shadows, slowly revealed more of its silhouette, as it finally decided to speak.

"Welcome, children of a broken dream... Are you ready for despair? That is the only meal we serve here. And we like it cold."

A tall man with a slender body was all Frank could see... and also sharp, crimson eyes resembling the eyes of a snake.

The man was at least over three meters tall!

His long arms spread around, suddenly summoning dozens of snakes with him.

"{Great Curse of Yamata-No-Orochi}: {Endless Cancerous Snake Flesh}"

Suddenly, the shadows dissipated more, revealing the man's pale white skin, his body was wrapped by several white cloths, and his entire skin was covered on countless cursed marks.

Which activated as he released the snakes from his flesh, who constantly emerged like malicious tumors.

His sharp, crimson snake-like eyes glared at the trio's very souls, while his spiky blue hair was revealed, the rest of his face covered by white cloths.

"SHAAAAHHH!!"

Before they could make sense of what they were seeing, the snakes rushed towards them, they were dozens of them, each one as long as ten meters!

"D-Demonic Snakes! Careful!"

Matsuo was the first to respond, rapidly slamming the floor with his holy staff and unleashing a shockwave of exorcizing light.

FLAAASH!

The snakes didn't die instantly or something though but were barely stopped for a few seconds as they cried in pain, their eyes burning before the light.

"We have to escape! We can't fight that thing!" said Matsuo.

"Yeah!" Frank nodded. "Harumi! Let's pull back!"

"Okay!" Harumi didn't even hesitate to agree, not even her was confident about going against

an endless army of demonic snakes and whoever was that man. "Let's go!"

She tried slamming the door behind them open, only for black stone to block her path.

BAAM!

"W-What?!"

Harumi gasped, realizing they were already trapped within that man's Domain, and there was no getting out of there unless...

Unless they confront him and somehow weaken him enough to let them go.

"You've gotta be kidding me!" Matsuo screamed. "So we're trapped!"

"It seems to be the case!" said Harumi, quickly summoning dozens of spheres of blood and sending them towards the dozens of Demonic Snakes coming their way. "{Blood Explosion}!" BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

A couple of snakes instantly died, quickly telling the trio that they weren't too tough. The man behind the snakes only squinted his eyes.

"Give up to despair... Oh young ones."

He waved his hand, as more and more snakes started coming out of his arms, legs, stomach, chest, and even mouth and eyes.

It looked agonizingly painful, yet the man showed no signs of discomfort, his roughed, scarred body seemed used to this torturous power.

"Did he say this power was a Curse of Yamata-No-Orochi though?!" Matsuo wondered, as he quickly released several beams of light against the snakes, killing a couple while damaging the rest.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

"That's what I heard!" Frank said. "Ruby! Burn them!"

"Raawwrrr!"

FLUOOOSH!

Ruby opened her jaws and released a wave of flames, exploding upon contact and frying the snakes alive, those that were wounded died instantly, while the rest remained burning,

weakened.

"He seems like a strange type of Yokai!" said Harumi. "I've already used my Vampiric Eyes to analyze his structure... he's made of flesh and bones, yet at the same time, of a lot of Cursed

Mana!"

"So that thing's a Yokai?!" Frank asked. "Hah...!"

He quickly materialized a huge spear made of iron by hardening the power of Dirt Creation

and shaping it into a spear through Gray Magic.

"If that's the case...!"

He quickly pierced the bodies of several snakes in front of him, aiming at their heads while boosting his speed and attack power through Mana flowing through his body.

CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!

His spear quickly broke into pieces after that, but he instantly materialized another pair, going on and on as he battled the snakes as they came.

"I could eat him?"

Frank thought that for a second, if he could just take a bite or a few, maybe... just maybe he could gain some of that power and use it against him?

"No, I have to first aim at these, but with so many coming everywhere, I don't have time to

eat them!"

"SHAAAHH!"

Three-headed snakes began to appear, as they spit large bullets made of venom against them. Frank panicked, quickly summoning a huge Yokai Umbrella.

"{Spirit-Reflecting Demon Umbrella: Kasa-obake}!"

The Umbrella started spinning rapidly, as it reflected the poison bullets as they came and sent them flying back towards their attackers, enchanted with cursed mana, they exploded.

BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!

The three-headed snake died, but two more emerged from behind her, only to receive some of the leftover damage. At the same time, the umbrella quickly disappeared.

"So I can't use it permanently but summon it once at a time? This is annoying," Frank thought. "But

it worked at least!"

"Fall into despair..." the man spoke again.

Suddenly, he grasped his own chest, tearing his flesh apart as a gigantic snake head emerged

from it, with a single crimson eye on its head.

"SHYAAAAHHH!"

"{Great Curse of Yamata-No-Orochi}: {One-Eyed Demon Snake}!"

The demon snake didn't come out fully, only its head emerged from his torn apart, bleeding

flesh, as it gathered cursed energy and then...

"FRANK!"

Matsuo and Harumi screamed, rushing towards Frank to save him as a gigantic crimson beam

of pure destructive cursed mana reached the young man.

"Ah!"

BOOOMMM!!!

The attack reached Frank, as his Aura surged, resembling a giant skeleton and taking some of

the damage before shattering into pieces, and then reappearing again to protect him once

more.

However, although he managed to survive, the leftover energy was enough to send him and

his friends flying, hitting the walls behind them.

ВАААМ! "You cling to life so meaninglessly..." the man sighed, looking down. "Its pointless. Life,

your life... it is nothing but illusions."

"A-Ahh...!" Frank began to fall into despair as the man started conjuring more, and more, and more, and

more, and more snakes.

Endlessly...

Truly endlessly...

"You will die today, I promise you."