Looking Forward to Another World Chapter 901: Uproar at Tokyo Jujutsu High

At this very moment, the entire Tokyo Jujutsu High was thrown into an uproar.

Whether they were teachers or students, school personnel or jujutsu sorcerers who used the school as their base of operations, everyone stepped out of the school buildings and dormitories at that very moment and rushed toward the forest.

Among them, Megumi was naturally the fastest.

As he sprinted toward the forest at full speed, the usually stern-faced boy wore a rare expression of anxiety as he formed a hand sign and summoned the eagle-like shikigami from his shadow.

Megumi's Nue was exactly the same in appearance as Riezel's Nue. Both resembled owls, but compared to Riezel's Nue, which had a wingspan of at least four meters when fully spread, Megumi's Nue was much smaller and was at least incapable of carrying him through the sky.

Even so, Megumi had Nue extend its claws, grip his shoulders, and carry him into the air.

"No mistake..."

Controlling Nue and rushing toward the scene at its fastest speed, Megumi's expression was extremely grim.

"It's really Eight-Handled Sword Divergent Sila Divine General Mahoraga..."

Mahoraga—the monstrous shikigami that no user of the Ten Shadows Technique in history had ever successfully tamed—had actually been summoned!

"Damn it. If I'd known this would happen, I should've warned that guy!"

Megumi could not help regretting it.

He knew that Riezel possessed the ability to copy other people's cursed techniques, meaning there was a good chance he would learn the Ten Shadows Technique as well. Yet he had failed to warn him beforehand.

In Megumi's eyes, that had been his mistake.

If Satoru had been there, things would have been different. He also knew how terrifying the final shikigami of the Ten Shadows Technique was. If he saw Riezel trying to summon and tame it, he would definitely stop him. Unfortunately, Satoru had left the school at precisely this time.

Now that the taming ritual had already begun, there were only two possible outcomes: either Riezel got killed, the ritual failed, and the shikigami's summoning was immediately canceled, or someone intervened in the taming ritual before he was killed.

One should know that the taming ritual of the Ten Shadows Technique could only be performed by the technique's user. If someone else intervened, then even if they successfully defeated the shikigami that was being tamed, the ritual would not take effect, and the user would remain unable to control the untamed shikigami just as before.

At least, however, they would survive and still have another chance in the future.

But the shikigami Riezel had summoned this time was not an ordinary shikigami. It was the most terrifying, most fearsome, and most difficult to tame of the ten shikigami within the Ten Shadows Technique—the one that no one had ever successfully tamed even to this day.

Even if someone intervened in the taming ritual, could they really defeat that terrifying shikigami?

Even if Satoru himself were there, it would probably be difficult to say whether he could win.

In other words, either the user got killed, meaning only one person was sacrificed, or the people who intervened got killed in large numbers, meaning it might not stop at just one casualty.

No matter what happened, someone was going to die this time, which was why Megumi's expression was so grim and anxious.

As for successfully taming it?

He did not dare to imagine that possibility.

It was not that he underestimated Riezel. Rather, the fact that no one in history had ever successfully tamed this shikigami made it genuinely impossible for Megumi to imagine what it would look like if someone actually succeeded.

"Why... Why did he have to summon that thing?!"

Megumi gritted his teeth and pushed himself to move faster.

Of course, he knew that what he was doing was basically useless.

Even if he made it there, what could he do?

Could he really help Riezel subdue that monstrous shikigami?

Impossible.

But if he did not go, he was afraid that people who did not understand how terrifying that shikigami was would recklessly charge into the taming ritual and throw their lives away for nothing.

Therefore, no matter what, he had to get there as quickly as possible first.

As for what he would do after arriving, Megumi had not figured that out yet.

Now, that was the only thought in his mind as he urged Nue to increase its speed again and again.

However, as it turned out, no matter how desperately he rushed toward the scene, he was still unable to do anything because he could not even get close.

After a thunderous explosion shook the surroundings, a terrifying sight appeared before Megumi's eyes.

While Nue carried him through the air, Megumi witnessed a blue light appear above the forest. Immediately afterward, the blue light erupted with an astonishing force of attraction, causing the forest below and the surrounding atmosphere to tremble violently.

Amid repeated roars, the atmosphere was sucked away layer by layer, while the earth cracked beneath the trembling. Countless rocks, soil, rubble, dust, and trees ripped from the ground were all drawn into the air, converging toward the blue light.

Before long, the blue light was covered by countless clumps of soil, rocks, and gravel, forming a meteorite-like celestial body that continued attracting everything around it and causing more and more soil, rocks, gravel, and trees to be pulled onto its surface. It grew larger and larger, becoming increasingly massive and spectacular.

"What the hell is that?!"

Megumi's expression suddenly changed, but before he could react, the terrifying force of attraction surged toward him like a black hole, attempting to pull him away. He hurriedly grabbed onto Nue's legs and desperately controlled it as it flew, resisting the overwhelming gravitational pull.

He was not the only one doing so—everyone rushing toward the forest was struggling against it as well.

"Watch out!"

"Don't let yourselves get dragged away!"

"If you get sucked in, you're done for!"

"I-Isn't this Gojo's technique?!"

"Is Mr. Gojo doing all this?"

"But he went out on a mission, didn't he?"

All the jujutsu sorcerers either hugged trees or grabbed onto heavy objects nearby, doing everything they could to resist the terrifying force of attraction. As they struggled, they shouted in shock and confusion, their voices filled with both alarm and disbelief.

"Damn it! I can't believe he actually did it!"

Masamichi was also desperately clinging to a pillar to resist the pull, an irritated expression appearing on his face.

"OOOOHHH!!!"

Yuji was hugging a massive boulder as he slowly drifted forward through the air.

"HEY, THIS ISN'T ALMIGHTY PUSH AT ALL! IT'S PLANETARY DEVASTATION—!!!"

He shouted from the air.

"Heh... It's the Limitless passed down through the Gojo Clan from generation to generation, huh? So that unknown kid actually managed to master it, huh?"

At the same time, the mouth that had appeared on Yuji's face seemed to curl into a smile as it spoke, unclear whether it was expressing disdain or amusement.

Everyone was caught up in the tremendous force of attraction like that. Some had already been dragged into the air, and if things continued this way, they would eventually be pulled into the meteorite above and crushed into minced flesh.

Suddenly, a furious roar that shook everyone's hearts rang out.

"That voice?!"

Megumi, who was resisting the gravitational pull in midair, widened his eyes as he finally saw it—he saw a black shadow follow the force of attraction into the sky and strike the enormous meteorite with a single blow.

Even though he considered the strike powerful enough, logically speaking, it should have been impossible for it to contend with such an enormous meteorite. Yet when that attack landed on the massive meteorite, something miraculous happened.

As though it had been disintegrated by an invisible force, the meteorite in the sky suddenly exploded.

No, more precisely, it was the blue light that had formed the meteorite that had exploded. As though it had encountered its natural enemy, the blue light at the center of the meteorite was erased, and the astonishing force of attraction was dispelled.

As a result, the meteorite that had been clinging to the blue light as though sucked in by a black hole immediately collapsed, breaking apart into countless meteors of various sizes that began falling toward the ground.

In an instant, fragments of the meteorite continued crashing into the ground, each impact producing a thunderous roar, causing the earth to be battered by the meteor shower from above, with some areas being destroyed and others shattered apart, while thick clouds of dust and smoke spread throughout the forest.

Not long after the meteorite collapsed, before Megumi could even react, a beam of red light shot into the sky from the ground and streaked toward the black shadow that had just destroyed the meteorite with a single strike.

In the blink of an eye, the red light struck the black shadow, unleashing an astonishing force while illuminating the entire sky and filling it with a brilliant red glow.

And then, from the center of the red light, a force of repulsion equal in strength to the attraction from earlier, yet completely opposite in nature, swept outward.

"ARGH!!!"

Megumi, who had been resisting the gravitational pull only a moment earlier, was immediately blasted away by the repulsive force. He was sent flying backward at an incredible speed, rapidly carried away from the forest.

"AAAAAAAHHHH—!!!!"

Meanwhile, the others on the perimeter suffered the same fate—they had been desperately resisting the force that was trying to pull them away, only to suddenly be swept up by the repulsive force in the opposite direction.

In the end, they were immediately blasted away, completely unable to resist.

It was a completely undeserved disaster, and a natural disaster on top of that. Under the effects of the two opposing forces, even the school buildings some distance away from the forest on the outskirts were shaken violently. All the windows shattered, while cracks spread across the walls, leaving the buildings looking as though they could collapse at any moment.

As the black shadow in midair was struck by the red light filled with repulsive force, tearing apart and blasting away half of its body, its appearance became gruesome beyond recognition.

Yet before long, the missing half of its body began to regenerate, restoring itself as though it had been reforged through some kind of physical rebirth.

Needless to say, its regenerative ability was terrifying, as shown by how it returned to its original state in just a second.

Seeing that, another beam of red light shot up from the ground and struck the black shadow amid a thunderous explosion.

However, this time, the black shadow treated the red light, filled with tremendous repulsive force, as though it were nothing, as it pushed directly through the beam, advancing against it like someone swimming upstream through a raging current, before diving toward the ground.

Before long, the place from which the red light had been fired was also engulfed by thick clouds of dust and smoke amid a thunderous explosion. Even though no one could see what was happening there, everyone knew that a spectacular battle had begun.

One thunderous explosion after another rang out from the forest, occasionally accompanied by furious roars that caused the entire forest to tremble.

Red light, blue light, attraction, repulsion—all kinds of phenomena and powers appeared there repeatedly, but they were no longer as effective as before. Instead, each time they appeared, they seemed to be quickly overwhelmed and rendered useless.

Under these circumstances, the one fighting the continuously roaring monster in the forest seemed to have stopped restricting himself to any particular method.

Blazing flames suddenly shot into the sky, violent thunderstorms poured down, blizzards swept through the forest, and sacred radiance repeatedly illuminated the battlefield.

Later, even radiant flames that bloomed like sunlight and earth-shaking explosions appeared one after another. From time to time, dazzling sword flashes cut through the air, blinding bolts of lightning appeared, and flames resembling the blazing sun, along with blade winds shaped like crescent moons, swept through the forest like one natural disaster after another, destroying the terrain around them.

"What the hell is going on now?!"

At some point, Megumi had dismissed Nue and was lying on the ground. He stared at the earth-shaking spectacle unfolding in the forest, his expression filled with shock and uncertainty.

As things had developed this far, he suddenly realized that the situation was not quite what he had imagined.

Riezel had not been killed by that terrifying shikigami. Instead, it was as though he were testing the limits of his opponent, displaying one incomprehensible and extraordinary power after another as he fought the shikigami to a stalemate.

And that was exactly what was happening.

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"Even that can't take you down?"

In the forest that had been transformed into a battlefield, Riezel held a black sword in one hand while extending his other hand forward. A magic circle was slowly fading from his palm, revealing the intrigued expression on his face.

Amid the chaos that engulfed the forest, his entire body was completely unharmed. Even his cursed energy and magical energy seemed inexhaustible, as though he had not expended anything at all. Not even a speck of dust had landed on his uniform, making it difficult to believe that he had remained at the very center of this battlefield where one natural disaster after another had been unleashed.

Opposite Riezel, a battered, muscular humanoid figure staggered to its feet. It roared furiously at him as its body rapidly regenerated, restoring itself at an astonishing speed.

Seeing that, Riezel knew that the magic he had just used had most likely become ineffective once again.

"I didn't expect the final shikigami to be this interesting. No wonder even a Limitless user with the Six Eyes could get pushed to the brink of death."

Riezel remarked with a smile.

"No doubt about it, it's way stronger than the previous nine shikigami."

If this shikigami could truly be tamed, it would undoubtedly be an enormous asset in battle.

As far as Riezel was concerned, its ability posed an immense threat to virtually any existence. If this shikigami could be used properly, fighting opponents above one's level or defeating stronger enemies while being weaker oneself would be entirely possible.

"Well then, the test ends here."

Riezel watched as his opponent finished regenerating and roared while charging toward him. He calmly returned Hermit to its scabbard.

As soon as those words fell from his mouth, the world froze at that very moment.

Dust floating through the air came to a complete stop, the enemy's roar vanished in an instant, while the apocalyptic scene of destruction froze within the motionless flow of time.

However, astonishingly, the figure that had been frozen in time began to move little by little.

It was clearly adapting to the power capable of freezing time, and it was about to break through it.

Unfortunately, Riezel would not give it that opportunity again.

Riezel used teleportation magic to appear before his opponent, then suddenly extended his hand and pressed it against its chest.