### Chapter 25: Fire Release: Great Fire Annihilation! The Flames of Karma that Overturn Everything!
Using the Cursed Tool long sword in his hand, Ryota killed a few more people.
Observing the remaining Curse Users on the field, most of them had the intention to retreat.
Although this didn't even count as a warm-up, at best it was just pre-meal entertainment.
It was time to end this now.
A one-eyed Shikigami over three meters tall smashed its fist down. Ryota jumped up, and the ground was smashed into a shallow pit several meters in diameter by the former.
Borrowing the Shikigami's shoulder, Ryota stepped with one foot, leaping twenty to thirty meters into the air.
"Hahahaha!"
Seeing this, Bayer, who originally had no way to deal with Ryota, suddenly laughed loudly.
"If you relied on that terrifying speed, our techniques couldn't hit you, but now that you're in the air, you're just a sitting duck!"
"How foolish, hahahaha!"
Even the other Curse Users who had somewhat lost their fighting spirit and wanted to retreat showed expressions of pleasant surprise.
Their techniques couldn't hit the speedy Ryota, but Ryota in the air right now had no object to leverage.
He could only become a target for their technique attacks!
"Everyone, activate your techniques together!"
Bayer shouted loudly, his voice resounding through the entire battlefield.
Ripples appeared around him.
Immediately, Cursed Technique blades carrying bone-chilling cold light appeared behind him like a peacock spreading its tail.
From bottom to top, all swords pointed at Ryota high in the sky.
"Damn bastard, go to hell!"
"You destroyed my Shikigami, pay with your life!"
"Use your death to witness the power of my [Q]!"
"Roar!!!"
"..."
Each Curse User used their full strength, unleashing their most powerful techniques.
Several surviving Shikigami were also roaring, Cursed Energy fluctuations gathering from their open mouths, forming basketball-sized energy balls flickering with dense light.
In the distance.
Seeing all the Curse Users below Ryota preparing their techniques, ready to strike.
Kuroi Misato noticed that Iori Utahime and Mei Mei beside her didn't look worried at all, but rather faintly expectant.
Because they saw Ryota's movements.
Ryota in mid-air slowly raised his hands, bringing them together at his chest.
Thumbs overlapping, right thumb on top.
**[Rat]**
Seeing that hand seal, the two women couldn't help but recall the monstrous sea of fire they saw last time.
"A new hand seal?"
Utahime keenly noticed that the hand seal this time was different from the last one.
"I remember the name last time was Fire Release... Great Fire Annihilation. I wonder what kind of scene he will create this time?"
Mei Mei looked at the tall and proud figure in the sky from afar.
"Miss Mei, it seems to be more than one seal!"
"Yeah."
Utahime and Mei Mei were both waiting, but they saw that Ryota didn't release the ninjutsu with just one seal like last time.
His hands changed rapidly, even creating afterimages.
Neither of them could see clearly how many seals he formed in total.
But they realized that this ninjutsu would probably be even more spectacular and astonishing than the last one.
Mei Mei immediately stretched her hands forward, releasing a Cursed Energy barrier in front of the group to block the aftershocks that Ryota's ninjutsu might cause.
...
High in the sky, Ryota looked down at the group of Curse Users below like they were ants.
The setting sun gradually descending below the horizon scattered its last rays behind him.
The fiery red sunset shone on Ryota's back, casting a shadow that made the red glow and bloody color of those Sharingan even deeper.
The techniques formed by the surging Cursed Energy below, as well as the high-concentration Cursed Energy balls of several Shikigami.
Reflected in his pupils.
Ryota's expression was calm. In less than a second, he formed the first six of the seven hand seals for this ninjutsu.
**[Rat - Ox - Dog - Horse - Monkey - Boar -]**
Ignoring the insults and ridicule from the crowd below, he spoke indifferently.
"As pre-meal entertainment, you did well. Now, you may step down."
"Still arrogant when death is imminent!"
Following Bayer's command, all the prepared Cursed Techniques below were launched towards Ryota in mid-air.
Even though only half of the Curse Users remained, they were still not to be underestimated.
Technique streams of different colors, mixed with various Cursed Tools, rotated and gathered together along the way.
Finally, they turned into a dark purple torrent of Cursed Energy about two meters in diameter, pointing straight at Ryota.
*Clap!*
A crisp sound suddenly rang out.
**[Tiger]**
"Fire Release—"
Ryota's movement froze on the final Tiger seal completing the ninjutsu. Chakra as vast as an abyss rushed towards his throat.
Then he released a mass of blazing fire.
"Great Fire Destruction!" (*Gōka Messhitsu*)
That mass of fire burned fiercely in the air, expanding dozens or hundreds of times in size in the blink of an eye.
The crimson fireball, like a meteor, seemed to replace the setting sun that had almost completely fallen below the horizon at this moment, illuminating the entire street in bright red.
It even illuminated the frozen expressions of all the Curse Users below, including Bayer, whose eyes were filled with fear and horror.
**"BANG!"**
The huge meteor-like fireball collided with the purple-black Cursed Energy beam, which looked like a hemp stalk in comparison.
The latter was like a mayfly shaking a tree, a mantis trying to stop a chariot.
The moment they touched, it was utterly defeated, the Cursed Energy and the Cursed Tools within shattering into glittering specks of light.
The Great Fire Destruction, seemingly unhindered, was about to fall.
"Hey, hey, are you kidding me!"
"Am I dreaming!"
"Is he really human!"
Everyone's vision was occupied by the fireball crashing down with an unstoppable momentum like a meteor.
Several Curse Users with poor psychological quality sat directly on the ground, while a few others began to flee in panic regardless of everything.
Most people looked blank, their minds empty, frozen on the spot.
Bayer's hat was blown away by the intense heat wave generated by the falling fireball, his long hair fluttering behind his head.
At this moment, he was like a fragile boat in a stormy sea, about to capsize.
As the fireball fell completely, Bayer looked pale and gave a miserable laugh.
"Monster..."
**"BOOM!!!"**
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