The Book Eating Magician - Chapter 375

"What nonsense are you saying?"

Did it mean the heavenly demon would no longer be swayed by the words? The heavenly demon glared and changed his posture. The power of aura, magic, and the sacred creatures united in one place, forming an unprecedented shape. As long as the Absorption Star Method was activated, the heavenly demon would be difficult to overcome with a transcendent's power alone. Therefore, Theodore had to prepare a trump card.

"Let's see?" As he felt the power rising behind him, Theodore playfully said to the astonished heavenly demon, "I brought your brother to you. Isn't it your duty to thank me?"

Theodore had brought a miko with no battle experience onto a dangerous battlefield for a reason. Although he felt sorry for her, it couldn't be helped. It would be too bad to miss the opportunity to borrow the power of a transcendent—Abe no Seimei.

"The old gods of Takamghara, Suzuka who keeps the legitimacy of the heavenly deities is here―"

It was already too late for external interference to interrupt it. This fact was known to the heavenly demon. A ceremony of such great power couldn't be completed in seconds. It would've taken at least a few minutes.  The chanting would've started the moment the heavenly demon's feet were tied up by the joint attacks of the Dao Yuan Nine Palace Troops. Moreover, with Theodore blocking the front, it was impossible to kill Suzuka in a matter of seconds.

"Great Founder Seimei! I give you my body today!" Then Suzuka, miko of Japan, completed the ceremony.

[I'm sorry for bringing you to such a rough place, my child.]

The Possession Ceremony! It was much less advanced than obtaining a divinity, but it became much more difficult if the subject was a transcendent like Abe no Seimei.  Fortunately, Suzuka was a distant kin of Seimei and was able to easily succeed because Seimei cooperated.

Flash!

A light glowed and a translucent figure appeared behind Suzuka. It was the soul fragment of Abe no Seimei, who had escaped from the Eight Jade Magatamas.

"No? That aura, that power! You are...!" The heavenly demon was aghast when he recognized Seimei.

However, Abe no Seimei and Theodore people spoke like the heavenly demon wasn't there.

[There is only one chance. Don't make a mistake.]

Theodore replied, "Of course. I am aware."

There was a limit to using Suzuka's body as a vessel. Only one technique could be used against the heavenly demon. If Seimei exerted more than that, Suzuka's body and soul would be crushed. Therefore, this move had to hit.

Kiiing.

There was a sharp ringing sound, and the whole world turned black and white. Time Stop was activated within a certain range! However, the one who had already experienced this once scoffed. The heavenly demon had already fully adapted to Time Stop. "Ha! Are you stupid enough to try to use this to tie my feet for a few minutes?"

"I will return your words. Don't you know after seeing it once?" However, Theodore laughed at the unexpected situation. "I didn't stop time in order to tie up your feet!"

"What?" 

It was just after that...

Inside Suzuka's body, Seimei completed the chant, [Taboo, Soul Incantation Killing.] 

Chill.

It was dangerous. Despite his sky-high pride, the heavenly demon suffered from a sense of crisis and moved his body. He couldn't allow the other party to finish this incantation. The heavenly demon had to kill before it could be cast, and avoid it if he couldn't kill the caster. In the world where time had stopped, wings of fire rose. It was the power of the sacred creature, Karura. The heavenly demon was going to control the fire and leave this place.

"Hold on, Immortal Rope!"

At this moment, ropes flew at the speed of light and tied up the limbs of the heavenly demon. It was one of the three treasures Theodore had received from the supreme monk—a rope that could even hold a sacred creature.

"Eek! This crude thing...! Kuk, why?"

"Now, who is stupid?"

The Absorption Star Method wasn't activated. No, the absorption didn't work when time was stopped. It was useless in the area of Time Stop, where even mana flow was stopped. The heavenly demon grasped the situation too late and struggled.