Five tree demons suddenly appeared and shot a large number of bright red flower petals at everyone!
Every flower petal had the power of a sharp arrow. There were so many of them that it was impossible to dodge. Fortunately, Seiji cast [Turtle Shell Barrier] in time to protect his companions.
"This is beyond my control. Four of them appeared on their own!" Kazuko hurriedly said. "I feel like there's something different about them."
"What's different about them?"
"I don't know. I just have this feeling."
"Just how did they appear?"
"I don't know either."
Alright then, it was to be expected that there would be an unexpected situation for some unknown reason.
After all, three out of the previous four times they tried to conquer the Domain had problems. In summary, based on their past experiences, there was a 75% chance that something unexpected would happen …
Seiji had already warned everyone during the battle strategy meeting, so everyone was mentally prepared.
The tree demons kept shooting flower petals at them. Their attacks were incredibly fierce.
"Retreat!" Seiji protected his companions and speedily retreated.
The tree demons wriggled their tentacle-like roots and chased after them.
However, they were rather slow. Seiji and the others soon distanced themselves from them.
"This type of spiritual monster will need about one minute to regenerate after shooting out all of its flower petals," Seiji explained to everyone. "We need to take advantage of this one minute to kill them off …"
If they were too far away, the tree demons would stop shooting. That was why they needed to maintain a certain distance and attract their continuous attacks.
The bright red flower petals would pass right through the samurai demons without hurting them. As Seiji and the others retreated, they were forced to continuously deal with the attacking samurai demons.
At this moment, something abnormal happened.
A samurai demon that seemed no different from the others was defeated and transformed into mist. A small dark-red object dropped down from the mist.
"What's this?" Genji used spider silk to pick up this item.
This item was about the length of a knuckle. It was cold to the touch and smooth like a pebble. It had black and red runes that flashed faintly.
When the purple-haired girl looked at it, she mysteriously felt an urge to eat it, just like a child seeing delicious candy.
However, this was obviously no candy, nor was she a child. She immediately resisted this strange urge. She then reported this to Seiji Mukai and showed him the item.
Seiji received the mysterious object.
At this moment, the sound of the system notification rang out and words appeared before him —
"This is the first time you've obtained an Inner World Crystal. New Spirit House Crystal exchange function has been added. You can use crystals to open doors, construct rooms, and exchange for furniture."
Upon seeing this notification, Seiji's eyes widened!
This item … "Inner World Crystal" could be used in exchange for points!?
He had the urge to open the system to check, but now was clearly not the time.
He didn't know what this crystal was, but it was obviously something good, an important resource! That was because this was something that even the dating sim system wanted. It was a special substance that could be used to exchange points for Spirit Houses!!
"This is called an Inner World Crystal. It's a very useful item …" Seiji explained this to Genji and everyone else. He then told everyone to grab this item as soon as they saw a spiritual monster drop it. Of course, this was under the premise of being careful.
The members expressed their understanding.
"Kazuko, do you know why this thing appeared?" Seiji asked the rather unreliable Domain Master.
"I don't know … but I can sense that the four additional tree monsters have similar auras to this thing," Kazuko answered.
"Similar auras … does that mean that they'll drop this item if we defeat them?"
"Perhaps so."
So, the four additional boss monsters were actually monsters that dropped items!? Seiji's eyes lit up.
He had finally met a spiritual monster that dropped items after so many Inner World dungeons. This was … wonderful!!
Although he really wanted to remain calm, he was unable to suppress his excitement.
He was far too lacking in exchange points, and the main reason for this was his Spirit House. Now that he learned that there was an item that could be used in exchange for points to construct his Spirit House, how could he not be excited!?
As long as he could obtain such a crystal, not to mention four evil monsters, he would even kill four ferocious demons!!
Dating sim system: "Thank me for giving you this new function."
Seiji: "Although I didn't want to do this, I still have to thank you!"
Seiji was now filled with a strong desire to do battle. He looked at the four tree monsters that he had previously found troublesome as if they were treasures that had fallen from the sky.
If the tree monsters had human senses, they would definitely feel a chill right now.
Unfortunately, they didn't. Not only did they lack intelligence, they only knew how to shoot out flower petals and use up their "ammunition".
Mika and the others kept seeing the crystals dropped by the samurai. They all followed Seiji's instructions and obtained them.
After that, the tree monsters shot out all their flower petals and stopped moving. Their bodies glowed red as they swiftly began to regrow bright red cherry blossoms.
"Everyone, attack!!" Seiji took this opportunity to give the order.
The knights who were ready launched their attacks at the same time, heading towards their assigned targets!
Mika and Tomohisa, Genji and Leah (Maya), and Hoshi and Kaori. These three teams each took on one tree monster. Feng Wu stalled one tree monster, while Seiji dealt with the last one.
Seiji first used multiple fireballs to bombard the enemy monster, and then used the evolved demon suppression bell to defeat it. He then turned around and went to support Feng Wu.
By the time he and Feng Wu defeated the second tree monster, the other teams had also defeated their targets.
Tomohisa controlled the monster with [Thunder Explosion], while Mika killed the monster with [Sky Shattering Jade] without any suspense.
Genji used spider silk, and Idelia used ice mist to control the tree monster. They then used their ultimate attack to shatter it.
Hoshi used his elven arrows to create many holes in the tree monster. Kaori summoned her bugs to enter the holes and attack from the inside.
One minute later, all five boss monsters were defeated.
When four of them turned into mist, they dropped palm-sized black-red crystals! Compared to the smaller crystals that the samurai demons dropped, these crystals were larger in size and shone brighter.
Four large crystals and seven small crystals … Seiji wanted to use them immediately, but he felt that it would be a pity to stop fighting like this. Perhaps he would be able to obtain even more crystals.
And so, he stored all the crystals in his combat uniform's dimensional storage and continued fighting with his companions.
…
The second boss wave was a "General" samurai demon.
Compared to normal samurai demons, these "General" samurai demons wore black armor and rode red demon horses. They looked mighty and imposing.
When these samurai demons appeared, hundreds and thousands of normal samurai demons appeared as well. They formed an "army" formation just like an army!
This scene caused Seiji and the others to exclaim in astonishment.
Although everyone had seen melee combat in movies before, personally experiencing it was a different experience.
Not to mention, this spiritual monster "army" was formed from countless white cherry blossoms falling from the sky. The visual effect was quite impressive.
"Everyone, this is war!" Seiji felt his blood boiling as he raised his longsword and shouted in a chuunibyou tone.
Before he even finished speaking, a dense rain of black arrows came flying at him!
Seiji cast a barrier to block the arrows.
"There are thousands of enemies, while there are only nine of us. But, this is no reason to retreat, because we're stronger than them!!"
Seiji raised his longsword with a bright blade.
"Knights, charge with me!!!"
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