Isekai Adventure in the Dimensional Cube-Chapter 1394 - 984: As Long As You’re Safe

Upon hearing the remark, Sukuna remained unexpectedly calm and silent.

This prompted Li Mei to chime in.

"Could that person possibly survive Lord Sukuna’s attack?"

Clearly, in Li Mei’s opinion, after Sukuna’s final assault, no one could possibly survive.

However, only Sukuna, who orchestrated all of this, knew that the level of attack required to injure Reiger was still far from adequate.

"That brat can’t be dealt with so easily."

Sukuna spoke quite calmly, which astonished Li Mei.

"Impossible, right?" Li Mei refused to believe: "His domain just shattered; after coming out, he should be in a state where his technique is severed. Even if he wanted to resist Lord Sukuna’s slash, wouldn’t he be unable to do so?"

After a domain unfolds, even the strongest curses enter a temporary state of being unable to use techniques, known as technique severance.

In Li Mei’s view, Reiger had just deployed his domain, and after it was shattered, his technique was temporarily severed. So even if he wanted to resist Sukuna’s slash, he simply couldn’t.

Not only did Li Mei think this way, Knot thought so as well.

But they were completely unaware...

"That brat isn’t afraid of my slashing attacks." Sukuna sneered, "Not just slashing attacks; fire is ineffective on him as well."

Uttering these words, Sukuna paid no heed to Knot or Li Mei’s reaction, and fell into deep thought.

He initially thought that after breaking Reiger’s domain and forcing him into a technique severance state, Reiger, who couldn’t use techniques for a short period, should be unable to dismiss his attacks like before.

Yet, upon breaking Reiger’s domain and unleashing his most potent attack, Sukuna instinctively felt that this attack felt exactly like the previous time in Shibuya when his slashing was nullified by Reiger.

Thus, Sukuna found reasons to believe that even after the domain shattered, Reiger still activated the technique that could nullify his slashing attacks, completely unharmed.

"Continuing to use techniques after the domain shatters means that brat, like Knot and me, possesses more than one innate technique in our bodies."

Reiger’s capability to utilize others’ techniques is something all curses aware of his existence know.

However, most people actually believe that Reiger can achieve this because he, like Okkotsu Yuta, has a technique capable of mimicking and copying others’ techniques.

In other words, his technique is technically only one—that of mimicking and copying others’ techniques, just like Okkotsu Yuta.

But today’s encounter revealed to Sukuna that they all guessed wrong.

Reiger Brillhaut, that brat doesn’t just have one technique to mimic and copy others; he inherently possesses multiple techniques.

Knot relies on body-swapping methods to retain his technique while gaining the technique of the body he occupies, thus granting him multiple techniques.

Sukuna also, through incarnating and resurrecting, obtained Fushiguro Megumi’s technique, thus possessing multiple techniques.

And Reiger... is similarly so.

Only this could explain why he continued using other techniques after his domain shattered and the technique severance occurred.

Because the severed technique was only the [Limitless Curse] applied in [Cursed Realm], while other techniques remain intact.

This was Sukuna’s thought.

Of course, this idea was completely wrong.

The first mistake is, what Reiger uses is not a technique, but magic, entirely unaffected by technique severance and able to operate normally.

Secondly, Reiger doesn’t have multiple techniques within him, but rather uses [Omnipotent] to recreate memorized techniques from his mind.

In this aspect, he is indeed similar to Okkotsu Yuta; he doesn’t inherently have multiple techniques but only one ability to utilize other’s techniques.

The difference lies in that Okkotsu Yuta achieves this with the innate technique stamped onto his flesh, whereas Reiger relies on magic inscribed as a blessing.

In other words, Reiger inherently doesn’t possess an innate technique. 𝐟𝐫𝕖𝗲𝘄𝚎𝗯𝕟𝐨𝕧𝐞𝚕.𝕔𝕠𝐦

Lacking an innate technique means not entering the so-called technique severance state.

That’s right, Reiger doesn’t have this weakness of technique severance.

When other curses deploy their domain, the innate technique inscribed on their bodies halts; when Reiger deploys his domain, he can continue using [Omnipotent]’s effect to recreate memorized techniques.

His technique is inscribed in memory, not engraved on the brain.

Therefore, he won’t encounter the technique severance that other curses face.

However, this likely doesn’t matter much to Sukuna.

As long as he knows Reiger can continue using techniques and nullifying his slashing attacks, that’s already enough for Sukuna.

Realizing this, Sukuna decisively chose to retreat.

The reason is simple; it’s because in the current state, he sees no prospect of defeating Reiger.

"I still need preparation."

Sukuna clearly realized this fact.

"To defeat that brat, I need an ace that can overturn the adverse situation between me and the enemy."

This ace, Sukuna already possesses.

"[Eight-Handed Sword·Divine General of the Strange Ring·Demonic Void]..."

Sukuna glanced at his shadow and suddenly smiled.

"Please don’t let me down."

To obtain this ace, Sukuna needed to find a place and conduct a crucial ceremony.

After obtaining Fushiguro Megumi’s body, Sukuna had already conducted several ceremonies on the way to Sendai, taming the several shikigami that Fushiguro hadn’t yet controlled.

Only this most tempting, fascinating, and anticipated Divine General of the Strange Ring remained untamed.

There was no way; taming this shikigami is not like taming others; even Sukuna, who is arrogant, doesn’t think he can casually achieve this on the way.

He needs a location.

He also requires time.

Until then, retreating temporarily isn’t something too hard for him to accept.

"I’ll let you live a little longer..."

The wicked deity sneered in the high skies where no one pays heed, seemingly mocking fate, ridiculing countless meaningless lives in this world.

...

Outer Demon Realm, Tokyo.

In this land no longer inhabited by ordinary citizens, in a corner of Shinjuku, a high-rise building exceptionally remained intact and continued standing here.

This high-rise is not luxurious or extravagant but is wrapped in a layer of barrier unnoticed by laypeople, preventing wandering Curse Spirits from entering and preserving the place.

"Shh!"

Reiger’s figure suddenly appeared in front of this building, gazing at the structure protected by the barrier, and directly stepped inside.

The barrier didn’t obstruct his path, allowing him to pass through, and letting him go through the automatically opening glass doors into the building

This was one of the Curse Mage bases in Tokyo.

Called a Curse Mage base, it was merely a place for temporary rest and recovery for Curse Mages, not like the Curse Mage headquarters like Curse Technical College.

Usually, only those auxiliary supervisors who assist Curse Mages in executing missions work here; they use this location for operations and hosting mages resting here.

Thanks to this, when Reiger entered, he encountered a familiar face despite not having seen it for long, as if years had passed.

"Brillhaut-kun."

The one who spoke to Reiger was a woman in a black suit, with waist-length pitch-black hair, dressed as a social elite, but her appearance leaned toward a Yamato Nadeshiko, exuding strong mature charm.

It was the auxiliary supervisor who once assisted Reiger, Shinseki Kikyo.

She stood by the elevator, watching Reiger enter with what seemed like tears of joy.

Seeing this, Reiger stopped and smiled.

"I’m glad you’re okay, Nishizawa."