The Devils of Jujutsu

Chapter 27: The Battle Begins

(Yuji's p.o.v.)

Todo and I were on the walls surrounding the castle in the middle of the night. We had come up with a relatively simple infiltration plan to recover the cursed object. As for how we found out where the object was, we could sense it from outside, and focused on which room it was in. It was on the third floor, but luckily, the room with the cursed object had a large window for one of us to climb through. So, the plan was rather unorthodox. Todo would enhance his physical strength with cursed energy, and chuck me at the window ledge, I grabbed onto the ledge at the last second, and hauled myself up to stand on the window ledge and opened the window from the outside. I went in and saw that I was in someone's office, and in a draw of the desk was the cursed object that we come to retrieve. I grabbed it and put it in my pocket. Then, I went out the same way I came in, but when i got to the ledge, I enhanced my legs with cursed energy and jump toward the wall where Todo was. With business at the castle done, we made our way back to our campsite at the outskirts of the city

Timeskip to day of the battle

It's been four weeks since we arrived at the capital, and recovered the special grade cursed object from the magic knights. Though it's wasn't ideal, I had to keep it on me during the fight, it was too risky to hide it somewhere at the time, and we couldn't just send it to the higher ups while the enemy was almost at the town. So, we had no choice but to keep it with us at all times, until we get home. But, that is out of the way, the problem we then had to face, was the army of cursed spirits arriving that day.

It was about noon when they arrived, we waited until they were all inside the perimeter we set up with the commissioned curtains, as soon as the last one crossed the line, Me and Todo said the chant,

Emerge from darkness, blacker still. Purify that which is impure.

With that, the veil came down, and everything was ready for the battle that was happening in the four kingdoms on this continent. We drew our cursed tools and got into our stances, ready to charge as soon as the enemy does. They charged at us and the battle began.

Todo was striking every curse that came within range of his three-sectioned staff. I was slashing every thing that came at me with my xiphos. We counted every cursed spirit we exorcised. In the 4 minutes since the battle began, Todo killed 140 cursed spirits, while I defeated 128, but  all of those were Grade 2. From then on, we would be face curses that were Grade 1 or higher.

1st grade cursed spirits came charging at us in the hundreds. Todo and I suffered a few blows from the monsters, but we managed to steadily bring them. We were beginning to get surrounded by the enemy, so decided to spread out to get some room to breathe. The cursed spirits were then engaging us in a two pronged attack, one group heading for me, the other going after Todo. This gave us an advantage however. If both of us needed to use our Domains, we wouldn't have to worry about them overlapping.

We continued to fight off the cursed spirits coming at us, eventually we had defeated the 1,354 1st grade curses, 1 hour after the battle began. All we had to deal with then, were the remaining Special Grades that had been in the rear of the the formation. It was at that point, where things truly got serious. From the looking at the last of the army, there were close to a thousand of them left and each of them had enough power to either start or win a large scale war on their own, and the two of us were about to go up against a battalion of them. One would have to be a god to survive that many. Todo and I both were thinking the same thing, 'If only a god can survive this, then we'll just have to become gods right here, right now!' Arrogant I know, but that was our way of pushing forward and coming out on top.

The Special Grades came charging at us and we let out a war cry as we charged to meet them head on. After another hour, we each managed to take down 200 Special Grades. We had suffered quite a few injuries during that hour. Cracked ribs, busted eyes, and a couple of internal organs ruptured. We were in a lot of pain but we couldn't back down or we would get killed. 230 of the remaining Special Grades were walking towards, while the others are going for Todo. I knew that if things stayed as they were, we would never leave the alive, so there was only one way we would make it out. I sheathed my sword, and made a sign with my hands, and I shouted:

Domain Expansion....

Darkness swallowed up me and the over 200 Special Grades approaching me. From the ground, walls with stone bleachers on top, rose up to surround us in a massive circle. After the walls stopped rising, the sky above became dyed in a hue of light blue. When all became quiet, everyone could see a massive arena had been created around them

"A coliseum where the Gods of War pass judgement upon the mighty mortal soldiers who battle on the earthly plane, a courtroom where the higher powers only permit the use of one's physical form to state their case, and only the mightiest of all may be declared innocent by the almighty judge. This is my Domain Expansion: .........................................War Trial of The Divine.