While Yasaka and Magari were confused, two more people shot out and this ti, they jumped off the castle and flew into the sky.
One of the two people who jumped out, Soifon, instantly flooded the vicinity with her Reiatsu as the sharp wind started gathering around her, "Mukyuu Shunkou (Tireless Flash War Cry)!"
The Etouldes present, of course, were shocked and hurriedly turned their heads towards the dot in the sky that's forming a tornado. Even though they are looking at it, they still couldn't comprehend why an 'idiot' was releasing Spiritual Power in a pressurized form.
But before they could get any answer, the tornado rapidly expanded, covering the entire castle and ravaging anything outside of it.
"Kuh!!! What's going on!?" The leading figure, an Etoulde man with long blue hair, defended his face while he's being pushed far away from the castle, "Who's using such a powerful Spiritual Technique!? Is there a traitor among us!?"
"Sir! I ran a scan for this Spiritual Power but it returned an error! It's not within our database!" One of his n shouted at him.
"What!?" The Etoulde leader beca further confused. He tried fighting against the blade-like wind but soon found that the entire castle they were guarding was now enclosed within a giant flower made out of ice.
It was then that they finally realized the objective of the unknown assailants.
"Imdiately call Karia! Tell her to disable the Youkai leader!" The Etoulde leader hurriedly shouted to one of his subordinates.
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Soifon reverted to her base form and jumped back in while Serafall remained outside to reinforce her ice, "That should buy us so ti."
"W-who are you guys?" Magari blankly asked.
But instead of answering her, Claire ca forward and asked Yasaka, "Aunt Yasaka, who else should we subdue?"
Yasaka didn't know what was happening but she held Kunou tight and knew that they didn't have much ti, "In the middle floors are my subordinates. It should be easy to distinguish them since they are basically imprisoned."
Without saying a word, dusa, Lisa, Batsu'unsai, and Furoufushi looked at each other before disappearing from the room. A few seconds later, Yasaka and Magari could hear so muffled screams before the uncanny silence.
All of a sudden, Yasaka felt her heart rate speeding up and an unbearable pain started to take over her mind. She tried clutching her chest in an attempt to ease the pain but she could only go down on her knees.
"Mother!" Kunou shouted in panic, "Mother! What's happening!? Mother!"
Kunou's voice sounded distant to Yasaka and her crying face was too blurry for her to see. She wanted to say that it's okay but she didn't even have the strength to keep herself up.
At this ti, a woman with long black hair that's worn as a large braid down the front of her body. She pointed her palm at Yasaka while saying, "Kunou, please step aside for a bit."
Kunou turned to her with tears streaming down her cheeks but the latter just gently smiled at her and said, "It's okay. You can trust ."
Kunou wiped her tears and nodded before jumping back but not before gently laying her mother on the floor.
Retsu didn't waste any more ti and muttered, "Goyougai (Five Support Cover)."
Retsu's Reiatsu solidified and ford a translucent yellow prims barrier around Yasaka and almost imdiately Yasaka stopped squirming in pain. But in return, she lost consciousness.
Kunou wanted to jump back in but Retsu reassured her, "She's fine. This barrier put her condition into stasis. While it doesn't resolve the underlying problem, outside interference on her should cease." As she said that, Retsu could feel subtle tendrils made out of Spiritual Power trying to invade her barrier but to no avail.
The other clueless person, Magari, shuddered at the sight of the barrier. It's hard even for the most seasoned Youkai to freely manipulate the Power of Soul but here's a person who did it with extre ease and a sophisticated technique at that. After all, even though they could use Spiritual Power, they could only use it to attack the soul directly, 'Is she an Etoulde?' Magari asked herself.
"I think I found a solution, but it'll take a bit of ti. For now, please make sure that no one disturbs ." Retsu kneeled down in front of the unconscious Yasaka and started sending her Reiatsu converted to Kaido into her.
"Magari-san." A call to her na broke her stare from Retsu. Magari hurriedly turned around and saw dusa standing beside her, "It has been a while, Magari-san."
"...It's indeed been a while, dusa. I didn't think we'd et under these circumstances. I hope you can fill in on what's happening."
"But before that, I'd like to ask what's your purpose here."
"I may be part of Indra's Faction but I'm here on behalf of Boss to confirm why Yasaka went under Indra." Magari hurriedly explained, "As long as you keep Yasaka and her daughter safe, I won't be going against whatever you're doing."
"Understood." dusa nodded, "The short story, we plan to deprive Indra access of to this place."
"..." Magari swallowed a mouthful of saliva out of nervousness, "Can I leave now?"
dusa smiled at her, however, that smile didn't reach her eyes and with a terrifyingly cold voice, she replied, "No."
Magari wanted to cry, "...Figures..."
"Hey, it's about ti we go on the offensive." Serafall's voice was heard from the outside and when everyone looked out, they saw dozens of Youkai bombarding Serafall's ice enclosure. anwhile, the mix of Etouldes and other aliens that look like rcenaries numbering around 50 were so distance away but were keenly watching any developnt.
"Claire, Tanis. Co with ." dusa instructed, "We'll only subdue them so don't go overboard. All of the significant individuals are on Indra's side right now."
" "Yes!" " Claire and Tanis simultaneously answered.
dusa then turned her attention to those who just returned from clearing the castle along with her, "For you girls, you can take care of the group at the back."
"Just subduing them too?" Furoufushi was a bit miffed.
To her surprise, however, dusa shook her head, "They are invaders. Do what you want with them. You also don't have to bother capturing anyone since any information you'll be able to extract from them would likely not be that important."
Furoufushi's annoyed expression then instantly changed into a glee and killing intent started leaking from her, "Is that so? That's a lot easier then."
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