The Golem Mage

The axe spun through the air at incredible speed, its flames trailing behind it. After the shock paralysis he had suffered from Butcher’s lightning earlier, Takeda had made it his priority to eliminate him by any means necessary.

But at that exact moment, the Spider Queen, who wasn’t far off, pulled her hands sharply backward, threads that had been hidden in the air, camouflaged almost perfectly, suddenly revealed themselves.

Before Takeda could fully grasp what was happening—His body was already bound, and from multiple angles, as webs snapped tight around his arms and legs, restricting his movement.

For a brief moment, disbelief flickered across his face, ‘as to how a mere Tier 6 golem could restrain him?’

Then he looked around, and noticed the smaller spiders, they were acting as some kind of anchors for the Hive queen, channeling their collective strength through the webbing, the Hive Queen wasn’t doing it alone, she was pooling their power, amplifying her control and making the restraint far stronger than it should have been, while the others have been fighting in mid air this is what she had been doing.

Understanding this, Takeda prepared to break free and eliminate them—But Butcher was already upon him again, with a brutal downward swing, the thunder axe came crashing down, aiming to split him in half from head to toe.

At the last instant, Takeda tilted his head perfectly—And let the axe pass near his shoulder, so instead of cleaving him in two, the strike severed his arm cleanly at the shoulder.

Pain shot through him instantly, and he grimaced—But his plan had already been set in motion, as he had already used the fingers of the severed arm to formed a ninjutsu sign.

Before their eyes, the detached arm dissolved into dark smoke, causing the katana it had held to fall to the ground.

The smoke then drifted—And reformed back onto his body, reconstructing the arm as if nothing had happened, even Butcher was momentarily caught off guard for a split second, and that was all Takeda needed to strike.

In one swift motion, he drove his index and middle fingers forward, striking multiple points across Butcher’s body, it was as if he wasn’t affected by the fact that his hand had to pass through the protective thunder and wind fog surrounding Butcher’s body, until it finally touched the dark stone that truly formed Butcher’s body.

After jabbing at various points of Butcher’s body with incredible speed, he slammed his open palm against its chest and cast a spell.

[> High Tier Ninjutsu — Abyssal Grasp